1798

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A Cat - Amazing, yea right !

Either 1879, 1885, 1891, 1896, 1903, ... ...

DannyM8 And a dog. You like dogs.

You beat me to it beachcomber australia - you can add 1908 to that list.

Bing Aerial view of the spot. Wikipedia has a short article.

Niall McAuley Thanks Niall. That map now added to our map! Plus, down at the bottom of the Wikipedia article: "...The catastrophe at Ballinamuck left a strong imprint on social memory and featured strongly in local folklore. Numerous oral traditions were later collected about this episode, principally in the 1930s by the historian Richard Hayes and by the Irish Folklore Commission." Richard Hayes was Director of the National Library of Ireland from 1940-1967, and a very interesting man! Here's just one example (from the Dictionary of Irish Biography):

Soon after the outbreak of the second world war, he was seconded from his post as head of the National Library to work as code-breaker with the Irish army. His skills in linguistics, combined with his highly organised mind and fine memory, led to considerable successes in this field, which included the foiling of an attempt by the German agent Hermann Goertz to establish a power base in Ireland. Although deeply involved in intelligence work (and also, during this period, carrying out scientific experiments on the culture of plants), Hayes continued to administer the Library.

Memorial of the battle (photo by dr_urbanus):


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National Library of Ireland on The Commons Was it Richard Hayes that saved the Laurence collection from becoming a glass house?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Saw your lock out exhibition yesterday - I would recommend it to all and sundry

The quotation is from 'Lays of Ancient Rome' by Lord Macaulay -

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lays_of_Ancient_Rome en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay

The pikes remind me of

I assume that's Father Murphy from old Kilcormack who spurred up the rock with a warring cry. Sometimes Flickr is amazing® www.flickr.com/photos/25354050@N04/3558369524/in/photolis...

thanks Flickr / NLI my distant relative Jonas Watson killed in 1798 Wexford Rising ~ " Lt.-Col., 13 Regiment; fought at Bunker Hill, 1775; ADC to Duke of Kent; 65th Regiment; Governor of Fort Niagara; killed in Irish Rebellion 1798; monument at Castle Bridge Church, Co. Wexford " Terry Watson writes (June 24, 2003): Jonas Watson was a Lieutenant in the 65th Regt. during the battle of Bunker Hill. He had commented earlier, in a surviving letter to his sister Anne, that he must be oldest Lieutenant in the British army. He was promoted to Captain the day after the battle as a consequence of Captain Hudson being killed in action. He was Senior Regimental Captain when he commanded Fort Niagara July 1787 to May 1788. As Major in the 65th, his great wish was to become Lieutenant-Colonel of that regt. He never achieved this but did accept the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 13th with permission to sell out, which he did in 1796. He never actually served in the 13th. "

O Mac "®" ! What do all the other illustrations refer to? The burning house and church, the gaelic cross etc? Presumably the original document was gloriously coloured; has anyone found one online?