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  • Just wait til the 6th.
    To close with and kill the enemy in all weather conditions, night and day and over any terrain

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    • June 5th

      1798

      The United Irishmen suffered a defeat at New Ross, Co. Wexford.

      At nearby Scullabogue , the rebels massacred approximately 100 Loyalists by shooting, piking and finally setting fire to a barn in which the survivors had taken cover.

      1855

      The Know-Nothing Party held its first convention in America. They were anti-foreign and anti-Roman Catholic. The party was actually the Order the Star Spangled Banner, members of which had instructions to respond to questions about the order by saying "I know nothing about it. The press dubbed it the"Know Nothing Party". :D

      1868

      James Connolly was born in Edinburgh.

      1916

      Lord Herbert Horatio Kitchener,from Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, died when HMS Hampshire, on which he was sailing to Russia, struck a mine and sank off the Orkneys. He had been Secretary Of War since 1914 and his face appeared on the most famous recruiting poster of all time.

      1967

      The Six Day War erupted in the Middle East as Israel launched a pre-emptive strike on Egyp. Syria, Jordan and Iraq joined in. Jordan lost the West Bank as Israel captured Jerusalem.

      1968

      Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. Kennedy died next day.

      1974

      Mr and Mrs John Hely-Hutchinson, the Earl and Countess of Donoughmore, were kidnapped by the IRA from their home at Knocklofty, Co. Tipperary. They were released four days later in the Phoenix Park.

      Died

      1917

      4680 Pte Richard Cummins, 4th Queen's Own Hussars. He was the husband of Ellen Cummins, of 27, Rivers St., Clonmel, Co. Tipperary and he died on the Western Front.

      1918

      101533 Gunner Patrick Thompson from Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford. He died of wounds on the Western Front serving in the Royal Field Artillery.
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      • June 6th

        1592

        Red Hugh O'Donnell, son of the Earl of Tyrconnell escaped from Dublin Castle and returned to Co. Donegal.

        1739

        John 'Copper-Faced Jack' Scott, Earl of Clonmel was born in Co. Tipperary. He became Attorney General of Ireland in 1777 but was dismissed in 1782 for refusing to acknowledge the right of England to legislate for Ireland. He died in 1798.

        1798

        General Needham reached Arklow in Co. Wicklow.

        Meanwhile in Ulster, rebellion broke out when Henry Joy McCracken issued a proclamation calling United Irishmen in Ulster to arms.

        1944

        The Allies invaded Europe on the day that has become famous as D-Day. It proved to be the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.

        1968

        Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.

        1982

        Israel invaded Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country.

        Died

        1916

        1885 Pte Michael Dobbyn from Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny was Killed in action on the Western Front serving with 6th Bn Royal Irish Regt.

        1921

        Volunteer Patrick Ryan was killed by the Security Forces at his home in Knockfune, Co. Tipperary.

        1941

        Able Seaman Michael Driscoll, son of Patrick and Hanora Driscoll, Cape Clear, Co. Cork died aboard the S.S. Queensbury.

        1944

        14438660 Pte Joseph Mullally, son of Fredrick and Maria Mullally, Moate, Co. Westmeath. KIA Normandy with the Green Howards. He is buried in Bayeux War Cemetery. Age 28.

        1951

        Pte Daniel Harrington, from Co. Cork died in Korea with 25th Division, US Army.
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        • I can't believe there were no Irish casualties from D-Day.
          To close with and kill the enemy in all weather conditions, night and day and over any terrain

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          • 6 June not 5 june
            When I breeze into that city, people gonna stoop and bow.
            All them women gonna make me, teach 'em what they don't know how

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            • Groundhog you're a day fast.
              To close with and kill the enemy in all weather conditions, night and day and over any terrain

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              • I usually post the night before.

                And there most likely were Irish casualties on D-Day. But none from Tipperary, which is the only WW2 list I have. But if every board member commemorated any WW2 casualty from his or her hometown, it would make interesting reading.

                The casualties I commemorate daily are mostly from counties Tipperary and Waterford. The merchant seaman are drawn from the whole country though. During WW1 approx 50,000, Irishmen died. Thats about 1000 commemorations a week or 140 a day. It would be a full time job for one person to compile casualty lists for the whole country.

                Tune in tonight for a preview of the Battle of Messines Ridge.
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                • D-Day - remembering Fethard men who fought in in World War 2

                  The Clonmel Nationalist 5th June 2004.

                  Next Sunday world wide events mark the 60th anniversary of the allied Forces landing on the Normandy beaches in France on what has become universally known as D-Day.

                  RTE promote a special D-Day weekend to mark the occasion. Many of the veterans of that historic event will present in Normandy to mark the occasion and no doubt remember their fallen comrades.

