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  • #61
    Originally posted by Groundhog
    March 3

    2004
    Groundhog is married 20 years today. To the same woman too
    Belated congrats, Groundhog...
    "Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!" (Jimmy Greaves)!"

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    • #62
      Its actually Ballyseedy. And the Kerrymen have never forgiven the free state for it..

      I got the impression that the republican movement in general are still quite bitter about it. Which is pretty rich considering the IRA's history. One commenator says that the "Free State Army" has never gotten over the shame of Ballyseedy. 99.9% of the DF has never heard of Ballyseedy and quite possibly many of them are unaware of the fact taht we had a Civil War. A good quote from the local Free State Commander- "Nobody asked me to take any kid gloves to Kerry and I didn't take them".
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      • #63
        The following is worth a read. Although it is slanted towards modern day republican propaganda, it has some basis in fact if one can get past the emotive "riddled bodies", "slaughtered while they slept" etc, etc. War is hell, Dorothy.

        Historical dates in North Kerry County, Ireland, 1879-1937


        Thanks for the congrats Truck Driver:D
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        • #64
          March 8

          1702

          William of Orange ,William III of England from 1689 died aged 51 after falling from his horse. Anne Stuart his sister-in-law, succeeded to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland and reigned until 1714.


          1973

          Two bombs exploded near Trafalgar Square, injuring 234 people

          Died

          1916

          2764 Pte William Kavanagh. 1st Bn Manchester Regt. In Mesopotamia. From Waterford City.

          17050 Pte Michael Kennedy. 7th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers.KIA in France. From Waterford City.

          1917

          5147 Cpl Michael Hickey. 7th Bn Leinster Regt. Died in Belgium. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

          1918

          10166 Pte Michael Murphy. 1st Bn Irish Guards. DOW France. From Waterford City.

          1941

          Third Engineer Officer Philip Thornton. S.S. Tielbank, Merchant Navy. Son of Matthew and Winifred Thornton, Cashel, Co. Tipperary. The Tielbank was part of convoy SL 57 which was escorted by the battleship Malaya and two destroyers. The 52 ship convoy, bound for London, was attacked 400 miles west of Capo Blanco, Mauretania at 0250 Hrs on the 8th of March 1941 by U-124. Five ships were lost including Tielbank, the others being-Harmodius, Nardana, Lahore and Hindpool.

          1943

          Able Seaman James Durkin, S.S. Fort Lamy. Merchant Navy. Son of John and Mary Durkin, of Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.Age 24. Fort Lamy was part of convoy SC 122 and she was sunk by a U-Boat south of Greenland.

          1945

          Capt John Keany. Royal Irish Fusiliers. KIA Italy while serving with SOE. From Cork.
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          • #65
            March 8

            1966
            An IRA Bomb partally destroys Nelsons Pillar in O Connell St.(the subsequent demolition by the Army of the remaining stump causes more damage to nearby property than the original IRA explosion)


            Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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            • #66
              March 9

              1796

              Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine. They divorced in 1803.

              1841

              Slaves from the Amistad were acquitted of mutiny by the US Supreme Court. John Quincy Adams was the defence lawyer.

              1932

              Eamonn De Valera became Taoiseach for the first time. Among his Fianna Fail TDs was Dan Breen, who used a phone box in Leinster House to hide in while he assembled a Thompson sub machine gun just in case Cumann na Gael refused to hand over power.

              1974

              Lt Hiroo Onoda of the Imperial Japanese Army finally called it a day. Having held out for a mere 29 years on Lubang Island in the Philippines, Onoda surrendered to the Filipino authorities. He still had his rifle, 500 rounds and a few grenades. Lt Onoda drew his back pay and retired to a ranch in Brazil, having decided he did not like the new Japan.

              Good as he was Lt Onoda fell short of Capt Fumio Nakahira, who surrendered in April 1980, but he was much better than Corporal Shoichi Yokoi who jacked it in on Guam in 1972 regretting that he “did not serve his majesty to my satisfaction."



              1982

              Charlie Haughey became Taoiseach.

              1994

              The IRA launched a mortar attack on Heathrow Airport.

              Died

              1915

              6092 Pte Michael Dwyer, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died at home in Cashel, Co. Tipperary.

              10336 Pte Patrick Halpin, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. Western Front. From Waterford City.

              1921

              James Maher, a civilian, was found shot dead at Killenaule Co. Tipperary. No group admitted responsibility.

              1940

              Off the Leukos, an Irish trawler sunk 11 miles off Tory Island, Co. Donegal by U-38.

