Planning to use this page to post up some video links relating to myths of the Easter Rising.
Myth 1 : Artillery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZGem0LQTc
Planning to use this page to post up some video links relating to myths of the Easter Rising.
Myth 1 : Artillery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZGem0LQTc
Lyn Ebenezer's book "Frongoch and the birth of the IRA" gives details of the following casualties from Frongoch :
Maurice Fitzsimons : appendicitis at Frongoch but recovered after poor treatment. Survived and active in WoI.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99502184/maurice-fitzsimons
(Edward) Tierney (aka Edward Douglas Turnley) : Breakdown.
https://treasonfelony.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/but-eire-our-eire-shall-be-free-edward-tierney-belfast-and-1916/
Born London in 1890.
1901 census in Ashford, Staines.
Death as Edward Turnley December 1920 aged 30 :
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1920/05108/4403786.pdf
Married Sybil C Stewart in Lambeth, Q4 1911.Christopher Brady from Dublin : contracted TB and died 2 months after release
Jack O'Reilly : suffered acute anaemia and died in 1917
Thomas Stokes of Enniscorthy : died of an illness caught at Frongoch
William Halpin of Dublin ; tried to slit his own throat; committed to Grangegorman where he later died
Daniel Devitt escaped 4th August 1916 and was found wandering the Welsh countryside. He had suffered a breakdown and walked out of camp unchallenged rather than trying to escape.
Mention is made of a Padraic O' Maille escaping with help from a girl but it appears he may have been moved to another location.
Dr Peters, the local doctor who visited the camp, took his own life on 14th December 1916.
Lorcan Collins book "1916 The Rising Handbook" lists :
Christopher Brady died from pneumonia 28th January 1917
Joseph Byrne, released July 1916; died 17th March 1917
Bernard Courtney. Imprisoned Frongoch; died 20th March 1917
John Cullen, imprisoned Portland and Lewes rather than Frongoch. Died 29th May 1918 aged 21
John Halpin. Suffered depression and died in Grangegorman Asylum in 1917
Bernard MacCormack. On hunger strike in Frongoch. Released Christmas 1916. Died 2nd April 1918 aged 21
Bernard Mackin. Shot at College of Surgeons. Died 22nd December 1919
William O'Brien from Galbally, Died Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital 28th November 1916. Released August 1916
Frank Sheridan. Died 20th November 1916 after ill treatment in prison.
Liam Staines. Wounded in the Rising. Imprisoned Frongoch. Died 2nd November 1918
Thomas Stokes. Released from Frongoch Christmas 1916. Died 29th September 1917 aged 24.
John Wallace, noted as died in Frongoch 14th March 1917. Need to follow up on this item as Frongoch would be closed for Irish prisoners in December 1916 and open again for German PoWs.
Bernard MacCartan Ward. Died in Wandsworth Prison, London 8th May 1917. Buried in Latlurcan Cemetery, Monaghan.
Eunan O'Halpin and Daithi O Corrain's book "The Dead of the Irish Revolution" list the following :
Jack O'Reilly from Tralee, Co Kerry. Arrested and held in Wandsworth and Frongoch. Released in July 1916. Died 30th September 1916 from "pernicious anaemia".
Christopher Brady. Imprisoned in Wandsworth and Frongoch. Released in November 1916 due to ill health. Died in Dublin 24th January 1917 from pneumonia.
Bernard Ward. A member of 4th Bn, Dublin. Imprisoned in Wandsworth. Died from prison related illness 8th May 1917. Buried in Latlurcan Cemetery, Co Monaghan.
William Partridge fought in College of Surgeons. Died two months after being released from Lewes prison on medical grounds.
Thomas Joseph Stokes, Enniscorthy. Died 29th Sept 1917. Imprisoned Stafford, Knutsford and Wandsworth before Frongoch. Released Christmas 1916.
William Staines (aka Liam, brother of Michael) died 2nd November 1918. Wounded in the Rising, his death was attributed by the authorities to influenza and septicaemia rather than imprisonment
Would be interested if anyone else has any more to add.
Formed in Dublin in March 1916, there doesn't appear to be too much information regarding 2nd (Garrison) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. It appears to have been designated for Home Service.
The Long, Long Trail website indicates it remained in Dublin until April 1918 where it's name was changed and it went to France
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/royal-irish-regiment/
Soldiers started joining the unit on the 11th March 1916 with a cadre of NCOs and soldiers, numbers being assigned with 2G/ as the prefix. Number 2G/1 went to CSM Arthur Marshall, a Londoner born on 29th April 1967, who joined from the Royal Irish Rifles. Most of the names listed below appear to have joined from the Royal Irih Rifles.
