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By Francesca Pollio Fenton
CNA Staff, Apr 12, 2024 / 16:00 pm
A new film depicting the incredible true story of Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish Catholic nurse who risked her own life to hide Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II, debuts in theaters across the country April 15-16.
“Irena’s Vow” is told through the eyes of strong-willed 19-year-old Irena Gut. When Gut is promoted to be the housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer after learning that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated, she makes it her mission to help the Jewish workers.
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WAR: The Executive Accountability Act would have prohibited presidents, vice presidents, and other Executive Office officials “from knowingly and willfully misleading Congress of the United States for the purpose of gaining support for the use of force by the Armed Forces of the United States.” This, Fisher argues, would have pleased the Founders.
“They knew the danger of executive wars,” he writes. “They understood that executive military initiatives threaten the legislative powers of war and spending and undermine popular government.”
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It has always been a mystery to our host Danielle Dardashti and her sister Galeet – why did their family leave Iran? Now, in a documentary podcast series, the sisters reveal painful secrets unspoken for generations. The Nightingale of Iran is a story that will resonate with outsiders everywhere.
The first episode is now available to listen to on all podcast platforms. Episodes drop every Tuesday through March 12. Listen and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!
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The Nightingale of Iran
https://pod.link/1705959955/episode/032b4865dbb596dc1e60841c8461270b
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Faith and Science
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One of the most poignant events to take place during the centenary weekend in Kerry last March was at Kilflynn where Tánaiste Micheál Martin led tributes to Kilflynn native Stephen Fuller. The Tánaiste laid a wreath at his grave surrounded by Stephen’s son, Paudie, his neighbours, family, and friends, including Minister for Education Norma Foley.
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Tralee New Year 2024
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(JTA) — For decades, armchair analysts scrutinizing the mysteries of the President John F. Kennedy assassination have fixated on who, exactly, opened his future assassin’s mail while he was under CIA surveillance.
As the conspiracy theory went, that person would have understood Lee Harvey Oswald’s relationship with the Soviet Union and thus could unlock new information about a possible Communist plot against Kennedy — or a U.S. government plot to obscure his true killer.
Last month, a new document dump in the ongoing declassification of Kennedy documents revealed the identity of the CIA screener: one Reuben Efron, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania.
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Persecution worsening
Religious freedom is shrinking globally, according to multiple reports. A report from the watchdog group Open Doors found that the persecution of Christians is at its highest point in three decades. It found that some of the worst locations for Christians were North Korea, Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, Sudan, and India.
A June report from Aid to the Church in Need found that more than half of the world’s population live in a country with serious religious persecution, from either government or other entities. The worst offenders included some of the same countries: Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea, among others.
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Weekly Newsletter
Sunday within the Octave of Christmas
31st December 2023
Dear Friends of Sacred Heart Church,
On this, the final day of the year 2023, we are inviting you to reflect on the numerous graces and blessings that God has bestowed upon us throughout the past months. Today is a day of gratitude, a moment to give thanks for the joys, challenges, and growth we have experienced.
After the 10:30 am, we will conclude the year with the solemn singing of Te Deum, expressing our collective thanksgiving to God.
Today again, following the 6 pm Mass, there will be Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament with the singing of the Te Deum.
Tomorrow, before the 6 pm Mass, we will recite the Veni Creator. This is a chance for you to gain a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions.
Canon Henry will be taking a short vacation in France. Let us keep his sister in our prayers as she embarks on the journey of marriage on Thursday 4th January. Following his vacation, he will spend some time at our seminary in Italy, adhering to the customary practice for all Institute priests.
This Wednesday, January 3rd, we celebrate the feast of St. Munchin, the first bishop of Limerick.
This Friday marks the first Friday of the month, dedicated to the Sacred Heart.
Saturday 6th January is the Feast of the Epiphany, a day of obligation in Ireland. The Epiphany water will be available in the corridor in front of Our Lady’s altar (please bring your own jars).
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the team at ‘’Windows 2000’’ for their generous act of kindness this week. As a delightful Christmas treat, they dedicated their time to clean the windows of our beloved church!
Please keep ‘’Windows 2000’’ and its dedicated staff in your prayers! May their kindness be returned to them tenfold!
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who shared Christmas greetings with us.
The cards have been placed in our dining room at the foot of the statue of Our Lady. Your kind words are a testament to the spirit of charity and family that prevails within our community.
As we bid farewell to 2023, let me anticipate the new year with our best greetings! May 2024 bring you and your loved ones abundant blessings.
We wish you a very Happy and grace filled New Year!
Canon Lebocq
Prior of Sacred Heart Church
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Sunday 24th December 2023: Christmas Carols followed by Midnight Mass
https://www.youtube.com/live/ZrZw9eYCpto?feature=shared
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The Nativity of the Lord - Midnight Mass - Westminster Cathedral 2023
https://www.youtube.com/live/nOOPXbD7lME?feature=shared
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Did Israel Steal Palestinian Land?
https://youtu.be/btVFgqkgkzw?si=veYvXI5oEy9xGt2S
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Los Angeles — October 27, 2023
The centerpiece of the annual symposium and awarding of Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize on Oct. 26 was the traditional celebration of the Hilton Prize recipient — in this case, the One Acre Fund, a group supporting small-holder farmers in Africa.
But given the many and varied humanitarian crises facing the world today — including the Israel-Hamas war, the continuing conflict in Ukraine, recent earthquakes and floods, climate-related disasters and even the latest round of mass shootings in the United States — the all-day symposium and award ceremony also felt like a needed day of reprieve and reflection for the gathered humanitarian community.
And indeed, in kicking off the day's events with the theme "Roots of Resilience," Peter Laugharn, president and CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, noted the numerous challenges facing the world, but also the many chances to serve humanity and heal the Earth.
Today, Laugharn said, "we have an opportunity to bring more light" into the world. He added, "We can share hope."
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Golden Rule mission urges support for nuclear ban treaty
By Gerry Condon
Editor’s note: The Golden Rule is making a historic voyage for peace around the US currently. This article, by the president of the Veterans For Peace Golden Rule Project, Gerry Condon, from May 2023, is reflective of the stops and activities carried out by the boat’s crew during this epic journey.
The Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat and her intrepid crew arrived to Chelsea Piers in New York City on May 17 to a wonderful reception, followed by ten days full of amazing events. Emotional meetings featured family members of the original crew who sailed toward the Marshall Islands in 1958 to interfere with US nuclear bomb tests. A lunch meeting was hosted by Amalgamated Bank, the only US bank that refuses to invest in nuclear weapons. And the historic peace boat made an (uninvited) guest appearance in New York City’s Fleet Week “Parade of (war) Ships.” With its ruddy tan bark sails emblazoned with a peace sign and the logo of Veterans For Peace, the Golden Rule was a jaunty counterpoint to the Navy’s grey display of weapons of mass destruction.
Multiple events were organized daily by Veterans For Peace, the Friends House (Quakers), the War Resisters League, the Catholic Workers (Maryhouse), Pax Christi, the Peoples’ Forum and others. The City Council issued a welcoming proclamation. The Golden Rule also crossed the Hudson River several times to New Jersey for events with environmental activists and Indigenous leaders.
The Golden Rule crew brought its message of peace to multiple UN missions during its stop in New York City.
Perhaps most exciting of all were our meetings with United Nations missions from around the world. Mexico’s mission hosted a meeting where Veterans For Peace and the Golden Rule team met with 12 U.N. missions, including New Zealand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cuba, South Africa, Austria, Indonesia, Ireland, Costa Rica, Kiribati, and the Holy See.
The U.N. representatives responded enthusiastically to a 10-minute version of Making Waves, the Rebirth of the Golden Rule, and made frequent references to the award-winning film during a very positive exchange with the Golden Rule delegation, led by Veterans For Peace’s president Susan Schnall, and Representative to the U.N. Ellen Barfield.
We are used to speaking ‘state-to-state,” said the First Committee representative from South Africa, the one country that actually eliminated its nuclear weapons. “It is a breath of fresh air to be talking with citizen activists.” He continued, “I was struck by the images of you sailing by the warships. It really is David and Goliath. We are doing diplomatic work but you are the ones doing the heavy lifting. You are out there doing it. We thank you very much.”
https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/135937654/posts/19314
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There is a memorable scene in “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster film about the building of the atomic bomb, in which Luis Alvarez, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, is reading a newspaper while getting a haircut. Suddenly, Alvarez leaps from his seat and sprints down the road to find his colleague, the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
“Oppie! Oppie!” he shouts. “They’ve done it. Hahn and Strassmann in Germany. They split the uranium nucleus. They split the atom.”
The reference is to two German chemists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, who in 1939 unknowingly reported a demonstration of nuclear fission, the splintering of an atom into lighter elements. The discovery was key to the Manhattan Project, the top-secret American effort led by Oppenheimer to develop the first nuclear weapons.
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we dove deep, deep, deep into the photo archives from WWII. When the war is covered and remembered today, there are a few classic pictures that repeatedly reemerge. But, of course, tens of thousands of photographs were taken during the war, and we wanted to find and resurface some lesser-known snapshots from the Big One.
The photos’ original captions have been retained.
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Ireland’s missed opportunity- February 14, 2023
JOHN BIRD [STUDIES] :: AE (George Russell), a contributor to Ireland's cultural revival, lamented the destruction wrought by 'the champions of physical violence'.
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Running through Pope Francis’ more than 100 statements about the war is the leitmotif that war itself is the problem—absurd, a tragedy, a defeat for humanity. More coolly, political realists say that Ukraine does not stand a reasonable chance of rolling back the Russian invasion and that trying to do so risks nuclear war. And in the United States, some politicians call for scaling back a commitment to Ukraine that is expensive and, they say, not in our national interest. All of these voices put forth a minimal peace, prioritizing an end to fighting. The implication is that Ukraine should be coaxed or forced into negotiating.
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But that’s not all they did. As the ship went down, survivors have said that they saw the four chaplains on deck, linked arm in arm together in prayer. ------------------
It’s a promise that Auerbach, 75, who now lives in Passaic, New Jersey, has taken to heart. He’s made it his life’s mission to keep alive the story of the “Four Chaplains” — who included Auerbach’s third cousin, Rabbi Alexander D. Goode, along with Rev. George Fox, Rev. Clark Poling and Father John Washington. Eighty years ago today, they made the ultimate sacrifice when their ship, U.S.A.T. Dorchester, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic in the pre-dawn hours.
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Ellen O'Riordan
Sun Jun 20 2021 - 18:13
In the early morning of June 3rd, 1944, Maureen Flavin (21) dispatched a weather report from Blacksod, Co Mayo, that would change the course of the second World War.
The barometer at the remote weather station showed pressure was dropping rapidly, indicating a major Atlantic storm was due to arrive and blow right across western Europe. Based on Ms Flavin’s readings, US general Dwight D Eisenhower postponed the D-Day landing by 24 hours.
On Saturday, the 98-year-old, now Maureen Flavin Sweeney, was awarded a special US House of Representatives honour for her part in the war. Her role was recognised at a ceremony held at Tí Aire nursing home in Belmullet, Co Mayo, where she now lives.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/us-honour-for-98-year-old-woman-whose-mayo-weather-report-changed-d-day-landing-1.4598678
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Martin Moore
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A Listowel soldier whose military career brought him to Kimberley (South Africa) and Singapore before he went to New Zealand in 1914.
There he served as an Instructor and fought with the ANZACs (Australian/New Zealanders) at Gallipoli and at Somme and Messines in France/Belgium.
Decorated by the King of Serbia, he was commissioned into the New Zealand Forces, before being wounded on July 1917. He was invalided back to New Zealand where he acted as the Chief Engineering Instructor.
In this book, the varied adventures of Moore are recalled including his links to the mysterious disappearance of an Australian officer from a ship off Malta in 1915.
A significant contribution to the military history of County Kerry, the book summarises the services of nearly 300 Kerrymen who served with the ANZACs during the Great War.
Will be available in next few weeks.
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Martin Moore- Remembering the Kerry-born soldiers who fought with the Australian and New Zealand Forces in World War 1.
Only one of them is buried in Kerry, that is Patrick Costello at Kiltallagh.
An Australian soldier, Robert Emmet Kinchington is buried in Killarney, while New Zealander, John Walsh now rests in Tralee.
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Martin Moore
'A Kerry Odyssey', the story of Listowel-born John Moore, who soldiered in the Boer War and later in the Great War (1914-1918).
He was one of nearly 300 Kerrymen who served with the ANZACS (Australian/New Zealand forces) at Gallipoli, The Somme and Messines.
His war exploits are included in at least ten books in New Zealand, so it is about time to be remembered in Kerry.
'A Kerry Odyssey' will be launched at Listowel Writers Week, Friday, June 2, 2023.
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Violette Szabo
By Susan Ottaway
During World War II, young mother Violette Szabo worked for one of Britain’s premier sabotage organizations — whose secret missions eventually led to her internment and execution at Ravensbrück. With insight from her family and private letters, this well-researched portrait brings her courageous story to life.
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1939
By Robert Kee
“Authentic, absorbing” (The Times): History often looks different in hindsight. This chronicle of 1939 revives the events and news stories of the time — and provides a clear picture of life across Europe before World War II was a certainty.
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The CIA World Factbook: 2022–2023
The CIA World Factbook: 2022–2023
By Central Intelligence Agency
A comprehensive compendium of up-to-date facts and figures about every country in the world — directly from the Central Intelligence Agency! Originally intended for government use, this fascinating guide includes everything from geopolitical maps to economic data.
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The Greatest Day in History
By Nicholas Best
An acclaimed historian offers an “exceedingly well-crafted panoramic overview” (Booklist) of the week leading up to November 11, 1918 — the day the First World War finally ended. “This volume sets an example that will be hard to equal” (Daily Mail).
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Stalingrad
By Antony Beevor
From a New York Times bestselling author comes an in-depth look at a battle that marked a turning point in World War II — and altered modern warfare. “A thoroughly mesmerizing narrative” (Library Journal) with over 17,300 five-star ratings on Goodreads.
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The Nazis Knew My Name
By Magda Hellinger and Maya Lee with David Brewster
When Magda Hellinger was deported to Auschwitz, she was assigned to work as a prison leader — and used her position to keep others alive. Written by her daughter, this “standout memoir” (Library Journal) offers “an unputdownable account of resilience and the power of compassion” (Booklist).
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As you may know, Memorial Day has not always been a federal holiday, automatically celebrated on a Monday. The originally marked on May 30, 1868, was designated to honor those who had given their lives in the Civil War. The Monday Memorial Day holiday was created in 1971. It has also morphed into the “official” start of summer vacation season.
https://media.benedictine.edu/2023/we-remember
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As the French and Chinese presidents, Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping, were discussing the need for more constructive international engagement to end the war in Ukraine, it emerged this week that Ukraine, too, was open to reconsidering its options. A top adviser to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, noted that Kyiv might be open to negotiate the return of Crimea from Russia, rather than taking it by force.
The likelihood of actual negotiations and the prospects for their success may appear slim. But things were not that different 25 years ago when, in the early hours of April 10 1998, negotiators in Northern Ireland announced they had reached an agreement, ending a 30-year conflict that had cost more than 3,000 lives.
While the political process in Northern Ireland has been fraught with difficulties over the years, the peace has largely held. This is a considerable achievement and one that is worth reflecting on in the context of the war in Ukraine.
https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-the-lessons-from-the-northern-ireland-peace-process-203169
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Veterans Affairs Canada
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Dec 13, 2022 ... guards combat engineer regiment commander in chiefs bodyguard communications and electronics branch communications and electronics branch composite battalion connaught rangers corps of artificers corps of military police corps of military staff clerks county of london yeo. (westminster dragoons) county of london yeo.(sharpshooters), r a c depot battalion
Alexander Giles - The Canadian Virtual War Memorial - Veterans Affairs Canada
Veterans Affairs Canada
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Nov 5, 2022 ... Details Photo of ALEXANDER GILES – Private Alexander Giles, born Castlemaine, County Kerry, Ireland. Joined 102nd Canadian Infantry Battalion in Toronto. Died 6th November 1918 near Valenciennes, France. Always remembered by his family in Ireland Details Gravemarker Details Aulnoy Communal Cemetery – Cemetery and plan of Aulnoy Communal Cemetery Learn more
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Veterans Affairs Canada
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Nov 5, 2022 ... Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Son of Allen and Maria Boyd, of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. Commemorated on Page 57 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page. Burial Information Cemetery: MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium Grave Reference: Panel 18 - 26 - 28 Location: The Menin Gate
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Nov 5, 2022 ... of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page. Burial Information Cemetery: TRALEE NEW CEMETERY County Kerry, Irish Republic Grave Reference: Prot. plot, near main path. Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Digital Collection Send us your images Details Photo of William Bartley Details Photo of William Bartley – This photo
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The Virginia Plan
By Robert H. Gillette
As Hitler rose to power in the 1930s, American department store owner William Thalhimer became determined to help German Jews escape persecution — and established a farm in Virginia where immigrants could resettle as agricultural workers. Discover a little-known story of courage and compassion in this moving read.
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In Auschwitz, gynecologist Carl Clauberg attempted to sterilize hundreds of girls and women. Many died. Some of the last survivors relate their terrible experiences at the death camp.
Almost 80 years ago, Kiel gynecologist Carl Clauberg was given permission by SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler to sterilize hundreds of girls and women in Block 10 at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Clauberg had previously worked with the chemical company Schering-Kahlbaum AG to develop hormone drugs and contrast agents for use in his experiments. "We were called up with our numbers, then Clauberg appeared and injected something into our vaginas. And then they sometimes said: ‘No more children’,” remembers Auschwitz survivor Leny Adelaar.
https://youtu.be/eLdnVtQ42yY
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L.A.’s ‘Peacemaker’ Bishop David O’Connell Found Shot and Killed in His Own Home
February 19, 2023
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell was fatally shot on Feb. 18. A native of Ireland, he spent most of his four decades as a priest ministering in the inner city of Los Angeles. He was 69. (Photo: OSV/Bob Roller)
by Pablo Kay
LOS ANGELES (OSV) — Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell, a native of Ireland (Cork) who spent most of his four decades as a priest ministering in L.A.’s inner city, was shot and killed in his home in Hacienda Heights, a neighborhood east of Los Angeles.
According to local news reports, Los Angeles County sheriffs arrived on Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. to the bishop’s Janlu Avenue home and found him dead of a gunshot wound to his upper torso. As of that evening, authorities did not offer any details about a potential motive or suspect in the bishop’s killing.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced on Feb. 19 that Auxiliary Bishop O’Connell’s death is being investigated as a homicide.
“We are deeply disturbed and saddened by this news,” Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said after theLos Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s announcement. “Let us continue to pray for ‘Bishop Dave’ and his family. And let us pray for law enforcement officials as they continue their investigation into this terrible crime.”
Auxiliary Bishop O’Connell was episcopal vicar for the archdiocese’s San Gabriel Pastoral Region since 2015 when Pope Francis named him an auxiliary bishop.
In his statement, Archbishop Gomez said Auxiliary Bishop O’Connell will be remembered as “a man of deep prayer who had a great love for Our Blessed Mother.”
“He was a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant, and he had a passion for building a community where the sanctity and dignity of every human life was honored and protected,” he said.
“He was also a good friend, and I will miss him greatly,” continued Archbishop Gomez, who asked for prayers for the bishop and his family in Ireland.
Born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1953, Auxiliary Bishop O’Connell studied for the priesthood at the former All Hallows College in Dublin and was ordained to serve in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1979. After ordination, he served as associate pastor in several parishes and as pastor at St. Frances X. Cabrini, Ascension, St. Eugene, and St. Michael’s parishes — all in south Los Angeles.
There, Auxiliary Bishop O’Connell ministered to a community afflicted by gang violence, poverty, broken families, as well as tensions between locals and members of the Los Angeles Police Department and the L.A. Sheriff’s Department that eventually boiled over during the L.A. riots in 1992 that followed the beating of Rodney King by police officers.
The riots broke out during then-Father O’Connell’s first tour at St. Frances X. Cabrini (1988-98). Auxiliary Bishop O’Connell would later tell how he was in Washington, testifying before a panel on Capitol Hill about violence in urban America when the riots started. He returned days later to find widespread destruction in much of his parish’s territory.
Apart from aiding neighborhood recovery efforts, Father O’Connell pushed to restore trust between inner-city residents and law enforcement. He and other local faith leaders helped organize meetings with police officers in people’s homes and provide opportunities for dialogue and reconciliation.
As a pastor, Father O’Connell also saw firsthand the effect of broken families on the community. That inspired him to organize retreats for men — usually in the mountains — focusing on how to be good fathers and husbands, something he saw as key to the health of a community.
During his time as auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles, evangelization, pastoral care for immigrants, and ensuring the future of his region’s Catholic schools were all top priorities for Auxiliary Bishop O’Connell.
He was the chairman of the inter-diocesan Southern California Immigration Task Force, helping coordinate the local church’s response to the influx of migrants from Central America in recent years and navigating the challenges presented by changing immigration policies.
Last September, Auxiliary Bishop O’Connell was recognized for his tireless service to the community and the church in Los Angeles with the prestigious Evangelii Gaudium Award from St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo.
At the national level, he was serving as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
But despite his long list of accolades and accomplishments, Bishop O’Connell was known as a low-key priest with a down-to-earth demeanor and an Irish brogue he never bothered to try hiding. Those who knew him testify that he seemed most at ease with the people he spent all those years within south L.A.
“It’s been the great joy of my life to be the pastor of these people, especially the ones who are suffering or in need or facing difficulty,” he said after being named a bishop in 2015. “And it’s been a great privilege, a great blessing to be given these parishes all these years, to be pastor all these years. The people have touched my heart the way they are sincere.”
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Can there be Trump accomplishments without Trump?
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But some pro-lifers see a connection between the double-homicide case decided last week and abortion — and a disconnection in the court’s legal reasoning.
One legal scholar told the Register that the Massachusetts court decision is an example of what some pro-lifers call the “abortion distortion” — one norm when it comes to abortion and a different norm when it comes to everything else.
“Ever since Roe v. Wade, there’s always been this double standard — that for the purposes of common law, tort law, homicide law, the unborn child is a human being, but not for abortion law,” said Dwight Duncan, a law professor at University of Massachusetts School of Law, in a telephone interview.
