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Category Archives: Ireland
The Easter Rising – One Hundred Years On
One hundred years ago, on Easter Monday 1916, Patrick Pearse and his Irish Volunteers, alongside James Connolly and the Irish Citizen Army, occupied a number of important buildings in the city of Dublin, beginning what became known as the Easter … Continue reading
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Tools of the Trade
Relics, I hope, of the troubles. King’s Own Scottish Borderers museum.
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German Military Cemetery, Glencree
Glencree German Military Cemetery is situated in the Wicklow Mountains National Park south of Dublin. There are 127 Second World War burials here, many of whom were either Luftwaffe personnel whose aircraft got lost in bad weather, or sustained damage … Continue reading
Dublin – Seán Heuston Memorial
Memorial in Phoenix Park to Seán (or J. J.) Heuston, one of sixteen leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising who were subsequently executed by the British.
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Dublin – British Army Recruiting Office
What was once the home of the Dublin Fire Brigade…
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Irish National War Memorial Gardens
Just south of Phoenix Park, across the River Liffey, are the gates to the Irish National War Memorial…
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Grangegorman Military Cemetery – Part Six
In front of the Grangegorman Memorial stand 83 headstones, memorials to British First World War dead who are actually buried in Cork Military Cemetery, but whose graves there could not, for various reasons, be properly maintained. Perhaps one day men … Continue reading