                  D-Day marked the beginning of the end of World War II and it is only fitting we should remember the Fethard men who fought in that terrible conflict of 1939-1945. Killed in action were two Fethard men, Mr Jim Davis, Killusty, died in Belgium and his near neighbour, Rory La Terrier, Kiltinan Castle, was killed in action during the last few days of the North of France campaign.

                  Gus Kenrick, the only Fethard man to actually land on the Normandy beaches, fought throughout the entire campaign. Dick McCormack, Kilnockin, who also kept a day-to-day diary of his experiences, and John Fahy, Crampscastle, landed on the toe of Italy and were engaged in all the major battles in the Italian campaign, including the major battle of Monte Cassino. This battle consisted of four separate battles fought over the course of five months. The key significance of these battles was that it led to the eventual link up between the Allied troops trapped further North and their comrades further south. This link up of forces led to the eventual capture of Rome on June 4th 1944. This was the first Axis capital to fall to the Allies and this event did considerable damage to the enemy’s morale.

                  Jack Grant, The Valley, saw a lot of active service with his regiment, the Irish Guards. Tommy Murphy, also an Irish Guards man, was engaged in action throughout. His mother received a telegram from the War Office stating, "We regret to inform you, that your son Timmy is missing in action believed killed."
                  Tommy, an army-boxing champion, must not have been the best of correspondents. Imagine his mother’s surprise and delight when some three years after receiving the telegram, Tommy, without any prior notice, walked in the door of his family home in Sparagoleith.

                  Tim Vigors, Tullamaine, an RAF fighter pilot, took part in many of the fierce aerial battles over the English southern coastline. Dick Rice of Derryluskin flew 38 bombing missions over Germany with the RAF Bomber Command and returned safely, several times just about, from each one. In the 2,074 days and nights between 3rd September 1939 and 7th - 8th August 1945 a total of 387,416 sorties were flown, over 955,000 tons of bombs were dropped and 8953 aircraft were lost.
                  These were the Fethard men who saw active service with the Allied forces in the Second World War. They were not inclined to speak of their experiences, which were very traumatic. A soldiers first duty when on active service was to kill or be killed. Gus Kenrick did recall that the soldier he stood beside and chatted with on the landing craft going over to France was shot dead in the water on disembarking and never set foot on French soil.

                  Gus, in the homily at his requiem mass, had requested that the congregation pray for his army comrades who died in various parts of the world, especially those who fell on the long road to Bremen.

                  Perhaps this is a good time to remember the Fethard men, especially those who took part in Work War II. We have written the above from memory and no doubt there are many others we have forgotten to mention. There was Dick Nagle, Christy Mathews, Tommy King, Tommy Fitzpatrick, Paddy Madden who served in the RAF Ground Forces. Tommy Fitzpatrick, of all those mentioned, is the only one still with us and still going strong in New York.

                  There must be many out there who recall relatives who took part in the war. The Fethard Historical Society would like to hear from them. The Fethard soldiers of World War íí come from all strata of society — from castle and cottage, from countryside and town — all brought together under a common band.

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                  • June 7th

                    1798

                    Fr James Quigley was executed for treason at Pennington Heath, England. He was a member of the United Irishmen and had been arrested in Margate as he was about to sail to Francewith an invitation to the French Directory to land an army in England in conjunction with rebellion in Ireland.

                    In Wicklow, the Rebels burned Carnew.

                    In Ulster, McCracken’s men took Larne, Ballymena and Randalstown. The Rebels attacked Antrim and Maghea in Co Derry.

                    1855

                    Captain Henry Jones from Dublin was serving at Sebastopol in the Crimea with the 7th Regt of Foot. His regt was involved in taking the area known as the Quarries which they had to defend all night against Russian attack. Though wounded in the initial assault Capt Jones led his company in the defence all night for which he was awarded a Victoria Cross.

                    1910

                    General William Butler died in Bansha, Co. Tipperary.

                    1917

                    The Battle of Messines Ridge began. One of the most successful operations of the war, designed to capture the high ground south-east of Ypres in Belgium as a preliminary to the main offensive planned for that summer which became known as the Battle of Paschendaele.

                    The artillery bombardment began on May 21 and ended at 0250 on 7th June. The Germans rushed from their bunkers to man the trenches. At 0310 the British detonated 19 huge mines, totaling 600 tons of explosive, almost simultaneously under the German positions The defenders were devastated and the British captured all their objectives within three hours.

                    The 16th Irish and 36th Ulster divisions were tasked with capturing the village of Wytschaete on the Ypres to Messines road. Disaster almost struck the 36th when the Spanbrokmoelen mine was detonated late catching the Ulstermen in the open. Mny were killed and injured by falling debris. A few seconds later they would have been on top of the mine.

