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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?

I'll have a pint of Guinness, thanks!

43 years later - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/36166221@N00/3048160207/]

Can't get down that lane in streetview, but here it is, anyhow

Bing's aerial view is better.

... But few people know how it got its famous name. Apparently during the Siege of Limerick a cannon ball was fired by the Williamite army and ‘removed the head of a well-known red-haired girl of ill-repute.’ This happened while she was watching the battle against Sarsfield and his men from the window of the brothel. When a new tavern was built on the site of the house in 1794 it was called ‘The Sign of the Brazen Head’.

From - oldmooresalmanac.com/news-topics/the-history-of-us1/the-b... , who got it from Frank Hopkins' Rare Old Dublin: Heroes, Hawkers and Hoors (Mercier Press 2008)

In Memory of the Daughters of James W and Agnes M Dillon Mary Mar 12 1861, Aug 8 1879 Agnes Sept 8 1868, Mar 15 1880 Ellen Aug 4 1870, Apr 29 1880 Sarah Apr 21 1879, Aug 11 1899

I do not see any of the four, birth or death, in the records. Possibly in the UK?

O'Kelly was born in 1882 - younger than all of these Dillons.

If only there was a way to find a grave... Wait, there is! www.findagrave.com/memorial/53859225/sarah-rose-dillon Saint Patricks Cemetery Lincoln, Lincoln County, Kansas, USA Kansas Streetview! In todays image, we see a couple of fenceposts in the background. Those are still visible in Streetview, but in the 90 years since, a row of pine trees has been planted and grown at the boundary.

At top is inscribed something like “In memory of the daughters of James? and Agnes M Dillon”