Sidelines

We all know about the sinking of the Lusitania and that the wreck lies off the Irish coast, but who knew that it was private property? Gregg Bemis, an American […]

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cross of Sacrifice to be erected at Glasnevin Cemetery

One particularly striking example of an Irishman who served with both the British and republican forces is Martin Doyle, a pre-war regular from Wexford who enlisted in the Royal Irish […]

Cuffe’s Background

James Aloysius Francis Cuffe was born in 1876 at 62 Mountjoy Square, Dublin, the fourth of the eight children of Laurence Cuffe and his wife Jane McCormick. The Cuffes owned […]

de Rothschild’s coat

On 24 January 1915 Cuffe transferred to the Royal Munster Fusiliers, was promoted major and was provided with a car and a driver. His special mission continued. His reports were […]

Shane MacThomáis

Shortly before he died tragically earlier this year, the late Shane MacThomáis told the story of Martin Doyle in his regular column in the Northside People West. As historian and […]