A Chara; As Historian for AOH Division 18 in Peekskill, N.Y. I write a monthly History Column for the division's newsletter. The attached is a copy of the column I put together for November's issue. Due to space considerations I did not get into the controversy created by the late Canadian, Professor Peter Hart's book [...]
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 [...]
One of the very few remaining 1920.s IRA thompson machine guns. Pat O Hagan Collection. IVCO.
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 [...]
The Sentences imposed in the 5 cases mentioned above totalled 3 years, 1 month. Monday, September 22nd 1919. Raids:- Some ten branches of the Cumann na mBan, (Irish Women’s League), were raided by fully armed Police in Co. Tipperary. In Co. Roscommon similar raids took place on several branches of the same league. Armed police [...]
Irish Political Review, January 2019 In this decade of commemorations we are encouraged to remember and not to forget. Very good advice and we at The Irish Political Review will do our bit during the hundredth anniversary of "the four glorious years" to recall the facts of those years. We will do so with the [...]
By Brian O' Donoghue . ---- Brian O' Donoghue , holds a B.A . Degree from U.C.C in History , and Sociology * Frank's two older brothers -Jack(John) , and Bill(William) were both in the British Army in W.W .1, in the Royal Engineers., at that time , they had left their grandmother Margaret's farm [...]