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WHALE: You might have heard of this story in the past-
A 45 foot, 8 ton whale washed up on the beach of Florence, Oregon in 1970, and officials weren’t sure what to do about it.
According to the legendary news clip (which is embedded below), nobody wanted to cut up the whale, and officials deemed that burying it would just lead to the carcass eventually becoming uncovered.
So, what did they do? They loaded a half ton of dynamite under the carcass with the intention that the explosion would disintegrate it.
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In a little booklet, West Limerick and 1916, a personal account of events, by his father, Charles Wall, Fr. David writes in the Foreword: ‘Great progress has been made since then towards reconciliation. It is for us to build on what has been achieved and continue to make peace and reconciliation one of our fundamental aims both personal and national’. This is how David lived his life.
https://columbans.ie/recent-deaths-in-dalgan/
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One of the biggest single events of the Easter Rising was re-enacted on Sunday at Glenquin Castle, Co Limerick, where hundreds of people walked in the footsteps of rebels who played a part in the struggle for independence.
The Footsteps to Freedom event involved a re-enactment of the march of 300 Irish Volunteers from across West Limerick and North Cork to Glenquin Castle 100 years ago.
The 1916 mustering was part of a wider plan to galvanise the country for a national uprising,
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Wall Family
https://www.limerick.ie/wall-archive-collection
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FESTIVAL: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Autumn School Friday 28th - Monday 31st October. A festival celebrating Irish culture and diaspora with a focus on Bruff’s connection with the Kennedy family and in particular, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
https://www.limerick.ie/discover/whats-on/festivals/rose-fitzgerald-kennedy-autumn-school
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James Gilhooley (1847-1916), Fenian 1867, Irish Parliamentary Party MP, West Cork, Member 'Bantry Band', children at Four Mile Water (Durrus) National School. In later years his election agent was Jasper Woulfe, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor and later TD, Skibbereen.
Very active in the Land War jailed a few times
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/11987
Collections for Evicted Tenants, Castlehaven/Myross, Myross, Ardfield, Rathbarry. 1892 Collection Ballyroe. 1893, Clonakilty Evicted Tenants Fund. Like a Mini Census. Fiery address of James Gilhooley, M.P., in Goleen on Evictions. Gilhooley 'The Irish People Have Never Acknowledged this Right of Any Nation In the World To Govern Them.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/39997
1847. Father John Kelleher, PP. Ballydebob, on evils of Land Tenure. Townland of Kilronogue, Ballydehob, West Cork, Population 1841 445, 1847 125 Dead from Hunger, 6 from Disease, 84 Missing. 1841 74 Houses, 1847 27 Unroofed, 11 Unoccupied.
https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/24995
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The Way I See It
By Domhnall de Barra
The tragic death of Paudie Mullane, at such a young age, left us all in shock over the past few days. Anybody who ever met Paudie will remember a handsome young man with a ready smile and a good word for everyone. It is testimony to the popularity of the Mullane family from Knocknagorna that such throngs of people attended the funeral home on Sunday and again the Mass and burial on Monday. The village has not seen such crowds for a long time. It is hard to find suitable words at this time; all we can do is keep the family in our thoughts and prayers and hope they will get the strength they need to cope with their sad loss. May he rest in peace.
I am fed up with politicians trying to score political points by criticising President Higgins. He is a straight talker and won’t pull his punches for anybody. He was right when he said the housing problem in Ireland was a disaster. Anybody with a glimmer of a brain cell should be able to see that but some politicians don’t agree that he should voice that opinion. There is now another problem concerning a letter to The Irish Times by his wife Sabina in which she wrote that, in her opinion, there would be no end to the war between Russia and Ukraine until they both sat down and negotiated a ceasefire. A Fine Gael Senator was on the radio straight away demanding an explanation from President Higgins as to his input into the letter and stating that its contents were contrary to the government’s position which was total backing for Ukraine against the Russian aggression. First and foremost, Sabina Higgins has every right, as a citizen of this country, to voice her opinion. She is her own woman and it is an insult to suggest she could not have done so without the help of the President. Anyway what she said is right. There will be no end to the war without a negotiated settlement. That is the nature of things or do we think that Russia are just going to up sticks and walk away. Since then President Higgins has made a statement in which he thoroughly endorses the government’s position but that is not good enough for certain people who say he has explained nothing. It is time to let go of this and let the President get on with the great job he is doing as our representative world wide. There are more important things to be worried about.
Every program on radio and television is talking about the rise in the cost of living and how it affects every household. The pinch will not really be felt until the winter comes in and we have to use more heating. Those who are lucky enough to have their own turf will be better off than those who have to rely on gas, oil or electricity all of which have risen sharply in price in recent months and are forecast to rise even further in the near future. Can someone tell me why these huge rises are necessary. Everything cannot be blamed on the war in Ukraine and I noticed with amazement that utility companies have posted massive profits for the first half of the year. This is the product of the privatisation of our national companies that the government thought was such a good idea a few decades ago. Once upon a time the state owned and operated power plants, transport, housing, post offices, refuse collection and the likes and we were doing fine. Now that they are privatised the object of those companies is to make profit for the shareholders regardless of the damage to the ordinary citizens who use them. I don’t know what’s going to happen but things need to change and change fast if we are to have any hope of having a decent living in the future. We need to get back to basics and build enough houses, employ enough medical practitioners and get control of more utilities so that people have a chance to live a normal life without fear of going without heating or even a roof over their heads.
I was watching the Fleadh program on TG4 the other night. It was from the Ulster Fleadh in Dromore, Omagh and was a lovely program of the best Irish traditional music, song and dance highlighting the very best from the area and the province of Ulster. I could not help contrasting it with the program from the Munster Fleadh in Newcastle West a couple of weeks ago which left me less than satisfied with its contents. It failed to capture the great traditional spirit that exists in this neck of the woods and ignored some of the best exponents of our cultural heritage who live in the region. I am in no way criticising those who took part, rather it was the way the show was put together and how much more they could have done to showcase the Munster traditions from The Déise to West Clare and Tipperary to Sliabh Luachra. It is great that TG4 are doing the shows but maybe a little better research in advance would have resulted in better programmes.
August 2022
https://www.athea.ie/category/news/
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Glin Castle and Garden guided tour on Sunday August 21 from 12 noon to 6pm. Tickets can be purchased at the entrance gate on the day for €10. The Glin Knights Visitor centre in the Square is open daily from 10am to 5pm, and Read about the lives of the 29 Knights of Glin.
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A Forgotten Patriot, James Creed Meredith, 1875–1942, Supreme Court Justice. Bowl Player in Timoleague in His Youth, His Parents Marriage Match Made in West Cork.
Durrushistory Aug 5 2022
A Forgotten Patriot, James Creed Meredith, 1875–1942, Supreme Court Justice. Bowl Player in Timoleague in His Youth, His Parent Marriage Match Made in West Cork.
Slan agus Slainte Pat
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OgzWpMpW9NXKTcLxfm67iya96rVpXvA7uS04vEuKClQ/edit#
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Unveiling Ceremony in Knockanure Village. A plaque acknowledging the pivotal role Maureen Sweeney (nee Flavin) played in the “D Day Landing” World War 2, Saturday June 18th at 2pm. Everyone welcome.
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We are appalled at the spectacle of a beheaded American reporter. Imagine how appalled we would be at the spectacle of a beheaded American president. But just that was the spectacle that the Calvinists (Puritans) of Britain mounted for the edification of their country when they beheaded the Anglican King Charles I in 1649. That execution came midway in a religious civil war that lasted fully nine years (1642-1651) and cost Ireland (which suffered a reign of terror comparable to that of ISIS) and Britain more lives, proportionately, than the two islands would lose in World War I.
https://www.noemamag.com/how-will-the-mideast-war-end-christian-history-may-provide-a-clue/
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WAR; Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s southern ports has garnered a great deal of attention, but it’s not the only assault Russia is making against Ukraine’s wheat industry. Russian forces also launched airstrikes against a Kyiv factory that works on grain-industry transport cars and a grain storage facility in Mykolayiv last weekend. Such strikes not only hurt Ukraine economically, they threaten to make a looming global food crisis worse. Andrew Fink notes that the blockade itself “effectively removed 20 percent of the world’s expected wheat exports from the market.” Meanwhile, Russia is benefiting itself, as its wheat exports are up and its looting Ukrainian grain as well.
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Regis Martin Blogs
May 20, 2022
When Lady Astor first went to the Soviet Union back in 1931 in the hope of meeting Josef Stalin, she committed a cardinal breach of protocol by asking the dictator, “When are you going to stop killing people?” A perilous question, one would think, to put to someone who already had enough blood on his hands to rival Attila the Hun. Her membership in the British Parliament, however, provided sufficient cover, which is doubtless why, unlike most people then living under Stalin, she was free to leave and return safely to England.
So, what was Stalin’s answer? Totally unperturbed by the provocation, he replied, “Just as soon as it is no longer necessary for the protection of the state.”
Now Uncle Joe was a bit of a pragmatist, you see, which meant that he only liquidated people who got in his way, people who threatened the survival of his regime. Of course, by the time he died in 1953, to the immense relief of almost everyone, much of the Soviet Union had become one vast killing field, as many as 60 million human beings having been murdered in his name.
Meanwhile, here at home in America, in whose name are we doing the killing? With more than 60 million dead babies in less than half a century, and no apparent end in sight, it’s looks as if we’ve already exceeded the standard set by Stalin. No mean achievement that. So, on whose hands will their blood be found?
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Irish Brigade of France
Homesick, sad, and weary,
Heartsick, hungry, dreary,
(Shout, boys, Erin's the renown!)
O'Brien, Burke, and Tracy,
MacMahon, Dillon, Lacy,
We watch the town.
Prince Eugene has your town!"
"Are ye mad, or in a trance?
Waken, gentlemen of France!"
(Shout, boys, Erin's the renown!)
"See your lilied flags are flapping,
And your Marshal is caught napping
In Cremona town."
Again and yet again,
Though the third of us are slain,
(Shout boys, Erin's the renown!)
Though Sieur Villeroi is taken,
And the lilied flags are shaken,
Till our tardy comrades waken,
We keep the town.*
Back to back, and face to face,
Wrest from fate this night's disgrace
(Shout, boys, Erin's the renown!)
Ere the sun rose from its bed
Or that livid dawn grew red
Every German spear had fled
From Cremona town.
So failed Eugene's advance,
So failed all foes of France!
(Shout, boys, Erin's the renown!)
Let her praises still resound,
And while the world goes round,
To their praise too redound,
Who stood the victors crowned
In Cremona town.
'Cremona' by Emily Lawless
The battle of Cremona, 1702, on wikipedia. Cremona
The two Irish units lost an estimated 350 out of 600 men engaged; their commander Major Daniel O'Mahoney was later presented to Louis XIV and knighted by the Stuart exile James III. He went on to have a distinguished career, fighting in Spain and Sicily; he ended as a Lieutenant-General and died in Ocaña, Spain in 1714.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cremona
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Trasna na Tire
Military historian Pat Lawlor and Martin Moore chat with Liam O'Sullivan and cover some key incidents that occurred in Kerry during the Irish Civil War. Apologies for the difficulty at the start !
Kerry was the scene of some of the bloodiest and most protracted fighting during the Civil War. We take a look at some key encounters that shaped the Civil War in Kerry. When the Provisional Government landed troops by sea, the anti-Treaty forces were taken completely by surprise. Although the initial fighting was intense, resistance soon settled into a prolonged and bloody period of guerrilla warfare.
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Counting War’s Civilian Dead
Despite claims of precision strikes and the proliferation of smart bombs, the number of civilians killed in war appears staggeringly high.
War-caused famine and massacre have resulted in some horrific civilian death figures: 98 percent of the 82,000 dead in Germany’s war in Namibia (1903–1908) were non-combatants; as were 92 percent of the 546,000 dead in Ethiopia’s civil wars and famine (1974–1988); and 90 percent of the 100,000 killed in the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor (1975–1988).
https://daily.jstor.org/counting-wars-civilian-dead/?utm_term=Counting%20War2019s%20Civilian%20Dead&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04212022&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email
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There was another idea: to echo in Jerusalem the landmark embraces of Athenagoras I and Paul VI in 1967 and Bartholomew I and Pope Francis in 2014. This act would have made it clear that both the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Moscow have strong friendships with Rome.
For Moscow, it would have been a highly symbolic gesture, considering the climate of hostility that has existed with Constantinople since it recognized the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, an autocephalous church that no longer depended on the Moscow Patriarchate as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church had since the 17th century.
But paradoxically, the factors that made a Jerusalem meeting an attractive option prompted the pope to cancel the encounter — at least for now.
The Holy See did not want the potential meeting to be exploited amid the Russia-Ukraine war and it did not want to be drawn into intra-Orthodox debates.
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Msgr. Quinn’s Sainthood Cause Advances to the Vatican
June 26, 2019
By Ed Wilkinson
A portrait of Msgr. Bernard Quinn sits in the sanctuary of the chapel at Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, during vespers service completing the diocesan phase of the investigation into his sainthood cause.
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio presided at a vespers service in Douglaston as the diocese takes the next step in what it hopes will be the canonization of Msgr. Bernard Quinn.
Donna Grimes, assistant director for African-American Affairs for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, spoke about the bishops’ 2018 pastoral letter, “Open Wide Our Hearts,” which deals with racism in American society.
Father Michael Bruno is joined by Msgr. Paul Jervis and members of the Msgr. Quinn Guild as they prepare to present to Bishop DiMarzio the results of the diocesan investigation into the sainthood cause for Msgr. Quinn.
Father Alonzo Cox speaks during a forum on racism with diocesan priests in Douglaston.
The documentation supporting the sainthood cause of Brooklyn’s Msgr. Bernard Quinn is now on its way to Vatican City.
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio applied the diocesan seal to a black box with a red ribbon containing the official papers at a vespers service conducted June 18 at the chapel of Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston.
Included are testimonies from local people about the virtue of the Brooklyn pastor and his support of all people, regardless of race.
The ceremony marked the end of the diocesan investigation into the cause of sainthood for Msgr. Quinn and was part of the day’s program that included a pastors’ meeting, a forum on racism and a dinner with about 400 priests present.
Joining the vespers were parishioners from St. Peter Claver Church, Bedford-Stuyvesant, where in 1920, Msgr. Quinn founded the first Brooklyn parish for black Catholics.
The late Brooklyn pastor who also served as a U.S. Army chaplain in World War I, was a champion for the rights of black Catholics who were often not welcomed in white parishes.
He built Little Flower Children’s Camp in Wading River for black orphans, even though the Ku Klux Klan
twice set fire to the Long Island complex, which was then part of the Brooklyn Diocese.
Msgr. Quinn, who had an intense devotion to St. Therese the Little Flower, also became well known for the parish novenas at his church that attracted thousands from all over the diocese and beyond.
Bishop DiMarzio explained that the local canonical process to support the canonization of Msgr. Quinn has been going on for 10 years.
“We now send it to Rome,” Bishop DiMarzio said. “And we dedicate this day to him. He was a great man.”
Bishop DiMarzio explained that he has a personal devotion to Msgr. Quinn that goes back 10 years when he was rushed back to the hospital after complications from heart surgery.
“All during that time, all I could think . of was Msgr. Quinn,” the bishop said. “He kept me alive. I don’t know why he came to me, but he was present to me that day. Personally, I feel this man is a saint. His life stood for something very important that we still struggle with today. He was a hero who led us from division to unity, from hatred to love.”
Bishop DiMarzio’s story is included in the package going to Rome.
Msgr. Paul Jervis, the Brooklyn priest who is spearheading the campaign for the cause, preached a passionate homily in which he said, “Father Quinn, as he preferred to be called, wanted marginalized people to find a place in his heart. He offered a place for those who were not welcome because of the color of their skin.”
“The heart of Quinn was open to all. The heart of Quinn was on fire with Christ. Bernard Quinn is honored because he believed that all human beings were created in His image and likeness.”
Msgr. Jervis, the pastor of St. Francis of Assisi – St. Blaise, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, pointed out that it was prophetic that Msgr. Quinn was born on the day that Peter Claver, who ministered to black slaves
in Colombia, was canonized a saint. Mary Clare Quinn, the great-niece of Msgr. Quinn, attended the service.
She recalled, “They always called him the Monsignor, but he liked to be called Father. The family was all very proud of the work he was doing at Little Flower, and we all contributed during the winters and summers, going out there to help. They used to burn crosses at our house in Mineola, even after he was gone, but my family stared fear down.”
Forum on Racism
Earlier in the day, the priests of the diocese attended a meeting at which they heard the results of diocesan-wide hearings that were held on racism. They also listened to a presentation by Donna Grimes, Assistant Director for African-American Affairs for the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops.
She spoke about the bishops’ 2018 pastoral letter, “Open Wide Our Hearts,” which deals with racism in American society.
“The bishops have realized that racism affects us all in different ways,” Grimes said.
“Part of our job is to frame racism in new ways. We need to look for new ways to frame the narrative about racism.”
Saying that “we sometimes don’t see how racism is in our institutions and structures,” she urged the clergy to preach about racism, not only from the pulpit, but also in Catholic schools, explaining that schools also allow an opportunity to speak about the history of the United States.
She asked priests to be mindful that diversity is represented in parish leadership positions and that they look for opportunities for parish groups to study the bishops’ pastoral letter and then discuss it. She also
asked that parishes employ minority-owned businesses.
She said that next year’s National Catholic Youth Conference will offer a listening session about diversity.
She recommended that Sept. 9, the Feast of St. Peter Claver, might be a good time to plan a celebration of diversity and suggested that liturgies be more culturally diverse to represent the different communities celebrating them.
“The pastoral letter is aimed at everyone,” she said. “There’s no silver bullet. But bringing small groups together is a start. Taking the time to listen to and validate others’ stories is very valuable.”
https://thetablet.org/msgr-quinns-sainthood-cause-advances-to-vatican/
https://fatherquinncause.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/frquinnbio-1888-19402.pdf
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Dr Mervyn O’Driscoll, Head of the School of History at UCC said:
John A. Murphy performed an inestimable service to Irish history. A courageous professional, he was an important voice of independent reason and historical balance regarding Irish identity and society. John A. was never afraid to ask hard and searching questions. He remains an example to us all here. Neither will we forget his humour and ballad singing.
https://www.thecork.ie/2022/03/01/obituary-ucc-emeritus-professor-john-a-murphy-dies-aged-95/
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Between November 1920 and January 1921, an American Commission hearing on the hardships being endured by people in Ireland during the War of Independence took place. In December 1920 and January 1921, seven key witnesses from County Cork gave testimony, which contributed greatly to the efforts of raising awareness internationally towards Ireland’s struggle for freedom. Less than one year later, on December 6th, 1921, the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed. This documentary highlights the importance of these hearings.
https://www.thecork.ie/2022/03/05/evidence-on-conditions-in-ireland-video-documentary-launched/
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Decision in Normandy
By Carlo D’Este
“The best-researched, best-written account [of the Normandy Campaign] I have ever read” (The New York Times Book Review): Field Marshal Montgomery’s controversial battle plan for D-Day is explored in this riveting military history that “reveals new facets of familiar subjects” (Kirkus Reviews).
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As the morning sunlight streamed through the stained glass windows of St. Mary of the Bay Church, Father O’Neill offered prayers for the people of Ukraine before heading back out into the biting cold to climb aboard the old Raleigh mountain bike that would take him the remaining 14 miles or so to St. Patrick Church in Providence.
The bicycle was given to him by a former parishioner when he served as pastor of St. Mary Church in West Warwick, until he retired nine years ago.
Father O’Neill didn’t have a tire repair kit or any other tools with him should the bike break down, so he was embarking on this pilgrimage with the faith that God would help him see it through.
“A pilgrimage is supposed to help the person making the pilgrimage — it’s supposed to transform me,” he said as he rode off.
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While some opposition publications such as Novaya Gazeta attempt to counter the narrative, mainstream Russian news outlets have largely fallen into line—even if the results are unlikely to fool discerning Russian readers who have been exposed to roughly 15 years of pro-government propaganda. The resulting stories are as striking for what they omit as what they actually publish; by and large, Russian media minimizes the scale of the attack on Ukraine—describing it in the phrase used by federal officials, as a “military operation” rather than a “war” or “invasion,” the terms much of western media has used—while uncritically reprinting statements from Putin and other government officials.
https://time.com/6151572/russian-media-ukraine-coverage/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
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Sources told the charity foundation that on February 20, insurgents attacked the villages of Kankhomba, Janguane, Mambo Bado and Muhia, and on February 22, the villages of Milola, Chianga, Lutona, Napuatakala were also attacked.
“As a result of these attacks, the populations fled and have sought shelter in the village of Nangade, which, due to its size, apparently guarantees some security,” the Catholic missionary told ACN Portugal.
The missionary said it is not yet possible to determine the exact number of people who have died as a result of the terrorist attacks.
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WAR 1; Thomas Edmond CRONIN- Regimental number 4283
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 58. Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Parents: Thomas and Margaret CRONIN, Knockanure, Newtownsandes, Limerick, Ireland
Other details War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front
Embarked Adelaide, 26 August 1915.
Attached to 1st Australian Stationary Hospital, Mudros, for duty, 28 October 1915; transferred to Lowlands Casualty Clearing Station, 13 December 1915; transferred to South Pier for Hospital Ship, 17 December 1915; disembarked Alexandria, Egypt, 29 December 1915.
Admitted to 1st Australian Stationary Hospital, Ismailia, 18 July 1916 (sick); discharged to duty, 24 July 1916.
Marched in to Royal Army Medical Corps, Mustapha, 24 August 1916; proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 14 September 1916; marched in to Weymouth Command Depot, England, 28 September 1916; marched in to Convalescent Hospital, Dartford, 28 September 1916; marched in to Hurdcott Command Depot, and classified 'Class A', 28 October 1916; transferred to Convalescent Hospital, Dartford, 27 November 1917; transferred to 10th Bn Details, 24 February 1917; proceeded overseas to France, 25 February 1917; marched in to 1st Australian Division Base Depot, Etaples, France, 26 February 1917; marched out to unit, 2 March 1917; taken on strength of 10th Bn, 4 March 1917.
