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admin | April 22, 2011
The Irish War has been sponsoring the Irish Volunteers Commemorative Organisation, http://irishvolunteers.org/ This weekend, to mark the 1916 Easter week Rising, the I.V.C.O. will be putting on a small display of Original Irish war of Independence items at the Metropole Hotel ,MacCurtain Street, Cork city on saturday April 23, 10 am to 4 pm. The event [...]
admin | April 19, 2011
I am researching my grandfather Mick Greehy, Paddy Greehy and Johnny(jack) Greehy . I have two black an tan medals I got from my grandmother several years ago but she never told me who the were awarded to. I have heard that Mick and Jack greehy were in the IRA but i have no proof. [...]
admin | April 19, 2011
Sean Moylan offers a close and personal look at the man and his life. A fearless fighter, he led a series of ambushes in Cork as Commandant of the Cork No. 2 Brigade. He was part of the team that captured the only British General to be abducted during the War of Independence. Following the truce [...]
admin | April 18, 2011
Many thanks to Aideen Carroll for sending in this article, A HURLING MATCH AT KNOCKNAGREE In the years leading up to the War of Independence, Knocknagree was a thriving village on the edge of Sliabh Luachra boasting over a dozen pubs, 14 grocers, a draper, bootmaker, blacksmith and baker. There was a Post Office, an [...]
admin | April 13, 2011
Trying to find info on my grandfather, William Crowley, of Kilmihil, Co. Clare. He was involved and did a 29-day huger strike after capture sometime after 1920? He was deported to the US in 1926 or 1927. Any information would be grand.
admin | April 11, 2011
Hi,my name is Cathy Twomey and this time last year i undertook a commission,from the Michael Collins museum Clonakilty, to paint the ambush of Michael Collins,in preparation i did some drawings and thought you might like to take a look.the photo i have sent of the ambush at that stage only has the outline of [...]
admin | April 4, 2011
Countess Markiewicz was born as Constance Gore-Booth in 1868 in London. Her father had an estate at Lissadell in the north of County Sligo, Ireland; the children grew up there and Constance and her sister Eva were childhood friends of WB Yeats whose artistic and political ideas were a strong influence on them. Constance went [...]
admin | April 4, 2011
http://theirishwar.com/ Courtesy hansard.millbanksystems 1 June 1921 → Commons Sitting → ORDERS OF THE DAY. MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND. HC Deb 01 June 1921 vol 142 cc1153-98 1153 Major-General SEELY I beg to move, “That this House do now adjourn.” I move the Adjournment of the House to call attention to a definite matter of urgent public importance, [...]