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"B" Company of the Irish Volunteers from Cork.

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “The Irish Volunteers was a paramilitary organisation formed in November 1913. It was set up in response to an article by Eoin MacNeill in the nationalist newspaper, An Claidheamh Soluis. The article called on nationalists to arm themselves in order to achieve Home Rule.

    With the advent of the First World War, there was a split in the Irish Volunteers. This was because the leader of the Nationalist Party, John Redmond, called on all Irish Volunteers to support the British war effort. Those who agreed with Redmond became the National Volunteers. Those who did not want to support the British in the war remained the Irish Volunteers, many of whom eventually took part in the 1916 Rising”

    "the first item on the agenda of any Irish organisation is the split"
    - Brendan Behan
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Great to see there is a Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy in Company B ...

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  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia I was wondering which of you would suggest this!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The catalogue says this is September 1914, the same month the Volunteers split over support for WW1
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Missed September. Mea culpa!

All's quiet on the Eastern Front - for now!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Reported missing on April 6, 1915, he is the author of Letters from a Soldier, a work considered one of the great testimonies about this war.
    "Our losses are dreadful; those of the enemy, even worse. You cannot know, my beloved mother, what man can do to man. For five days my shoes have been greasy with human brains, I have crushed chests, I have encountered entrails. The men eat what little they have snatched from the corpses. The regiment has been heroic; we have no officers left. All have died bravely. [...] Finally, after five days of horror that cost us twelve hundred victims, we have been withdrawn from this place of abomination."
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Readable free at Gutenberg:

    www.gutenberg.org
  • Niall McAuley said:
    "A French painter and soldier, Eugène Lemercier was the grandson of Irish portrait painter Harriet Osborne O’Hagan. Aged fifteen, he began his training as a painter at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1906, his studies were interrupted by a years' compulsory military service. A painter of some renown, Lemercier won several prizes for his work that includes ‘La Contemplation’. With the outbreak of war in August 1914, Lemercier was drafted in to the French Army. He is best known for the correspondence to his mother between August 1914 and his disappearance during the Battle of Les Éparges in April 1915."
  • Niall McAuley said:
    His grandmother's DIB entry mentions a daughter, Marguerite Lemercier O'Hagan

    O'Hagan, Harriet (née Osborne) www.dib.ie
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Marguerite drew both her mother and son:

    artvee.com

Oh Happy Day

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    27 June 1928 was a Wednesday ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    11 Beau Street, Waterford now has a red front door and a matching red car ...
    maps.app.goo.gl
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Very jaunty!
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Marriage of Letitia Lumley of 11 Beau St. and William Power, Civic Guard, of Urlingford

    www.irishgenealogy.ie
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “..The bride is Lettie Lumley and groom is Billy Power..... In the pic is Thomas and Josie Lumley, Madge Lumley (Corcoran) and Joe Lumley... Baby is Emily Cahill (Hanley) and girl holding her is May Douglas..”

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