Killed in action, France, 7 May 1917.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Sources NAA: B2455, CRONIN Thomas Edmond
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Irish history and interest stories surround World War I and World War II. The First and Second World Wars continue to be remembered
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In 1858 the first ever message to be transmitted across an ocean – a note of congratulations from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan of the United States -- was sent from Valentia Island in County Kerry to Trinity Bay in Newfoundland. The 98-word message took 16 hours to transmit, and the US President’s 143-word response was sent in just 10 hours. Improvements in cable technology meant that when the next successful cable was laid, in 1866, messages that had once taken two weeks by ship could be sent in minutes. Valentia Island in County Kerry played a major role in connecting the old and new worlds for the first time, placing Ireland at the ‘cross hairs’ of the emerging global communications industry. The Valentia Transatlantic Cable Foundation Board, established in May 2016, is now working with the community at Valentia and Kerry County Council to pursue UNESCO Heritage status for the Transatlantic Cable ensemble at Valentia. Organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub in partnership with the Valentia Transatlantic Cable Foundation on Thursday, to explore the significance of this historic achievement and hear how the ‘wire that changed the world’ continues to inspire us today.
1863. Julius Reuter and William Siemens and the South-Western of Ireland Telegraph Company, Linking Cork to Crookhaven by Telegraph and British & Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company, Cork to Cape Clear
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1863, The Fibre Optic Broadband of the 1860s, Opening of Telegraph Office Skibbereen, Wires Extended to Baltimore and Submerged Cable to Sherkin. The American Intelligence will be Received Six Hours Sooner, Cork Market News to Be Received in Morning.
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An Old Man Recounts: The First Time I visited Dunmanway c 1790, The Roads were Bad, My Sister and I were in Two Panniers at Each Side of A Horse My Mother on A Saddle in Between, Then Cars with Block Wheels Sawn of of a Thick Tree Bound Round With Iron, The They Got What They Called Scotch Cars With Spokes and Felloes at Opening of The Office of The Electric and International Telegraph Company , Dunmanway, Co.Cork, 1865. Messages from Cork, London and Crookhaven.
The start of the Communication Revolution, Picture of 'The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet' at Berehaven, Bantry Bay, 28th July 1866, held at Cable and Wireless Archive
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Remembering the First World War
Today is Armistice Day, still an important a day of reflection and remembrance more than 100 years on from the end of the First World War. When the war ended in 1918, it brought people together in national celebration, yet also deep grief and mourning - it was a time of both a joyous victory and a solemn reminder of all that had been lost.
Join us on Friday 19 November for a special online talk from Dr William Butler, head of military records, as he looks at the very human side of Britain in the aftermath of war.
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V E Day began with Mr Churchill's broadcast officially announcing the end of war in Europe. Londoners took to the streets in celebrations which continued for nearly two days. Outside Buckingham Palace the crowds chanted 'we want the King'
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The victor of the Civil Wars described himself as pious, honest and selfless. But, as all too many victims of his lies and malice would have attested, the reality was often more sinister, writes Professor Ronald Hutton
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Saint John XXIII’s Story
Saint of the Day for October 11- (November 25, 1881 – June 3, 1963)
Although few people had as great an impact on the 20th century as Pope John XXIII, he avoided the limelight as much as possible. Indeed, one writer has noted that his “ordinariness” seems one of his most remarkable qualities.
The firstborn son of a farming family in Sotto il Monte, near Bergamo in northern Italy, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was always proud of his down-to-earth roots. In Bergamo’s diocesan seminary, he joined the Secular Franciscan Order.
After his ordination in 1904, Fr. Roncalli returned to Rome for canon law studies. He soon worked as his bishop’s secretary, Church history teacher in the seminary, and as publisher of the diocesan paper.
His service as a stretcher-bearer for the Italian army during World War I gave him a firsthand knowledge of war. In 1921, Fr. Roncalli was made national director in Italy of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He also found time to teach patristics at a seminary in the Eternal City.
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-john-xxiii?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=169550050&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-97TizvmdZ1t4oyN2X-vpF_isQIANnVvu10ODbK5Eyz_RN7wnw1LN3itCPUL1Kicb6770X0wUjUTmyxwWaYu4jC_LfmVw&utm_content=169550050&utm_source=hs_email
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We cannot but speak..... (Fr. Michael P.O’Sullivan, Intercom October 2021.)
After the first World War, Pope Benedict XV invited Catholics to bring light to a
world devasted by conflict. By virtue of their baptism, all Catholics were called
to be missionary minded, and missionaries needed to be men and women of
God. His successor Pope Pius X1 made the second last Sunday of October a day
dedicated to ‘the missions’, that is a special day to pray for and assist
missionaries in their call to ‘go out to the whole world and proclaim the Good
News’. Over a century has passed since this missionary call gave a fresh impetus
to the Church to ‘go out to the whole world.’
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uly 25, 2021 at 7:08 pm
James Devereaux in Guestbook
Hi
I’m looking for any fresh info even small about the Devereaux family in ballinruddery listowel.
I’m living in co Louth , my grandfather was Edward Devereaux from Cavan. His grandfather was Jim (James) Devereaux from listowel. He had 6 brothers they all served in the British army around 1919. I have a photo of all 7 brothers with their father who was John Devereaux and his wife was Ellen.
I kno some soldiers stayed in England and some returned to Ireland.
I really would be so grateful for any sort of info or even who I could get in touch with locally in listowel.
Kind regards
James
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July 26, 2021 at 9:02 am
Martin Moore
James,
I have seen that photo. I have some small piece on Michael Devereaux
who I think served with the Royal Engineers.
Martin Moore 086 8239414
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July 27, 2021 at 11:56 am
Esther Hickey
Hi James,
I’m from Ballinruddery, my mother was one of the Purcell family. The Purcell and Devereaux families are two of the oldest in the area. My family has a huge interest in local history and though I’m in Dublin I still have close family in Ballinruddery. If you get in touch by email or pm me on Facebook I’d be delighted to try to assist in finding out about your family.
https://moyvane.com/guestbook/#comment-139583
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While working on a project to open up the German-created prisoner of war (POW) record cards (WO 416), Ian Strawbridge felt drawn to a particular photograph. The individual who captured Ian's attention was Jeremiah Anderson, a merchant seaman. Ian traced his records and unfurled a story that, it felt, had been waiting over 75 years to be told. His POW records are in WO 416/7/200 and WO 416/407/26.
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?s=irish
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The 28th of July 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations’ 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
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At the end of the Second World War, it seemed to many that decades of political and social upheaval was at an end, and that with it would end the ‘refugee problem’. Yet within less than 30 years, the start of the Cold War and the dismantling of European empires, including the British Empire, had generated waves of new migrants seeking political and religious asylum around the globe. Through this period of change, between 1951 and 1967, new political and legal discussions eventually generated a new ‘universal’ definition of a refugee, one that might apply to any individual regardless of where they are from. Here below is a selection of three documents from the archives that give us insight into how that new definition emerged.
1951 – the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
In 1946 it was calculated that there were 1,250,000 refugees in Europe
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a-magna-carta-for-refugees/
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Message from Jenny Liston
Dear all, most of us will have seen the terrible events in Afghanistan over the last few weeks as people desperately try to flee the country.
An opportunity has arisen for 2 families to be supported to settle in West Limerick. Liam Kavanagh-the fiancée of Jenny Liston from Athea-daughter of Kay and John Upper Athea, who worked in Afghanistan in 2016 with CONCERNWORLDWIDE.
The couple have been lucky to secure asylum for 2 former work colleagues from CONCERN and their families – one married and one family of 6 and we hope they can make Ireland their new home.
Both families now face the difficult task of leaving Afghanistan and at present there is no guarantee this can be done safely, and we ask people to keep families in their thoughts.
Liam and Jenny have already had many kind offers of support in West Limerick, but finding long term suitable accommodation would be greatly appreciated.
A quick update on the families
Zimari, Khatira and their families are still in Afghanistan and attempting to get visas for Pakistan. Khatira is sadly now in hiding as the TALIBAN have come to her home.
We hope they can find a safe route here soon.
In the meantime we are trying to get as much support in place as we can. The house search continues – unfortunately nothing has been secured yet. However announcements have been made across parishes in West Limerick and word is spreading.
We will also set up a GO FUND ME PAGE this week and hopefully we can share across all networks. Our target is to raise €10,000 to help with the initial resettlement costs.
If for any reason we are not successful in getting families here we will ensure the money is donated directly to Concern’s humanitarian support in Afghanistan.
This is the report I received from Jenny Liston and we wish them well in their work and please God all will be safe.
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The private papal audience at the Vatican was Murad’s third meeting with the pope. She also met with Pope Francis in Dec. 2018 shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize for her “efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.”
Murad said that she had an “in-depth discussion about the Yazidi community’s experience of genocide” during their last meeting.
Pope Francis told journalists in March that he was inspired to travel to Iraq partly by Murad’s memoir, “The Last Girl.”
“Nadia Murad tells terrifying things. I recommend you read it. In some places, it may seem heavy, but for me, this is the underlying reason for my decision,” the pope said on his return flight from Baghdad on March 8.
Islamic State militants captured Murad six years ago after killing six of her brothers, her mother, and more than 600 Yazidis in her Iraqi village. She was enslaved, along with most of the young women in her community, and repeatedly raped by the ISIS fighters.
After being sold as a slave multiple times and suffering both sexual and physical abuse, Murad escaped ISIS at the age of 23 after three months of captivity. After relocating to Germany, she used her freedom to become an advocate for Yazidi women who remained in ISIS captivity.
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The Paranoia That Cost Hitler The War | Warlords: Hitler vs Stalin | Timeline
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On this day, July 1 1916
The story of The Somme has to be one of the saddest and most bloody stories of World War 1. The battle was won and lost in a matter of seconds. The Germans were better prepared and better armed. The battle was fought in broad daylight so the British troops were like lambs to the slaughter.
Major Sir Oliver Nugent was the commander of the 36th Ulster Division. He decided that rather than wait for the official signal to go ‘over the top” his division was to creep into no man’s land ahead of the British divisions on either side of them. Frank McGuinness’ play, Observe the Sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme commemorates this escapade.
The Ulsters reached the enemy before the slaughter started. German machine guns mowed through the ranks of the British. Such was the catastrophic loss of men from the First British assault forces that the 36th Ulsters were left completely exposed.
The war correspondent, William Beach Thomas wrote of this first day of battle at The Somme
“The very attitudes of the dead, fallen eagerly forward, have a look of expectant hope. You would say that they died with the light of victory in their eyes.”
Poor deluded boys!
The 36th Ulster Division won 4 Victoria Crosses that day and would have won more but for the deaths of so many of their officers whose job it was to document acts of courage.
Twenty thousand British died in The Battle of The Somme on July 1 1916, the most disastrous day in their army’s history. Two thousand of the dead were Ulsters. Another three thousand Ulstermen were injured or taken prisoner.
(Information from On this Day by Myles Dungan)
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On This Day, June 30 1922
(information from a book, On this Day by Myles Dungan of RTE)
June 30 1922 was the day that future genealogists’ and family researchers’ hearts were well and truly broken. On that fateful day, the biggest explosion ever seen in Dublin destroyed records of Irish administrations from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Earlier damage had already been done during World War 1 with the pulping of census returns for 1861, ’71, ’81 and “ 91.
What was lost in the explosion of 1922?
Census returns for the years 1921, 31, 41, and ’51
One thousand Church of Ireland parish registers
Wills and deeds and land transactions
Court Reports
Military Records
Was this explosion an accident?
Sadly, no.
The public records office was housed in The Four Courts in Dublin.
On April 14 1922, anti treaty rebels under Rory O’Connor occupied this building.
Pro treaty forces of the Free State government under Michael Collins attempted to dislodge them.
On June 30th the rebels in The Four Courts, now under Ernie O’Malley, surrendered.
The arsenal of ammunition and explosives the rebels had stored in The Four Courts was torched and thus was lost a millennium of official Irish records.
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From Listowel Connection July 2021
This is the Western People story about Maureen Sweeney who was in all the papers recently because she was awarded huge honour by the U.S. Congress
Maureen Sweeney was 21 years old when she took weather readings at Blacksod weather station in June 1944. Her actions influenced the D-Day landings and changed the path of the war. Her data threw General Dwight D Eisenhower’s meticulously planned invasion strategy into chaos. It forced him to mediate between opposing US and UK weather advisors and generals, and ultimately left him alone to make one of the most difficult decisions in the entire war. Maureen’s readings were the first to point out an impending storm which led to the postponement of the invasion. Her readings were used to pinpoint a short window of opportunity that Eisenhower needed to launch, thereby altering the course of the war.
When John J Kelly, who led the design and production of the modern landing craft, which has been used in military and humanitarian roles worldwide, heard the story of Maureen Sweeney, he was fascinated.
John approached the World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, of which he was a director, and requested official recognition of Maureen and the Sweeney Family by the museum. The World War II museum has sent a letter to Maureen that John J Kelly will read during the tribute on June 19. John will also read a personal note to Maureen from US Congressman Jack Bergman (Michigan First District) who is the highest-ranking veteran to ever serve in Congress. A distinguished award, rarely given, and obtained by Congressman Bergman will be read and presented to Maureen and the Sweeney family by John.
Now aged 98, Maureen beat Covid-19 last year.
Now the Listowel Connection
Billy MacSweeney told us this story and it appeared in Listowel Connection in 2018
In my Grandparents time, Kerry people understood that they were cut off from the rest of Ireland by a series of mountains; they realized that they were isolated and had to look after themselves. Life was harder in Kerry than in the Golden Vale or on the central plains of Ireland. The mothers of Kerry especially, knew that they had to look to every advantage to help their children and prized education highly to that end. In the mid-19thcentury the people of Listowel welcomed enthusiastically the establishment of St Michael’s College for Boys and the Presentation Convent Secondary schools for Girls, not forgetting the Technical School. The people who read this blog are most likely familiar with the Census’ 1901 and 1911 and will have noticed that many homes in Listowel housed not only Boarders but also welcomed Scholars who came from the villages and isolated farms scattered around North Kerry. These boys and girls spent 5-6 years in the Listowel schools to be educated for ‘life’.
The upshot of this was that from Listowel we sent out many young adults who were a credit to their teachers to take their places in many organizations and many whose names became nationally known for their talents and abilities, especially in the Arts.
Let me tell you about one such young girl, Maureen Flavin, who was born in Knocknagoshel, Co Kerry. When the time came for Maureen to go on from National school she was welcomed into the Mulvihill home in Upper Church Street who themselves had a young girl, Ginny, of the same age. Maureen and Ginny became fast friends and stayed so for life.
When Maureen finished school in 1930 she wanted a job; couldn’t get one in Kerry because of the times that were in it, so she answered an ad in the National Papers for an Assnt. Postmistress in Black Sod, in North Mayo. Her references and qualifications were suitable and in due course, as she says to her own surprise she was offered the job. This was to set Maureen on a course where she would be an integral part of one of the most momentous actions of the age. Mrs Sweeney, the Black Sod Postmistress, was married to Ted who was the Lighthouse Keeper, both operating from the Lighthouse building in Black Sod. They had a son, also Ted, who Maureen fell in love with and married in due course. They in turn had three boys and a girl and life took up a normal rhythm for the family; that is until 3rd June 1944.
The WW2 was in full swing at this stage with Gen. Eisenhower as the Allied Supreme Commander and Gen. Rommel the German Commander in Normandy. Rommel knew that an Allied invasion was prepared and imminent. Conventional Meteorological sources at the time for the US and German military said that the coming days would bring very inclement weather so that the invasion would have to be postponed. Eisenhower postponed the action and Rommel left Normandy for a weekend in Berlin based on the same information. The British Chief Meteorologist had however visited Black Sod some years previously and knew the value of Black Sod as the most westerly station in Europe and when a break in the weather was reported by Black Sod on 3rdJune he persuaded Eisenhower that 6thand 7thJune would be clear and to ignore the same conventional Met advice used by both the US and the Germans. Ted compiled the reports for the Irish Met Office and Maureen transmitted them. Maureen remembers receiving a telephone call a short time later from a lady with a ‘very posh English accent’ asking for confirmation of her report. Ted was called to the phone and he confirmed the readings, The rest, as they say, is history.
Ted Sweeney died in 2001. Maureen is still alive.
(Knockanure County Kerry Born Maureen Sweeney nee Flavin)
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Navy chaplain Luis Padilla gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela (1962). Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, who pulled himself up by clinging to the priest’s cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them. The photo was taken on June 4, 1962 by Hector Rondon Lovera, photographer of Caracas, for the Venezuelan newspaper “La Republican”. It won the World Press Photo of the Year and the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. The original title of work is “Aid from The Padre”. (Source: rarehistoricalphotos.com)
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Glory Zone in the War Zone
By Andrew White
In this inspiring book, a man who served as the vicar of St. George’s Church in Baghdad shares the miracles that God has provided — and how you can connect to Him yourself through worship, dreams, healing, and more.
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WINDSOR TERRACE — April 29 marks the day Polish Catholics solemnly remember when nearly 2,000 of the country’s 10,000 diocesan priests perished during the Nazi German occupation in World War II. The day coincides with the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
“The number of Polish priests murdered there exceeded all other victims from the clergy of other European countries,” said Jan Żaryn, director of the Institute for the Heritage of National Thought in Poland.
The event’s formal title, Day of Martyrdom of the Polish Clergy, was instituted by Polish bishops in 2002. This year, a Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Grzegorz Suchodolski of Siedlce at St. Joseph’s Church in Kalisz, which is located more than 100 miles west of the country’s capital, Warsaw.
The city of Kalisz had a significant role with the priests who survived the camp. It’s said that the clergy entrusted themselves to St. Joseph and vowed that if they survived, they would make an annual pilgrimage to St. Joseph’s Church in Kalisz. After the camp was liberated by the U.S. Army on April 29, 1945, the surviving priests fulfilled their promise and made the pilgrimage. The last Polish priest who survived Dachau, Father Leon Stępniak, died in 2013.
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Israel
‘It looks dire but I’m hopeful’: Jewish and Arab coexistence activists respond to the violence in Israel’s streets
By Ron Kampeas May 13, 2021 2:20 pm
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The Bureau of Military history collection is hosted on our website www.militaryarchives.ie
From there select the Bureau of Military history.
There is a search function which will search through the text of all Witness statements
Military Archives militaryarchives@defenceforces.ie
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Happy 101st. Birthday Sr. Rosarii
Sr. Rosarii O’Sullivan, Our lady of Apostles, Cork, displaying her medal received from The President, Michael D. Higgins on the occasion of her 101st birthday. Pictured with her are her niece Marian and Jeremiah O’Connor, Upper Athea.
Sr. Rosarii’s extended Dalton and O’Connor family.
Special wishes to Sr. Rosarii O’Sullivan, on her 101st birthday, celebrated on 28th March. A native of Upper Dirreen, Sr. Rosarii attended National School in Knocknagorna. The youngest of three, she joined her sister (Sr. Liam) in 1944 as a Missionary sister of Our Lady of Apostles, Cork.
A gaeilgoir to this day, Sr. Rosarii is a lifelong academic having completed a Diploma in National School teaching in Mary Immaculate College, followed by a Bachelor of Arts in UCC. Touching down in Lagos on November 21st, 1951, Sr. Rosarii would spend 40 years serving as a Missionary in Nigeria. Her first position was teaching in Sacred Heart College, Kaduna, one of the first colleges in the region to train Primary school teachers. Sr. Rosarii believes in enabling women through education. Her goal was to provide these young women with new self-awareness and an ability to express their personal and national hopes in their own rich cultures. Following this, Sr. Rosarii spent 6 years in QAC Kakuri, part of the less developed North, preparing indigenous girls for secondary school. These girls would become the first educated women in their community and the nucleus of Christian homes. This took dedication as Sr, Philomena Woulfe, Clash, discovered one morning on entering an empty dormitory, uncovering as she did, that the girls had decided to happily trek home along the railway lines!
It is with great fondness that Sr. Rosarii remembers the warm welcomes she received in the various villages she visited, delighting in sharing in the family pot whilst listening to elders pass on their traditions, customs and family values through story, play, music, song, and dance. It was during this time that Sr. Rosarii saw Queen Elizabeth on her 1956 tour of Nigeria, a moment she describes as exhilarating. She wondered at the time if HRH had ever seen such a splendid variety of richly embroidered ceremonial attire; did she marvel at the rich cultural heritage shown in the endless procession of spectacular displays?
The following years were spent educating secondary school students in Marymount S.S., Benin, as well as teacher training in Akwanga, to the backdrop of the Nigerian- Biafran war. The violence associated with the civil war put Sr. Rosarii, her peers and her students in grave danger. Despite this, Sr. Rosarii maintained her unwavering faith. Priority was given to protecting her students, disguising those at risk and journeying 100 miles with them to the safer territory of Jos.
In 1968, Sr. Rosarii was called upon to assume leadership in O.L.A. Cork as Provincial Sister, a role she has been credited with bringing a distinctive kindness and gentleness to. Returning to Nigeria in 1973, she spent another twenty years between Kaduna, Jos, Asaba, Barakin-Ladi and Zawan, teaching as well as working in religious formation and in religious education. Her final foreign mission was spent in the archives in Rome before returning a final time to Ardfoyle in 1994. Here, she has offered various services both in the province and in the community.
Sr. Rosarii is a much-loved aunt to Marian O’Connor (Upper Athea), Paddy Dalton (Dirreen) and Jimmy Dalton (Ardagh). Until recently, Sr. Rosarii has spent many happy holidays in Athea, in addition to her annual trips to Inchydoney and Castletownbere with her late sister Mary Dalton (RIP). Since her return to Ireland, she has rejoiced in celebrating family occasions and maintaining links to her close-knit family and friends in her beloved Athea. In return, she is celebrated by her community, her family and her many friends for her faithful camaraderie, her gentleness, and her unwavering Christian spirit. Sr. Rosarii has survived civil wars, fever, Malaria, Hepatitis and very recently Covid 19. She remains hopeful, calm and appreciative through it all. We wish Sr. Rosarii a deservedly happy 101st birthday.
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What happened to the wives and girlfriends of Hitler's inner circle when the war ended? Find out about Emmy Goering, Gretl Braun, Gerda Bormann, Margarete Himmler and several others.
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Pope Francis Recalls Iraqi Martyrs, Saying Violence Incompatible With Religion
The Tablet
Flanked by the pictures of 48 Iraqi martyrs, Pope Francis defined them as a reminder that inciting war and violence is incompatible with authentic religious teaching.
