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Post by groundhog on Aug 9, 2011 23:25:25 GMT
10th August
1316
The Second Battle of Athenry was fought between the forces of Phelim O'Connor king of Connacht and the Anglo-Norman settlers. The Normans won and Phelim was decapitated.
1915
Capt Gerald Nugent from Dungarvan. Killed in Action at Gallipoli. serving in HQ 29th Inf Bde. His regiment was the Royal Irish Rifles.
10517 L/Cpl Patrick O’Reilly, 6th Bn South Lancashire Regt, from Waterford City. KIA Gallipoli.
1916
Lieutenant Ronald Kennedy from Stradbally died serving in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers .
1922
The National Army occupied Cork City.
1984
Garda Francis Hand was killed by the IRA when the mail van he was escorting was ambushed in Co. Meath.
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Post by TallyhoBob on Aug 9, 2011 23:36:28 GMT
I remember Garda Hand getting killed..we were all called in and sent to North Kildare to man checkpoint with the Gardai..funny..doesnt seem that long ago..I guess age does that to ya..haha
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Post by groundhog on Aug 10, 2011 11:19:49 GMT
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Post by groundhog on Aug 10, 2011 23:34:57 GMT
11th August in Irish Military History1894Dan Breen was born in Donohill, Co. Tipperary. 1922 Fermoy, the last town in Anti-Treaty hands was captured by the National Army. 1915T4086558 Driver Patrick Carey, Royal Army Service Corps. Died at home. He was from Four Mills, Co. Waterford 3085 L/Cpl Andrew Smith, 6th Bn Leinster Regt. From Waterford City. He was killed in action in Gallipoli. 1916T4/083315 Driver Edward Farrell, Royal Army Service Corps. Died in Egypt. He was from Waterford. 1942 Commander Geoffrey Mandeville, Royal Navy. Killed aboard HMS Eagle. He was from Annerville, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. HMS Eagle was an aircraft carrier on convoy escort in the Mediterranean. She was torpedoed by U-73. An account of Operation Pedestal www.naval-history.net/WW2RN14-194206.htm
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Post by groundhog on Aug 11, 2011 23:07:37 GMT
12th August1652The Act for the Settling of Ireland was passed in parliament. It allowed for the confiscation of Irish land to pay the soldiers and adventurers who had fought for Cromwell. The dispossessed Irish were settled in Connacht. 1796 Kilmainham Gaol opened in Dublin. 1857Pte Denis Dempsey from Bray earned a VC in India with the 10th Foot. See VC Winners Thread 1870Hubert Gough,son of Gen Sir Charles Gough VC, was born. Hubert led the Curragh mutiny and commanded the 5th Army in WW1. 1914 Great Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary. John Holland, designer of the first practical submarine, died in the US. 1915 10555 Pte Thomas Jackman, 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. Killed in action, Gallipoli. He was from Waterford. 8518 Pte John Mc Carthy, 1st Bn Leinster Regt. Killed in action in Belgium. He was from Waterford. 13050 Richard St. Clair, 11th Bn King's Liverpool Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford. 1916 Pte Martin O'Meara from Lorrha earned a VC at Pozieres with 16th Bn AIF. 1917 RTS/7604 A/Farrier Sgt Thomas Foley, Royal Army Service Corps. Died in England. He was from Carrick-on- Suir, Co. Tipperary. 5394 A/Cpl Denis Fahy from Waterford. 6th Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA on the Western Front 10029 Pte Andrew Fitzpatrickfrom Waterford. 6th Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA on the Western Front 1920 Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, was arrested. He immediately went on hunger strike. 1922 Arthur Griffith died. He had founded Sinn Féin in 1905. 1944Joe Kennedy Jr, brother of John F Kennedy, was killed when his plane blew up over England. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Jr. 1969 British troops were deployed in Northern Ireland after riots in Derry and Belfast.