              Apprentice, James Hawkins, Ringsend, aged 17.
              2nd Engineer Bernard Smith, 10 Boyne Street, Dublin , aged 23.
              Cook, Patricio McCarthy, 40 Carlton Road, Marino, Dublin, aged 42.
              Skipper J P Thomasson, 63 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, aged 28.
              Chief Engineer Alec McLeod, 53 Kenneth Street, Stornoway, Scotland,
              Mate William Donnelly, 26 Thorben Grove, Blackpool.
              Bosun P J Scanlon, 5 Douglas Road, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.
              Deckhand T Mulligan, Catholic Seamens Institute, Dublin and Fleetwood,
              Deckhand T Pill, Catholic Seamens Institute, Dublin and Fleetwood.
              Fireman Michael Cullen, 29 Boyne Street, Dublin, aged 17.
              Apprentice Robert Sumler, 63 Lower Mount Street, Dublin, aged 16.



              1943

              Third Radio Officer John Nunan, S.S. Clarissa Radcliffe. Merchant Navy. Son of Catherine Nunan, of Ballysheedy, Co. Limerick. Age 21. The Clarissa Radcliffe was part of Convoy SC-122 sailing from New York to Britain. She was last seen by friendly ships on March 9th when she became detached from the convoy and supposedly sailed on alone for Britain. She was reported sunk by U-663 on March 18th. Presumably the crew are reported lost from the last date of sighting by friendly craft. A good account of the attacks on this convoy is at-

              The U-boat War in World War Two (Kriegsmarine, 1939-1945) and World War One (Kaiserliche Marine, 1914-1918) and the Allied efforts to counter the threat. Over 40.000 pages on the officers, the boats, technology and the Allied efforts to counter the U-boat threat.
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              • #67
                March 10

                1915

                The Battle of Neuve Chapelle began in France. Neuve Chapelle is a village near La Basee in Northern France. It was captured by the Germans on 28th October 1914 and created a salient in the British line. Initially intended as a major offensive, the attack became a local one due to the redirection of troops to Gallipoli. A 35 minute bombardment preceded the assault on the village which was captured in 4 hours. The Germans were outnumbered, outflanked and surprised and even a counterattack on the 12th failed to recapture the village. The battle ended on March 13th . Total allied losses were 11,200 (British and Indian). The 35 minute bombardment of Neuve Chapelle expended more shells than were fired in the entire Boer War. The 1st Bn Royal Irish Rifles was the only Irish unit involved, but L/Cpl Noremac (below) was killed in this battle with the 2nd Bn Scottish Rifles.

                1944

                A British demand that all Axis envoys be deported from the Irish Free State was dismissed by De Valera.

                Died

                1915

                12099 Pte Thomas Burke, 2nd Bn The Welsh Regt. KIA Western Front. From Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

                10288 L/Cpl John Noremac, 2nd Bn Scottish Rifles. KIA Western Front. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

                1918

                1st Bn Royal Irish Regt in Palestine.

                10106 Pte Edward Cashin. Kilmacow, Co. Waterford.
                2623 Pte Thomas O’Brien. Killenaule, Co. Tipperary.
                4828 Pte Stephen Ryan. Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

                1921

                Two civilians, Laurence Hickey and William Loughnane were shot dead by the security forces in Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

                1967

                L/Cpl Bernard Freyne from Ballaghhadreen, Co. Roscommon KIA in Vietnam serving in the USMC.

                11th March

                1858

                Cpl William Nash, a Limerickman serving in the Rifle Brigade in the Indian Mutiny earned a Victoria Cross at Lucknow for rescuing a wounded comrade under fire.

                1953

                Mary Harney was born in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. She is leader of the Progressive Democrats, Tánaiste and Minister for Health at the moment.

                1974

                Kenneth and Keith Littlejohn broke out of Mountjoy Prison. Jailed in 1973 for a £67,000 heist at a Dublin bank, during their trial they claimed they were M16 spies working for the British Government against the IRA.
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                • #68
                  March 12

                  1689

                  King James II landed in Ireland after the Glorious Revolution had given the throne to his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange.

                  1832

                  Charles Boycott was born in Norfolk. He is one of those men whose name has become part of the English language because when he was an estate agent for Lord Erne in Co. Mayo about 1880, he was ignored by the locals, even his own servants. Hence to boycott. He was once forced to import Orangemen, guarded by 1000 soldiers, to harvest a crop at a cost of £10000 or, as Parnell put it, a shilling a turnip. Charles Boycott died in 1897.

                  1938

                  Germany annexed Austria at the invitation of Austrian Nazis.

                  1944

                  The British government banned travel between Britain and the Irish Free State.

                  1945

                  Ann Frank died in Belsen concentration camp.

                  Off the south coast of Cork the German submarine U-260 hit a mine and was scuttled at 51.15N, 09.05W. All 48 crew survived and were interned in Ireland.

                  1974

                  Senator Billy Fox (Fine Gael) was murdered by the IRA at Clones, Co. Monaghan.