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Book Ireland's Call is the story of 40 Irish sportsmen who died fighting in the Great War. They were the heroes of their day and they entertained crowds in stadia like Lansdowne Road, Croke Park and Dalymount Park, as well as in events like the Open Championship and the London Olympics.
As soldiers, they saw action in the horror of the Western Front and in the carnage of Mesopotamia.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/the-sporting-heroes-who-answered-irelands-call-on-the-field-of-battle-31539187.html
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Shamrock Fund and the Irish War Exhibit of 1918
In the last week of June 1918, the “Countess of Kingston” visited Pittsburgh to debut a traveling exhibit of war items intended to raise money for the Shamrock Fund, a charity for wounded Irish soldiers. The collection included “German Uniforms, Helmets, Military Equipment, Hand Grenades, Propaganda Literature, Iron Cross, Lusitania medal, British Battleship Vindictive Souvenir, German Prison Bread, and a Wonderful Collection of British War Pictures,” according to newspaper promotions.
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🇺🇲A Salute to Colonel Ruby Bradley. The Angel in Fatigues
Colonel Ruby Bradley entered the United States Army Nurse Corps as a surgical nurse in 1934. She was serving at Camp John Hay in the Philippines when she was captured by the Japanese army three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese aircraft struck Camp John Hay. After the attack, the survivors attempted to flee to Manila through the mountains. Bradley and another Army nurse, Lt. Beatrice Chambers, walked more than 18 miles to a logging camp in Lasud, where they cared for civilian refugees, many of them women and children. On December 28, Bradley and Chambers were captured and became the first Army nurse POWs of the war. For the first few months of her captivity, Bradley was held in an internment camp at Camp John Hay. “A group of more than 500 men, women and children was crowded into one building.
After about six weeks, the internees received Japanese permission to establish a small camp hospital. It soon became an obstetrical ward and nursery, where Bradley and Chambers helped to deliver 13 babies. In September, Bradley was transferred to the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, where she joined other U.S. Army and Navy nurse captives.
In 1943, she was moved to the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila. It was there that she and several other imprisoned nurses earned the title "Angels in Fatigues" from fellow captives. Suffering from starvation, she used the room in her uniform for smuggling surgical equipment into the prisoner-of-war camp. At the camp she assisted in 230 operations and helped to deliver 13 children.
After the war Ruby continued a military career serving in the Korean War. She passed in 2002 at the age of 94. Lest We Forget.
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During US Civil War there was a huge boom in flax production in Ireland as cotton supplies wee cut off.
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Clothiers, Flax, Linen, Textiles, Weaving, West Cork
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In our final episode of Heroic Deeds, we tell the stories of illustrator Louis Wain, Richard Whittington - the real man Dick Whittington - and Nellie Spindler, a frontline nurse in the First World War.
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NURSES who served in the war are forgotten, let us remember Nurse Mary Danaher, born Athea 1887, she served in Egypt and died at Gaza age 31, of dysentery on October 12th 1918.
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The needs of the war brought women into the workforce, and helped win them the right to vote. The huge privations it inflicted triggered the world’s first (successful) Communist revolution, and the frustrations it unleashed prompted many, afterward, to turn to far-right authoritarians in Italy and then Germany. And finally—though many have forgotten it—the comings and goings of people caused by the war helped spread the deadliest epidemic the world has ever known: the 1918 influenza virus, which quietly killed an estimated 50–100 million human beings in their homes and in hospitals, more than both world wars combined.
The three, speaking in Russian, are living witnesses to one of the single worst acts of brutality of the Holocaust. In the space of 48 hours, 33,771 Jews were shot to death, their bodies dumped into a ravine where an estimated 100,000 people — not only Jews but also Ukrainians, Roma, mentally ill people and others — eventually would be killed by the Nazi regime.
Stair na hÉireann / History of Ireland
IN 1791 – FIRST CONVICTS FROM IRELAND ARRIVE IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.
After the end of the American War of Independence, Britain had to find new territory to send its convicts. New South Wales (NSW) was selected as a suitable penal colony. Legislation permitting transportation from Britain to N.S.W. was passed in 1784, and the Irish Act followed in 1786.
The eighteen year old, 400-ton ship Queen was one of those contracted to form the third convict fleet to sail from England to Port Jackson in the Spring of 1791. But, under its Master, Richard Owen and with Lieutenant Samuel Bow as naval agent it differed from the other eight vessels of the fleet as it was ordered to call at the port of Cork to collect convicts, the first such consignment of Irish transportees to go directly from Ireland to Australia.
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The President of the United States, in the name of Congress, awarded more than 3,400 Medals of Honour to the Nation’s bravest Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guard personnel, since the decoration’s creation in 1861!
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Archaeological & Historical Society from 1968 and Kerry Magazine from 1999 available ONLINE here now. https://www.kerryhistory.ie/
See North Kerry; https://northkerry.wordpress.com/ for Boston College paper war items 1939 to 50.
Stein’s life was tragically cut short when she was arrested by Nazis while living in a secluded convent in the Netherlands. She died at the Auschwitz concentration camp on August 9, 1942.
Lai’s Fight for Liberty
Given Lai’s activist past, and his consistent defense of civil liberties in Hong Kong, his friends are not surprised by his latest act of resistance.
His “magnanimous life story” is one of an “inspiring synthesis of faith, freedom and entrepreneurship,” said Michael Severance, Rome office director of the Acton Institute, which has been a longtime friend of Lai, a convert to Catholicism. His “gutsy existence and persistent outspokenness,” along with his commercial success, owe themselves to this “sacred ‘trinity’ of values,” Severance told the Register.
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This is a very sad, sobering image.
This 17-year-old girl chose to die rather than accept Socialism and name her anti-Nazi associates in February of 1943. . Every kid in the USA should see this photo and be taught about this girl's fate and the choices she made.
Her answer to the Nazi Socialists who offered to free her and not hang her if she gave up the names of her fellow fighters was ~
"You will know them when they come to avenge me."
First came economic collapse in the 1920's.
Then came the rise of Socialism on a national model.
Then began oppression of those deemed the cause of the economic collapse.
Then the socialists banned personal firearms because the socialists intended to do something they feared the people would not want and would be willing to fight against.
Then came the nooses.
There is a term the survivors used at the end.
"Nie Wieder" Never Again.
The term is still relevant today. The only difference between socialists today and socialists then is [WHAT] ?
We've seen how devastating a medical crisis can be even to a strong economy. Our economy teeters on the brink... We need to remember the lessons of HISTORY.
Seventeen-year-old Lepa Radić was a Bosnian Serb who fought with the partisans during WWII, but she never got to see the Nazis lose the war.
In February 1943, Lepa was captured. The Nazis tied a rope around her neck, but offered her a way out. All she had to do was reveal her comrades' and her leaders' identities.
Lepa responded: “You will know them when they come to avenge me.”
THIS is why we need HISTORY to live on and to leave it alone.
HISTORY helps us become.
HISTORY helps us evolve.
HISTORY let's us never forget.
This brave girl deserves to be remembered. SHE DESERVES THE IMMORTALITY OF HISTORY.
40th Anniversary of the killing of Irish Peacekeepers
The Battle of At Tiri
On Easter Sunday, 1980, SLA (South Lebanon Army – a Christian militia) forces burst through an Irish Peacekeeping position, 6-15A, in the village of At Tiri in South Lebanon.
The SLA, aka the DFF, were in an armoured half-track and two jeeps and took up positions 200m into the village, claiming they wanted to set up a post there and patrol the village.
Talks to bring about a resolution ensued with the Irish UN personnel immediately rejecting the SLA plans. These people were also know as the DFF – De Facto Forces.
The following day the DFF moved a tank in front of the Irish position and DFF personnel began firing indiscriminately resulting in Pte Stephen Griffin receiving a head wound and being helicoptered to a hospital in Israel.
Pte Griffin was later to die from his wounds.
Over the following days, many serious incidents, moves and counter moves and skirmishes went on between the DFF and the Irish troops who had brought in AML 90’s. Dutch troops brought in TOW Missiles. A Fijian Platoon was also brought in as back-up.
On the following Wednesday, five Israeli/DFF M113’s (armoured personnel carriers) with about 40 personnel took up positions on the edge of the UNIFIL AO (Area of Operations).
On the Saturday, Israeli and DFF forces pushed a crowd of young people in front of them towards the UN troops making them attack the UN position with stones and the Israeli/DFF personnel then opened fire over the heads of the children.
Irish troops, supported by the Fijian Platoon, executed a pincer movement to remove all the DFF from the village and, during an intensive battle, an Irish gunner in an AML 90 fired four rounds into the DFF half track destroying it.
The DFF withdrew leaving one dead. After five days and six nights the battle was over.
As a result of the engagement, two UNIFIL peacekeepers were killed: Stephen Griffin, a 21-year-old Private from the 46th Irish Battalion (and a native of Rahoon in Co. Galway and Sevati Sovonaivalu of the Fijian Army. One SLA soldier, 19-year old Massoud Bazzi, was also killed.
Following the battle, Major Saad Haddad of the SLA gave an ultimatum to UNIFIL to either compensate the family of Massoud Bazzi or to produce the bodies of the two deceased UN soldiers.
Deaths of Privates Barrett and Smallhorne
On 18 April, a UNIFIL party set out to a UN post near the Israeli border to provide supplies. The party consisted of three Irish soldiers (Private John O'Mahony (from Scartaglin) Private Thomas Barrett (from Cork), and Private Derek Smallhorne (from Dublin), an American officer named Harry Klein, a French officer named Patrick Vincent, and two journalists. They were intercepted by the SLA and taken prisoners.
The US officer, Harry Klein, later noted that the operation was not properly planned and should have been coordinated with SLA militia leaders and the Israelis. He added that helicopters could have been used instead to resupply the post. The convoy also went ahead without an escort and everyone, except for two of the Irish soldiers, was unarmed.
Klein ordered it to continue even after warning signs became apparent along the route when it passed through a normally busy militia checkpoint. Ultimately, it was intercepted by the militia, who brought the convoy's occupants to a derelict schoolhouse before removing the Irish peace-keepers.
The party was taken to a school building and held in a bathroom, where they were interrogated. The SLA men asked all of the captives their nationalities, and singled out the three Irishmen. One of the SLA men (Mahmoud Bazzi) began talking about his late brother (Massoud) who had been killed in At Tiri.
According to John O'Mahony the man talking about his brother, who he would later identify as Mahmoud Bazzi, and another man escorted them down a flight of stairs, where Bazzi shot him and left him there. Although badly wounded, John survived.
Tom Barrett and Derek Smallhorne escaped the building when the shooting began, but were recaptured by SLA men outside. The remaining members of the party left the building, with Klein carrying the wounded John O'Mahony to a vehicle. One of the journalists said he saw Barrett and Smallhorne in the back of a car which sped away.
Barrett and Smallhorne were later found dead nearby. They had been shot dead and their bodies showed signs of torture.
Trial
Mahmoud Bazzi, the brother of Massoud Bazzi, who had been killed in Battle of At Tiri, who was also member of the SLA, is the primary suspect in the murders and attempted murder. Shortly after the incident, he openly admitted to killing Barrett and Smallhorne on Lebanese television and claimed he did so to avenge his brother, but later retracted his statements, claiming his commander had forced him. In 1994, he was granted asylum in the United States, and worked as an ice cream vendor in Dearborn, Michigan.
U.S. authorities interviewed one of the journalists involved and John O'Mahony, both expressed their willingness to testify against Bazzi, but claimed that they did not hear anything more from the authorities for years. Bazzi was also interviewed by officials. In 2013, he applied for U.S. citizenship, but the application stalled when the investigation picked up.
In July 2014, Bazzi was arrested for "administrative immigration violations" by US federal agents at his Dearborn home. He was alleged to have entered the United States on a false passport. Friends and relatives of Privates Barrett and Smallhorne had been seeking his deportation to Lebanon to face war crimes charges. In August 2014, Bazzi confessed to immigration fraud and agreed to be deported to Lebanon.
In late 2015, Mahmoud Bazzi was arrested and put on trial before a Beirut military court with a seven-judge panel. John O'Mahony gave evidence during the trial, and positively identified Bazzi as the man who shot him and led Barrett and Smallhorne away. John was protected at all times by a Close Protection Team from the Irish Army Ranger Wing.
In 2018 it was reported that Bazzi had been found guilty in a Lebanese military court of "collaboration with Israel" and sentenced to 5 years "hard labour".
The trial of Bazzi , for the killing of Tom and Derek and the shooting of John, has been stalled as a result of Covid-19.
On this Easter Sunday, Ireland will remember it’s heroes of 1916, your Defence Forces – Ireland’s UN heroes, with 60 years of an unbroken record of Peacekeeping Missions Óglaigh na hÉireann are still in the Frontline and currently deployed in Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
Forty years on, from the Battle of At Tiri, this Saturday 18th April, a Remembrance Ceremony for Tom and Derek is scheduled. Justice is still being fought for the Smallhorne and Barrett families and for John O’Mahony and his family in Scartaglin. Remember your Frontline Heroes.
(JTA) — Yefim Haim Goldberg, a 106-year-old Jewish veteran of World War II who was honored frequently by the governments of Belarus and Russia, has died in Russia.
Goldberg served in the Red Army’s 36th Tank Brigade and the troops he commanded — he was in charge of a platoon — continued from the Belarusian front all the way to Berlin. His unit was among the ones sent to take the Reichstag, the parliament and seat of the Nazi German government.
Goldberg died Sunday at a hospital in Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East, where he had been under observation for the past month, the website News VL reported.
That report and others in the Russian media did not say whether Goldberg died of the coronavirus, which according to government statistics is relatively rare in Vladivostok and the region of Primorsky Krai.
Goldberg received at least four medals from the two governments over the years. He also was an author and poet.
He was born in what today is Belarus when it was still part of czarist Russia. He served in the Russian army for several years and then began studying history at a university in Moscow. But his studies were cut short because of World War II.
After the war Goldberg, who grew up in landlocked Belarus, joined Russia’s Far Eastern Shipping Company and became a sailor. He sailed for 25 years. It’s the reason he settled in the port city of Vladivostok.
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The U.S. National Archives Just Digitized Hundreds of World War I-Era Military Films
Posted by Jean-Yves on Mar 17, 2020
Film footage shot at the outset of World War I is surprisingly crisp, even by today’s standards — not bad for a technology that was barely 20 years old at the time. Now, you can watch these old film reels for free.
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has digitized hundreds of old film reels shot between 1914 and 1936, essentially the period from before America’s entry into World War I through the interwar years before World War II erupted in Europe.
https://www.military.com/off-duty/history/national-archives-wwi-films.html
The discovery led authorities to believe he was from an al-Qaida training camp, one that had been working to create a biological weapon using the plague.
https://www.military.com/off-duty/history/terrorist-camp-destroyed-plague.html
Stories of defiance by residents of Jersey during the Nazi occupation of their island have emerged in records of political prisoners published 75 years after the liberation.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/08/jersey-defiance-nazi-occupation-revealed-records
World War II Service of 43295 Private JOHN ALPHONSUS STUART McKENNA
John (Johnny) Alphonsus Stuart McKenna was born in Patea, Taranaki, New Zealand on 25 October 1909 to Irish-born mother Bridget Reynolds from Kilmacshalgan, Dromore West, Co Sligo, and Irish-born father Edward McKenna from Ogonnelloe, Co Clare.
11 Thomas O'Connor and Ellen Rahilly 1. Thomas O'Connor,a Emigrant Ancestor Thomas O'Connor, born 25 Mar 1890 in Ballarkane, Kerry, Ireland;3 4 died 22 Dec 1955 in Springfield, MA.5 He was the son of Michael O'Connor and Mary Finn.6 He married 2. Ellen Rahilly 28 Jan 1914 in Springfield, MA.7 Notes for Thomas O’Connor Thomas O’Connor’s father was a farmer and a mason in Ireland, so Thomas grew up in a laboring family. He had seven brothers and sisters. In 1905, one of his older brothers, James, decided to build a new life for himself in America. A year later another brother, Michael, followed. They must have written home good things about the United States because in 1910, Thomas himself decided to make the voyage. He travelled on a ship called the SS Invernia that sailed from Queenstown, Ireland (now called Cobh) and arrived in Boston on May 5th. SS Invernia Thomas was lucky to have family to help him get established in his new life. His brothers were living in Spring-field, MA. When Thomas signed his Declaration of Intention in November of 1910, he said that he was an iron worker in Springfield. a See Appendix 1 for an ancestor tree of Thomas O’Connor. b Photo uploaded to the Wikipedia Commons from the Municipal Archives of Trondheim. The SS Invernia carried 164 first class passengers, 200 second class passengers and 1600 third class passengers. The Invernia was used as a troop transport during WWI, and on 1 Jan 1917 it was torpedoed by a German submarine near Greece. One hundred and twenty people were killed.
BARRY Death; Died 5th January 1820, Edmund Barry, aged 115, pensioner for 65 years served in Battle of Fontenoy, 6’2”
Died 5th January 1820, Edmund Barry, aged 115, pensioner for 65 years served in Battle of Fontenoy, 6’2”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Brigade_%28France%29
From Dr. Casey Collection. O’Kief Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater in Ireland. Dr. Albert Casey (ed.) Alabama: Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1952-1967. 13 volume
NAI REFERENCE:
CSO/RP/OR/1831/964
TITLE: Letter from Brig Maj Daniel Mahony, Killarney, [County Kerry], on the state of the country.
SCOPE & CONTENT: Letter from Brig Maj Daniel Mahony, Killarney, [County Kerry], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting on the absence of the disruptive tendency that has marred the county of Clare; noting, however, that Lieut Morris of the Ballylongford yeomanry and some of the police did attract hostility for failing to illuminate their windows following the victory of O’Connell in County Clare; also commenting on a land clearance near Ballylongford to make room for two ‘wealthy farmers’; also adding in postscript that the author of a Terry Alt notice was discovered in the vicinity of Rosscarbery [County Cork], but made good his escape.
EXTENT: 1 item; 4pp-DATE(S): 13 Jun 1831.
The Liberator (Tralee) 1914-1939, Saturday, February 26, 1938; Section: Front page, Page: 1
LIMERICK NOMINATION OF MARES.
A large number of mares presented at Abbeyfeale inspection for west Limerick nominations resulted as follows: Nominations, R. Falley, Ballaugh; J. S. Dalton. Glenearene; Ed. Roche. Athea: E. Barrett, Athea; M. J. Moloney, Abbeyfeale.
KILLED 2,000; WOUNDED 20,000; AND STARTED 1.000 FIRES.
A the morning of December 6th, 1917, life in the seaport of Halifax, Nova Scotia, went on serenely for 17 minutes after a flicker of blue flame first appeared aboard the munitions ship Mont Blanc.
KIllarney Echo and South Kerry Chronicle 1899-1920, Saturday, December 26, 1914; Page: 12
SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT
LISTOWEL'S CONTRIBUTION OF COMFORTS. PRACTICAL AND GENEROUS ACTION.
The Committee of the Listowel Fund for the soldiers' comforts met in the billiard room of the Listowel Arms Hotel on Tuesday evening, when Madame Dei Janasz, the very popular and energetic President, gave an account of the good work done, by the committee, and Mr. B. Johnston, the Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, put the financial aspect of the undertaking before the meeting in the shape of a statement of accounts which was highly satisfactory.
The Rev. Canon Pattison, M.A., presided, and the other members present were Madame de Janasz, Mrs. Johnston, Mrs McElligott, Mrs. Foran, Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Little, Mrs Naylor, Mrs. Jones, Miss Horgan, Miss Breen, Miss Pattison, Miss May Pattison, Miss Johnston, Miss Milligan, Miss Harnett, Messrs D de Janasz, M. O'Connell, Clerk of Union; B. Johnston, W. McElligott. C.P.S.
Madame do Janasz read her report as follows:—On the 6th October a meeting was called at Listowel at the instigation of Mrs de Janasz for the purpose of organising a collection of various articles, socks, shirts, mufflers, belts, etc., for sending to the soldiers at the front, in order in some way to lessen the terrible privations and hardships they are exposed to during the winter campaign. The response to the appeal was very hearty, and the meeting, at which Canon Pattison presided, was attended by a considerable number of those who were invited to it. The meeting decided that the gifts should be sent to the Munster Fusiliers serving at the front, and chose the following committee for the purpose of carrying out the work: Mrs de Janasz, President; Mrs. Johnston, Mrs Jack McElligott, Mrs Little, Mrs. Foran, Miss Horgan, Miss Breen, Mr McKenna, Mr McAulay, Mr de Janasz, Canon Pattison, Mr. Johnston, Hon, Sec. and Treas. Donations both in money and gifts were accepted, a good many being given and promised at the meeting. A list of monetary subscriptions up to date are set forth in detail in the balance sheet to be submitted by the Hon. Treasurer. Subscriptions not appearing in balance sheet, £13 10s d given by Mrs. de Janasz for wool and flannel for shirts and belts. Then followed a long list of those who sent donations of shirts, socks, belts, etc., including socks, knitted by the following from Kilmorna and the neighbourhood gratuitously from wool supplied Mrs Wall, Mrs Murphy, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Gould, Mrs Stack, Mrs Moore, Mrs. Carroll, Mrs. Midigan , Miss Lizzie Stack , Miss, Nell Kelliher, Miss Bridget Enright, Miss O'Connor , Mrs. Gaire, Kate Kelihan , Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. Leahy, Mrs. Sullivan, Hannah McElligott, Mrs. Sheehy, Johanna Dillon, Margaret McMahon, Bill Finucane, Mary Leahy, Mrs. Bowden, Miss Sheahan, Mrs. Ned Mulvihill and Mrs Norah Keane. Belts from—Mr and Mrs Little. Scarves—Mrs. Johnston, Mrs. Armstrong; Wristlets—Miss Clifford, Mrs Little, Mrs J McElligott. Cigarettes—Mrs. Little. Tobacco-Dr . O'Connor. Matches—Miss Horgan, Mrs de Janasz. Pipes—Mr. Johnston, Mr. Armstrong; Vaseline—Mr. and Mrs Leane, Mrs. Darling- Mrs. Knight-Pedlar, Mrs. Pierce.
