Nature of event: A celebration of the FitzGerald family: 1215 -2015 Where: Dromana, Villierstown in West Waterford When: Thursday July 2nd to Sunday July 5th 2015 Cost: Weekend Ticket: € 199.00 (See below) Further information: Dromana 800 ; Homepage From Thursday July 2nd to Sunday July 5th 2015 we will celebrate 24 generations of the FitzGerald family at Dromana, … Continue reading
this conference will also have a specific focus around the idea of diversity. Continue reading
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
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
The peninsula is a beautiful picturesque landscape littered with graves, many of them Irish graves. Continue reading
These attempts would cost the Allies dearly in casualties Continue reading
Her particular interest lay in the role of women in literature, myth and history. Continue reading
the secret love affair between Banjo Paterson and Christina Macpherson as they wrote Waltzing Matilda Continue reading
Among the British Army troops at Helles were Irish regulars of the Dublin Fusiliers, Munster Fusiliers and Inniskilling Fusiliers. Continue reading
Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar (The Foggy Dew) Continue reading
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