Launch of ‘18pdr Field Gun 9168 – Lost and Found’ Exhibition: National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks Dublin On 09 February 2023, an exhibition titled ‘18pdr Field Gun 9168 – Lost and Found’ was launched in the National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, Dublin. The launch …
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral – 13 November 2022 President Michael D Higgins attended the annual Service of Remembrance commemorating Ireland’s war dead in the National Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Patrick, Dublin on Sunday, 13 November. During the service, President Higgins and Lieutenant-Colonel Ken Martin, President of the Royal British …
Under the auspices of the Dublin Cemeteries Trust, the Annual Armistice Day Commemoration, marking the 1918 Armistice, was conducted in Glasnevin Cemetery Dublin, on Friday, 11 November. The Commemoration included an Address, Ecumenical Service, Readings and a Wreath Laying Ceremony, in the vicinity of the Cross of Sacrifice and the …
The MHIT Directors’ November meeting was held in Casement Aerodrome, with the kind permission of GOC Air Corps. Brigadier-General Rory O’Connor welcomed the Directors, and following the meeting the Directors were conducted on a tour of the Air Corps Museum. View our Flickr Gallery >>
McKee Officers’ Club has produced a remarkable film celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the deployment of the first Defence Forces unit on UN Peacekeeping Operations with ONUC in the Congo. “Ireland in the Service of the Future”, featuring the 32 Inf Bn and 33 Inf Bn, was edited and produced …
Introduction Shabnam Vasisht’s remarkable book Digging Up the Raj, and the associated exhibition Unearthing the Links with Deansgrange, were formally launcded in dlr Lexicon, Dun Laoghare, on 26 February, 2020.
Introduction Acknowledging that military heritage is common to the different political, religious and cultural traditions on the island, the Military Heritage of Ireland Trust CLG, (hereafter referred to as “Trust”), advances an all-Ireland, cross border, non-denominational and non-political approach to military heritage. The Trust encourages the study of Ireland’s military heritage, …
Regretfully, I am to advise of the death, after a short illness, of our esteemed colleague Major-General David Nial O’Morchoe CB, CBE, KLJ, Hereditary Chief and Prince of the Ó Murchadha, at his residence, Oulartleigh House, Tara Hill, Gorey, Co. Wexford, on Friday, 22 November, 2019. An honourable, courteous and …
An idealistic young man, who is still in his teens, has dreams of a self-determined Ireland Whilst others join the volunteers, he is enraptured by Redmond’s promise of Home Rule His Mammy, Ellen, at 32c Great Clarence Street, is baking bread, for his home coming Not knowing he’s ingested the …
Seven members of a single-family are named in this grave although not all are actually buried in it. The Carpendales were a highly-respected South County Dublin family – many of whom served in India. The Rev Maxwell Carpendale was a Perpetual Curate in the village of Mullavilly in County Armagh …
John Flannery’s burial was recorded in Deansgrange Cemetery register but I could not find his grave. With the help of cemetery personnel, I discovered he was buried in the plot of the Dockrell family. If his name was not inscribed on the tombstone, it could be for a very good …
RAMC Corps Sunday takes place each year on the anniversary of the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps which occurred in 1898. It is marked by serving and retired medical personnel at church services when they remember their fallen comrades and those for whom they cared, and they re-dedicate …
The Royal British Legion, Republic of Ireland District, supported by the Irish Government, hosted its Annual Ceremony of Remembrance and Wreath Laying at the Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge, Dublin, on Saturday 13 July 2018. The event commemorates all those who lost their lives in the World Wars, in …
Throughout Ireland, the National Day of Commemoration, An Lá Comórtha Náisiúnta, took place on Sunday, 14 July 2019. This year the principal event was held at Collins Barracks Dublin, rather than the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Events were also held in Cork, Kilkenny, Limerick, Sligo and Galway. The purpose of the …
Eleven years after the end of the First World War 1914-18, in which at least 3,000 officers, NCOs, and men from Limerick City and County died, a memorial in their honour and a place where the ex-servicemen and people of Limerick could come to pay homage was unveiled. For the …
LT COL SIR WALTER JAMES THOMPSON BUCHANAN K.C.I.E 1861-1924 Walter James Thompson Buchanan was the eldest of Robert and Mary Buchanan’s eight children. Robert, like his father before him, was Coroner of Fintona, County Tyrone. Walter James Thompson as born in Londonderry on 12 November 1861 and was educated in …
Before the Great War, Ireland had already begun to take up arms. Conflict and political unrest was the norm. But when the Great War threatened to destroy the lives of countless ordinary citizens it was the men and women of Ulster and Ireland who braced against the storm.
Graham Justin MacCarthy (later Lord Mountcashel) was born into a notable family of Irish Jacobites, loyal to the exiled Stuarts, and grew up in France. Their Irish land was regained after the Restoration of Charles II but Justin, as the youngest surviving son, sought a career in the French army …
Situated in the vicinity of Christ Church Cathedral, and within the Peace Garden, the Flanders Fields Memorial was inaugurated on 30 April, more than 100 years after the end of the First World War. The ceremony was jointly organised by Dublin City Council and the Government of Flanders. During the …
MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD HEARD C.B.E. 1870-1950 On 10 November 1866, the steamer ‘Ceres’ was wrecked off the coast of Wexford. One of the survivors was Dr Robert Lynn Heard of Donaghadee, Co Down. He was the son of Richard Griffith Noble Heard, Chief Inspector of the Coastguards in Kinsale, Co Cork, …