THE First consignment, consisting of 127 shirts, 370 pairs of socks, 157 belts, 99 scarves, 10 pair of wristlets, 1 box, cigarettes , 1 vest, a piece of soap or box of Vaseline in each sock , and a pair of boot laces, was despatched the 3rd November to the Munster Fusiliers at the front, and the Committee got acknowledgment and expressions of thanks from the Commanding Officer and men of the 2nd Battalion. The second consignment, consisting of 24 shirts, 125 pairs of socks, 125 flannel belts, 25 scarf helmets, 4 pair wristlets, 24 magazines, 141bs tobacco, 88 pipes, 12 doz. Matches, 24 1bs sweets, 200 lead pencils, 200 postcards, 8 sets of playing cards, was sent off on December 12th to the Munster Fusiliers at the front- so that altogether up to date 151 shirts, 495 pairs of socks, 282 belts, 184 serves, 14 wristlets, 14lb. tobacco, 88 pipes, 24 1bs. sweets, 200 lead pencils, 200 postcards , 8 sets of playing cards, 24 magazines, have been sent, and the committee presenting this short report to the general meeting cannot help expressing, their high appreciation of the hearty and generous spirit with which they were met by the donors and workers, and venture to express a hope that the work which has been so successful will not be brought to an end but continue while there is need for it. It is a most gratifying feeling which the, Committee has no doubt is shared by everyone present, that Listowel and its neighbourhood have taken their parts in lightening the burden of the Irish soldiers at the front. (Applause)
Mr. Johnston, Hon Sec., then produced his balance sheet , from which appeared that the total sum subscribed was £84 4s 7d., including £22 I8s ld., collected by the ladies at the races, and there was a credit balance of £4 19s 8d., which was considered very satisfactory. The Chairman said he did not know if there was any necessity for the appointment of an Auditor. Mr. Johnston—It would be more satisfactory to me to have the accounts audited. Mr. McElligott consented to act as Auditor
(Break, Note Mr Foran remarked that Mrs de Janasz was sister of George Gun Mahony and she has filled the void left by him, she was the main instigator of the meeting which sponsored and promoted subscriptions for the soldiers) See paper for more remarks.
Sunday marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and, sixteen days later, by the Soviet Union. France and Britain declared war on Germany, but gave no real aid to their Polish ally. While some Poles collaborated with the Nazis—collaboration occurred in every occupied territory—Poland’s wartime legacy is overwhelmingly one of heroic resistance and bloody martyrdom. A key objective of Poland’s current conservative government, in power since 2015, has been to inform the world of this legacy. Although this has led to some wrongheaded historical policies in recent years, the objective itself is crucial: Other nations must learn of the Poles’ role in resisting Nazism.
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/08/the-polish-heroes-of-world-war-ii
James Kissane Lisselton from Listowel Connection.
He was born in 1889. James had a first cousin who had risen to the rank of Inspector in the Cairns Police Force in Queensland, Australia. James and this cousin, John Quilter, corresponded and James decided to seek his fortune in that police force down under. James emigrated to Australia in 1910 and immediately joined the Australian Police force.
In September 1915 James took leave from the police force and joined The Australian Imperial Force. The army took him to Egypt, to England and eventually to Flanders in Belgium.
At the Battle of Ypres he was in charge of transport and supple of ammunition to the front line. Ammunition in that battle had to be transported by cart and mule in horrendous conditions.
It was for acts of gallantry on October 12 1917 that he was awarded the Military Cross.
After the war James returned to Australia. In 1924 he took up a full time paid position as Secretary of the Queensland Irish Association. He changed jobs a few times more, got married and raised a family. The family home in Brisbane was named Listowel.
WAR: Hereditary promotions and sales of at least some commissions were standard for many middle-ranking officers and for most senior positions in most European armies of this era. Commissions were treated, and traded, as military investments. Some British Army officer commissions remained for sale well into the 19th century, until after the Crimean War. This probably reflected the position and prolonged influence of the Duke of Wellington, a man both rich and talented, who purchased a commission as lieutenant-colonel at age 23. The other problem in England, resolved only by the Glorious Revolution and complete military triumph of Protestantism across all Three Kingdoms in 1691, was the tendency of Charles II and his brother James II to appoint officers from a narrow slice of the population solely on the basis of Catholic loyalties rather than military competence. By 1688 about 10% of English officers were Catholics. Virtually all officers in Ireland under James were Catholic, following a purge of the Irish establishment by the Earl of Tyrconnel. Many Protestant officers deeply resented this assault on the property rights of their purchased commissions and deserted to William III within hours or days of his landing in England. The new king did not readily trust such men, however, and for years afterward, continued to rely on fellow Dutchmen or on German and other mercenaries. He truly trusted only those English and Scots officers who had previously served him in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade. For instance, Marlborough came under deep suspicion of divided loyalty and was imprisoned for a time. This situation changed slowly during the Nine Years’ War (1688-1697). In 1706 a “Board of General Officers” was established to impose penalties or hear courts-martial of delinquent officers. This introduced a fresh element of professionalism to the British Army, even for gentlemen-officers.
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Edward Pentin
Pope Francis has ordered the opening of the Vatican Secret Archives for the entire period of Venerable Pius XII’s pontificate, a move that will help shed light on the contentious dispute that the pontiff either heroically supported the Jews during World War Two, or did too little.
Spearhead follows the story of Clarence Smoyer — a quiet kid from Pennsylvania coal country who became one of the greatest tank gunners in World War II history — and how his life crossed paths with an enemy tanker, Gustav Schaefer, during the Battle of Cologne. Adam shares how he became interested in WWII history as a kid and how he found Clarence’s story. He then gives us an engaging rundown of tank warfare in WWII, and walks us through Clarence’s hero’s journey and the epic battles he faced with calm commitment and a love for his team of tankers. We end our conversation discussing what happened when Clarence and Gustav recently met up as old men, and the lessons Adam thinks members of the social media age can take from the veterans of the Big One.
From Art of Manliness newsletter@artofmanliness.com
World War One at Home
Listowel, Co. Kerry - Kitchener, The Early Years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08spj97
WAR Deaths; On 21 March 1918 the German Army began an offensive designed to end the war on the Western Front. The Allies lost nearly 255,000 men (British, British Empire and French) but they could be replaced,. German troop losses were 239,000,
From 1 June to 11 November 1918 the British Army gained 11,797 recruits from Ireland.
The sinking of the RMS Leinster
Over 500 souls perished when the Kingstown to Holyhead mail boat was torpedoed in Dublin Bay on 10 October 1918 within 4 miles of the Irish coast.
On 12 June 1918 the USS Dixie docked at Queenstown (Cobh), Co. Cork. It was aboard this ship that the first verifiable cases in Ireland of what came to be known as the Spanish flu were recorded.
Warsaw Ghetto; Beyond political considerations, the Oneg Shabbat archive was a hastily buried collection of 35,000 documents, many of which were moisture-damaged during years in the ground. In contrast to Anne Frank’s diary or Elie Wiesel’s “Night” — for example — it took scholars decades to decipher the trove, much less translate and publish portions of it.
Reference: MS 828, fols 205r-205v
County: Kerry
Date: 14/6/1643
http://1641.tcd.ie/deposition.php?depID=828205r296
Deuereux Sprat Late of the towne & parish of Traley in the bar: of Terhonack within the Com of Kerry Cler: a brittish protestant duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue &c. deposeth & saith that about the 1t of ffebr: Last was tweluemonth & diuers timers since the begining of this present rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed & forceably dispoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values following Vizt worth 237 li. Part consisting of debts owing by
Of horses to the value of fiue pownds Of houshould stuffe to the value of thirty pownds Of plate to the value of thirty pownds, Of ready mony to the value summe of six pownds the totall of his losses amounteth to the value of Of Debts to the value summe of One hunderd threescore & six pownds, which e re this rebellion w ere esteemed good debts but now become desperate by reason some of the debtours are Impouerisht protestants ar John Blener Hasset gentleman Thomas Turner merchant and the reste Papists & rebbells and ar John Nagle of the Dingle bough merchant, & therefore the deponent knoweth not any way how to gett any satisfaccion from him any of them . the totall of his losses amounts to the value of two hundred thirty seauin pounds besids the losse ever since the be g ining of this rebellion of the benefit of his two parsonages of Kilgobin & Stradbally his Chauncellorship of Ardfert in the said Com worth which were worth coibus anis one hundred pownds per annum, which he leaueth to consideracion that & further he cannot depose
Devoreux Spratt
Jurat coram nobis 14th June 1643
Phil: Bisse
Thomas Ellwell
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Oct 2018
Danish Jews re-enact community's flight to Sweden 75 years ago
Some 7,200 Jews were ferried across to neutral Sweden in 1943 without the knowledge of the Nazi occupation forces.
TED SWEENEY Blacksod and Maureen Flavin, Knockanure
Ted’s son Vincent is now the keeper of Blacksod lighthouse and it was Ted who supplied the crucial forecast to the Allied forces on June 4, 1944. Vincent takes up the story. “The invasion was planned for June 5, 1944, and my father was requested to give the weather forecast from Blacksod, being the most north-westerly point and weather station, so he gave it. But that weather forecast was not suitable for an invasion, as it came across Ireland, down through England and into the English Channel, and it was blowing a near gale, so the D-Day landings, Operation Overlord, was delayed for one day and it went ahead on the morning of June 6, 1944, and that is as a result of the forecast from Blacksod,” says Vincent.
Hi Martin found this recently.
Leinster disaster 1918 were on board included; Jas Moore Australian Army, Norah T Malone, 11 Strand St., Tralee, Mrs Maud Marsham Rae, Ross castle; Anthony Jones, Waterville aged 17; Lizzie Healy, Brogue Makers Lane, Tralee; Miss Lena and Miss Nora Galvin , Perry Buildings, Strand Road; Miss Mary Gibson sister of Dr Gibson of Listowel; Delia and Nora Davoren, Ennis; Blacker Douglas, Armagh; Rev J R Bartley Church St., Tralee.
Library have full list in book by Philip Lecane published 2005.
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Sat 3 Oct 1992 Page 51
VIETNAM FORCES MEMORIAL THE CANBERRA TIMES, Saturday, October 3, 1992 C7
"THOSE WHO SERVED"
The following is a record of those on active service during the Vietnam War in the Australian Regular Army, the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Australian Navy, including members of the nursing corps in the RAAF and the RAN. Supplied by the Australian Defence Force, whose permission to The Canberra Times to republish is gratefully acknowledged, it was first published in the book, Vietnam Remembered, edited by Gregory Pemberton, and published by Weldon Publishing (hardcover $49.95)
Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932) Thu 16 Mar 1911 Page 7
There died recently in Blarney street, Cork, a respected citizen named Patrick Roche, who was one of the numerous volunteers who left Cork in September, 1859, to defend the Papal possessions against the army of Garibaldi. Mr. Roche was one of four survivors of the Cork contingent who, under the command of Eugene M Swiney, Carrigrohane Castle, as captain, and Father Bonaventure M'Loghlin, C.S.F., Liberty street, as chaplain, answered the call of Pope Pius IX. for volunteers. Mr. Roche was the holder of a parchment certificate and a medal from the late Pope, Leo XI I., and last summer he received a medal from Pope Pius X.
Desert Sun, Number 25, 26 November 1946
Father O'Connor In Pulpit Again at Catholic Church
Many of the Villagers and members of “Our Lady of Solitude” parish remembered Father Michael O'Connor throughout the four years of war, since the time he marched off with the youth of Palm Springs back in 1942. Back in the parish he said he loved very dearly, in succession to Father Francis McCann, who officiated here temporarily, Father O’Connor wants to forget the war as much as possible and settle down to conduct of the Catholic church here. SINCE HIS RETURN, Father O'Connor is being assisted by Father C. J. Moynihan, who recently left his parish in Nebraska. Both priests carry in their smiles and in the English they speak all but the sod of old Ireland, where both of them were born, educated, and ordained before coming to this country. Father O'Connor was born in the county of Kerry, Ireland, and is now 38 years of age. He was ordained a secular priest in Ireland in 1931 and within the same year sailed for the United States.
FATHER MOYNIHAN sailed from Ireland in 1927 for this country. He was ordained in 1915. He too, loves the Village and the Parish. Father O'Connor came directly to the Diocese and served in San Bernardino, Imperial valley and Brawley. He came to Palm Springs' in 1938 and stayed until he went into the service as a chaplain in 1942. After attending several schools in the Chaplain’s corps of the Army, the Spring of 1945 found Father O'Connor attached to the Sixth Air Forces in Panama. He served in that area and other central and South American countries until he was ordered home at the end of June, 1946. He was separated from the services in July of that year. For several months he filled in at Escondido, and then came on to Palm Springs.
Among those soldiers who landed behind German lines in Normandy on June 6, 1944 was the legendary chaplain of the unit, Fr. Francis L. Sampson (1912-1996). It was he (and not the character played by Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan), who days later was ordered by military authorities to find Fritz Niland, the real-life “Private Ryan,” who had lost his three brothers on D-Day.
https://aleteia.org/2017/09/08/it-was-a-catholic-priest-who-saved-private-ryan/
The Simple Sabotage Manual
By Brett & Kate McKay on Aug 04, 2017 09:33 am
In 1944, the Allied troops were gaining ground on the battlefields of WWII, but still faced opposition from the Axis powers. The weaker that enemy targets could be made, the easier and faster the military’s job would be in wresting Europe back from its occupying forces. The U.S. government thus began a strategy to undermine Axis-aligned governments not only from without, but also from within.
The Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.), a precursor to the modern C.I.A., created an initially classified booklet laying out the art of “simple sabotage” — which, “more than malicious mischief . . . should always consist of acts whose results will be detrimental to the materials and manpower of the enemy.”
The Simple Sabotage Field Manual taught O.S.S. agents not only how to recruit potential saboteurs from among those who were antagonistic towards their occupiers and sympathetic to the Allied cause, but listed specific tactics average citizens in various lines of work could employ to destabilize their government and help hasten its demise. The booklet was declassified by the director of the O.S.S., William J. Donovan, with the aim of surreptitiously distributing its information by way of leaflets, radio broadcasts, or the direct teaching of European citizens who U.S. agents had ascertained could be trusted.
Though the suggestions presented in the Simple Sabotage Field Manual were designed to soften the underbelly of the enemy by gumming up the works of factories, offices, and infrastructure, what’s hilariously surprising is how many of them, especially regarding white collar work, continue to be inadvertently (we think?) practiced today.
When you read tips to employees like “refer all matters to committees, for ‘further study and consideration,'” and “Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can,” as well as instructions to managers to “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done,” one realizes the ways in which, in the present day, employees sabotage their companies, managers sabotage their teams, and workers sabotage their own success — not for any purposeful mission, but simply out of laziness, carelessness, and a lack of motivation and morale.
Further, the general injunction to “Act stupid,” uncomfortably invokes the fact that modern citizens may be sabotaging the strength of a country they actually support.
MORE ON 1.13 MICHAEL (MICK) GEOGHEGAN 1899-1930.
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On September 25th 1917 Mick travelled to Limerick City to the recruiting office and enlisted in the Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment (The Royal Canadians) for the duration of the war. He underwent his training at Birr in Co. Offaly and was posted to the Machine Gun Corps in Glencorse, Scotland. In the month of March 1918 he joined the 2nd battalion and was posted to France. In 1918 the German offensive had hit the Western Front and somewhere along the line Mick, who was deployed as a sniper marksman went missing and was found to be a prisoner of war in Limburg 21/27th March 1918. Following the armistice of November 1918, Mick was released and discharged from the army in February 1919. Not having his full of army life and with the fighting spirit still hot in his blood he re-enlisted almost immediately at Portsmouth in the south of England and was posted to India landing in Bombay November 21st 1919.
Richard HUDSON (Richard , William? , William ) was born on 15 Aug 1827 in probably Duagh, Co. Kerry. He died on 14 Sep 1902 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh.
Richard emigrated to the United States in 1849. He was a Civil War veteran, having served with the 3rd Regiment of the Wisconsin Cavalry between December 1861 and June 1862. He returned to civilian life before the end of the war as a result of an accident (details unknown) and worked as a stone mason. At the time of the 1900 census he and his wife, Johanna, were living in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Richard married Johanna O'CONNOR on 19 Feb 1854 in St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia. Johanna was born in Jan 1833 in Ireland. She died after 1 Nov 1902 in probably Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh.
Their daughter below
Mary (Sr. Mary Bernadette) HUDSON was born on 6 Jul 1864 in Harrisonville, New Jersey. She died on 11 May 1925 in Chicago. Mary entered the convent, becoming Sr. Mary Bernadette.
Relation of above?
Robert Charles Conroy (Charlie) HUDSON was born on 27 Jul 1891 in Dingle, Co. Kerry. He was christened on 9 Dec 1891 in Dingle, Co. Kerry. He died on 17 Oct 1918 in Hamilton Military Hospital, Ontario, Canada. He was buried in Hamilton Cemetery, Ontario, Canada.
In 1910, after leaving school, Charlie started work as a clerk with the Provincial Bank of Ireland (now AIB) in Limerick. He later moved to Canada where lived in Islington, Ontario and worked as a construction foremen. He enlisted during World War I and served with the Canadian Railway Troops. His enlistment papers give the following further information:
Date and place of enlistment: 11 July 1917, Toronto
Height: 5 feet, 3¾ inches
Complexion: Medium
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark.
We do not know whether Charlie served overseas during World War I but we do know that he died of pneumonia at the age of 27, 15 months after enlisting. On 14 October 1918 he had been admitted to Hamilton Military Hospital in Ontario where he died three days later.
http://www.helensfamilytrees.com/hudg04.htm#4196
Francis (Frank) John HUDSON (Richard , William? , William ) was born about 1831 in probably Duagh, Co. Kerry; or Listowel, Co. Kerry. He died on 9 Nov 1898 in Philadelphia. He was buried in Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia.
According to Bill Hudson's 'The Hudsons of County Kerry and their Descendants', Frank emigrated to the United States with his younger brother Patrick in 1853. However, I have been told by another Hudson family researcher that he emigrated in 1851, departing on 11 June from Liverpool on board the 'Oliver'.
Frank served as a Marine during the Civil War and saw service on the Roanoke with Patrick. Frank settled in Philadelphia where he worked as a plasterer. I have been told Frank and his wife, Margaret, were second cousins once removed and were married by special dispensation. However, if they were related, as is thought, through Margaret's Finucane grandfather (probably named Frank) who it is believed was a brother of Frank Hudson's mother, Margaret Finucane, then they would have been first cousins once removed.
Patrick Robert HUDSON (Richard , William? , William ) was born on 13 May 1838 in Drowmcunig, Abbeydorney, Co. Kerry. He was christened on 4 Jun 1838 in Abbeydorney, Co. Kerry. He died on 15 Dec 1914 in Philadelphia. He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Patrick's baptismal sponsors were John Murnane and Ellen Carney.
Patrick emigrated to the United States with his brother Francis in 1853, aged only 15. He saw action on the Roanoke, Virginia during the Civil War. He became a US citizen in 1868 and joined the U.S. Marine Corps where he spent the rest of his career.
Patrick died of "chronic valvular disease of the heart".
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Peace or War
The Stylus, Volume XXVII, Number 8, 1 May 1914
EDWARD A. SULLIVAN, '14
*Delivered at B. C. Oratorical Contest, April 30, 1914.
The movement for international peace involves a reversion from existing order vaster and more fundamental than any which man has initiated since the beginning of the world. For the institution of war antedates the first nation. It began with the first tribes and peoples. It grew with the population of the earth. It has never yielded priority as the ultimate universal method for the settlement of national differences. Among all the changing customs of empire, the advances and retrogressions of civilization, the declines and developments of art, science, literature and religion, war stands out constant and inevitable, the one thing seemingly essential in the life of every people in every age. International peace would abolish this great, ancient, universal institution so that it would never again be known among men. The machinery of war, troops, battleships, cannon, musketry; the heroics of war, martial music, valor in conflict, fervid enthusiasm in the defence of country; the glorious successes and the frightful reverses of armies and navies—all these things that have pervaded and dominated history would be taken forever out of the life of the world. War itself has produced no greater revolution than this. The very magnitude of the change involved has restricted the popularity of the movement. A departure from the custom of ages so radical in essence, so far-reaching in consequences, must strike the national mind as fanciful and dreamy. But later on as men accustom themselves to the great idea they will begin to ask if it is not practical after all, and what now seems an upheaval so Vast as to be impossible will be discussed as a probable accomplishment. Already that day is approaching. It is said only two hundred and thirty-four of the last thirty-five hundred years were years of peace. Yet since Waterloo we have had only fifteen years of real international strife, which means that the last century constitutes thirty-five per cent of the whole peace period. A more pertinent illustration is found in the arbitration treaties between Norway and Sweden and Argentine and Chili; and in the fact that some two hundred and sixty international disputes have been decided by arbitration in one hundred years. There is every evidence that these conditions will multiply. And then the militarist, driven from his old position, that what was true in the past will be true in the future, must look about him for other sanctions for the continuance of war. Perhaps he will say that war is essential to progress. I do not think this is true. It is true that war has had a tremendous influence on civilization. Greece and Rome, by successful conquests could levy tribute on the rest of the world, and secure in their own opulence, had leisure to develop those intellectual traits and produce those classics of art which compelled the admiration of posterity. The expansion of the United States is directly traceable to war. By war Napoleon gave the death-blow to the feudal system of Europe. By war we overthrew the tyranny of England and settled for all time the question of slavery. But it must be remembered that all these results were purchased at a stupendous cost, at the ruin of some nations and the subjugation of others, so that it may well be doubted whether the benefits derived are greater than the concomitant evils. And, granting that they are, who shall say that a policy of peace would not produce larger benefits and fewer evils. No nation of note has ever tried such a policy for any appreciable time. And there is a nation, Turkey, which, like Greece and Rome, has persisted in war, and like Greece and Rome, is rotting visibly from the face of the earth. War, says the militarist again, means the survival of the fittest, and so the more war the higher degree of civilization attained. Is it not rather, as Alfred Noyes said, an agent by which the most virile are slain or crippled, and the
weaklings preserved to be the seed of future generations? The great man dies in defence of his flag—the coward remains to be the prop and flange of the State. It is the survival of the fittest in so far as the most resourceful nation comes off the victor, but it drains away those very resources and strangles the virility by which victory itself was achieved. Again, war stimulates invention, they say. But so also does peace. Edison required no spur from the heel of war. Westinghouse, Bell, Marconi and Morse did not need the field of destructive weapons in which to exercise their genuis. War played no part in the production of that stupendous thing "that knit the world with threads of steel till no remotest island lingers outside the world's great common weal." War fosters heroes. William James said of our Civil War: "Those ancestors, those efforts, those memories and legends, are the most ideal part of what we now own together, a sacred spiritual possession worth more than all the blood poured out." We must be careful, honoured judges, to fight shy of jingoism. The heroics of war are too much extolled. Each passing day calls forth in the line of common duty acts of true heroism—in shipwreck or train wreck, in flood or fire or storm —which entitle the actors to recognition as high and lasting as that accorded to the noblest deeds of war. We have examined and found worthless certain arguments by which the militarist attempts to bolster up his defence. Yet, if all of them collectively were valid no justification could be found in them for the continuance of war. I read a book called "The Human Slaughter House." I don't know of anything that impressed me like that book, two hundred pages on the horrors of war. I saw the battlefield in all its primal brutishness. I saw men mangled by men, trampled by hoofs. I heard them crying from the swamps and sands. I saw their twisting, writhing bodies. I heard the screaming voices of the engines of war. And on the outskirts, looking in through the fog of battle, with their orphans and widows crowded about, I saw the forms of nations dying. Oh, this thing is horrible! Civilization cries out against it. Refinement abhors it. Religion condemns it. Progress lifts its voice to protest against it. And yet, when the militarist, driven to the last ditch, cries out that human nature makes it inevitable God knows he speaks the truth. Upon this impregnable position he stands. It is his only valid defence of war. But alas, it is powerful enough to make international peace a future improbability. There is too little charity in the world. Nations have not learned the lesson of the Ten Commandments. They are too easily spurred to revenge, too sluggish in brotherly love. Even now, while the pillars of The Hague rise up to the cause of peace, while the watch-fires of a future hope are kindling from shore to shore, England and Germany are draining the finances of their people in a mad race for naval supremacy. So it has always been. So it will always be until Christianity has taken firmer root in the hearts of men. God grant the fulfilment of that dream, that war may one day be a relic of past peoples, that all men may join hands in a common brotherhood, and, looking upward to the propitious sky, see burning symbolically, and constant as life, the star of Christian charity.