                    Major Willy Redmond, 6th Bn Royal Irish Regt, MP for Wexford and brother of John Redmond died of wounds received in the attack. He is buried in a field near Locre village. His family have consistently refused to allow his body be moved into Locre Hospice Cemetery, just a few yards away.

                    Near Messines village the Island of Ireland Peace Tower is located as a monument to the Irishmen who died in World War 1. A celtic cross monument to the 16th Irish Division stands just outside Wytschaete on the route over which the Irish troops traveled on June 7th.

                    Two of the mines failed to blow on the morning of the attack and their locations were forgotten. One was detonated by a lightning storm in the 50s and one still remains in the area of Ploegsteert village.


                    1952

                    Liam Neeson was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim

                    1967

                    Israeli troops captured the Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem.

                    1981

                    Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed a nuclear power plant at Osirak, Iraq, before it went into operation. The Israelis claimed it could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

                    1996

                    Detective Garda Jerry McCabe was killed and Det Gda Ben O’Sullivan wounded when the IRA robbed a cash van in Adare, Co. Limerick.

                    Died

                    1917

                    Killed in Action or Died of Wounds at Messines Ridge

                    2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt

                    8763 Pte Michael Burke. Waterford City.

                    4931 Pte John Higgins. Waterford City.

                    4855 Pte John McNamara. Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

                    4692 Pte Thomas Price. Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

                    6th Bn Royal Irish Regt

                    6084 Sgt William Waters. Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

                    4899 L/Cpl John O'Shea. Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

                    11252 Pte Maurice Duggan. Kill, Co. Waterford. Died of wounds. (Below)



                    7th Bn The Leinster Regt

                    3302 A/Sgt. Robert Chambers. Waterford City.

                    8th Bn Gloucestershire Regt

                    19603 Pte John Abbott. Waterford City.

                    1918

                    43018 Lance Cpl. John Buckley from Waterford. City. Killed on the Western Front serving with 7/8th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers.

                    1921

                    Executed in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin


                    Volunteer Edward Foley from Galbally.

                    Volunteer Patrick Maher from Tipperary Town.

                    1944

                    7047510 Rifleman Michael O'Reilly. Son of John and Mary O'Reilly, Dublin. 1st (Airborne) Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles. Age 21. Buried Ranville War Cemetery.

                    Ranville War Cemetery also holds the grave of the youngest British casualty of WW2, Private R.J.Johns, 13th Bn Parachute Regiment. Killed 23rd July 1944, age 16.

                    Two brothers, both Lieutenants in the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, Lt J. Maurice Rousseau, Killed 20th September 1944 and Lt J. Phillippe Rousseau, Killed 7th June 1944 are also buried here.

                    1967

                    Comdt Thomas Wickham died serving with UNTSO.
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                    • June 8th

                      1798

                      The Arklow garrison was reinforced by the arrival of Needham’s troops.

                      In Co. Wexford, The rebels moved camp from Carrickbyrne to Slievecoilte.

                      In Ulster, General Nugent offered amnesty to rank and file rebels. Consequently the rebel forces in Antrim began to disintegrate.

                      1857

                      At Delhi, India, Colour-Sergeant Cornelius Coughlan of the 75th Foot, went under heavy fire, with three others, into a serai occupied by many mutineers and rescued a private of the regiment who was severely wounded.

                      On 18 July he encouraged a party to charge down a lane lined on each side with huts and raked by cross-fire. He went with the party into an enclosure filled with the enemy and accounted for all of them. He then returned under cross-fire to collect dhoolies and carry off the wounded.

                      For these acts he was awarded a Victoria Cross. Cornelius Coughlan was born in Co. Galway in 1862 and died in Mayo in 1915.

                      Also in Delhi a retired Sergeant named Henry Hartigan of the 9th Lancers went to the assistance of another sergeant who was wounded, dismounted and surrounded by the enemy, carrying the casualty to safety. Henry obviously came out of retirement because in October he went to the assistance of another sergeant who was being attacked by four rebels. He seized a sword from one of them, killed another and wounded two more. He was wounded during this action but recovered to be commissioned a Lieutenant and be awarded a VC.

                      1922

                      Six great regiments of the British Army died as the Royal Irish Regt, Royal Munster Fusiliers, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the Connaught Rangers, The Leinster Regt and the South Irish Horse laid up their colours at Windsor .



                      1940

                      H.M.S. Glorious was sunk in action against the Scharnhorst and the Gneiseau along with her two escorting destroyers while en route from Norway to Scapa Flow. She had been engaged in the evacuation of British troops from Norway.

                      1981

                      Thomas McElwee began a hunger strike in the Maze prison.

