Guest wrighty Posted 27 September , 2005 Share Posted 27 September , 2005 Is it true there are no war memorials in the Republic of Ireland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swizz Posted 27 September , 2005 Share Posted 27 September , 2005 Not true at all - check out this website: http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carninyj Posted 27 September , 2005 Share Posted 27 September , 2005 There are some. Have a look at this site. Regards Carninyj http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carninyj Posted 27 September , 2005 Share Posted 27 September , 2005 Swizz, sorry for the replication. You obviously type faster than I do. Regards Carninyj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desmond7 Posted 27 September , 2005 Share Posted 27 September , 2005 aw shucks .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swizz Posted 28 September , 2005 Share Posted 28 September , 2005 funny we all tried to answer this query within the same 15 minute period! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wrighty Posted 28 September , 2005 Share Posted 28 September , 2005 Thanks everyone. the reason i asked was that someone told me that Ireland had no monument until 1994? Perhaps, could it have been national monument like the cenotaph in London? Anyway the story was, that as the rest of Europe was gathering in normandy for the 50th D-Day anniversary every nation, whose troops were there that day, was represented by its head of state except for Ireland. So feeling a bit miffed and left out the Irish government commissioned a national monument dedicated to all the Irishmen that fell in both world wars. is this true or terribly exaggerated or wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Pegum Posted 28 September , 2005 Share Posted 28 September , 2005 the reason i asked was that someone told me that Ireland had no monument until 1994? Anyway the story was, that as the rest of Europe was gathering in normandy for the 50th D-Day anniversary every nation, whose troops were there that day, was represented by its head of state except for Ireland. So feeling a bit miffed and left out the Irish government commissioned a national monument dedicated to all the Irishmen that fell in both world wars. Like all stories, there is a grain of truth in this. The Irish Memorial at Messines in Belgium, to those who died in the Great War, was built as the result of a North/South joint project of reconciliation, and opened by President Mary McAleese, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth and King Albert, on 10th November, 1998. It had nothing to do with being "miffed" at being left out of the D-Day celebrations!. The Irish Government wouldn't have expected to be there, even though an estimated 78,000 volunteers from the Irish Free State, as it then was, served in the British armed forces in WW II. There are many war memorials in the Irish Republic. I have recorded over 200 and there are many more, most of them to the Great War but many to WW II. The biggest is the National War Memorial in Dublin, opened in the 1930s, and here is a photo. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockney tone Posted 29 September , 2005 Share Posted 29 September , 2005 Wrighty, (and others) Great thread, thank you for the education, Cheers, Scottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wrighty Posted 30 September , 2005 Share Posted 30 September , 2005 aye, thanks everyone for putting me straight on this subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Pegum Posted 2 October , 2005 Share Posted 2 October , 2005 I was very pleased to read about the memorial to Cornelius Coughlan, V.C., too. However, this is not strictly a war memorial. Sergeant Major (or Colour Sergeant) Coughlan died in Westport, Co. Mayo on 14th February, 1915, aged 86. Of course, you might have guessed that he wasn't involved in the Great War, his V.C. having been won in 1857! Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markinbelfast Posted 3 October , 2005 Share Posted 3 October , 2005 Limerick 1955 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markinbelfast Posted 17 October , 2005 Share Posted 17 October , 2005 http://tinypic.com/lig3p found this on te web today.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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