Murder by the throat Espionage, Assassination, Collaboration and Execution during the Irish War of Independence, 1916-1921 Edward J Bourke Published March 2020 Inquiries edward.bourke53@gmail.com pending bookshop reopening and distribution Retail price €20 inc post from 33 Rushbrook Dublin 15 D15HDE7 ISBN 978 09523027 4 2 [...]
To The Editor; With the online issue of the Irish Echo of Friday 15 May 2020, I was amazed to read of the “National Famine Commemoration set for Sunday” 17 May, and see the smiling face of Professor Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut. In the announcement the word “Famine” was extraordinarily used 16 times. [...]
I was wondering if you could you help me find records relating to my grandfather's cousin, MP McMahon. He was part of the Meelick IRA in the early 1900's. See below a newspaper article from the Limerick Chronicle in 1921 re his funeral; it seems that it was very big but I can't find any [...]
I wonder if you could help me to get any further information that might be available with regard to the activities of my Uncle, Bill Shanahan who was a volunteer in Dublin in 1920/21. I just recently found out that he was in the IRA and was arrested in May 1921 in Montague Street [...]
Webinar I will be holding a webinar on: "The Clifford Household during the Wars of the Roses 1450-87" at 7pm on Tuesday 12th May 2020. This webinar will last about 45 minutes and will cover the history of the Clifford family from 1455 to 1487 and their involvement in the Wars of the Roses. Lord [...]
By Brian O’ Donoghue. (B.A. Honours Degree History , B.A. Degree Sociology from. U.C.C.) Brothers - Frank Busteed’s two older brothers , Jack (John), and Bill (William) were both in the British Army in World War 1 ; in the Royal Engineers(since 1911). At that time they had left their paternal grandmother Margaret’s farm [...]
GEORGE LENNON: WATERFORD REBEL By Ivan Lennon Dungarvan’s George Gerard Lennon (1900-1991) of O’Connell Street, Western Terrace (circa 1915) and Mitchell Terrace (1936) had a noteworthy revolutionary career encompassing some 17 engagements against enemy forces in Waterford, Limerick and Cork: a 14 year old “adjutant” in the newly formed Dungarvan Volunteers; as a [...]