This episode looks at a number of the battles in which the Irish fought alongside the Australians and New Zealanders in the struggle for the heights.
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Filed under Gallipoli …
Irish ANZAC Gallipoli commemorations
As someone who has relatives who died at Gallipoli and in the Somme, I have an appreciation for how these men and their legacies were overlooked in Ireland for decades. Continue reading
The Spirit of Eureka at Gallipoli
On the 26 August 1914, as a member of the 12th Battalion, G Company, Captain Joseph Lalor sailed aboard Transport A7 Medic from Fremantle for overseas duty. Continue reading
GALLIPOLI (The Great War)
The peninsula is a beautiful picturesque landscape littered with graves, many of them Irish graves. Continue reading
The Irish at Gallipoli/Podcast
These attempts would cost the Allies dearly in casualties Continue reading
Gallipoli – an Irish, as well as an Australian, campaign
Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar (The Foggy Dew) Continue reading
