Organisation: Dublin Fusiliers

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Life and potential lost on the battlefield: Ireland’s First World War soldiers

From shoe box to window box, Tom Burke recalls the journey of Ireland’s First World War soldiers on eve of the centenary of the November 11, 1918, armistice.

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Five Irish people share their favourite poems of all time

travel

Weekend break: Fitzwilliam Hotel, Dublin

100th anniversary ceremonies heal old war wounds for Irish soldiers

news

Belfast and Dublin Mayors pay tribute to Irish war dead

Let’s honour Great War dead as our own

The women’s volunteer army that kept Irishmen clothed and fighting fit on the western front

IT was October 1914, two months after the outbreak of the Great War.

Mon, 17 Apr, 2006

Take a trip back to Easter 1916 - with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers

ON April 27, 1916, three days after Patrick Pearse stepped onto the portico of the General Post Office in Dublin to proclaim the new Irish Republic, 2,128 men of the 16th (Irish) Division suffered horrifically from a German gas attack.

Mon, 10 Apr, 2006