No | Rank | Forename | Surname |
2G/1 | CSM | Arthur Woodriffe | Marshall |
2G/4 | RSM | Joseph | Sullivan |
2G/7 | CQMS | Robert | Gamble |
2G/8 | Sgt | Patrick Joseph | Houston |
2G/16 | Cpl | Richard | Waide |
2G/17 | William | Neill | |
2G/18 | L/Sgt | John | Crossley |
2G/21 | A/Cpl | Charles | Graham |
2G/22 | L/Sgt | William Richard | Young |
2G/44 | Pte | Patrick | Carroll |
2G/47 | Pte | Robert | Doyle |
2G/51 | Pte | William | Davis |
2G/60 | Pte | Robert | Flaherty |
2G/73 | Pte | William | Hughes |
2G/646 | Henry | Agnew |
Rank | Forename | Surname |
Captain | Thomas | Powell |
Captain | Edward Francis Nathaniel | Burton |
Lt | Morgan | |
Captain | F R | Robinson |
A few details of their service but nothing re role in the Rising yet.
The 2nd Garrison Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers was also formed in Dublin around April 1916. This appears to have not been for Home Service - moved to Templemore in May 1916 and then sent overseas.
Private Joseph Cullen from this unit appears to have been killed in Dublin on the 25th April 1916
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/899969/joseph-cullen/
He appears to have been a pre-war soldier and entered France on 8th October 1914 with 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, number 4550.
During the attack on the Magazine Fort on the opening day of the Rising, Monday 24th April 1916, the sentry at the gate was overpowered without shots being fired.
This looks to have been Private John Waters, no 9901, 2nd (Garrison) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment.
His service records mentions the attack and notes his time in hospital.
He appears to have joined up while in a spot of bother in Co Wexford (he had previous service in the Royal Navy so a surprise that he joined the Army)
He was discharged from the Army in June 1916 so may have had to face the above prosecution.
His number, 9901, does not appear to have been issued by the newly formed 2nd (Garrison) Battalion.
The attack happened on his birthday, 24th April. He was born 24th April 1876 in Duncannon, the son of John and Mary Waters.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1876/03053/2119472.pdf
Inside the Magazine Fort, one sentry was shot in the leg.
This looks to have been Private John Flynn, no 8786, 2nd (Garrison) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. This number does not appear to be one issued by the 2nd (Garrison) Battalion.
Flynn died in June 1916 as a result of an issue with his femoral artery.
The Edward Quinn who appears a few lines down from Flynn is my Gt Gt Grandfather. This was an unexpected find while researching Flynn.
Flynn appears to have tried to enlist in the Army in 1915 but discharged as not likely to make an efficient soldier. He had a wife and a rake of kids sadly.
In the 1916 rebellion Handbook, Flynn appears in the list of Royal Irish Regiment soldiers killed and he is noted as being from Carrick on Suir. He is buried in Kilkenny
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/663032/john-flynn/
Matters Rising Quiz 1 :
Questions : https://forms.gle/jtXX1sdXjpbD86Tg8
Answers : https://youtu.be/YvKn_95tTdQ
Matters Rising Quiz 2 :
Questions : https://forms.gle/hBXs2fCXy4xriR9M8
Answers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG0uGKakoHY
Matters Rising Quiz 3 :
Questions : https://forms.gle/yhvHgoSKKp9WkvLb8
Answers : to follow 21st/22nd May 2022
One answer might appear in this presentation re Easter Rising Myths
One of the nice things about delving into archives is finding documents in different repositories that join together.
History Hub has a letter from Patrick Pearse to Eamon de Valera dated 11th March 1915 promoting de Valera to Commandant of the 3rd Battalion, Dublin Brigade. It's a nice hand written letter on Irish Volunteer headed paper showing the Volunteers HQ as being at 41 Kildare Street.
http://historyhub.ie/assets/p0150-450-003.jpg
It also confirms the appointment of Captain Fitzgibbon as the Vice Commandant and Captain Begley as the Adjutant. Pearse has mislaid the name of who was to be appointed Quartermaster of the battalion.
The appointment of the above is confirmed in a copy of the Irish Volunteer paper dated 20th March 1915 available on the Military archives site.
The Quartermaster for the 3rd Battalion is named as Volunteer James Byrne. Fitzgibbon is named as John and Begley is names as Patrick.
Also on the paper is an advert for Hopkins and Hopkins, a business that would become a volunteer output during the Rising and which would be destroyed.
Interestingly, there is a note in the left hand corner re the flag authorised by companies - each company is to provide itself with a flag with a plain gold harp with a green (back)ground.
Fitzgibbon, Begley and Byrne were all involved in the Easter Rising.