Willie Redmond
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Merrion Square open-air art gallery makes a welcome return
- Fine Art & Antiques
- June 6, 2020, 06:00
The Merrion Square outdoor art gallery, which has been running every Sunday since 1985, is now exhibiting again after the restrictions on open-air mar(...)

Legal profession honours members of the Bar killed in the first World War
- Crime & Law
- November 10, 2018, 14:28
A ceremony has taken place to remember the members of the Bar who were killed in the first World War. One in five Irish barristers who signed up to (...)

Go skiing with Coppers in the Italian Alps for €579
- Travel
- February 15, 2018, 12:00
Island hopping in Croatia Go island-hopping and exploring the rocky coast of Croatia in a deluxe yacht. Just picture yourself island-(...)

There is a photograph in the Redmond family collection which may well be the last one taken of Major Willie Redmond MP. Redmond, who is wearing his (...)

A year when the Allies snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
- Heritage
- May 22, 2017, 15:00
Having suffered enormous casualties during the defence of Verdun and in the big offensives on the Somme, the political leaders and commanders of the A(...)

Ulster and Irish divisions fight side by side at Messines
- Heritage
- May 22, 2017, 05:00
Before any British offensive from the Ypres salient in 1917 could begin, the Wijtschate-Messines ridge at the southern end of the salient had to be ta(...)

Willie Redmond: an Irish patriot and a British soldier
- Heritage
- May 22, 2017, 05:00
On the road between Locre and Kemmel in southwest Flanders, where the land gently rises, there stands a solitary war grave. The grave of Major Willie (...)

Lessons learned and ignored: When two Irish divisions were united in Flanders Fields
- Heritage
- May 22, 2017, 05:00
A digital database of Ireland’s Memorial Records is located at the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium. It can also be accessed online at imr.(...)

Prince Charles honours Easter Rising, war dead in Glasnevin
- Irish News
- May 12, 2017, 15:36
Prince Charles has laid wreaths in honour of the Irish and British people who died in the first and second World Wars and in the Easter Rising at Glas(...)

Tom Kettle: In memory, 100 years after death at the Somme
- Heritage
- September 9, 2016, 21:00
Lt Tom Kettle, B Company, 9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was killed in action on September 9th, 1916, near the village of Ginchy in northern F(...)