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Post by groundhog on Aug 13, 2011 9:33:19 GMT
13th August 1704 The Battle of Blenheim was fought in southern Germany. It was one of the decisive battles in the War of the Spanish Succession. The Royal Regiment of Ireland took part. www.britishbattles.com/spanish-succession/battle-blenheim.htm1901Alexander Young of the Cape Police earned a Victoria Cross in South Africa. Young was from Galway and had served with the 2nd Dragoons in India and the Sudan. See the VC Winners thread. 1914The Irish Guards landed in Havre, France on their way to fight the Germans. 19158265 Pte Richard Galvin, 2nd Bn Leinster Regt. Died of wounds on the Western Front. He was from Portlaw, Co. Waterford. 10648 Pte Michael Mc Grath, 8th Bn Cheshire Regt. Died of wounds in Egypt. He was from Cappoquin, Co. Waterford. 191624636 Pte Patrick O'Brien, 2nd Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Ballyguiry, Co. Waterford.
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Post by groundhog on Aug 14, 2011 0:25:02 GMT
14th August
The Battle of Yellow Ford
Fought in Co. Armagh on the 14th August 1598 as part of the Irish Nine Years War.
4000 English troops, many of whom were in fact Irish, marched from Armagh under the command of Henry Bagenal to relieve a fort on the River Blackwater. Opposing the English were the forces of Hugh O’Neill, Hugh O’Donnell and Hugh Maguire. In addition to the Irish troops there were also Scottish mercenaries and Spanish military advisers. The English line of march was a road through hilly, wooded terrain, with boggy valleys. To add to their problems the Irish had dug trenches across the road and thrown up breastworks along it.
As soon as the march from Armagh began, the Irish started a series of ambushes on the English troops. They became disorganised and contact was lost between groups as they halted to fight off an ambush. An artillery piece became bogged down and the group trying to free it was left behind and the powder wagon blew up when it was ignited by a matchlock fuse. At this point Bagenal was killed by a ball to the head. In the confusion, Irish horse and infantry charged the head of the column which had reached the Yellow Ford and cut them to pieces. The column then turned around and fought its way back to Armagh which was promptly besieged by the Irish. After two days the English evacuated to Dublin.
English casualties were approximately 2000. The Irish lost 200 killed and 600 wounded. The Battle was important in that it rallied the Irish chieftains to the Ulstermen's cause.
1914
As part of the British Expeditionary Force Irish battalions began landing in France.
The 2nd Bn, Royal Munster Fusiliers landed at Le Havre.
2nd Bn, Royal Irish Regt and 2nd Bn, Connaught Rangers landed in Boulogne.
1915
6167 Pte Michael Lyons, 6th Bn East Lancashire Regt. From Clonmel, He died in Gallipoli.
53237 Gnr John Ryan from Waterford. He was killed in action on the Western Front serving in the Royal Artillery.
1919
A 15-year old member of Fianna Eireann called Murphy was shot dead in his home in Glan, Co. Clare.
1992
Cpl Michael Carruth won a Gold medal for boxing in the Barcelona Olympics.
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Post by groundhog on Aug 15, 2011 8:23:31 GMT
15th August
1599
Battle of the Curlew Pass
Fought in Co. Roscommon on the 15th August 1599 as part of the Irish Nine Years War.
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex took over as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in April 1599. His mission was to subdue the rebellion of the Ulster chiefs, now in it’s sixth year. As part of the mission he encouraged one of the Irish Chieftains loyal to the Crown, Donogh O’Connor of Sligo, to push the O’Donnells back out of those parts of his territory they had occupied and strike north to Ballyshannon as a preliminary to an invasion of western Ulster.
To assist in this invasion a force was despatched from Galway to Sligo commanded by Tibbot na Long Burke. Hugh O’Donnell launched a pre-emptive attack and besieged O’Connor in Collooney Castle, sending 600 men to occupy Sligo town to prevent the English landing there. Essex then ordered a force north from Athlone commanded by Conyers Clifford to relieve Collooney Castle.