                      1982

                      48 British soldiers and sailors died when the Argentinian air force bombed the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram at Bluff Cove in the Falklands.
                      Most of the casualties were Welsh Guardsmen.

                      1997

                      Fianna Fáil won the general election.

                      2001

                      We rejected the Nice Treaty in a referendum. It was passed in the second referendum in 2002.

                      Died

                      1942

                      Captain William Jennings, Master of the SS Rosenborg from Rathmullen, Co. Donegal.

                      1972

                      Garda Inspector Samuel Donegan was killed by a roadside bomb in Co. Fermanagh. He had crossed the border by mistake.
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                      • We have been stuck with FF/PDs since 97???? No wonder the country is in a mess! Time for a change i think..

                        A Lot of people done,a lot more to do..that was their slogan,wasnt it?


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

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                        • June 9th

                          1798

                          The United Irishmen attacked Arklow and were defeated with heavy losses.

                          In Co. Down, the rebels took Saintfield and repulsed a Government attack.. Newtownards was occupied after the garrison abandoned the town.

                          The rebels launched an unsuccessful attack on Portaferry.

                          1866

                          In Quebec, Canada, a fire broke out in a railway car containing 2000lb. of ammunition which was being escorted by a party of the 1st Bn The Rifle Brigade. The car was disconnected at Danville Railway Station. While the sergeant in charge dithered, an Irish Private named Timothy O'Hea opened the car and proceeded to fight the fire. It was due to his example that the train and probably the town of Danville was saved. He was awarded a Victoria Cross, unusual in that he was not in combat at the time.

                          1940

                          Norway surrendered to the Germans.

                          1983

                          Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives were returned to power in Britain.

                          Died

                          1917

                          10282 Pte James Freeman, 6th Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died of wounds on the Western Front. From Dungarvan.

                          1940

                          D/MX55952 LSBA Marcus Fogarty, Killenaule Co. Tipperary. Royal Navy. Died at Sea aboard H.M.S. Glorious . He is commemorated on the Plymouth Memorial, Panel 42, Column 2.

                          H.M.S. Glorious was sunk on the 8th but Fogarty’s date of death is given as the 9th on the CWGC site.

                          1941

                          Chief Officer Henry Hunter, Merchant Navy. From Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo, he died aboard the MV Silverpalm
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                          • June 10th

                            1798

                            The United Irishmen captured Maynooth and Bangor.

                            1855

                            At Sebastopol, in the Crimea, Private John Lyons from Carlow, serving in the 19th Foot, picked up a live shell which had fallen among his comrades in a trench, and threw it over the parapet. He got a VC for this act. John died in Naas in 1867 but his burial place is unknown.

                            1904

                            James Joyce met Nora Barnacle for the first time.

                            1942

                            The Nazis massacred the inhabitants of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of SS Gen Reinhard Heydrich.

                            1944

                            Frank Ryan who led the Connolly Column against Franco in Spain, died.

                            The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy’s Utah and Omaha beaches, linked-up.

                            Waffen SS troops of the Das Reich Division massacred 642 civilians in Oradour-sur-Glane, France. The division was traveling to the front at Normandy, dogged by Resistance fighters all the way. A battalion commander was abducted in an ambush near Oradour and the inhabitants paid the price.

                            1999

                            After 78 days of bombing, Serbian troops began to evacuate Kosovo.

                            Died

                            1917

                            17431 Sgt Denis Drake, Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford City.

                            307021 Pte David Foley, 8th Bn King's Liverpool Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Aglish, Co. Waterford.

                            43213 Pte David Power, 1st Bn Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford City.

                            1944

                            Second Engineer Officer Thomas Ellis, North Wall, Dublin. Aboard S.S. Brackenfield.

                            Able Seaman Patrick O'Reilly, Kingscourt, Co. Cavan. Aboard the S.S. Dungrange

                            1968

                            Cpl James Fagan died in Cyprus serving with UNFICYP.
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                            • Waffen SS troops of the Das Reich Division massacred 642 civilians in Oradour-sur-Glane, France. The division was traveling to the front at Normandy, dogged by Resistance fighters all the way. A battalion commander was abducted in an ambush near Oradour and the inhabitants paid the price.
                              I believe the Regiment which carried out the massacre was called Der Fuhrer , they also destroyed the village itself and the French left it the way it was after the war, as a monument - there's footage of it in the opening scenes of The World at War, a superb series which takes pride of place in my DVD collection.

                              Were any of the perpetrators punished after the war?
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                              • This article deals a little with the post war trials of those involved but the writer seems to be defending the SS actions so be prepared to be offended.

                                Max Hastings book, Das Reich deals with the subject well.

                                That day, the same troops also captured Violette Szabo, a female SOE agent, dropped into France prior to D-Day. She was executed at Ravensbruck in January 1945, aged 23.

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