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admin | March 31, 2011
STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER FOR DEFENCE ADJOURNMENT DEBATE – SEANAD EIREANN 17 May 2006 The need for the Minister for Defence, in view of the great success of the recent Easter 1916 commemorations, to clarify the current arrangements for the replacement of 1916 and War of Independence medals; and if he has any proposals to [...]
admin | March 25, 2011
Nial Meehan has contacted us and has pointed us to an article he wrote some time ago,in fact the first review of the book, thank you for submitting the article to us , his words are below: My review of Gerard Murphy’s The Year of Disappearances: Niall Meehan, 17th November 2010 Gerard Murphy’s ‘The Year [...]
admin | March 20, 2011
De Valera was an English spy? By Padrig O Ruairc. Book Review:- “England’s Greatest Spy – Eamonn De Valera.” By John J. Turi. Published by Stacey International, London 2009. ISBN 978 – 1 – 906768-09-6 Last week I stumbled across the above book, in O Mahony’s Bookshop, Limerick. I was completely unaware of the radio [...]
admin | March 17, 2011
Tom Barry was born in Killorglin, County Kerry, the son of a former RIC officer who had become a shopkeeper. His family moved to County Cork in his youth, and he was educated for a period at Mungret College, County Limerick from 25 August 1911 to 12 September 1912. The reason for his short stay [...]
admin | March 12, 2011
An article by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc , Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc challenges the claims in Gerard Murphy’s recent book, The Year of Disappearances. Political Killings in Cork 1921 – 1922. Professor Eunan O’ Halpin of Trinity College, was prophetic in his endorsement of Gerard Murphy’s recent book, The Year of Disappearances. Political Killings in Cork [...]
admin | March 8, 2011
We are grateful to John McGuiggan for the following article. If anyone would like to e mail John his e mail is at the end of the page. In some forgotten corner of a foreign field For a dead English soldier it really doesn’t matter whether the foreign field in which you finally rest is [...]
admin | March 3, 2011
A contributor has recently sent us some photos of weapons used by the Irish Republican Army , third West Cork Brigade, we thank you very much. The pistol is a Webley and Scott Ltd London & Birmingham, 6.3 mm automatic pistol. The machine gun is a Lewis ,marked Animes Automatiques Lewis Belgium and Bimingham co [...]