                  Died

                  1915

                  4886 Pte John Connolly, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA Western Front. From Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.


                  4553 Pte John Dalton, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA Western Front. From Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

                  8761 Pte Thomas Moran, 2nd Bn East Lancashire Regt. KIA Western Front. From Waterford City.

                  1941

                  5341699 Pte Lawrence Lonergan. 2nd Bn Lincolnshire Regt. From Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary.
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                  • #69
                    March 13

                    1921

                    Constable Lamont RIC was shot and wounded in Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary.

                    1945

                    Peru took a chance and declared war on Nazi Germany.

                    Died

                    1915

                    7399 Sgt John Hyland. 1st Bn Leinster Regt. Ypres. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

                    1918

                    G/1478 Pte Jeremiah Aspell, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. Died Salonika. From Waterford City.
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                    • #70
                      March 14

                      1879

                      Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

                      1883

                      Karl Marx died in London aged 64.

                      1991

                      The Birmingham Six were released after having their convictions quashed.

                      Died

                      1915

                      10214 Pte James O’Toole, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. KIA Western Front. From Waterford City.

                      5632 Pte Robert Price 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA Western Front. From Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary. His brother Thomas Price was killed at Messines Ridge in 1917.

                      1917

                      4394 Pte William McGuire, 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. KIA Western Front. From Waterford City.

                      1941

                      Able Seaman Thomas Gillen. Merchant Navy aboard S.S. Stanleigh. Son of Peter and Sarah Gillen, of Rosses Point, Co. Sligo. Age 23. The Stanleigh was sunk off the Welsh coast by the Luftwaffe. 20 men were lost.
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                      • #71
                        March 15

                        44BC

                        Julius Caesar was assassinated today- The Ides of March.

                        1766

                        Fr Nicholas Sheehy was hung, drawn and quartered outside Clonmel Jail (where Fennessy’s Hotel stands today in Gladstone St). He was framed for being a leader of the Whiteboys in Clogheen, Co. Tipperary of which he was Parish Priest and for the murder of a John Bridges. An accomplice, Edward Meehan suffered the same fate. Fr Sheehy’s head was stuck on a spike over the jail gate for 20 years when his family was allowed remove it and inter it with his remains in Shanrahan graveyard. Locally Fr Sheehy has the status of a martyr and a saint. Soil from his grave is supposed to have healing properties. Those who conspired at his trial are all reputed to have met bizarre deaths. Another legend has it that a soldier on guard at the jail removed the head and, with divine assistance, ran with it to Fr Sheehy’s family in Clogheen and back before his relief arrived.

                        1895

                        One of the last witch burnings in Europe took place in Ballyvadlea, Co. Tipperary. A woman named Bridget Cleary was supposed by her husband and in laws to be a changeling. Fairies from a nearby rath were supposed to have stolen the real Bridget and left one of their own sickly creatures in her place. Bridget would only be released from the spell which held her in the rath when the changeling confessed, so her relations roasted the woman to death on the kitchen fire over a period of 36 hours. 8 of Bridget’s relations and neighbours were tried and sentenced for manslaughter, her husband receiving 20 years with hard labour. For many years a local childrens rhyme went “Are you a witch or are you a fairy or are you the wife of Michael Cleary?”

                        1978

                        22,000 Israeli soldiers crossed into Lebanon as Operation Litani began. The troops advanced into the Lebanon attacking PLO bases in the country. The Operation would last until March 21st and led to the formation of UNIFIL.

                        1981

                        IRA terrorist, Francis Hughes started his hunger strike in the Maze Prison.

                        1999

                        Rosemary Nelson was killed by a booby-trap bomb as she drove her car in Lurgan, Co. Armagh. The UDA were responsible operating under the cover name of the Red Hand Defenders.

                        Died

                        1915

                        Serving with 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt at Ypres


                        3593 Pte James Connors. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
                        4082 Pte Michael Drohan. From Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.
                        9176 L/Cpl Timothy Terry. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
                        4674 Pte James Whelan. From Portlaw, Co. Waterford.

                        1917

                        Serving with 1st Bn Irish Guards in France


                        2469 Pte James Kinsella. From Marlfield, Co. Tipperary.
                        10464 Pte John Quirke. From Fethard, Co. Tipperary.

                        1918

                        3125 Pte Thomas Morrissey, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died Western Front. From Slieverue, Co. Waterford.
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                        • #72
                          1921

                          Hanged in Mountjoy: Vol. Thomas Whelan, Vol. Patrick Moran (Murder); Vol. Francis Flood, Vol Thomas Bryan, Vol. Patrick Doyle (High treason by levying war).

                          In response the Irish labour Party called a general strike for the morning of the executions.

                          The men were among those reburied at Glasnevin on Sunday, 14th October, 2001 with full state honours.

