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Post by groundhog on Nov 11, 2012 0:26:36 GMT
Thomas Butler  AKA; Black Tom, 3rd Earl of Ossory, Viscount Thurles and the 10th Earl of Ormond Born; c. 1531 Died; 22nd November 1614 Wars; The Desmond Rebellion and the Tudor Conquest Famous For;winning the Battle of Affane and sparking two decades of war in Munster |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 12, 2012 7:06:30 GMT
Charles Gwynn AKA; Major-General Sir Charles William Gwynn KCB, CMG, DSO, FRGS Born; 4th November 1870, Co. Down Died; 12th November 1962, Dublin Wars; West Africa, WW1 Famous For;He was Chief of Staff II ANZAC Corps, William Smith O’Brien was his grandfather. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 13, 2012 8:10:45 GMT
Guy Carleton AKA; 1st Baron Dorchester Born; 3rd September 1724, Co. Tyrone Died; 10th November 1808, England Wars; War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years War, American War of Independence Famous For;Successfully defended Quebec against the American Rebels in 1775 |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 14, 2012 0:25:04 GMT
Frederick Roberts AKA; Earl Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford Born; 30th September 1832, Cawnpore, India. His father was from Waterford and his mother from Kilfeacle, Co. Tipperary Died; 14th November 1914, France Wars; Indian Mutiny, Abyssinia Campaign, Second Anglo-Afghan War, Boer War Famous For;He and his son both won a Victoria Cross, one of only three father and son pairs to do so. Roberts Junior was killed at Colenso while winning his VC shortly before hisfather took over as C in C South Africa |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 15, 2012 0:17:07 GMT
William Pearse AKA; Willie Pearse Born; 15th November 1881, Dublin Died; 4th May 1916, executed Kilmainham Jail, Dublin Wars; 1916 Rising Famous For; Getting shot for being Padraig Pearse’s brother |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 16, 2012 0:03:19 GMT
William Thomas Cosgrave AKA; W T Cosgrave Born; 6th June 1880, Dublin Died; 16th November 1965, Dublin Wars; 1916 Rising Famous For;Was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted. He went on to be President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1932. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 17, 2012 23:58:49 GMT
George Callaghan  AKA; Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Astley Callaghan Born; 21st December 1852, London Died; 23rd November 1920, England Wars; WW1 |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 18, 2012 0:54:20 GMT
Henry Ireton  AKA; Lord President of Munster Born; 1611, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire (he was baptised on 3rd November) Died; 26th November 1651, Limerick Wars; English Civil War, Cromwell’s Campaign in Ireland Famous For;Took over command of the army in Ireland after Cromwell’s return to England in May 1650 |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 19, 2012 0:16:55 GMT
Theobald Wolfe Tone  AKA; Wolfe Tone Born; 20th June 1763, Dublin Died; 19th November 1798, Provost's Prison, Dublin Wars; 1798 Rebellion Famous For; Generally recognised as the Father of Irish Republicanism |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 20, 2012 0:07:50 GMT
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Post by groundhog on Nov 21, 2012 0:32:23 GMT
Joseph Mary Plunkett  AKA; Seosamh Máire Pluincéid Born; 21st November 1887, Dublin Died; 4th May 1916, executed in Kilmainham Jail, Dublin Wars; 1916 Rising Famous For; One of the planners of the rising and one of the executed leaders |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 22, 2012 10:50:15 GMT
Hugh McMahon AKA; Hugh Óg MacMahon Born; c. 1606, Co. Monaghan Died; 22nd November 1644, executed at Tyburn, London Wars; Eighty Years War, Confederate Wars Famous For; One of the leaders of the 1641 Rebellion, he was believed to have gotten drunk and told his cousin, Owen Connolly, a loyalist, of the planned rebellion |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 23, 2012 0:25:09 GMT
Franz Moritz von Lacy  AKA; Francis Maurice de Lacy, Boris Petrovich Lassi Born; 21st Oct 1725, St. Petersburg, Russia Died; 24th Nov 1801, Vienna, Austria Wars; War of the Austrian Succession , Seven Years War, War of the Bavarian Succession Famous For; He was the son of Count Peter Von Lacy. Franz was instrumental in reforming the Austrian Army after the Seven Years War |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 24, 2012 0:14:02 GMT
Robert Erskine Childers AKA; Erskine Childers Born; 25th June 1870, London Died; 24th November 1922, executed Beggar’s Bush Barracks, Dublin Wars; Boer War, WW1, Civil War Famous For;His yacht was used to smuggle guns for the Irish Volunteers into Ireland in 1914. His son became the fourth President of Ireland. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 25, 2012 0:56:37 GMT
Thomas Dillon AKA; 4th Viscount Dillon Born; 1615 Died; 1672, Dublin Wars; Confederate Wars Famous For; Was President of Connaught and a Confederate Army Commander |
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