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  • Howth Gun Running and Bachelor's Walk Massacre Commemoration

    Programme Of Events For Asgard Centenary Commemoration

    The official commemoration of the Asgard's landing of arms at Howth will take place on Sunday 27 July

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    'in memory of the four members of the public shot at Bachelors Walk on Dublin's North Quays.'

    Hardly a massacre when four rioters are killed by hard pressed troops forced to defend themselves.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Battletour View Post
      'in memory of the four members of the public shot at Bachelors Walk on Dublin's North Quays.'

      Hardly a massacre when four rioters are killed by hard pressed troops forced to defend themselves.
      One of the victims was the mother of a Irish soilder serving in the British Army at the time. Windy tossers

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        She was the mother of a British soldier.

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          The extraordinary story of the Asgard and the Howth Gunrunning, 100 years ago

          Shortly before noon on a hot, blue-skied Sunday morning in July 1914, a white sail floated out from behind Lambay Island and began to nonchalantly make its way towards the small port of Howth, on the home straight from one of the most daring gunrunning missions in modern history.

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            State commemoration of the Howth Gun Running 27th July 2014

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