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.

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.