Getting word of the English advance O’Donnell left 300 men besieging the castle and marched south with 1500 troops to Dunavaragh, Co. Roscommon. Here he was joined by a small number of reinforcements under Conor MacDermott and Brian Óg O'Rourke. Ambush sites were prepared at two passes through the Curlew Mountains, along the English line of march. O’Donnell had trees felled and placed along the road to impede the English progress. As soon as the enemy passed through Boyle and headed for the western pass, O’Donnell positioned his troops. Musketeers, archers and javelin men were placed in the woods alongside the road to harass the English while the main body of infantry, armed with pikes and axes, were placed out of sight behind a mountain ridge.
Meanwhile Clifford’s troops had reached the mountains at 4pm on 15th August. Rather than rest in Boyle, Clifford, believing the pass undefended, decided to press on and cross the mountain that evening. They reached the first barricade between Boyle and Ballinafad where they were attacked by the Irish soldiers. The Irish fired one volley and withdrew but as soona s the English had crossed the barricade they came under immediate harrassing fire from the woods to the side of the road. As they advanced the fire became heavier and heavier until at last the English halted and engaged in a firefight lasting an hour and a half before they ran out of powder. At that moment O’Rourke and his men, who had been stationed at the eastern pass, arrived to reinforce the Irish soldiers. The English broke and fled at this point, although their leader, Alexander Radcliffe, died leading a pike charge against the Irish.
The retreating soldiers crashed into the main body of English troops causing mayhem in the ranks whereupon the Irish, concealed behind the hill, charged them. In the ensuing melee, the English commander, Clifford, was piked to death. The English fled in disarray, a complete rout being averted by an uphill cavalry charge led by Sir Griffin Markham and his cousin John Harrington. The English were pursued back to Boyle where they sought sanctuary in Boyle Abbey. In all they lost 500 men dead. Clifford’s head was hacked from his body and HugH O’Donnell brought it back to Collooney Castle to encourage O’Connor to surrender, which he did. In addition O’Connor defected from the English camp. With the north west invasion route closed, Essex was left with the option of forcing his way into Ulster through the north east. Instead he agreed a truce with O’Neill and returned to England where he was later tried for treason and executed. His failure in Ireland did not lead directly to his fall from grace but it didn’t help.
The Curlew Pass was the scene of a second Irish victory in August 1602.
1649
Oliver Cromwell landed in Dublin with an army of 20,000 men.
1857
Maj Charles Gough earned a VC during the Indian Mutiny.
see VC Winners Thread
1888
T.E. Lawrence, (Lawrence of Arabia) was born in Tremadoc, Wales.
1915
Killed at Gallipoli
1030 Pte Denis McLean, 6th Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. From Clonmel.
19584 Pte Maurice Ryan, 1st Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Waterford.
13559 Pte Patrick Ryan, 6th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. Waterford.
1917
101149 Gnr Edward Grant. Royal Field Artillery. He was from Waterford and he died of wounds on the Western Front.
1917
Pte Michael O'Rourke earned a Victoria Cross near Lens, France
see VC Winners Thread
1998
A Real IRA car-bomb in Omagh killed 29 people and wounded 220.
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Post by groundhog on Aug 16, 2011 7:17:02 GMT
16th August
1915
At Suvla, the 10th Div made another attempt to drive the Turks off Keretch Gaba Tepe. Heavy fighting all day is reflected in the long local casualty list. 5th Bn Royal Irish lost 34 men killed in the fighting. To put that figure in context they lost another 9 men during the during the following month before being withdrawn from the peninsula.
5th Bn Royal Irish Regt
Lt Ronald MacAndrew.
