On 07 June 2017, a Commemoration Ceremony, marking the 50th Anniversary of the death of Commandant Thomas (Tommy) P. Wickham, who was killed on duty with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO), took place in Camp Ziouani on the Alpha side of the 1974 Cease Fire Line. The ceremony …
On Saturday 24 May 2017, an official state ceremony to commemorate the centenary of the death of the poet, Irish Volunteer and soldier, Lance Corporal Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917), took place in Janeville, Slane, Co. Meath.
Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall unveiled four Commemorative Stones to Irish born recipients of the Victoria Cross, and later laid wreaths in honour of the Irish and British people who died in the First and Second World Wars, and in the 1916 Easter Rising, at Glasnevin Cemetery Dublin, on …
Dignitaries from across Ireland attended a ceremony in Armagh on 11 June, marking the centenary of the Battle of Messines – Wytschaete. The Lord Lieutenant of County Armagh the Earl of Caledon, the DUP leader Arlene Foster MLA, the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys …
On 7th June, the centenary of the start of the Battle of Messines Ridge, an island of Ireland commemoration, jointly led by the Governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom, in partnership with the Mayor of Messines, took at the Island of Ireland Peace Park.
The grave in Deansgrange Cemetery, Dublin, of the three O’Donel brothers – Sidney, Hugh Stephen and William James – is sad enough, given that the two younger brothers were only 20 and 26 years old when they died. What makes it sadder still is that two of them died far …
