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Category Archives: Ireland
Dublin – Kilgobbin War Memorial & Kilternan Churchyard
A beautiful winter’s day, and this is the little cemetery at Kilgobbin, about six and a half miles south, and a little east, of Dublin City centre.
Kilmainham Gaol Museum
I promised you a look around the museum at Kilmainham Gaol, and as this post is in effect Kilmainham Gaol Part Two, it comes fairly swiftly after the first.
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The Easter Rising Part Eleven – Kilmainham Gaol
A change of tack for a couple of posts, as we return to the struggles taking place in Ireland in 1916 as, across the Channel, the Great War entered its twenty second month and the Battle of the Somme loomed … Continue reading
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Dublin – Deansgrange Cemetery
The hardly inspiring entrance to Deansgrange Cemetery, some six miles south east of Dublin City centre, and less than two miles from the port of Dun Laoghaire.
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Dublin – Mount Jerome Cemetery
Mount Jerome Cemetery covers some 50 acres of land only two miles or so south west of Dublin City centre. There are thirty five Great War and thirty nine Second World War burials here, the only problem facing me as … Continue reading
The Easter Rising Part Four – St. Stephen’s Green Park & the Royal College of Surgeons
St. Stephens Green Park, scene of serious fighting during the first days of the Easter Rising.
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Dublin, March 2018
Well, that was fun. With the ‘Beast from the East’ still lingering across parts of Ireland – had we arranged to go just a few days earlier, well, we simply wouldn’t have been able to go – yours truly was … Continue reading
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