Lt J Duggan
2/Lt Gabriel Costello, Galway
121 Sgt W. Couch. An Englishman who was living in Clonmel when he enlisted.
189 Sgt Thomas Walsh. Waterford.
2000 Pte Patrick Carey. Clonmel.
54 Pte John Sheehan. Fews, Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford.
206 Pte Peter Sullivan. Crooke, Co. Waterford.
3428 Pte William Brien, Portlaw.
17 Pte William Callaghan, Clonmel
43 Pte John Daly, Newmarket, Co. Kilkenny
2794 Pte Robert Devlin, Belfast
25 Pte John Devonshire, Cork
3114 Pte Frederick Dunn, Dungannon
56 L/Cpl Patrick Ennis, Dublin
1476 Cpl James Fogarty, Dublin
203 Pte James Harris from Manchester, enlisted Clonmel
2248 Pte Daniel Hayes, Thurles
1563 Pte Henry McCabe, Monaghan
2092 Pte Edward McCormack, Longford
477 Pte William Nagle, Bansha
1599 L/Cpl Michael O'Neill, Cork
7th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers
21949 Pte Patrick Fraher.
14202 Pte Thomas Whitney.
Both from Waterford.
6th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers
16793 Pte John Field. Waterford.
1917
The 16th (Irish)and 36th (Ulster) Divisions were committed to the Passchendaele Campaign when the Battle of Langemarck commenced at 04.45 hrs. Again because the 16th Div was in action on a day of heavy fighting, there's a long local list of men who died today.
During the days fighting L/Cpl Frederick Room of the 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt earned a Victoria Cross. In charge of the stretcher bearers, Room worked under heavy fire at dressing wounds and evacuating the wounded. Hhe survived the war, but he died in Bristol in 1932, aged 47. L/Cpl Room was the fourth and last member of the Royal Irish to earn a VC in its history and the only one in WW1.
1917
1st Bn Royal Irish Rifles
8019 Rifleman Patrick O'Brien
10322 Rifleman John Doyle
9487 L/Cpl Thomas Lonergan.
All from Waterford.
2nd Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Capt James Shine. Abbeyside, Dungarvan.
40035 Richard Mooney, Fews, Co. Waterford.
2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt
2566 Pte Francis Banks MM. Carrick-on- Suir, Co. Tipperary.
9481 Pte Edward Fitzgerald, Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford.
6th Bn Connaught Rangers
4197 Pte Denis Marshall. Carrick-on- Suir.
8475 Pte William Walsh, Buried Potizje Chateau Lawn Cemetery, Belgium. Clonmel.
Other Units
25583 Pte Thomas Leahy, 7th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. From Dungarvan.
7948 Pte James Barry, 7th Bn Royal Irish Rifles. From Waterford.
16101 Cpl Patrick Dalton, 9th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Son of Patrick and Margaret Dalton Kickham St, Carrick-on- Suir.
16199 Pte Denis Sheehan, 9th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. From Waterford. Buried New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium.
8271 Pte John Mc Grath, 1st Bn Machine Gun Corps. From Waterford.
Apart from the two men who's burial places are mentioned, all the others are commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. The memorial begins from this date. All previous missing men in this part of the Ypres salient are commemorated on the Menin Gate.
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Post by groundhog on Aug 19, 2011 7:05:16 GMT
19th August
1504
The Battle of Knockdoe was fought on 19th August 1504 in Co. Mayo. It was one of the bloodiest battles in Irish history. The fight was between the Gearóid Mór Fitzgerald, who happened to be the King's Deputy, and Ulick Burke, Lord of Clanrickarde, which was roughly the area of south Galway. Burke or De Burgo wanted to establish himself as lord of all of Connaught. He had attacked and destroyed castles of the O'Kellys - Lords of Ui Maine in Monivea, Garbally and Castleblakeney. In addition, Ulick was living in with O'Kelly's wife. At the same time he was married to Fitzgerald’s daughter, Eustacia, another Casus Belli.
Siding with Fitzgerald were leading families of Ulster, Leinster and Connaught, O’Donnells. O’Connors and Mac Dermotts and the Burkes of Mayo, another branch of the De Burgo family. All joined forces with the Earl of Kildare to put manners on Ulick.
