British Army
Centenary of the Killester Garden Village 1923-2023
Centenary of the Killester Garden Village 1923-2023 In August 1923 the first Irish WW1 ex-servicemen and their families moved into the new community of the Killester Garden Village. These ‘Homes for Heroes’ were built from 1920-1923 consisting now of 289 ex-servicemen houses for these Irish veterans and their families after the Great War. On Saturday…
Read MoreThe Royal Munster Fusiliers
In collaboration with Cork Public Museum, the students of University CollegeCork Museum Studies programme are launching a new featured exhibition, The RoyalMunster Fusiliers: A Forgotten Regiment? to celebrate the centenary of the regiment’sdisbandment in July 1922. The Royal Munster Fusiliers was an Irish infantry regiment in the British armythat formed in 1881, though their roots…
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Read More24 November 2018: ‘Martin Moffat VC and the liberation of Ledegem, 14 October 1918’, Birr, Co. Offaly
On Saturday 24 November 2018 Birr Library hosted a talk by Denis Kirby of the Leinster Regiment Association, entitled ‘Martin Moffat VC and the liberation of Ledegem, 14 October 1918’. After four years of German occupation the 2nd Battalion of the Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) liberated the town of Ledegem in Belgium, after which Martin…
Read More18 November 2018: ‘Gallipoli, the GPO, and Flanders’, Trim, Co. Meath
On Sunday 18 November 2018 S, St Patrick’s Cathedral (COI), Trim, Co. Meath, hosted a performance of composer Michael Holohan’s musical and theatrical piece ‘Gallipoli, the GPO and Flanders’. Drawing on the personal letters and diaries of both his paternal and maternal granduncles and the diary of a British soldier, the composer Michael Holohan has…
Read More15 November 2018: ‘The voice of WW1’, Aidan Heavey Library, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
In November 2018 Westmeath County Libraries will present a series of three seminars hosted by Ciara Murphy exploring three different texts which explore the Irish experience of the First World War. These seminars highlight the importance of both the given and the imagined image, and the dominant and silenced voices of war. They illuminate the…
Read More15 November 2018: ‘Gallipoli, the GPO and Flanders’, Medieval Mile Museum, Kilkenny
On Thursday 15 November 2018 the Medieval Mile Museum, Kilkenny, hosted a performance of composer Michael Holohan’s musical and theatrical piece ‘Gallipoli, the GPO and Flanders’. Drawing on the personal letters and diaries of both his paternal and maternal granduncles and the diary of a British soldier, the composer Michael Holohan has created a musical…
Read More12 November 2018: ‘Westmeath and the Great War, 1914-1918’, Moate, Co. Westmeath
On Monday 12 November Moate Museum and Historical Society presented a lecture by Ruth Illingworth, entitled ‘Westmeath and the Great War, 1914-1918’. The lecture took place in the Grand Hotel, Moate, at 8.15pm.
Read More11 November 2018: Civic commemoration of 1918 Armistice, Naas, Co. Kildare
On Sunday 11 November 2018 a civic commemoration took place in Naas, Co. Kildare, to mark the centenary of the 1918 Armistice that ended the First World War, during which a memorial was unveiled on 11 November 2018 in remembrance of those from Co. Kildare who died. Kildare had an extremely strong military presence in the…
Read More11 November 2018: Launch of ‘Offaly and the Great War’ and pop-up exhibition, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
On 11 November 2018 Tullamore Library hosted the launch will take of Michael Byrne (ed.), Offaly and the Great War. Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society celebrated the launch by inviting a number of the contributors to read their essays on the centenary of the end of the First World War. The book was launched by Anna Marie…
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