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                          • #73
                            March 16

                            1690

                            French troops landed in Ireland in support of James II.

                            1917

                            Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated.

                            1935

                            Adolf Hitler scrapped the treaty of Versailles.

                            1939

                            Germany occupied all of Czechoslovakia.

                            1968

                            US troops in Vietnam killed over 300 civilians in the village of My Lai. Of 25 soldiers charged in connection with the massacre only Lt William Calley was convicted.

                            1988

                            Iraqi jets drop chemical weapons on Halabja. Approximately 6,000 Kurds were killed.

                            In Milltown Cemetery, Belfast Michael Stone attacked the funerals of the three IRA members killed in Gibraltar on March 6th. He killed four people- Kevin Mulligan, Caoimhin MacBradaigh, Thomas McErlean and John Murray.

                            March 16th is obviously a day for massacres.

                            1999

                            The European Commission resigned. Our own Pee Flynn was one of them.

                            In the Balkans thousands of Serbian troops and tanks moved into Kosovo.

                            Died

                            1915

                            Serving with 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt at Ypres


                            6236 Sgt George Colthorpe. From Corbally, Co. Waterford.
                            4690 Pte Patrick Lonergan. From Fethard, Co. Tipperary.
                            6392 Pte Michael Power. From Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

                            Serving with 1st Bn Leinster Regt at Ypres

                            9097 Pte James O’Shea. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

                            1942

                            Seaman Patrick Lenane, Merchant Navy, aboard the SS Baron Newlands. Son of Thomas and Kathleen Lenane, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
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                            • #74
                              March 17

                              1828

                              Patrick R Cleburne was born in Annbrook House, Great Island, County Cork. He served in the 41st Foot before emigrating to the US in 1849. He practiced law in Arkansas until he was commissioned a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army in 1862. He fought in the western sector of the Civil War and so became less famous that the generals of the eastern front but to his men he was the Stonewall Jackson of the east, consistently out fighting his enemies. Controversially he proposed that the Confederates enlist coloureds in the army in return for freedom, a suggestion that caused him to be overlooked for promotion. Brig Gen Patrick Cleburne was killed in action in Franklin, Tennessee. Nov 30th 1864.

                              Died

                              1917

                              14696 L/Cpl John Maddock, 5th Bn Royal Berkshire Regt. KIA Western Front. From Waterford City.

                              1942

                              Greaser Laurence Donohoe, Merchant Navy. MV San Demetrio. husband of Julia Donohoe, Dublin. The San Demetrio was a tanker en route from Baltimore, Maryland to Britain with 11,000 tons of fuel on board. She was torpedoed by U-404 at 0215 hrs. 19 men died in the action while 34 survived. The San Demetrio had a short but adventurous life. In November 1940 she was badly damaged by the German Pocket Battleship Admiral Scheer. The crew abandoned ship though she did not sink and they later reboarded her and brought her to harbour. Ealing Studios made a film of this voyage called “San Demetrio, London” in 1943.

                              1953

                              Pte Daniel Keogh from Co. Longford, died in Korea serving with the 2nd Division, US Army.

                              1988

                              Gnr Paul Cullen. UNIFIL. Died in Lebanon.
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                              • #75
                                March 18


                                1858

                                Rudolf Diesel was born in Germany. He invented the diesel engine.

                                1869

                                Neville Chamberlain, British prime Minister and the Appeaser of Munich was born. Politicians still haven’t learnt that appeasement does not work.

                                1893

                                Wilfred Owen was born. He is famous for his war poetry, inspired by his WW1 service in the Manchester Regiment. He was killed on 4th November 1918.

                                Anthem for Doomed Youth
                                What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
                                -Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
                                Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
                                Can patter out their hasty orisons.
                                No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
                                Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
                                The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
                                And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
                                What candles may be held to speed them all?
                                Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes
                                Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
                                The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
                                Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
                                And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

                                Wilfred Owen. August 1917.



                                1940

                                At a meeting at the Brenner Pass between Mussolini and Hitler, the Italians agree to join the war against Britain and France.

                                Died

                                1915

                                10884 Pte Patrick Murphy, 1st Bn Connaught Rangers. DOW Western Front. From Lismore, Co. Waterford.

                                7181 Pte John Tobin, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. DOW Western Front. From Ring, Co. Waterford.

                                1943

                                Able Seaman Robert Morrow. Merchant Navy aboard the SS Dafila. Husband of Mary Morrow, Dun Laoighre, Co. Dublin. Age 57.

                                1944

                                Second Radio Officer Peter Quinn. Merchant Navy aboard the SS Nancy Moller. Son of Andrew and Nora Quinn, Gort, Co. Galway. Age 20.

                                1967

                                SP4 Michael Smith from Cavan, 4th Inf Div, US Army. In Vietnam.
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