Burke had the support of the chiefs of Munster, the O’Briens of Thomond, MacNamaras, Kennedys and Carrolls.The last two being names in my family tree. We could never pick a winner. Scottish mercenaries fought on both sides. These lads used battle axes as their main weapon which may have given the hill on which the battle was fought it’s name, Cnoc Tuagh, the Hill of the Axes. In all there were about 10,000 participants, with Burke outnumbered 3 to 2. 1500 of Burkes men died while 1000 died on the Fitzgerald side. The battle lasted all day ending in a victory for the Fitzgeralds. Next day they moved on to Galway, looting Claregalway Castle en route and taking hostage two sons and a daughter of Burke.
Some sources say this was the first battle in Irish history where gunpowder was used. There were huge casualties on both sides and Ulick Burke was defeated after a day's vicious fighting. The Burkes of Clanrickard faded into obscurity for some decades after the battle. Around the summit of Knockdoe are many cairns where the dead of the battle are buried. One mound is reputed to be the graves of the two sons of O’Brien of Thomond.
1887
Francis Ledwidge was born in Slane, Co. Meath. A poet and nationalist, he fought in the Great War in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. KIA 31st July 1917.
1914
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was officially formed in France.
1915
4458 Pte John Moore, 5th Bn Connaught Rangers from Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary. Killed in action at Gallipoli.
Pte John Fitzgerald,Waterford. 5th Royal Irish Regt. Died of Wounds Gallipoli.
14181 Pte Vivian H. Fausset. Waterford City7th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Died at Gallipoli.
1917
43060 Gnr Edward Power, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died of wounds in Salonika. He was from Waterford.
981 Pte Gerard Coughlan, Special Cavalry Reserve. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford.
1922
Vol Michael Condon, IRA, from Newcastle, Co. Tipperary was shot dead by the Free State Army while under arrest in Clonmel Town Hall.
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Post by groundhog on Aug 20, 2011 18:44:59 GMT
August 20th
1914
2397 Pte Patrick Mahoney. 3rd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died at Home. He was from Fethard, Co. Tipperary.
1917
32908 Gnr Michael Day, Royal Field Artillery. From Waterford, he died of wounds on the Western Front.
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Post by groundhog on Aug 21, 2011 12:14:08 GMT
21st August 1808The Battle of Vimiero was fought during the Peninsular War in Spain. www.britishbattles.com/peninsula/peninsula-vimiero.htmwww.peninsularwar.org/vimeiro.htm1860The following were awarded a Victoria Cross for their actions during the capture of the Taku Forts, China. Hospital Apprentice Andrew Fitzgibbon Pte Thomas Lane Lt Nathaniel Burslem Lt Robert Rogers 1914The British Expeditionary Force, commanded by Field Marshal Sir John French, moved into Belgium. 1918The British 3rd and 4th Armies launched an attack north of the river Ancre (a tributary of the Somme). 1915Killed in action at Gallipoli with 5th Bn Connaught Rangers 930 Pte Patrick King. From Waterford. 4460 Pte James Moran from Dungarvan. Co. Waterford. 9350 Sgt William Lemmon, 6th Bn Yorkshire Regt. From Waterford. 9370 Pte Paul Bregan, 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. From Cappoquin, Co. Waterford. 19163378 Pte John Sullivan, 6th Bn Royal Irish Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford. 19182nd Bn Royal Irish Regt 7609 L/Cpl James Carberry, Waterford. 6110 Pte James Johnson, Knockboy, Co. Waterford. 7367 Pte Patrick Walsh, Waterford. 5587 Pte Michael Fahy, New Inn, Co. Tipperary. Michael Fahy joined the army in April 1914 and served all through the war. His brother William likewise. William survived the war and was demobbed in 1922 on the disbandment of the regiment. Their According to family tradition Michael Fahy was killed by a sniper near Flers, France. He is buried in the AIF Cemetery. 95105 Cpl William Burns MM, 13th Bn King's Liverpool Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. 1986Lt Aongus Murphy, B Coy, 59th Irishbatt, was killed by a road side bomb near At Tiri, Lebanon. 1988Pte Patrick Wright, 63rd Irishbatt, died in Lebanon. |
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Post by groundhog on Aug 22, 2011 9:33:11 GMT
22nd August
1798
General Humbert landed at Killala, Co. Mayo, with 1100 French troops.
