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National day of Commemoration This year, as in previous years, the Trust arranged the invitation of some thirty guests to attend the National Day of Commemoration ceremonies at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham on Sunday 13th July 2003. The list of guests was wide ranging and came from all parts of Ireland, North and South. After the ceremony many of them spoke of how impressive and moving the occasion was, and how efficiently the Defence Forces carried out their drills. This is the third year the Trust has arranged for guests to attend and it looks forward to future such events whereby it may further raise awareness of our common heritage throughout the island of Ireland. Curators Get Together In a unique gathering, military museum curators from Northern Ireland met with personnel from Military Archives and the Military Galleries at Collins Barracks, Dublin on the 11th August 2003. The meeting was at the request of the northern curators to discuss a common computer digitalisation of museum records. The September 2003 edition of the Boston Reporter reports “The trustees and staffs of the military museums in Northern Ireland have agreed with the Military Heritage of Ireland Trust to establish links to the museum and archives at Collins Barracks. Linkages will also be established with similar museums and archives elsewhere in Ireland and in due course to others outside of Ireland. Thus, Collins Barracks will be the hub to which those museums and archives
will be connected and through it to each other. This will help to unite all in the promotion of the study and commemoration of Irish men and women who served in military forces on land, sea and in the air, wherever in the world and for whatever country or cause they served”.
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Visit to Armagh
The Trust arranged a visit to Armagh on 10th September 2003. This outing was similar to a visit to Belfast in November 2002 when a number of military museums were visited. This time some thirty guests, shown here, from Dublin and elsewhere in Ireland toured the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum in
The Pipers Memorial
The following Irish regiments are honoured at
Longueval:- Kevin Myers, in a recent report in the Irish Times says of the fallen pipers “they would rise from their trenches and stand on the parapet, summoning the men to follow; then they would turn and march toward the enemy, upright all the way……the men behind could halt or seek cover, but the pipers duty was to lead and to do so without arms or cover”. He goes on to say that after the ceremony “the pipers began to play, soft at first, then mounting in passion. And over the fields beyond Longueval came the echoing skirls from those pipers who long ago left their bones and their pipes in Picardy. They thought they had been forgotten. They hadn’t”. The Hibernian United Services Club LibraryThe Hibernian United Services Club Library donated their Club Library to the Trust in June 2003. It is agreed that the Club Library and Records will be permanently deposited with Military Archives in Cathal Brugha Barracks. Your news and views... Let us know if you have any tips or words of advice for our readers... |
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Armagh where they received a warm welcome from the trustees and staff. An excellent lunch in the Armagh City Hotel was hosted by the North South Ministerial Council Joint Secretariat and this was followed by a guided tour of the Archbishop Robinson Armagh Library and the Church of Ireland St. Patricks Cathedral. Afterwards the group visited the Cardinal O’Fiaich Memorial Library and Archive and was treated to a lecture on the overseas archive collected by Micheline Kearney Walsh relating to the
service of Irish soldiers who served in the armies of France and Spain, followed by a tour of the Roman Catholic St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Many of the group commented afterwards on how such visits help to awaken awareness of our common heritage, both North and South.