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CORK
Elizabeth Fort was first built in 1601 by Sir George Carew, the then president of Munster during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1. The fort was built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the city from the south. Following the death of Elizabeth in 1603, the fort was attacked by the citizens of Cork, however, when the city was re-taken, they were compelled to rebuild it at their own expense. It was replaced in 1624 by a stronger, stone fort, much of which survives today. It is reputed that improvements were also made by order of Oliver Cromwell in 1649.
In 1690 the fort was besieged, along with the city, by Williamite forces while being held by the Jacobites, an event known as The Siege of Cork. After a week of attack, the city walls were breached, the city and the fort were then surrendered.
In the following years, the fort was used as an army barracks, a female prison for convicts awaiting transportation, an RIC station and a Garda station until 2013.
The site is highly significant in relation to the military and social history of Cork and boasts an exceptional view of the city from the ramparts and from the timber-viewing gallery along the north side of the courtyard. Elizabeth Fort is now in the hands of Cork City Council, who are in the process of developing this valuable asset as a major public attraction within the city.
9 Jan 2013
The death has taken place of one of the few surviving Kerry-born soldiers who fought in World War Two. Dr James O’Carroll, who was born on a farm in Ballylongford, died peacefully at his home in Ballybunion at the age of 92. As a young man, Dr O’Carroll joined the British Army and fought with the allied forces in Germany. He was captured as a prisoner of war, but managed to escape shortly before the bombing of Dresden. He went on to study medicine at Trinity, and later ran a very successful psychiatry practice in Oklahoma in the USA, where he settled on a ranch, and raised six children, along with his wife, the late Dr Maud Stavely. In later years, he settled in Ballybunion with his second wife Peggy, a native of Kenmare.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN VIENNA, 1766
By Brian McGinn
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Without a party to attend, March 17 can be a lonesome occasion for Irish exiles far from home. To make sure that did not happen, the Spanish Ambassador to the Court of Vienna invited Irish residents to a "grand entertainment" on the feast day of St. Patrick in 1766.
Among the Irish who responded, according to the Annual Register for 1766, was Count Lacy, President of the Council of War, along with Generals named Browne, Maguire, McElligott, O'Donnell, O'Kelly, and Plunkett. Other guests, too numerous to name, were listed only by title-- four Chiefs of the Grand Cross, two Governors, several Knights Military, six Staff Officers and four Privy-Counsellors
The Register also noted that all the principal Officers of State, together with the entire Court, wore Irish crosses to honour the day and "shew their respect to the Irish nation."
Favourite Sons
In 1766, the capital city of the mighty Hapsburg Empire was a Mecca for musical and military talent. The composer Haydn found patrons among the wealthy Viennese aristocracy. Mozart, then 10 years old, had already charmed the Empress Maria Theresa and her daughter Marie Antoinette, the future Queen of France.
To defend their far-flung realms, which in addition to Austria and Hungary also included Bohemia, Croatia, Moravia and Transylvania, Maria Theresa and her recently-deceased husband, Emperor Francis I, had employed some of the best soldiers in Europe. Among the many officers of foreign birth or descent who led Austrian regiments, Irishmen were especially favoured. While their religion was an asset with the devoutly Catholic Hapsburgs, it was their abilities on the battlefield that most impressed the royal family.
In a glowing and insightful tribute found after his death in August 1765, Francis I had written: "The more Irish officers in the Austrian service the better; our troops will always be disciplined; an Irish coward is an uncommon character; and what the natives of Ireland even dislike from principle, they generally will perform through a desire for glory."
TERENCE PATRICK FITZGERALD
CPL Army 4th Infantry Div. JUL 26, 1939 LONDON (KERRY & GALWAY) Born in England to Irish Parents. San Francisco, California, May 26, 1967. Pleiku Province PANEL 20 EAST LINE 114
Also remembered on the San Francisco Memorial.
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JOHN O'SHEA SGT, U.S. Army. CASTLEGREGORY, CO. KERRY. Catherine O'Shea, Mother. JUL 5, 1949
The Boer War
THE BOER WAR. NOTES AND POINTS OF INTEREST TO CATHOLIC READERS.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 11, 15 March 1900, Page 5
Post Office Moira Regan’s story
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Lieutenant James FitzGibbon
James FitzGibbon was born in Ireland in 1781. At age 17 he joined the Tarbert Fencibles, a regiment of the British army, and was sent to England to do garrison duty.
When he was 20 he sailed under Lord Nelson against Denmark, two years before he sailed against Holland and briefly spent time in a French prison.
WAR INFORMATION
Stack Martin 1889 — 1916 Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll 1914-1918 48 Barkly-Street, Footscray, Victoria. of Kilbaha Moyvane.
KNOCKANURE LIST
Who When Where
Last name First name Born Died Event Record set Location
AHERN MAURICE 1873 — 1894 British Army Service Records 1760-1915 Knockanure, Listowel, Kerry, Ireland
AHERN PATRICK 1887 — 1907 British Army Service Records 1760-1915 Knockanure, Listowel, Kerry, Ireland
Casey Patrick Joseph 1894 — 1917-18 World War I Draft Registration Cards Douglas City, Alaska, United States
CREED DANIEL 1875 — 1894 British Army Service Records 1760-1915 Knockanure, Listowel, Kerry, Ireland
Cronin Edmond Thomas 1893 1917 1917 Ireland, National Roll of Honour 1914-1921
Cronin Thomas Edmond 1894 — 1915 Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll 1914-1918 Police Station, Mitcham, South Australia
Larkin Patrick 1892 — 1917-18 World War I Draft Registration Cards Wichita City No 2, Kansas, United States
O'Leary John 1892 1918 1918 Ireland, National Roll of Honour 1914-1921 Cork, Ireland
ITZPATRICK John 1806 — 1829 Army Deserters 1828-1840 Kerry, Ireland
Fitzmaurice Wm 1782 — 1826 British Army Service Records 1760-1915 Knockanure, Listowell, Kerry, Ireland
Searched Moyvane and found
McDonnell George — — 1848 The William Smith O'Brien Petition 1848-49 Kerry, Ireland
No Birth place yet;
Area - DUBLIN (COI) , Parish/Church/Congregation - ARBOUR HILL BARRACKS
Burial of MICHAEL STACK of GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL on 30 October 1868
Compensation Civil War Ireland, sample index for North Kerry
LISTOWEL Compo
Leen Rice, Kilmorna House.
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Short list taken from National Archives of Listowel people mentioned in Compensation files after the Civil War.
John McKenna, Market Street, Listowel, County Kerry.
Jerry Galvin, William Street, Listowel, County Kerry
George F Hewson, Ennismore, Listowel, County Kerry
Sara Cain, Listowel, County Kerry
Ellen Harman, William Street, Listowel, County Kerry
Kate Griffin, shopkeeper, Listowel, County Kerry
Marie McElligot, Mount Rivers, Listowel, County Kerry
James J Galvin, William Street, Listowel, County Kerry
Mary Agnes Sheehy, Church Street, Listowel, County Kerry
Sarah Naylor and Nora Breen, Church Street, Listowel, County Kerry
Frances Elder, The Square, Listowel, County Kerry
Robert M Danaher, The Square, Listowel, County Kerry
Michael Buckley, farmer, Courthouse Road, Listowel, County Kerry.
Joseph Smith, merchant, Woodford, Listowel, County Kerry
Matthew Hannon, merchant, William Street, Listowel, County Kerry.
John Dee, farmer, Dromloughra, Listowel, County Kerry.
Paul Sweetman, Kerry land Steward, Feale View, Listowel, County Kerry.
Thomas F Cronin, merchant, William Street, Listowel, County Kerry
Elizabeth and Marshall Hill, Hillsboro, Listowel,
Jan 1923-Feb 1927
293 Marshall Hill, Hillsboro, Listowel, Jan 1923-[?1926]
Matthew J Byrne, Listowel, Jan 1923-[?1926]
Matthew J Byrne, Listowel, Date Jan 1923-[?1926]
Ballylongford Barracks burned down at Ballylongford by Irregular forces on 4 August 1922 in advance of the entry of National troops.
Margaret Hannon, William Street, Listowel, Jan 1923-Mar 1927
Maria Daly, The Courthouse, Listowel, Jan 1923-Feb 1927
Roland Chute, Charles Street, Listowel, Jan 1923-Feb 1927
Margaret O'Keeffe, The Square, Listowel, Jan 1923-Jan 1927
Patrick J Collins and Nora Collins, Church Street, Listowel, Jan 1923-Jan 1927
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Daniel Browne, shopkeeper, Church Street, Listowel, Dec 1922-Feb 1927
Martin Corridon, Bedford, near Listowel, Dec 1922-[?1926]
Timothy D O'Sullivan, shopkeeper, William Street, Listowel, Jan 1923-Jan 1927
Denis O'Sullivan, Bunagarha, Listowel,Jan 1923-Jan 1927
Michael McCarthy, Coilbee, Listowel, Jan 1923-Jan 1927
Margaret Lyons, Taravalla, Listowel, Jan 1923-[?1926]
Jeremiah O'Keeffe, Ballinruddery, Mar 1923-Dec 1926
John Carmody, William Street, Listowel, Mar 1923-Dec 1926
John Foley, Derra, Listowel, April 1923-[?1926]
John Macaulay, agent for Messrs J Bannatyne and Sons Limited, Ballygrenane, Listowel, Mar 1923-[?1926]
Gerald J Cantwell, secretary of Listowel Electric Light and Power Company Limited, 6 Fleet Street, Dublin City, Mar 1923-Jan 1927
ABBEYFEALE
Martin Cooke, Abbeyfeale, Jan 1923-May 1926
Jer Edmond Leahy, Ballaugh, Abbeyfeale, May 1923-Mar 1925
John Francis Welsh, Main Street, Abbeyfeale, Dec 1922-Mar 1925
John Francis Welsh, Main Street, Abbeyfeale Dec 1922-Sep 1924
James R Cotter and Catherine Cotter, Abbeyfeale, Jan 1923-Mar 1925
Catherine Cotter, The Square, Abbeyfeale Dec 1922-Jul 1933
Henry J Cutlar, Abbeyfeale, Dec 1922-Nov 1925
Jeremiah Moloney, Knocknacrohy, Abbeyfeale, Mar 1923-May 1927
Julia Leahy, Abbeyfeale, County Kerry. Apr 1923-Mar 1925
Ellen Leahy, Abbeyfeale, Jan 1923-Mar 1925
Francis Broderick, New Street, Abbeyfeale, Mar 1923-May 1927
Daniel B Harnett, Chapel Street, Abbeyfeale, Mar 1923-May 1925
Timothy O'Sullivan, Abbeyfeale, Jan 1923-Mar 1925
William McAuliffe, Abbeyfeale, Jan 1923-[?1925]
Stephen Lyons, Abbeyfeale, Jan 1923-Sep 1925
John McCarthy, Port, Abbeyfeale, Jan 1923-Mar 1925
James Cotter, Abbeyfeale, Jan 1923-Mar 1925
Mary Eggleston, Abbeyfeale, [1923]-Sep 1926
Henry D Leahy, Abbeyfeale, May 1923-Oct 1925
William D O'Connor, Abbeyfeale, May 1923-Mar 1927
Timothy Patrick Crowe, Abbeyfeale, Jun 1923-[?1925]
John Mangan, The Square, Abbeyfeale, Aug 1923-Dec 1925
Cornelius Foley, Chapel Street, Abbeyfeale, Aug 1923-Feb 1927
James D Harnett, Main Street, Abbeyfeale, Aug 1923-?
GLIN
Daniel J Costelloe, Glin, Jan 1923-Jul 1924
Laurence McDonnell, Glin, Jan 1922-Mar 1925
Thomas O'Connor, Athea, Jan 1923-Sep 1925
Athea Co-operative Creamery Limited, Mar 1923-Aug 1926
Maurice Reidy, Glin, Jul 1923-Jun 1925
Desmond Fitzjohn Lloyd Fitzgerald, Glin Castle, Glin, May 1923-Jun 1927
Nora Brandon, Main Street, Glin, Aug 1923-Jun 1924
DUAGH
Margaret O'Donoghue, Duagh, Jan 1923-Jan 1927 Timothy Buckley, farmer, Meenanare, Duagh, Jan 1923-Jan 1927, File Page 17
Thomas Roche, carpenter, Duagh, Jan 1923-Sep 1926
Jeremiah Forde, Foile, Duagh, Mar 1923-Dec 1926
LISSELTON
Roger Connor, labourer, executor for the late Johanna Sheahan, Moybella North, Lisselton Cross, Jan 1923-Feb 1927
Roger Connor, labourer, executor for the late Johanna Sheahan, Moybella North, Lisselton Cross,Jan 1923-Feb 1927
Daniel Sweeney, farmer and steward for Eyre Massey Stack, Ballyconry, Lisselton, Feb 1923-[?1926]
John Kennelly, fisherman, Beale, Ballybunion, Jan 1923-Jan 1927
Rev Timothy Trant, parish priest, Ballymacelligot, County Kerry; Michael Canon Fuller, parish priest, Ballybunion, Feb 1923-Dec 1926
Harold J Cross, engineer, Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company Limited, Ballybunion, Mar 1923-[?1926]
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Lixnaw and more
Timothy O'Carroll, Ballyhennessy, Lixnaw, Dec 1922-[?1926]
Daniel Quilter, farmer, Gurtenare, Lixnaw, Jan 1923-[?1926]
John Mangan and Sons Limited, Rock Street, Tralee, Mar 1923-Mar 1925
John Talbot, 12 Nelson Street, Tralee, Mar 1923-Apr 1925
Lurline Owen, Lixnaw, Dec 1922-Oct 1925
Maurice Pierce, Derrico, Ballyduff, Mar 1925-May 1925
John P Rice, medical doctor, Castleisland, Dec 1922-Feb 1927
John McEllistrum, creamery manager, Edenburn, Gortatlea, Jan 1923-[?1926]
John P Kennelly, National Hotel, Limerick City. Jan 1923-Jan 1927
NTS
MOYVANE
Keating's Creameries, Newtownsandes [Moyvane], Mar 1923-Dec 1924
Michael Keane, parish priest, Newtownsandes, Feb 1923-[?1926] page 17
Jeremiah O'Connor, Rathoran, Kilmorna, Feb 1923-[?1926]
Mary Walsh, Clounprohus, Mar 1923-Jan 1927
Maurice Heffernan, Kilmorna, Mar 1923-[?1926]
Leen Rice, Kilmorna House.
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Collins Sheahan Carrueragh Behan
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KNOCKNAGOSHEL: Thomas Brosnan, labourer, Loughfouder, Dec 1922-Feb 1927
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TARBERT
Charles Fitzell, Meelcon, Tarbert, Feb 1923-Jan 1927
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Patrick Dunne, shopkeeper, Tarmons, Tarbert, Jan 1923-[?1926]
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Helena Brennan, Tarbert, Mar 1923-Dec 1926
William O'Connor, Tarbert, Mar 1923-Jan 1927
Thomas R Hill, Tarbert, Apr 1923-Jan 1927
Helena Brennan, Tarbert, Mar 1923-Dec 1926
Margaret McCarthy, Tarbert, Mar 1923-Jan 1927
Gerald Macaulay, Tarbert, May 1923-[?1925]
Gerald Macaulay, Tarbert, Date May 1923-[?1925]
Content Seizure of property at Glin, by armed men on 20 September 1922.
CREAMERY: Meenahela Bridge Co-operative Creamery Company Limited, Meenahela Bridge, Tournafulla, Date Feb 1923-Jun 1925. Content Seizure of butter by Irregular forces at Oola, County Limerick between 30 January 1923-9 February 1923.
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WAR 1 DEATHS Limerick Kerry Border sample
WAR DEATHS: Edward Guina, Regiment: 1st Bn. Irish Guards Died: 06/11/1914, Son of Edward & Bridget Guina, Athea, Co. Limerick
Name: John Lynch, Regiment: 1st Bn. Royal Irish Rifles
Died: 11/03/1915, Son of Patrick & Johanna Lynch, Athea, Ardagh.
Name: William Lynch, Regiment: 8th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died: 26/05/1916, Son of Patrick and Johanna Lynch, Athea, Ardagh, Brother of John above.
Staff Nurse Mary Danaher, Regiment: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, Died: 12/10/1918
Daughter of Mrs. A. Danaher, Glenagower, Athea.
Name: John Lane, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died: 24/12/1916, Born in Abbeyfeale.
Name: Patrick Leen, Regiment: 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
Died: 01/05/1916, Born in Abbeyfeale,
Name: Thomas O'Connor, Regiment: 1st Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died: 29/11/1915.
Name: Michael Sexton, Regiment: 1st Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died: 30/09/1918, Born in Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick. Father was Denis Sexton, Newcastle West.
Name: Daniel Sheehan, Regiment: 8th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers,
Son of Mortimer and Bridget Sheehan, Mountcollins, Abbeyfeale.
Name: William Treston, Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, Died: 29/04/1916, Son of Elizabeth Treston, originally from Abbeyfeale. Now Elizabeth Keran (formerly Treston), of Kilmacduagh, Gort.
Name: Michael Woulfe, Regiment: 1st Bn. Irish Guards
Died: 01/11/1914, Born in Abbeyfeale.
Name: Alfred Falkiner Broderick, Regiment: 'D' Bty. 38th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, Died: 02/04/1918, Son of Matilda Broderick, Feale View Lodge, Abbeyfeale.
Name: Michael Broderick, Regiment: 85th Siege Bty. Royal Army Service Corps. Died: 02/11/1918, Son of Cornelius and Hanora Broderick, Abbeyfeale.
Name: Michael Broderick, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died: 24/08/1916, Son of John and Mary Broderick, Abbeyfeale.
Name: Michael Cullinane,Regiment: 1st Garrison Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, Died: 29/05/1916, Husband of Mary Cullinane, Abbeyfeale,
Name: John Curtin, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died: 04/10/1918, Son of Timothy & Mary Curtin, Mountcollins.
Name: David Hartnett, Regiment: 3rd Bn. N.Z. Rifle Brigade
Died: 15/09/1916, Son of Maurice and Ellen Hartnett, Dromtrasna Collins.
Name: William Hartnett, Regiment: 19th Bn. Australian Infantry
Died: 25/08/1916, Born in Knockadireen, Abbeyfeale.
WAR DEATHS Limerick
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Name: Denis Mulvihill, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Irish Guards,Died: 31/07/1917
Son of Michael and Margaret Mulvihil, Killianymore, Glin, Co. Limerick.
Name: John O'Halloran,Regiment: 1st Bn, Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died: 08/09/1916,Son of Mary O'Halloran (nee Lynch) who was from Glin, Co Limerick. Current address being Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
Name: John Walsh, Regiment: 2nd Bn, Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 12/02/1919. Son of Thomas and Johanna Walsh, Glin, Co. Limerick. Brother of Thomas Walsh
Name: Thomas Walsh,Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 22/03/1918, Son of Thomas and Johanna Walsh, Glin, Co. Limerick. Brother of John
Name: John Cusack ,Regiment: 9th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 16/04/1915: Born in Glin, Co. Limerick
Name: Patrick Cusack, Regiment: 9th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers ,Died: 18/03/1916
: Son of Margaret & James Cusack, Killeany, Glin, Co. Limerick
Name: Timothy Hanrahan, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 21/12/1914 Born in Glin, Co. Limerick. There were 57 members of the 2nd Batallion R. M. F. Killed that day, including 10 Limerick men.
Name: Daniel Hanlon,Regiment: 1st Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 22/03/1918
Son of Daniel and Norah Hanlon, Glin, Co. Limerick.
BALLYHAHILL
Name: Patrick O'Sullivan, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Irish Guards, Died: 30/09/1916, Born in Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick.
Thomas Fitzgerald, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 10/11/1917
Born in Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick
LOUGHILL
Michael Quill, Regiment: 10th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died: 25/07/1917
: Son of Thomas Quill, Loughill, Co. Limerick
SHANAGOLDEN
Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Regiment: 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards. Died: 24/07/1917. Son of John and Johanna Sheehan, Shanagolden, Co Limerick.
John Copeland, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Scots Guards, Died: 26/10/1914
Son of Charles and Catherine Copeland (nee Healy), Corgriggs, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick.