1802
George Thomas, The Raja from Tipperary died in India.
1914
In Belgium, Cpl Thomas of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, became the first British soldier to fire shots in anger at the enemy in WWI.
The 2nd Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers landed in Boulogne.
1916
2/Lt Theo Seale, 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary killed in action on the Western Front. He is buried in Flatiron Copse Cemetery on the Somme.
1918
Dubliner, Capt Denis Latimer was shot down in Belgium. He was a fighter pilot in 20 Sqdn and he shot down 28 German aircraft between March and August 1918. His observer, Lieutenant T.C. Noel, was killed and Latimer was captured. He was subsequently awarded the Military Cross and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
1918
33119 Pte Stephen Condon, 13th Bn East Lancashire Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Waterford.
1922
The Redmondstown Ambush took place outside Clonmel near Thorney Bridge. Jack Killeen's Column ambushed a car travelling from Kilkenny to Clonmel killing two National Army soldiers and wounding Col. Frank Thornton. KIA were Sgt Michael Finnegan age 24 of Gloucester St, Dublin and Pte Walter Cantwell of Kilkenny. Finnegan was married with one child and is buried in Glasnevin.
Beal na Blath
General Michael Collins, Commander in Chief of the National Army was killed in action at Béal na Bláth, Co. Cork. His convoy was ambushed by a party of irregulars. Collins was the only fatality of the action.
Béal na Bláth was an ambush that nearly didn’t happen. Collins was on a tour of Cork when he passed through the village of Béal na Bláth on his way to Bandon on the morning of August 22nd 1922. The local IRA commander, Liam Deasy decided to lay an ambush on the road in case the convoy returned by the same route. The ambush was set up on a bend in the road south of the village about noon. The road was blocked with a brewery cart and a mine, consisting of a metal box of gelignite, laid in the road. The ambush party had a strength of about 25 men but 10 of them left the ambush site in the afternoon. About 7pm Deasy returned to the ambush site from his HQ and ordered the ambush commander Tom Hales to pull out as they thought the convoy would not return at this stage. Most of the men were ordered to withdraw north along the road while one section covered the ambush site from Position A on the map. Two men dug up the mine and a small group dismantled the barricade.
Collins convoy left Bandon about 7 pm also. The convoy consisted of a motor cycle out-rider in front, a Crossley tender with a party of troops in the back as escort, then Collins car with a driver, Collins himself and Emmet Dalton. In the rear was an armoured car. At about 7.30 pm, as they neared the ambush site the covering party opened fire more to warn those on the road than anything else. A few seconds later the convoy passed a small group at Position B (part of the covering party) who opened fire on the convoy from a range of 35 yards. Collins, Dalton and the driver of the car took cover behind an earth bank and returned fire. They were joined by Captain Dolan who had been riding on the back of the armoured car.
The troops in the Crossley dismounted and began to return fire on the men in the boreen who had now been joined by the two men who had been dismantling the mine. These men immediately withdrew along Walsh’s Lane. Collins and his group with the armoured cars machine gun pinned down the dozen men behind the stone wall at Position B. After firing 400 rounds the MG jammed and this group also withdrew along Walsh’s Lane. This action took about 20 minutes. By this time Collins had moved behind the armoured car from where he fired occasionally at the withdrawing IRA men. He then moved a further 15 yards along the earth bank out of sight of his comrades. Dalton moved towards his position when he heard firing cease from there and found Collins lying dead in a firing position.
The troops almost immediately loaded the body of their dead commander and another wounded officer into the car and the convoy moved to the village of Crookstown where they stopped and demanded of a local man that he bring them to a priest and a doctor. The man brought the convoy to CloughduveChurch where the curate a Fr. Murphy gave Collins absolution. The convoy then spent all night making its way to Cork city, sometimes cross country because the IRA had trenched the roads and blown the bridges. From Cork Collins was brought by sea to Dublin and he was buried in Glasnevin cemetery.
