Wednesday, 17 April 2024

The first tank in Ireland - November 1917

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While a number of improvised armoured cars were constructed during the Easter Rising using lorries from Guinness and steel plate from the In...
Thursday, 17 August 2023

Maxwell in Gallipoli, November 1915

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  When Kitchener visited the lines at Gallipoli in November 1915, he was accompanied by a number of other senior officers with Australian Ge...
Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Richard Todd (Actor) and Andrew Todd MC (Doctor)

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Richard Todd gets rolled out every D-Day for his part in the operation at Pegasus Bridge and subsequent acting in the film "The Longest...
Friday, 11 August 2023

Dublin Cricketers 1905

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A familiar postcard came up on the-salesroom auction site a short while ago titled: ‘AUSTRALIANS V DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ELEVEN (PAST AND PRE...
Thursday, 10 August 2023

(John) Gordon Lewis - this “adventurous cameraman”

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  Facing representatives of the Irish film industry in the Odeon room of Dublin’s Metropole cinema in October 1950 were a number of Irish po...
Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Post Rising Irish Volunteer casualties from Frongoch, Lewes etc prisons

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 Lyn Ebenezer's book "Frongoch and the birth of the IRA" gives details of the following casualties from Frongoch : Maurice Fit...
Monday, 9 May 2022

2nd (Garrison) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment

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 Formed in Dublin in March 1916, there doesn't appear to be too much information regarding 2nd (Garrison) Battalion, Royal Irish Regimen...