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  • IRELAND AND WORLD WAR ONE at the National Museum of Ireland

    Join us on Saturday, 12th November 2011 for a day of talks and events on

    IRELAND AND WORLD WAR ONE at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.

    Please feel free to forward the programme flyer (pdf file below) to colleagues or friends and to display it in your institution.



    The last Absolution of the Royal Munster Fusiliers at Rue de Bois, 1915



    Kind regards,

    Edith Andrees

    Education & Outreach Department

    National Museum of Ireland -

    Decorative Arts & History

    Collins Barracks

    Benburb Street

    Dublin 7



    T: (00353) 01 6486441

    Email: eandrees@museum.ie

    Attached Files
    "Fellow-soldiers of the Irish Republican Army, I have just received a communication from Commandant Pearse calling on us to surrender and you will agree with me that this is the hardest task we have been called upon to perform during this eventful week, but we came into this fight for Irish Independence in obedience to the commands of our higher officers and now in obedience to their wishes we must surrender. I know you would, like myself, prefer to be with our comrades who have already fallen in the fight - we, too, should rather die in this glorious struggle than submit to the enemy." Volunteer Captain Patrick Holahan to 58 of his men at North Brunswick Street, the last group of the Four Courts Garrison to surrender, Sunday 30 April 1916.
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