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Sphagnum moss and female agency

The Irish War Hospital Supply Organisation. By Monika Barget, Pádraig MacCarron and Susan Schreibman On 28 February 1919 the Irish war hospital depot in Dublin closed its doors. This voluntary […]

ARTEFACTS: The 69th ‘Fighting Irish’ Regiment in the First World War

By Lar Joye The United States of America entered the war on 6 April 1917, and by the summer of 1918 over two million American soldiers had landed in Europe. […]

Armistice Day

Armistice Days in Dublin as viewed by ex-members of the Irish command of WAAC/QMAAC 1917–19. By Barbara Walsh On 11 November 1924, four young Irishwomen carrying a wreath headed for […]

Kevin O’Shiel and the North Fermanagh campaign

One of the most remarkable campaigns within this remarkable election. Daniel Purcell The 1918 general election was one of the most significant in Irish history. It provided a de facto […]

Cars, canvassing and conveyance during the election. By Leanne Blaney ‘Depressing and dull’ was how one English journalist described the conditions on polling day in London during the 1918 general […]

September 20

1920 Two RIC officers were shot dead in a public house in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, after which the RIC and Black and Tans rampaged through the town, burning business premises and houses. Two suspected republicans were bayoneted to death.
1920 Three British soldiers from the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, including Pte Harold Washington (15), were shot dead by the IRA as they collected bread from Monk’s bakery in North King Street, Dublin. Kevin Barry (18) of H Company, 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade, was arrested at the scene.
1970 Leo Rowsome, celebrated piper, died suddenly in Riverstown parochial hall, Co. Sligo, while adjudicating in the ‘Fiddler of Dooney’ fiddle-playing championship.
1914 In a speech at Woodenbridge, Co. Wicklow, the Irish Parliamentary Party leader, John Redmond, called on the Irish Volunteers to join the British army and fight wherever the war took them.
1803 Robert Emmet, United Irishman, was hanged in Thomas Street, Dublin.
1922 Four Irregulars, including Brian MacNeill, son of Eoin MacNeill, were trapped by Free State forces on Ben Bulben, Co. Sligo, and summarily executed.

Sphagnum moss and female agency

ARTEFACTS: The 69th ‘Fighting Irish’ Regiment in the First World War

Armistice Day

Kevin O’Shiel and the North Fermanagh campaign

‘Motors wanted!’

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September 20