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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 ...

    [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!

"Princess Patricias - outpost duty at Levis", Montreal Daily Star, p.17, 26 September 1914

from University of Victoria Libraries

  • russell glen said:
    These truly were a great fighting force, as a child my grandfather told me about meeting these amazons, tall as trees and strong as an ox, good clean fighters, who the Germans were wary of meeting

Brooklyn Naval Reserve at Mass, Brooklyn Navy Yard, N.Y. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    This mass took place on May 24, 1908

    See page 6 of The Stark County Democrat (Canton, Ohio), May 26, 1908, (WEEKLY EDITION)
    - www.loc.gov/resource/sn84028490/1908-05-26/ed-1/?sp=6&amp...

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    Mass Held For Dead of Army and Navy Largely Attended
    New York, May 24.-There was a large attendance at the military field mass in the Brooklyn navy yard today.
    As early as 9 o'clock the people began to gather at the navy yard gates although the mass was not to begin until 10:30. Every building facing the parade ground where the mass was celebrated was adorned with American flags and a profusion of the fags hung over the balconies of the marine barracks, before the center of which the elaborate altar wast erected.
    Before the mass there was music, both religious and secular, ranging from "Onward Christian Soldiers" to "Auld Lang Syne," "Annie Lauri," and "Marching Through Georgia."
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