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  • #31


    Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.

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    • #32
      this has to be one of the best threads here on IMO

      regards and congrats to GH and the rest of the lads

      snapping away

      I was in Cobh this week end and i legged it out to see the Luisitania Memorial
      Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
      Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
      The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
      The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
      The best lack all conviction, while the worst
      Are full of passionate intensity.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
        this has to be one of the best threads here on IMO

        regards and congrats to GH and the rest of the lads

        snapping away

        I was in Cobh this week end and i legged it out to see the Luisitania Memorial
        So did I. were you in the cemetery yesterday afternoon (monday)?
        Last edited by Groundhog; 10 April 2007, 23:53.
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        My favourite moment was when the
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        • #34
          No I was just passing through

          I didnt regretfully have the time
          Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
          Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
          The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
          The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
          The best lack all conviction, while the worst
          Are full of passionate intensity.

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          • #35
            U shoulda said. I'd have let you buy me a drink.


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

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            • #36
              I was only there literally for the space

              of time that mrs Hog and the Kiddy Hogs and there

              spoilt bastard freind Mark ( mark my words he is going to get a kick from me)

              could use the tiolets and buy cornettos
              Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
              Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
              The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
              The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
              The best lack all conviction, while the worst
              Are full of passionate intensity.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                No I was just passing through

                I didnt regretfully have the time
                I spent a couple of hours there. Well worth the visit and a place that's crying out for an entrepreneur to build a museum/heritage centre nearby. While I was there the Shinners turned up for one of their rallys at the grave of two local boys killed at Clonmult in 1921. I dutifully stood to attention for the minutes silence and the National Anthem, not wanting to let the side down in front of the enemy, whilst sneakily hiding my Man Utd jersey under my jacket. Thank Christ it was cold enough. Another problem was the presence of the Gardai. I'm expecting a summons from the Adjutant to explain why I attended a SF commemoration on Easter Monday.

                Anyway the cemetery contains 80 odd WW1 burials including a Belgian Soldier whom I missed. Most of them are Navy types. In addition there are three mass graves from the Lusitania, a Screen Wall memorial to the merchant seamen and women killed on the liner, a memorial and plot to the men killed on HMS Mars in 1902 and another to those killed on Submarine A5 in 1905. Another mass grave holds the bodies of 17 sailors who died on a RN ship in Cobh in 1805.



                The Republican Plot, Cobh Old Church Cemetery.
                Last edited by Groundhog; 11 April 2007, 18:58.
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                • #38


                  Lusitania Screen Wall Memorial



                  The memorial with the Lusitania graves in front of it marked by the boulders.

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                  • #39


                    The "HMS Mars" Memorial. The crosses in the background mark the A5 Plot.

                    And one of the headstones of the dead crewmen.

                    Last edited by Groundhog; 11 April 2007, 00:37.
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                    • #40
                      There is another monument there to an Admiral stationed on Haulbowline in the early years of the last century. I must add the photos I took from there to this collection. It is an amazing graveyard. So much history in a small place.
                      Nice to see the Commonwealth War Graves paying attention to the headstones too.


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

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                      • #41


                        This one is in Castlehyde C of I Churchyard near Fermoy.
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                        • #42
                          1916 memorial Percy Place, Dublin.





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                          • #43
                            In commemeration of the battle of Mount Street Bridge and in honour of the Irish volunteers who gallantly gave their lives in this area in defence of The Irish Republic, Easter week 1916.
                            Remember their sacrifice and be true to their ideals.
                            God rest the brave.

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                            • #44


                              Ballycumber, Co. Offaly. Below is a headstone to one of the men in the local C of I graveyard.


                              Below is a similar memorial in Rathcormac, Co. Cork.



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                              • #45
                                These 1798 memorials have piqued my interest so if anybody knows where there are similar ones PM me please.
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