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admin | September 18, 2011
My Mother’s brother, (uncle) Joseph (Joe) Traynor lived in Ballymount, Clondalkin, and was a Volunteer with ‘F’ Company, 4th Battalion, No 1 Dublin Brigade during the late 19’teens’. I would welcome any information about his ‘Volunteering’ activities to include a historical note I am writing about him. Joe was captain of the “Young Emmets” GAA [...]
admin | September 18, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BE7zX8gob1U Short time lapse video of the restoration of the Rolls Royce Armoured Car ‘Sliabh na mBan’. This historic car was part of Gen Michael Collins’ convoy at the Beal na Blath ambush where he was mortally wounded in 1922. Sliabh na mBan was renovated in the Combined Vehicle Based Workshops in the Defence Forces [...]
admin | September 14, 2011
General Sean Mac Mahon General Sean Mac Mahon was born,the son of a malster in Cork street, in Dublin in 1893. He was the eldest of seven children. He joined the Irish Volunteers at the very start in 1913 and was enrolled as a member of B Company, 3.rd Battalion, Dublin City Brigade. In 1914 [...]
admin | September 4, 2011
I am trying to get information on my grandfathers service in the Irish Volunteers 1918-1921. His name was Jack Rice from Laois. He later served in the Garda. Thanks Brian O’Connell —————————————————————————————— I am trying to find service records for James (seamus) rice of markethill, Armagh, who said he was with the third northern brigade [...]