Category Archives: Ireland

The Easter Rising, War of Independence & Civil War

Dublin – Kilgobbin War Memorial & Kilternan Churchyard

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Magicfingers

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.

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Kilmainham Gaol Museum

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Magicfingers

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

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Magicfingers

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

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Magicfingers

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

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Magicfingers

Mount Jerome Cemetery covers some fifty 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 →

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The Easter Rising Part Four – St. Stephen’s Green Park & the Royal College of Surgeons

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Magicfingers

St. Stephens Green Park, scene of serious fighting during the first days of the Easter Rising. 

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Dublin, March 2018

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Magicfingers

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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