1941
The Irish merchant ship Clonlara was torpedoed and sunk by U-564. 11 crewmen died. She was sailing in a British Convoy NE of Spain when hit by 4 torpedos.
Clonlara Casualties
Captain Joseph Reynolds, Liverpool. Aged 41.
1st Mate John Spanner, 27 Dartmouth Road, Dublin, aged 41.
2nd Mate Peter McGuigan, Lusk, Co Dublin, aged 44.
1st Engineer Robert Spense, Ballybough, Dublin, aged 62.
Fireman, William Carr, 5 Lower Rutland Street, Dublin , aged 29.
Fireman, Edward Greene, 22 Aldboro House, Dublin, aged 27.
Fireman, Edward Kavanagh, 22 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin.
Fireman, Samuel McKane, Dublin, aged 37.
Able Seaman John Lambe,26 Newfoundland Street, Dublin,aged 22.
Able Seaman Archie Robertson, Bruff, Co Limerick, aged 48.
Steward William J Smith, 5 Ropewalk Place, Ringsend, aged 38.
1950
Pte Thomas Ward from Co. Monaghan. Died in Korea serving with the 25th Inf Div, US Army.
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Post by groundhog on Aug 23, 2011 16:56:11 GMT
August 23rd
1914The British Expeditionary Force and the German Army clashed near Mons. Amongst the Irish units involved were 2nd Bn, Royal Irish Regt. www.1914-1918.net/bat1.htmLt Maurice Dease, 4th Bn Royal Fusiliers, from Ballynagall, Co. Westmeath became the first soldier to win a VC in the Great War. In command of a machine gun section at Nimy Bridge in Mons, he stayed at his post until wounded for a fifth time. He later died of his injuries. Killed in action with 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt at Mons today were; 4969 Sgt Denis Walsh from Cappoquin, Co. Waterford. 6820 L/Cpl William Roche, from Waterford City. 7622 Pte John Connolly, from Waterford City. 4834 Pte Patrick Ryan, from Waterford City. 1915238143 Able Seaman Michael Moylan. A crewman off HMS Centurion, died at home in Ardmore, Co. Waterford. 1918Sgt P Walsh, Killinick, Co. Wexford. Grenadier Guards. KIA Western Front.
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Post by groundhog on Aug 24, 2011 15:27:21 GMT
24th August
1798
Generals Cornwallis and Lake left Dublin for Connacht to put down the rebellion there. A small force went ahead by road while the main body travelled the Royal Canal
1914
Died on the retreat from Mons
8178 Pte Michael Brien, Kereen, Co. Waterford.
7037 Pte John Dwyer, Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
7309 Pte Stephen Hogan. Carrick on Suir.
7288 Pte William Lewis Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
6726 Pte Stephen Ryan, Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
1916
8801 Cpl Edward Troy, 2nd Bn Leinster Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front . He was from Killenaule, Co. Tipperary.
6940 Gunner Martin Dunne, Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Dungarvan. Co. Waterford.
1673 Pte John Darmody, 26th Bn AIF. Died of Wounds in England. Darmody was from Queensland, the son of a family from Powerstown, Co. Tipperary. He had been wounded at Mouquet Farm early in August. When he died his uncle sent the body home to Powerstown for burial in the family plot.
1918
16221 L/Cpl Patrick O'Brien, 1st Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. Killed in action on the Western Front. Buried in Bailleul Communal Cem Ext, France. He was from Clonmel.
77357 Pte Patrick Oswald, from Waterford. He Died in India serving in 2nd Garrison Bn Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
5194 Pte Edward Walsh from Carrick on Suir. KIA in France with 7th Bn Royal Irish Regt.
1943
72361 Capt John De La Poer. Royal Irish Fusiliers attached 8th Gurkhas. Died in Karachi, India. He was from Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary.
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