Irish Volunteer Timothy Joseph Ryan Hello, We are hoping you can assist us, as we are trying to visit my grandfather's grave who is buried in Cork. His name is Timothy Joseph Ryan born October 30th 1900 and died October 6th 1966. We live in Australia and will be visiting Ireland in September this year and wish [...]
James Connolly Michael Kerr photo Information required Dear Sir/Madam, My name is Aidan Kerr. I am seeking some help about the attached photo, which is a colourised digital version of the original uncoloured paper photo. I am confident that James Connolly is at the back lhs as you look at it and my [...]
Greetings, I seek your help to identity the people in the attached photo (original scan plus a second version of with numbers attached to each person for ease of identification. I do so as I came across Diarmuid O’Connor’s 2015 posting on of a photograph with my paternal grandmother (Miss Killeen, 2nd from right [...]
News Letter October 30,2020. From Admin: Dear Sir or Madam my name is Frederick Leonard and my uncle was executed on the 28th Feb 1921 Thomas O Brien Model Village,Dripsey. Captured on the 28th January at the Dripsey ambush He was buried in the Republican plot in UCC ,but later exhumed and buried [...]
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 [...]
Hello. My name is Anne Kendrick and my mother’s father while in New Zealand called himself Thomas O’Hara (Tom). My mother is Lucy Kendrick (nee O’Hara) Tom came to NZ sometime before his marriage in Wellington, NZ in September 1925. He married Hannah O’Connor from Tralee, Co Kerry who we believe came to NZ [...]
Hello, I'm seeking information on my grand uncle, James O'Brien (1893-197?) of Dunmanway. He was the son of William O'Brien and Johanna Connelly. He was a member of the Irish Volunteers, specifically the 3rd West Cork Brigade, for three years from 1918-1921. In later life it's known he was committed to a wheel chair which [...]