Robert Cussen, Regiment: 7th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 12/08/1915
Son of Joseph Cussen, Ballyegna, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
Daniel Lynch,Regiment: 44th Bn. Australian Infantry, Died: 28/03/1918. Son of John & Catherine Lynch, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
Patrick McDonnell,Regiment: 1st Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 18/11/1916, Born in Shanagolden, Limerick.
Lance Corporal
Phillip Naughton, Regiment: 8th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 31/08/1916: Born Shanagolden, Co Limerick. Husband of Catherine Naughton, 1 Keeffe's Place, Edward St, Limerick.
Henry O'Brien, Regiment: 1st Bn. Irish Guards, Died: 28/06/1916, Son of David and Bridget O'Brien, Shanagolden, Co Limerick.
Martin O'Donovan, Regiment: 2nd. Bn. Irish Guards, Died: 27/03/1918
Born in Shanagolden, Co Limerick.
William Pennie, Regiment: 1st Bn. Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F., Died: 25/08/1918
Son of John Pennie, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick.
Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Regiment: 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards., Died: 24/07/1917
Son of John and Johanna Sheehan, Shanagolden, Co Limerick.
Eugene Carroll, Regiment: 6th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 28/12/1917
Commemorated: Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel, Born in Kilmallock, Co Limerick.
Daniel Lynch, Regiment: 44th Bn. Australian Infantry, Died: 28/03/1918
Son of John & Catherine Lynch, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick. Emigrated to Australia in 1898.
George Robinson Smith, Regiment: 4th Bn. Australian Infantry, Died: 06/09/1917
Further Details: Son of Richard and Jane Smith, Suite 9 Broughton Apartments, Vancouver, BC, Canada. George attended the Diocesan School, Molesworth St, Dublin
Name: William J. Doherty, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Irish Guards, Died: 15/09/1917
Born in Limerick
Michael O'Keefe, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, Died: 08/07/1915
Born in Limerick. Listed as O'Keef on CWGC database.
Patrick Reddin, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 16/07/1916, Husband of Margaret Reddin, 5 Doyle's Cottages, Garryowen, Limerick.
Simon Sheehy, Regiment: 1st Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 12/11/1917
Son of Martin Sheehy, Carrickerry, Ardagh, Co Limerick.
Maurice Connors, Regiment: 1st Garrison Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, Died: 02/08/1917
Born in Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick.
Francis Duhig, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 27/08/1914
Born in Limerick
Civil War Kerry
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War Deaths
Following is a Roll of Honour of sorts. It is a list from the internet of the Listowel dead of WW1.
BARRY. JOHN.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Irish Guards. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 22. Date of Death: 17-March-1917. Service No: 7579.
Supplementary information: Son of Bridget Barry, of Knockanune, Newtownsandes, Co. Kerry. Grave or Memorial Reference: V. H. 6. Born in Listowel, County Kerry.
Enlisted in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Cemetery: Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery in France. [Related Documents]
BARRY, MICHAEL.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Royal Irish Fusiliers. Unit; 3rd (Reserve) Garrison Battalion.
Date of Death:17-July-1917. Service No:G/1935. Formerly he was with the Royal Munster Fusiliers where his number was 5393. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel, County Kerry. Died at home. Grave or Memorial Reference:In the east part. Cemetery: Ballynakilla Churchyard, County Cork.
BLUNDELL, WILLIAM.
Rank: Corporal. Regiment or Service: Devonshire Regiment. Unit: 10th Battalion.
Age at death: 19. Date of Death: 24-April-1917. Service No: 64871. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee, County Kerry. Killed in Action in Salonika. Formerly he was with the Royal Munster Fusiliers where his number was 10376.
Supplementary information: Son of William J. and Maria T. Blundell, of 18, Boherbee, Tralee, Co. Kerry. He has no known grave but is listed on the Doiran Memorial, Greece.
BOYLE, THOMAS.
Rank: Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit; 1st Battalion.
Date of Death:12-July-1915. Service No:7583. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Limerick while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in action in Gallipoli. Supplementary information; Grave or Memorial Reference: He has no known grave but is listed on Panel 185 to 190 on the Helles Memorial in Turkey.
BRENNAN, JOHN.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 19. Date of Death: 27-August-1914. Service No: 10053.
Supplementary information: Son of Eugene and Mary Brennan, of Lacca, Liselton, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Liselton, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: I. 30. Cemetery: Etreux British Cemetery, Etreux, Aisne, France.
BRODER, JOHN.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 1st Battalion.
Age at death: 23. Date of Death: 07-May-1915. Service No: 9320. Supplementary information: Son of William and Bridget Broder, of Cleveragh, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Cleveragh, Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Died of wounds in Gallipoli. Grave or Memorial Reference: E. EA. A. 639. Cemetery: Addolorata Cemetery in Malta.
BURKE, WILLIAM.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 24. Date of Death: 10-November-1917. Service No: 3591. Born in Liselton, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Liselton, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Supplementary information: Husband of Margaret Burke, of The Square, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 143 to 144. He has no known grave but is listed on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
BYRNE(CWGC), BYRNES(SDGW, IMR), WILLIAM.
Rank: Lance Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 1st Battalion. Age at death: 24. Date of Death: 02-May-1915. Service No: 9406.
Supplementary information: Son of Mrs. Kate Byrne, of Bridewell St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action in Gallipoli. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 185 to 190. He has no known grave but is listed on the Helles Memorial in Turkey.
CANAVAN, JAMES.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers Secondary Regiment: Labour Corps Secondary. Unit: transferred to (498714).
Age at death: 50. Date of Death: 10-October-1918. Service No: 4612.
Supplementary information: Son of Thoman and Mary Canavan, of Convent St., Listowel, Co. Kerry; husband of Catherine Canavan, of 2, John St., Tralee, Co. Kerry. Served in the South African War and in India, also served at Gallipoli. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee, County Kerry. Died at sea. The S.S. Leinster sank on this day. He may have been a passenger as he ‘died at sea’. Formerly he was with the Royal Munster Fusiliers where his number was 4612. He has no known grave but is listed on the Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton UK.
CANTY, MATTHEW.
Rank: Lance Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit; 2nd Battalion. Date of Death:09-May-1915. Service No:7650. Born in Kilflynn, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in action. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference: Has no known grave but is commemorated on Panel 43 and 44 on the Le Touret Memorial in France.
CARMODY, EDWARD.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Royal Irish Regiment. Unit; 1st Garrison Battalion.
Date of Death:04-May-1917. Service No:5639. Formerly he was with the Royal Munster Fusiliers where his number was 3579. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Died at sea.
Supplementary information; Died with 400 others when the hired Transport "Transylvania" was sunk by a German torpedo. The ship was en route to Salonika. Grave or Memorial Reference: He has no known grave but is listed on the Savona Memorial in Italy.
CARROLL, DENIS.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 25. Date of Death: 09-May-1915. Service No: 3901.
Supplementary information: Son of Mrs. Kate Carroll, of Forge Lane, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel, while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 43 and 44. He has no known grave but is listed on the Le Touret Memorial in France.
CASEY, JOHN JOSEPH.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Unit: 19th Battalion.
Age at death: 28. Date of Death: 02-May-1921. Service No: 507. Born, Duagh, Listowel, County Kerry. Occupation on enlistment, labourer also listed as Ships Steward with the Adelaide Steamship Co, Ltd. Age on enlistment; 21 years 10 months. Previous military experience, A.I.E.F.New Guinea, 5 months. Next of kin details; (father) Mr Edward Casey, Blackrock, County Cork, Ireland. Place and date of enlistment, there are two enlistment documents in his records dated 11-August-1914 Sydney, NSW (discharged 28-January-1915) re-enlisted 01-March-1915. Liverpool, NSW. Weight, 119 lbs. Height, 5 feet, 7 ½ inches. Complexion, fair. Eyes, brown. Hair, brown. Suffered from Malaria, Dysentry, Phthisis and T.B. during his service. ‘He says he first noticed cough when stationed in Egypt in Aug. 1915. This became worse when on the Gallipoli Peninsula and he was invalided to Lemnos. As the cough became worse he was sent on to Malta, on being admitted into St Pauls Hospital on Oct 25th 1915.’ He was awarded a pension of £3 per fortnight from November-1916. Discharged as medically unfit with ‘Pulmonary Tuberculosis due to active service, exposure and unsuitable food’ on 31-January-1917. Died at Bodington Red Cross Home, Wentworth Falls. Grave or Memorial Reference: R.C. A. 15. Cemetery: Katoomba General Cemetery, NSW, Australia. [Related Documents]
CHUTE, CHALONER FRANCIS TREVOR. (Listowel connections??)
Rank: Lieutenant. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 29. Date of Death: 27-August-1914.
Supplementary information: Son of Francis Blennerhassett Chute, J.P., of Chute Hall, Tralee, Co. Kerry; husband of Maud Emily St. Clair Carew (formerly Chute. nee Hobson), of 3, Howes Place, Cambridge. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: II. 6. Cemetery: Etreux British Cemetery, Etreux, Aisne, France.
COLLINS, PATRICK.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Unit: 9th Battalion.
Date of Death: 23-July-1916. Service No: 272. Born, Listowel, Ireland. Occupation on enlistment, labourer. Age on enlistment; 34 years - months. Previous military experience, Royal Munster Fusiliers, time expired.
Next of kin details; (father) Thomas Collins, Lisselton P.O. County Kerry, Ireland. Later changed to (friend and ex-soldier)Thomas Clarke, Attendant, Mental Hospital. This was not accepted and a pension of 20 shillings per fortnight was paid to (father) Thomas Collins from July-1917. Place and date of enlistment, 21-August-1918. Brisbane, Queensland. Weight, 145 lbs. Height, 5 feet, 8 ¼ inches. Complexion, fair. Eyes, blue. Hair, light brown. Wounded in action in France on 19-July-1916 report changed to ‘previously reported wounded now reported missing.’ After a Court of enquiry in July-1917 this was changed to Killed in action. Memorial: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery in France. [Related Documents]
CONNOR, THOMAS.
Rank: Gunner. Regiment or Service: Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery. Unit;135th Battery, 32nd Brigade.
Date of Death:17-September-1914. Service No:28701. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference:Special Memorial 2. Cemetery: Paissy Churchyard, Aisne, France.
CROWLEY, JOHN.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 1st Battalion.
Age at death: 20. Date of Death: 21-August-1916. Service No: 7848. Born in Dromclough, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Lixnaw, County Kerry. Died of wounds.
Supplementary information: Son of Mrs. Lizzie Crowley, of Co. Kerry. Grave or Memorial Reference: I. J. 21. Cemetery: Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe in France.
DALY. DENIS.
Rank: Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: Depot.
Age at death: 26. Date of Death: 26-December-1918. Service No: 1576. Died of wounds at home. Enlisted in Listowel while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Grave or Memorial Reference: Eight yards West of main path. Cemetery: Listowel Cemetery, County Kerry.
DANAHER(CWGC), DANNAHER(SDGW,IMR). WILLIAM.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Irish Guards. Unit: 3rd Reserve Battalion.
Age at death: 21. Date of Death: 19-July-1917. Service No: 7529.
Supplementary information: Son of Patrick and Mary Danaher, of Feale View, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel, County Kerry. Died. Grave or Memorial Reference: VIII. C. 6. Cemetery: St Pierre Cemetery, Amiens in France.
DEE. MICHAEL.
Rank: Lance Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 28. Date of Death: 20-October-1918. Service No: 1296.
Supplementary information: Son of Mrs. Cathrine Dee, of Carhoonaknock, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Rochdale, Lancs while living in Coolard, Listowel. Died of wounds. Grave or Memorial Reference: II. C. 18. Cemetery: Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
DORE, JOHN.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Irish Guards. Unit: 1st Battalion.
Date of Death: 13-February-1916. Service No: 3307.
Supplementary information: Son of Mrs. Margaret Dore, of Cleveragh, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel, County Kerry. Died of wounds at home. Grave or Memorial Reference: D. 116A. Cemetery: Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery UK.
DORE, MICHAEL.
Rank: Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 7th Battalion.
Age at death: 27. Date of Death: 08-October-1916. Service No: 236.
Supplementary information: Son of Mr. P. and Mrs. Margaret Dore; husband of Mary Dore, of Cleveragh, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel, while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Died of wounds in Greek Macedonia. Grave or Memorial Reference: I. C. 4. Cemetery: Lahana Military Cemetery in Greece.
DOWNES, MAURICE.
Rank: Sapper. Regiment or Service: Royal Engineers. Unit: 520th Field Coy.
Date of Death: 23-March-1918. Service No: 241264.
Supplementary information: Son of the late Jeremiah and Ann Downes, of Listowel, Co. Kerry; husband of Annie Downes, of Farnastack, Lisselton, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Formerly he was with the East Yorkshire Regiment where his number was 40524. Grave or Memorial Reference: Bay 1. He has no known grave but is listed on the Arras Memorial in France.
ENRIGHT, JOHN.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit; 1st Battalion.
Date of Death:29-September-1918. Service No:4128. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Tralee, County Kerry. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference:I.C.19. Cemetery: Anneux British Cemetery, Nord, France.
ENRIGHT, THOMAS LOUIS.
Rank: Captain. Regiment or Service: Royal Army Medical Corps. Age at death: 29.
Date of Death: 19-March-1918. Supplementary information: Son of James and Margaret Enright, of Church St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Died. Grave or Memorial Reference: 1379. Cemetery: Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery in Greece.
FLAVIN, PETER.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 16. Date of Death: 13-June-1916. Service No: 10433.
Supplementary information: Son of Edward and Nora Flavin, of Charles St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Tralee, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: XVIII. D. 24. Cemetery: Loos British Cemetery in France.
FOLEY, RICHARD HENRY.
Rank: Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Unit; 7th Battalion.
Date of Death:16-August-1918. Service No:28807. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Omagh while living in Kilworth. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference: E. 22. Cemetery: Potijze Chateau Lawn Cemetery in Belgium
GIBNEY, BERNARD.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Royal Irish Fusiliers. Unit; 1st Battalion.
Date of Death:09-April-1917. Service No:24640. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Grrauard(sic), County Longford. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference: He has no known grave but is listed in Bay 9 on the Arras Memorial in France.
GODFREY, CHRISTOPHER.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 6th Battalion.
Age at death: 21. Date of Death: 25-September-1917. Service No: 3/6428(CWGC), 3826(SDGW).
Supplementary information: Son of Patrick and Margaret Godfrey, of Charles St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Died in Egypt. Grave or Memorial Reference: A. 56. Cemetery: Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt.
GODFREY, PATRICK.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 21. Date of Death: 09-May-1915. Service No: 4488.
Supplementary information: Son of Patrick and Margaret Godfrey, of Charles St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 43 and 44. He has no known grave but is listed on the Le Touret Memorial in France.
GREANEY. JAMES H.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Leinster Regiment. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 32. Date of Death: 14-March-1915. Service No: 4180.
Supplementary information: Brother of Bridget Lynch, of Convent St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in London. Enlisted in London while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Died of wounds. Grave or Memorial Reference: IX. C. 35. Cemetery: Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres in France.
GREANEY, THOMAS.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit; 2nd Battalion.
Date of Death:27-August-1914. Service No:7330. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference: I. 24. Cemetery: Etreux British Cemetery, Etreux, Aisne, France.
HANNON, MAURICE.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 23. Date of Death: 10-November-1917. Service No: 6488.
Supplementary information: Son of Patrick and Ellen Hannon, of Ballyduhig, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Lixnaw, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel while living in Lixnaw, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 143 to 144. He has no known grave but is listed on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
HEALY. MICHAEL.
Rank: Rifleman. Regiment or Service: Royal Irish Rifles. Unit: 1st Garrison Battalion. Age at death: 48. Date of Death: 15-September-1917. Service No: G/574(CWGC), 574(SDGW).
Supplementary information: Son of Michael and Johanna Healy; husband of Margaret Healy, of Charles St., Listowel, Co. Kerry Republic of Ireland. Buried in Cawnpore Cantonment New Cemetery. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel, County Kerry. Died in India. Formerly he was with the Royal Munster Fusiliers where his number was 4639. Grave or Memorial Reference: Face 23. He has no known grave but is listed on the Madras 1914-1918 War Memorial, Chennai, India.
HENNESSEY, JOHN.
Rank: Company Sergeant Major. Regiment or Service: Leinster Regiment. Unit; 2nd Battalion.
Date of Death: 31-July-1917. Service No:4797(SDGW) 4794(CWGC). Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference: He has no known grave but is listed on Panel 44 on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium.
JONES, WILLIAM.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Irish Guards. Unit: 1st Battalion.
Age at death: 42. Date of Death: 16-March-1917. Service No: 7121.
Supplementary information: Son of Hugh and Bridget Jones, of Listowel, Co. Kerry; husband of Annie Jones, of 32, Brendon St., Edgware Rd., London, W.1. Enlisted in Marlebone, Middlesex while living in Marlebone, Middlesex. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: I. E. 3. Cemetery: Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery in France.
KEANE. JAMES.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 7th Battalion.
Age at death: 33. Date of Death: 05-September-1915. Service No: 245.
Supplementary information: Husband of Annie Buckly (formerly Keane), of 13, Connor's Place, Tralee, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Died in Gallipoli. Grave or Memorial Reference: II. I. 212. Cemetery: East Mudros Military Cemetery in Greece.
KELLY, FRANCIS.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Irish Guards. Unit; 1st Battalion.
Date of Death:06-November-1914. Service No:2777. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Dublin while living in Dundrum, County Dublin. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference: He has no known grave but is listed on Panel 11 on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium.
KELLY, PATRICK.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Munster Fusiliers. Unit; 1st Battalion.
Date of Death:25-June-1915. Service No:6302. Born in Tullamore, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel, County Kerry while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action in Gallipoli. Age at Death;22. Supplementary information; Son of John and Mary Kelly, of Tullamore, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Grave or Memorial Reference: VII. A. 6. Cemetery: Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery in Turkey.
LACY. E. (Listowel connection)
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 9th Battalion.
Date of Death: 22-July-1917. Service No: 4782. Grave or Memorial Reference: Right of gate, near South-West boundary. Tralee (Ratass) Cemetery, County Kerry.
LARKIN, DAVID.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 1st Battalion.
Age at death: 20. Date of Death: 09-September-1916. Service No: 7892.
Supplementary information: Son of David J. and Margaret Larkin, of Main St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 16 C. He has no known grave but is listed on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
LEE, WALTER JAMES.
Rank: Sergeant. Regiment or Service: Leinster Regiment. Unit: 3rd Battalion.
Date of Death: 03-June-1919. Service No: 605.
Supplementary information: Husband of Nora Lee, of Convent St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. This man is only in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database. Grave or Memorial Reference: C. 35A. Cemetery: Portsdown ( Christ Church) Military Cemetery, UK
LEEHY, PATRICK.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Unit: 11th Battalion.
Age at death: 53. Date of Death: 25-July-1916. Service No: 4241.
Supplementary information: Husband of Mary Jane Leehy, of Montana, Western Australia. Born at Listowel, Ireland.Occupation on enlistment, labourer. Age on enlistment; 44 years 4 months. Next of kin details; (wife) Mary Jane Leehy, Hunt Street, Montana, Coolgardie, W.A. Place and date of enlistment, 15-September-1915. Blackboy Hill, W.A. Weight, 154 lbs. Height, 5 feet, 7 inches. Complexion, medium. Eyes, blue. Hair, turning grey. Listed as ‘missing in action’ 29-July-1916 and later changed to ‘killed in action’ after a Court of enquiry held on 20-June-1917. His wife Mary Jane received a pension of 40 shillings per fortnight from 26-September-1916. All he had in his personal effects when he was killed was a hymn book and a brush. Memorial: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery in France. [Related Documents]
LUNNEY, JAMES.
Rank: Corporal. Regiment or Service: Rifle Brigade. Unit: 1st Battalion.
Age at death: 27. Date of Death: 13-May-1915. Service No: 5113.
Supplementary information: Son of James Lunney, of Upper Church St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Castlefinn, County Donegal. Enlisted in Tralee, County Londonderry(sic) while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 46 - 48 and 50. He has no known grave but is listed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium.
MURPHY, MICHAEL.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 8th Battalion.
Age at death: 20. Date of Death: 08-May-1916. Service No: 4477.
Supplementary information: Son of Mary Murphy, of Greenville, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Died of wounds. Grave or Memorial Reference: I. M. 16. Cemetery: Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery in France.
MacAULIFFE(CWGC), McAULIFFE(SDGW), MICHAEL.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Army Cyclist Corps. Unit: 27th Div. Coy.
Age at death: 28. Date of Death: 07-September-1916. Service No: 5788.
Supplementary information: Son of Patrick MacAuliffe, of Church St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Drogheda while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action in Salonika. Formerly he was with the Royal Irish Fusiliers where his number was 10248. Grave or Memorial Reference: 1819. Cemetery: Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria in Greece.
McCARTHY, MICHAEL.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Connaught Rangers. Unit; 1st Battalion.
Date of Death:11-March-1916. Service No:6524. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Tralee, County Kerry. Killed in action in Mesopotamia. Grave or Memorial Reference: He has no known grave but is listed on Panel 40 and 64 of the Basra memorial in Iraq.
McCRACKEN, WILSON.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Seaforth Highlanders. Unit; 4th Battalion.
Date of Death:12-October-1917. Service No:201070. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Belfast. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference:IV.B.10. Cemetery: St Aubert British Cemetery, Nord, France.
McELIGOTT(SDGW,IMR) McELLLGOTT(CWGC), PAUL.
Rank: Acting Sergeant. Regiment or Service: King’s Liverpool Regiment. Unit; 8th Battalion attached to the 2nd/3rdBattalion, King’s African Rifles.
Date of Death:12-August-1917. Service No:305434. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Liverpool while living in Liverpool. Died in Africa. Grave or Memorial Reference:I. D. 13. Cemetery: Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery in Tanzania.
O’BRIEN, MICHAEL.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit; 2nd Battalion.
Date of Death:30-January-1915. Service No:3036. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference: He has no known grave but is listed on Panels 43 and 44 on the Le Touret Memorial in France.
O’BYRNE, EDWARD.
Rank: Lance Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit; 8th Battalion. Date of Death:09-September-1916. Service No:3644. Born in Aldershot. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference: He has no known grave but is listed on Pier and Face 16 C on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
O'CONNOR, JOHN.
