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Desmond Fitzgerald

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • Foxglove said:
    another quick morning Google! yet another outstanding example of the wealth and diversity of personalities that created early 20th century ireland
  • Foxglove said:
    I remember once reading that his son, as once a commercial pilot, use to relax by reading and memorising flight timetables .......
  • Mike Grimes said:
    Foxglove My father used to do that too...and I thought he was the only one.
  • oaktree_brian_1976 said:
    was a architect also. www.dia.ie/architects/view/1900/FITZGERALD-DESMOND
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Himself in 1928 by Lafayette, with a Bovril ad: NPA MKN9

"B" Company of the Irish Volunteers from Cork.

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • 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 ...

    [Aside] - www.youtube.com
  • 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!

Thomas Ashe, half-length portrait

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons