1916 Commemoration -Fingal Brigade

dslamjack

With 1916 ,the rising being commemorated,it is only proper we remember our own hero's of the rising here in Fingal.
A relative of mine gave this account ...http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0142.pdf

There is also an old thread started by Corsendonk in 2011 here which I did't revive because of the time lapse,but which non the less is excellent. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056177665

Fingal Brigade - Irish Volunteers - 1916 Battle of Ashbourne -Roll of Honour

The following is a list of Volunteers who were involved in the fighting at Ashbourne County Meath.

Commandant Thomas Ashe
Richard Aungier
Peadar Blanchfield
Thomas Blanchfield
Paddy Brogan
James Connor
John Crenigan, known as Jack, aged 21. Killed in Action. Was employed by the Dublin Tram Company.
John Devine
Francis Daly
Paddy Doyle
Richard Duke
Thomas Duke
Walter Farrelly
Michael Fleming
Jerry Golden
Jack Gowan
Paddy Grant
Dr Richard Hayes medical officer. He had been the Officer Commanding resigned in favour of Ashe. Became a TD (Teachta Dála Member of the Irish Parliament).
Paddy Houlihan or Holohan
James Kelly
Matthew Kelly
Edmund Kent
Colm Lawless
Frank Lawless, Quarter-Master later became a TD.
Jim Lawless Captain.
Joseph Lawless
Bennie McAllister
John McAllister
Michael McAllister
John McCann
James McArdle
Patrick McArdle
Tom Maxwell
Richard Mulcahy, Vice-Commandant. Initially posted at the G.P.O. Connolly sent him to Howth to cut the undersea telephone wires between Dublin and London, unable to return to Dublin he went to Ashbourne where Ashe appointed him Vice-Commandant. He succeeded Michael Collins as Commander in Chief of the Free State Army.
Éamonn Murphy
William Norton
Christy Nugent
James O’Connor
Arthur O’Reilly
Jack Rafferty
Thomas Reilly
Edward Rooney Captain
James Rooney
Paddy Sheehan
Ned Stafford
Joe Taylor
Nicholas Teeling
Joe Thornton
William Walsh
Bartle Weston
Charles Weston

Three women also took part in the battle acting as messengers and attending the wounded.

Molly Adrian, messenger.
Monica Fleming
Eileen Lawless

Some useful links http://irishmedals.org/fingal-volunteers.html

http://www.rollofhonourirl.com/info.php

http://www.swords-dublin.com/richard-coleman.html

http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/

https://www.google.ie/search?q=fingal+brigade+old+ira&rlz=1C2ASRM_enIE569IE569&biw=1120&bih=617&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUsaif9s7KAhWLmh4KHTQZB4IQsAQITA&dpr=1.5

The Scientician

It's worth popping into Swords Museum, Carnegie Free Library, North St, Swords some afternoon for a chat with Bernadette Marks. She has a wealth of information on these brave volunteers and various other matters Fingal historical!

dslamjack

Cumman na mban's Fingal brigade also played a huge part in the rising and later events.
It is also right and proper that these extremely brave women be remembered not only for their role in the rising but in establishing some of the first root's of women's emancipation in the country in the years following the rising and beyond.

Some really useful links detailing these brave women from Fingal,and their role in the rising.

https://www.google.ie/search?q=cumman+na+mban+fingal+1916&sa=N&rlz=1C2ASRM_enIE569IE569&biw=1120&bih=617&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwjki4jpstHKAhXDog4KHW-RAIU4ChCwBAg6&dpr=1.5

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/lifestyle/women-of-fingal-who-played-their-part-in-1916-27770149.html

http://www.ireland.ie/events/fingal-1916-centenary-exhibition

https://www.facebook.com/www.1916uprising.ie/posts/937344163006617

http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/docs/files//PDF_Membership/9/MA-MSPC-CMB-124.pdf

http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/detail.aspx?parentpriref=

dslamjack

As Fingal County Council unveiled many of the projects that it will support with funding for the county's 1916 centenary commemoration, it told local groups there is still time to apply to the 'Centenary Fund' for backing for centenary-related projects and events.

Full story in this week's Fingal Independent ...http://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/news/1916-centenary-funding-unveiled-34474593.html

dslamjack

Originally posted by The Scientician --- It's worth popping into Swords Museum, Carnegie Free Library, North St, Swords some afternoon for a chat with Bernadette Marks. She has a wealth of information on these brave volunteers and various other matters Fingal historical!

I stopped off at the old Carnegie library,but found it is now home to Swords Boxing club.
I googled Swords museum and got ...http://www.swordsheritage.com/ ... no address on the site for it's location,but haven't had a chance to look at the site properly yet,the site looks very interesting I have to say ,will have a read and let ye know.

pinkypinky

The museum is upstairs in the Carnegie library. It's only open on weekday afternoons, afaik.

dslamjack

Ten million historical records from Catholic parishes published online ....Full RTE story http://www.rte.ie/news/player/2016/0301/20944135-ten-million-historical-records-from-catholic-parishes-published-online

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/?ie=true&s_tnt=80804:0:0

dslamjack

The final last letters before death ...before being shot at dawn ... they speak for themselves ..

http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie/explore/search/Y2F0ZWdvcnk9MTIs

The main archive .. Letter's of 1916 ....http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie/explore/browse/all

dslamjack

Fingal Easter 1916 Commemoration ... Battle of Ashbourne ... the 5th battalion (Fingal Brigade) of the Irish Volunteers .

Synchronised wreath-laying ceremonies will be held at 1.15pm – the time that the first shots of the 1916 Rising were fired. These will take place in Ashbourne, Athenry, Cork City and Enniscorthy.

A re enactment of the battle of Ashbourne and a wreath laying ceremony will take place on Easter Monday, March 28th, 2016. The event includes a re-enactment of the Battle of Ashbourne which commences at 10.45am and a State ceremonial event commencing at 12.15pm to commemorate the centenary of the Battle. Two wreaths, presented by the Defence Forces, will be laid at the Monument at Rath Cross at 1.15pm. The event also includes the unveiling of a memorial plaque.
Meath County Council is accepting expressions of interest from members of the public who would like to attend the State Ceremonial event. The re-enactment event is by ticket only and this is now fully booked.
Due to the layout of the location at Rath Cross, numbers are limited - standing room only. Admittance is by ticket only. The total expected duration of the event is 3 hours.
The other big ceremony for Fingal will be on Sunday, April 24th, the chronological start of the Rising. There will be a a parade, bands, re-enactments and the launch of a public arts project in Swords Castle.

Some use full link's ...http://www.irishtimes.com/1916

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/fingal-to-remember-battle-of-ashbourne-as-part-of-rising-events-1.2548495

http://www.fingal.ie/media/Fingal%202016%20Centenary%20Programme.pdfhttp

http://www.ireland.ie/events/state-ceremonial-events-around-country

http://www.ireland.ie/events/fingal-1916-centenary-commemorative-day

http://www.ireland.ie/fingal

Transport ...http://www.transportforireland.ie/

dslamjack

Very interesting and informative thread here ...http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056785206 on the Rising.

It has picture's and information on the gunboat Helga which shelled the GPO ,but later was renamed the Muirchú https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_patrol_vessel_Muirch%C3%BA ... by the new Irish state.

And a detailed map showing the damage to the city centre ....http://www.swilson.info/maps/1916map.php

dslamjack

A statement given by Lieut Joe Lawless ,5 brigade Fingal Irish Volunteers .

Some years ago (in 1925, to he precise) I compiled the
following list of the names of those Fingallians who marched into
the G.P.O. from Finglas Camp on Tuesday, 25th April 1916:

Captain Richard Coleman, Swords.
Dan Brophy, Swords Edward Lawless, Rathbeal
James Crennigan, Roganstown. James Wilson, Balheary
Wm. (Beck) Wilson, Balheary. Joe Norton, Mt.
Thomas Peposrd, Lusk John Clarke, Lusk
Jack Hynes, Lusk. Paik. Caddell, Lusk
Dick Kelly, Corduff. Patk. Kelly, Corduff.
Peter Wilson, Balheary Wm. (Cooty) Wilson, Swords.
Jack Kelly, Swords James Marks, Swords.
John McNally, Lusk Wm. Meehan, Lusk.
Wm. Doyle, Swords.

Of these men, one, William Wilson of Swords, (nicknamed
Cooty), was killed in the defence of The Mendicity Institute,
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where some of than were sent to reinforce the garrison under
Sean Heuston. The remainder formed part of the garris one
of Kelly's shop at the corner of Bachelors Walk and the
Metropole Hotel.

Taken from an account given by Lieut Joe Lawless ,5 brigade Fingal Irish Volunteers

http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1043.pdf

dslamjack

Let me Carry your Cross for Ireland, Lord

by Thomas Ashe



Let me carry your Cross for Ireland, Lord
The hour of her trial draws near,
And the pangs and the pains of the sacrifice
May be borne by comrades dear.

But, Lord, take me from the offering throng,
There are many far less prepared,
Through anxious and all as they are to die
That Ireland may be spared.

Let me carry your Cross for Ireland, Lord
My cares in this world are few.
And few are the tears will for me fall
When I go on my way to You.

Spare. Oh! Spare to their loved ones dear
The brother and son and sire.
That the cause we love may never die
In the land of our Heart's desire!

Let me carry your Cross for Ireland, Lord!
Let me suffer the pain and shame
I bow my head to their rage and hate,
And I take on myself the blame.
Let them do with my body whate'er they will,
My spirit I offer to You.
That the faithful few who heard her call
May be spared to Roisin Dubh.

Let me carry your Cross for Ireland, Lord!
For Ireland weak with tears,
For the aged man of the clouded brow,
And the child of tender years;
For the empty homes of her golden plains;
For the hopes of her future, Too!
Let me carry your Cross for Ireland, Lord!
for the cause of Roisin Dubh.

From Corduff N.S ...http://corduffns.scoilnet.ie/ourschool/lusk%20history/thomas_ashe_poem.html

http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=SamuelsBox4_001


Commandant Thomas Ashe ..

dslamjack

Its amazing what you come across, I was reading the revolution papers issue 10 about Thomas Ashe ..I'm not a man given to poetry but after hearing part of that poem(above) on an RTE trailer for 1916 ,I had to post it.
Anyway I digress,tucked in the back of issue 10 was an article about a compensation claim made about the Skerries boat a schooner the Kangaroo,sunk by a German U Boat 20 miles of south of Tuskar Rock on june 18th 1917.
The widow of John Adams,Annie of great strand street and the widow Catherine and daughter Jane Mary of Luke Carr ,Church st Skerries.
The sum of 300 pounds had been lodged in court at Green Street,the court was adjourned ,so there was no mention of the level of compensation paid or not.
There was also Capt James Mansfield of Strand St and able seaman John Ryan an only son of Cross St.
Anyway a very sad story of 4 lives lost at sea amid a great war,lost in the pages of time,but a part of our local history,all the more because I have passed the memorial at Red Island countless times without reading the plaque.
The Skerries Sea Pole Memorial remembers and honours 271 men and ships connected with the Skerries port who have no grave but the sea.
They say ye live and learn ..it's true ..a full account is here ...http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=117837778

dslamjack

I ,like many of you will know about Balbriggan been burnt to the ground (part's of it)by the black and tan's in 1920(I know not exactly 1916).
But I came across an account by Micheal Rock of North Main St ,Sword's ... an excerpt of which is below,of how Balbriggan came to be burnt in the first place.
Also the name's of volunteer's that give their name to area's we now all know around us.

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On 20th September 1920, I went into Balbriggan to meet
Derham to fix up the details of paying expenses and so forth
in connection with the sports meeting. Derham and I were in
a publichouse opposite Derham's. William Corcoran came in
and informed me that there was a crowd of Black and Tans in
another publichouse in the town who were acting in a very
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rowdy manner. I had no gun, but Corcoran got me one and also
one for himself, and he came with me. We went to the back
door of the publichouse where the Tans were and, with the
guns in our hands, entered and ordered them to clear out.
Amongst tile party of Tans who were seemingly unarmed, but who
we knew always carried some type of small arms, were two
Head Constables -
two brothers named Burke from Kerry.
As we entered we could see that the Tans had hold of a man
named Monks, and some other civilians who had been drinking
in the pub. When I ordered them to clear out, instead of
doing so, they made a rush at me and I had no option but to
fire. I shot one of the Head Constables dead and wounded
the other, who later recovered, and then my pal and I cleared
out the back door and got safely away. The Derhams, Lawless,
Gibbons and others were warned not to stay at home that night.
The Tans came back in force to Balbriggan that night
and looted and burned the town. They burned some thirty
houses including woollen factory. They took out Lawless
and Gibbons who had remained in their homes despite the
warning they had got, and shot the two dead. An ex-British
army soldier, who went by the name of Jack Straw - which was
not his real name, guided the Tans around the town and
pointed out to them the houses to burn. Straw was not a
native of the area. He was subsequently arrested by us for
the part he played that night, and was duly executed.
Dr. Fulham of Balbriggan was able to dissuade the Tans
from burning several other houses in the town.
The British learned that I was the principal person
concerned in the shooting affair in the publichouse, and
they Searched far and wide for me. I was truly on the run
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now. They had raided ray house several times before that
incident, but now the murder gang, which had been organised
inside the camp, visited my home several times.
Subsequent. to the burning of Balbriggan, the Black and
Tans went to Skerries and took two Volunteers from their homes
and shot them dead. One was Volunteer John Sherlock and-the
other was Volunteer Hand. This was purely an act of blackguardism
and provocation on the part of the Tans. There was
no incident whatsoever in Skerries that would have given the
Tans any excuse for this outrage.
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I'm not trying to stir old hostilities or any such nonsense,History can only hurt us if we don't learn from it ..I just thought that this personal account of that terrible time in our history was worth mentioning.

General Robert E Lee said,it's well that war is so terrible,lest we grow too fond of it ... and General William Tecumseh Sherman said "I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation."

opp's forgot the link's ...http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1398.pdf#page=14

http://www.cairogang.com/other-people/british/castle-intelligence/thomson/straw/straw.html

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiIwoXJhPbLAhXGLg8KHTq-BYkQFgg-MAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D656218394393756%26id%3D224048917610708&usg=AFQjCNHYEVC_-Ugsqjlvss_v52Mm-HvXrg
http://visitbalbriggan.com/the-sack-of-balbriggan/

Mearly

Patrick Joseph Early and Peter Kelly from Swords should also be included in your list of names. Both ended up in Frongoch as a result of their activities in Ashbourne and surrounds.

dslamjack

Originally posted by Mearly -- Patrick Joseph Early and Peter Kelly from Swords should also be included in your list of names. Both ended up in Frongoch as a result of their activities in Ashbourne and surrounds.

Welcome to Boards Mearly,I don't think a lot of the lists are complete,I copied the main list here -- http://www.swords-dublin.com/richard-coleman.html ,but if you have any personal information on the 2 members maybe contact Brendan Keenan on the site above or http://irishvolunteers.org/ or as The Scientician sugested above .. Bernadette Marks below in the Swords Museum, Carnegie Free Library, North St, Swords.
I still haven't managed to get in to the museum yet,but you never stop learning about the Fingal Brigade another account here , http://www.militaryheritage.ie/wepher/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The_Fingal_Battalion.pdf