Rank: Lance Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 23. Date of Death: 13-October-1915. Service No: 4165. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Supplementary information: Son of Mrs. Kate O'Connor, of William St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 127. He has no known grave but is listed on the Loos Memorial in France.
O'DELL, WILLIAM.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Date of Death: 25-September-1915. Service No: 4575.
Supplementary information: Husband of Mary O'Dell, of Ballygowlonge, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Tralee, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 127. He has no known grave but is listed on the Loos Memorial in France.
O'RILEY, THOMAS AUGUSTUS.
Rank: Sapper. Regiment or Service: Australian Tunnelling Corps. Unit: 2nd Coy. Served with the Tunnelling Company.
Date of Death: 03-June-1920. Service No: 4159. Born, Listowel, Kerry, Ireland. Occupation on enlistment, Miner. Age on enlistment; 32 years 2 months. Next of kin details; (mother) Mrs Mary O’Riley, Jamison Street, South Broken Hill, NSW. Place and date of enlistment, 08-January-1916. Adelaide, South Australia. Weight, 150 lbs. Height, 5 feet, 9 ½ inches. Complexion, fresh. Eyes, grey. Hair, brown. Suffered with acne, Albumen in urine, scabies and the effects of gas and scabies during his military service. Entitled to wear blue chevrons. Died in the Australian General Hospital, Keswick of Chronic Parentchymatous Nephritis due to military service. Grave or Memorial Reference: Old Ground. (GRM/5*). Cemetery: Adelaide (West Terrace) Cemetery, Australia. [Related Documents]
O'SHEA, MICHAEL.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 19. Date of Death: 09-May-1915. Service No: 4489.
Supplementary information: Son of Michael and Johannah O'Shea, of Dromin, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Listowel while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 43 and 44. He has no known grave but is listed on the Le Touret Memorial in France.
REDMAN, LUKE.
Rank: Bandsman. Regiment or Service: East Kent Regiment. Unit; 1st Battalion.
Date of Death:09-August-1915. Age at Death,21. Service No:L/8453. Born in Listowel, County Cork(sic). Enlisted in Harrismith, South Africa while living in Lambeth, Surrey. Killed in action.
Supplementary information; Son of William Henry and Julia Redman, of 39, Algar Buildings, Webber Row, Waterloo Rd., London. Grave or Memorial Reference:H.7. Cemetery: Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, Ieper in Belgium.
SHANAHAN, JOHN.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 42. Date of Death: 13-October-1915. Service No: 5407.
Supplementary information: Son of William and the late Margaret Shanahan, of Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Newcastle West, County Limerick. Enlisted in Ballinasloe, County Mayo(sic) while living in Newcastle West. Killed in Action. Served in the South African Campaign. Grave or Memorial Reference: III. A. 4. Cemetery: Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos in France.
SHEEHY, MICHAEL.
Rank: Sergeant. Regiment or Service: Royal Garrison Artillery. Unit: 13th Heavy Battery. Age at death: 43. Date of Death: 19-July-1918. Service No: 26742.
Supplementary information: Son of Martin and Anne Sheehy, of Carrigcannon, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Duagh, County Kerry. Enlisted in Dublin while living in Kerry. Died in Salonika. Grave or Memorial Reference: 270. Cemetery: Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria in Greece.
STACK, EDWARD PAUL.
Rank: Lance Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Irish Rifles. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 20. Date of Death: 26-October-1914. Service No: 9950.
Supplementary information: Son of John and Ellen Stack, of Church St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Cork. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 42 and 43. He has no known grave but is listed on the Le Touret Memorial in France.
STACK, MICHAEL.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers.Unit; 1st Battalion.
Date of Death:08-April-1918. Service No:4516(SDGW) 4016(CWGC). Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Ardfert, County Kerry. Died. Grave or Memorial Reference: III. E. 27. Cemetery: Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
SULLIVAN, JOHN.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Unit; 1st Battalion.
Date of Death:05-October-1917. Age at Death,21. Service No:40918. Formerly he was with the Royal Munster Fusiliers where his number was 10027. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Rathmore, County Kerry. Killed in action. Supplementary information; Brother of J. O. Sullivan, Sub-Condr Indian Army Ordnance Corps, The Arsenal, Quetta, India. Grave or Memorial Reference: XLVIII. E. 9.Cemetery. Poelcapelle British Cemetery in Belgium.
SULLIVAN, JOHN.
Rank: Pte. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit; 1st Battalion.
Date of Death:30-September-1918. Service No:4279. Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in action. Grave or Memorial Reference: D. 8. Cemetery: Cantaing British Cemetery in France.
SWEENY(CWGC), SWEENEY(SDGW,IMR), JOHN.
Rank: Sergeant. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 40. Date of Death: 09-May-1915. Service No: 4826.
Supplementary information: Son of Denis and Bridget Sweeny, of Cloumnacon, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Served in the South African Campaign, and on the North West Frontier of India (1908). Born in Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Killed in Action. Grave or Memorial Reference: Panel 43 and 44. He has no known grave but is listed on the Le Touret Memorial in France.
TRAYNOR. WILLIAM.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 1st Battalion.
Age at death: 24. Date of Death: 29-March-1918. Service No: 1222. Born in Dublin. Enlisted in Tralee. Died of wounds.
Supplementary information: Husband of Catherine Traynor, of Charles St., Listowel, Co. Kerry. Grave or Memorial Reference: XXXIII. A. 8. Cemetery: Etaples Military Cemetery in France.
WALSH, DANIEL.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Irish Regiment. Unit; 1st Garrison Battalion. Date of Death:01-June-1918. Service No:4429. Formerly he was with the Royal Munster Fusiliers where his number was 1773. Born in Portlaw, County Waterford. Enlisted in Limerick while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Died of Wounds in Egypt. Grave or Memorial Reference: H. 79. Cemetery, Cairo War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt.
Freeman’s Journal 13 Aug 1917
SERGEANT-MAJOR'S DEATH-The death in action of Sergeant-Major John Hennessy,Leinsters, has occasioned keen regret in his native town, Listowel. The deceased was 21 years in the army, and served through the South African war,
and was about receiving a commission when he was killed by a shell. He was the son of the late Mr. D.C. Hennessy, journalist, and author of the "Lays of North Kerry."
9 Jan 2013
The death has taken place of one of the few surviving Kerry-born soldiers who fought in World War Two. Dr James O’Carroll, who was born on a farm in Ballylongford, died peacefully at his home in Ballybunion at the age of 92. As a young man, Dr O’Carroll joined the British Army and fought with the allied forces in Germany. He was captured as a prisoner of war, but managed to escape shortly before the bombing of Dresden. He went on to study medicine at Trinity, and later ran a very successful psychiatry practice in Oklahoma in the USA, where he settled on a ranch, and raised six children, along with his wife, the late Dr Maud Stavely. In later years, he settled in Ballybunion with his second wife Peggy, a native of Kenmare.
Irish Military History
O Grady, Collins and Pelican story
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The original documents can be viewed at http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie
ROINN COSANTA.
BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1,390
Witness Brian O'Grady, 70 Shandon Park,Phibsboro, Dublin.Identity.
Captain Ballylongford Company Irish. Volunteers, Co. Kerry; Battalion Adjutant.Subject.
Ballylongford Company Irish Co. Volunteers, Kerry, 1913-1921.Conditions, if any. Stipulated by Witness.Nil File No S.2688 Form BSM2
STATEMENT OF BRIAN O'GRADY, 70 Shandon Park, Phibsboro Dublin.
I was born in Ballylongford in the year 1895, and
attended the local national school until I was thirteen
years of age. While attending school, I won several
prizes for Irish history, on which I afterwards lectured
to I.R.A. The prizes were put up by The O'Rahilly and
Councillor Paul Jones, a lawyer of New York and a native
of Ballylongford. After leaving the national school, I
attended St. Michael's College, Listowel, for eighteen
months.
An I.R.B. Circle was established in Ballylongford
in the year 1913 by Michael Griffin, a schoolteacher
living in Listowel. I was not a member. In the month
of May 1914, a company of Volunteers was formed in the
village. A man named Rodger Mulvihill became Captain,
and I became Lieutenant. Our strength was sixty men.
An ex British soldier named Tim Enright was drill
instructor. A committee was appointed for the purpose
of procuring arms, but up to Redmond's speech, offering
the Volunteers to England in her "fight for small
nationalities", we did not succeed in obtaining any
arms. Our only arms were wooden rifles with which we
drilled at the time. Following Redmond's offer, two
men of the company joined the British army. Our drill
instructor, who was on the army reserve, was called up
at the same time. After this, we became disorganised
for a short while.
On 17th March 1915, Eoin MacNeill visited
Killarney for the purpose of reorganising the Volunteers
in Co. Kerry. The meeting was attended by Volunteers
from all over the county, including two from
2.
Ballylongford. Subsequent to this meeting, I was
appointed acting company captain, Eddie Carmody,
1st Lieutenant, and Tom Carmody, 2nd Lieutenant of
Ballylongford company. After my appointment, I
corresponded with The O'Rahilly in Dublin on the purchase
of arms and other military matters. We did not succeed
in purchasing any arms at the time. When The O'Rahilly's
office was raided by the military and police during
Easter Week 1916, my name was found among his papers. I
was arrested and taken to the local R.I.C. barracks and
questioned, but was not detained.
I was released after arrest because of the fact
WAR 1 DEATHS
Maurice Hannon Lixnaw, 6488 d 10 November 1917; William Danaher Listowel 7529, d 19 July 1917.
Tim Galvin Brosna, 17873, d 17 January 1917; John Barry, Listowel, 7579, 2nd Battalion Irish guards, killed in action in France on the 17th March 1917; Wiliam T Blundel, 64871, Listowel, d 21st April 1917; Pat Bunyan, Listowel, 7047, d 10th November 1917; William Burke, listowel, 3591, d 10 November 1917; Edward Carmody, Listowel, 5639, d 4th May 1917; John Cleary, Listowel, d 1st May 1917, aged 27; Samuel Whitaker, 19059, Tarbert, d 26th September 1916; Fr, Donal o Sullivan, Chaplin, d 5th July 1916, some; Pat Pierce, 3970, Dysert, d 28th June 1916; William Nolan, Ballylongford, 5408, 5th August 1916; Edward Nolan, Cahirciveen, d 26th June 1916,
Maurice O Connell, 4969, d France 21st August 1916; Michael Lynch, Tarbert, 6446, d 1st June 1916,
Michael McAulife, Listowel, d 1916; James Smyth, Listowel, d November 1917; John Sullivan, Listowel, 40918, d 25th October 1917; Michael Sullivan, 13971, Lixnaw, d 26th September 1917,
William O Boyle, 10491, Ballybunion, d 2nd November 1917; Paul McElligott, Listowel, 305434, d 12 August 1917, Africa; Michael Healy, Listowel, d 15th September 1917, India; John Hennessy, Listowel, 4794, d 31st July 1917; Charles Hewson, Listowel, d 12th April 1917, Cameroon;
John Kelliher, Kerry, 5266, d 12th October 1917; John Kirby, Listowel, 22751, d 3rd May 1917,
Edward Lacey, Listowel, 4782, d 22nd July 1917; Bernard Gibney, Listowel, 24640, 19th April 1917,
Christopher Godfrey, Listowel, 6428, 22nd September 1917; Robert Charles Hudson, Canada, Tralee, d 17th October 1918; Denis Daly, Listowel, 1576, d 26th December 1918; Michael Dee, Coolard, 1296, d 20th October 1918; Maurice Downes, 241264, Listowel, d 23 March 1918,
John Enright, Listowel, 2148, d 29th September 1918; William Fitzmaurice, Tarbert, 6486, d 21 March 1918; James Cannavan Listowel 498714 , d 10 Oct 1918; Michael Sheehy Sgt, Duagh, d 9th July 1918; Michael Stack Listowel 4516 d 8-4-1918 wounds; John Sullivan 4279 d 30 Sept 1918.
J Byrne Listowel 3644, d 1918; Jeremiah Leahy Lixnaw 7298 d 10-1-1918; Wilson Mc Cracken Listowel d12th Oct 1918 no 20170.
LIMERICK
WAR DEATHS
Name: Denis Mulvihill, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Irish Guards,Died: 31/07/1917
Son of Michael and Margaret Mulvihil, Killianymore, Glin, Co. Limerick.
Name: John O'Halloran,Regiment: 1st Bn, Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died: 08/09/1916,Son of Mary O'Halloran (nee Lynch) who was from Glin, Co Limerick. Current address being Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
Name: John Walsh, Regiment: 2nd Bn, Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 12/02/1919. Son of Thomas and Johanna Walsh, Glin, Co. Limerick. Brother of Thomas Walsh
Name: Thomas Walsh,Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 22/03/1918, Son of Thomas and Johanna Walsh, Glin, Co. Limerick. Brother of John
Name: John Cusack ,Regiment: 9th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 16/04/1915: Born in Glin, Co. Limerick
Name: Patrick Cusack, Regiment: 9th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers ,Died: 18/03/1916
: Son of Margaret & James Cusack, Killeany, Glin, Co. Limerick
Name: Timothy Hanrahan, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 21/12/1914 Born in Glin, Co. Limerick. There were 57 members of the 2nd Batallion R. M. F. Killed that day, including 10 Limerick men.
Name: Daniel Hanlon,Regiment: 1st Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 22/03/1918
Son of Daniel and Norah Hanlon, Glin, Co. Limerick.
BALLYHAHILL
Name: Patrick O'Sullivan, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Irish Guards, Died: 30/09/1916, Born in Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick.
Thomas Fitzgerald, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 10/11/1917
Born in Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick
LOUGHILL
Michael Quill, Regiment: 10th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died: 25/07/1917
: Son of Thomas Quill, Loughill, Co. Limerick
SHANAGOLDEN
Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Regiment: 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards. Died: 24/07/1917. Son of John and Johanna Sheehan, Shanagolden, Co Limerick.
John Copeland, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Scots Guards, Died: 26/10/1914
Son of Charles and Catherine Copeland (nee Healy), Corgriggs, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick.
Robert Cussen, Regiment: 7th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 12/08/1915
Son of Joseph Cussen, Ballyegna, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
Daniel Lynch,Regiment: 44th Bn. Australian Infantry, Died: 28/03/1918. Son of John & Catherine Lynch, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
Patrick McDonnell,Regiment: 1st Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 18/11/1916, Born in Shanagolden, Limerick.
Lance Corporal
Phillip Naughton, Regiment: 8th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 31/08/1916: Born Shanagolden, Co Limerick. Husband of Catherine Naughton, 1 Keeffe's Place, Edward St, Limerick.
Henry O'Brien, Regiment: 1st Bn. Irish Guards, Died: 28/06/1916, Son of David and Bridget O'Brien, Shanagolden, Co Limerick.
Martin O'Donovan, Regiment: 2nd. Bn. Irish Guards, Died: 27/03/1918
Born in Shanagolden, Co Limerick.
William Pennie, Regiment: 1st Bn. Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F., Died: 25/08/1918
Son of John Pennie, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick.
Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Regiment: 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards., Died: 24/07/1917
Son of John and Johanna Sheehan, Shanagolden, Co Limerick.
Eugene Carroll, Regiment: 6th Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 28/12/1917
Commemorated: Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel, Born in Kilmallock, Co Limerick.
Daniel Lynch, Regiment: 44th Bn. Australian Infantry, Died: 28/03/1918
Son of John & Catherine Lynch, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick. Emigrated to Australia in 1898.
George Robinson Smith, Regiment: 4th Bn. Australian Infantry, Died: 06/09/1917
Further Details: Son of Richard and Jane Smith, Suite 9 Broughton Apartments, Vancouver, BC, Canada. George attended the Diocesan School, Molesworth St, Dublin
Name: William J. Doherty, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Irish Guards, Died: 15/09/1917
Born in Limerick
Michael O'Keefe, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, Died: 08/07/1915
Born in Limerick. Listed as O'Keef on CWGC database.
Patrick Reddin, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 16/07/1916, Husband of Margaret Reddin, 5 Doyle's Cottages, Garryowen, Limerick.
Simon Sheehy, Regiment: 1st Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 12/11/1917
Son of Martin Sheehy, Carrickerry, Ardagh, Co Limerick.
Maurice Connors, Regiment: 1st Garrison Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, Died: 02/08/1917
Born in Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick.
Francis Duhig, Regiment: 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, Died: 27/08/1914
Born in Limerick
County Kerry Australia search
Item title: O'DRISCOLL Thomas : Service Number - 1947 : Place of Birth - County Kerry Ireland : Place of Enlistment - Brisbane QLD : Next of Kin - (Brother) O'DRISCOLL Patrick
Series number: B2455, Control symbol: O'DRISCOLL THOMAS, Barcode: 7996350
Access Status: Open Tralee and Kilmoyley ?
[EDGEWORTH, Michael Stephen (Air Force Service No.: 1799080) born in Knockaclare, Listowel , County Kerry, Eire on 26 December 1915 - Application dated: Bangalore, 8 February 1946]
MCCRAE TERENCE PATRICK : Service Number - 56699 : Date of birth - 03 Oct 1897 : Place of birth - BALLYLONGFORD IRELAND : Place of enlistment - MELBOURNE : Next of Kin - MCCRAE ELSIE
AWARD:
APRIL 1944
http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/6th-april-1944/6/obituar
WAR: The King has approved the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to 30-years-old Flight Lieutenant Peter Joseph Crowley, R.A.F., No. 226 Squadron, a native of Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry, of Plymouth.
the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?" Nimitz explained:
Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.
Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America . And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships. Mistake number three: Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theatre of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America
Don Sharp wrote: dmasharp@xtra.co.nz>
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/IRL-KERRY/2000-03/0953236799
Hello all
Hoping someone could help me with this one. Our family has in it`s
possession a Battle of Waterloo medal presented to Michael CONNER (2nd
Battalion 73 Regiment, Foot, June 18, 1815) He was possibly born in
Kerry as my gr grandfather Patrick O`CONNOR was born in Castlegregory
1849. Am trying to find the connection or anything on Michael. I have
looked at book titled "The Waterloo Roll Call" by Charles Dalton -1890,
but nothing on Michael. Please has anyone any ideas on where to from
here. Thank you for any help or suggestions. Maureen
The Battle of Waterloo
Major John Fitzmaurice
Major John Fitzmaurice, K.H. [Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order] served as a Lieutenant in the Peninsular Campaign during the Napoleonic wars. In 1815, he started the Battle of Waterloo as he fired the first shot, on Wellington’s instruction at the first skirmish at Quatra Bras, the prelude to the Battle of Waterloo. For which he received the Waterloo medal and in May 1861 he became a Major-General.
Major John Fitzmaurice, K.H was born on the 23rd, June, 1792 in Duagh, North Kerry.
Also at Waterloo Lieutenant Aldworth Blennerhassett at Quatre Bras also.
Midleton http://midletonheritage.com/tag/royal-hospital-kilmainham/
Cork’s Darkest Day of World War Two? Cork Losses on HMS Glorious, 75 Years Ago
Langan, Maurice. HMS Glorious. Stoker First Class, age 33. Son of Peter and Anne Langan, Tarbert, Co. Kerry.
Kerry now has two firsts in terms of Waterloo --Major John Fitzmaurice who served with ‘the famous Green Jackets’ and fired the first shot in the battle and Maurice O’Shea who joined the 73rd.Highlander Regiment in Tralee and who died in 1892 and is credited with being the last surviving veteran.
Part 1 of Journal of William McCarter.; PRONI T 2406; CMSIED 303016
Life in the American Army,1862 McCarter.
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/ied/records/38572?s=
Seeing a vacant spot on the lower deck, under the shaft
of the paddle wheels, I there seated myself but
did not long enjoy it, for in less than an hour
the wheels commenced to revolve, throwing water
over me, & making my hasty retreat necessary.
I then went to the bow of boat, where I found
a large coil of rope hollow in the centre, &
crawling into the vacancy, hoped there to get repose,
but even here I was soon found out. On board
were a number of " Sisters of Mercy" acting as Nurses,
and doing all in their power to alleviate the
terrible sufferings of our sick, wounded & dying
soldiers. And here, I must pay my tribute of
respect & praise to those noble; self-sacrificing
women-ladies-well & truly named "Sisters of
Mercy,"- God bless them. And in my own case will
relate an incident showing the interest that they
took, not only in myself, but also in all the
other wounded men on board, to make them as happy
& comfortable as their circumstances permitted.
It is as follows:- I had been lying inside the coil
of rope for about 20 minutes when one of these
good women approaching, saw me, & walking up to
my side, said, in the most feeling manner, "Are
you wounded." Yes, Madam, was my reply. "Poor,
fellow-is it severely." Pretty badly, said I. "Well,
you feel cold there, don't you. I will see if I
can get room for you in the cabin, but as it is
so crowded with your unfortunate comrades,
wounded like yourself, I fear I shall not succeed-
but I’ll try." She then darted away, and I was
again alone, listening to the groans of many of
my suffering companions, & the waves of the
Potomac dashing against the bows & sides of our
good and staunch steamboat ploughing her way
through its dark waters to Washington. In 10 minutes
the lady returned, carrying over her arm a new,
heavy army blanket which she spread upon me,
saying, that every spot in the cabin was occupied,
& that room for me there could not be found. But,
said she, this blanket will be of use to you,
and here, reaching me a tin cup 1/2 filled with
some liquid, she said, "Drink this down,- it will
warm you up." I asked her what it was. "Good
Brandy" said she.-and I drank it. Now, she added,
I will bring, or send you in a few minutes,
some bread & coffee, and these will strengthen
you on your passage up the river. She then left me
again, & in about 10 minutes returned with a
brimming tin cup of the delicious, hot beverage
& 2 slices of buttered bread, for which I yet
had plenty of room, after which she bid me good-
bye, wishing me a quiet comfortable night, and
adding that her presence in other parts of the
boat was required. This class of good Samaritans
I will have occasion to speak of again, and will
now leave those on board of our Potomac steamer
in the performance of their works of faith and
labours of love. It was now 1/2 past 11 o'clock,
soon after which I fell asleep & did not awake
till nearly 3 in the morning.- the most refreshing
slumber & rest that I had for several days prior
to the Battle of Fredericksburg. We were now
nearing Alexandria, but did not stop there as
Expected, and at about 8 o'clock in the morning
the steamer touched her wharf in Washington.
Washington, D.C. Wednesday Morning.