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Remembered Today:

Durham WFA : 'Dying for Britain: the Easter Rising and the Wider War' - a talk by Dr Edward Madigan.


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Thanks, I have emailed them to see if they will let me view it

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8 hours ago, corisande said:

Thanks, I have emailed them to see if they will let me view it

Did you get an email with the link? Mine arrived a short while ago.

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I have not got it yet, but you asked well before I did :-)

I am optimistic that it will arrive

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No. they were never polite enough to reply either yes or no :-(

Anyway, thanks for highlighting that it was there

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If of interest,  Dublin WFA are holding a session re Brig Gen Gordon Shephard and his involvement in the Howth Gun Running.

2:30pm online, Saturday 11th September. Email dublinwfa@gmail.com

Session to be recorded and available a few days later.

https://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Local-History-Meetup/events/280282479/

https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/branches/republic-of-ireland/dublin/events/gordon-shephard-the-man-who-never-was/

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13 hours ago, corisande said:

No. they were never polite enough to reply either yes or no :-(

Anyway, thanks for highlighting that it was there

I did receive an email with the link shortly after I requested it, which was after you did.

Ed Madigan's talk was very good, but (naturally) aimed at English viewers, explaining what we all know already. The discussion afterwards was interested and constructive, and it was clear that a lot of it was new to the W.F.A members. What I hadn't known before was that Éamonn Kent's brother, C.S.M. William Kent, was killed in action with the R.D.F. exactly a year after the Rising began: 24th April, 1917.

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Gilbert Barrington's witness statement has some information about the post war creation of ISDL, Volunteer etc branches/companies around Northumberland, Durham etc and a range of incidents, thefts, gun running

https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0773.pdf#page=1

 

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