Council restores freedom honour for Great War earl

A PIECE of Ireland’s World War One history was re-written last night in Limerick when the Freedom of the City was restored posthumously to the Fourth Earl of Dunraven, who died in 1928.

Council restores freedom honour for Great War earl

Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin was stripped of the honour after supporting a move in 1918 by the British government to introduce conscription to the British army in Ireland to help the war effort.

The Fourth Earl was made a Freeman of the city on December 7, 1915, but the city council revoked the decision at a meeting on May 2, 1918.

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