My Jimdo Geocities Lifeboat
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By Alex Traub
Jan. 2, 2024
On certain rare occasions, ordinary people in the midst of an average day have changed history.
In 1947, Muhammad edh-Dhib, a young Bedouin shepherd looking for a sheep gone astray, discovered a hidden cave that contained the Dead Sea Scrolls, the earliest known version of most of the Hebrew Bible. Making his rounds one night in 1972, Frank Wills, a Washington, D.C., security guard, noticed a piece of tape holding a lock open in a building where he worked — and as a result he exposed the Watergate break-in, ultimately leading to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.
But neither of them shaped as many lives as directly as Maureen Flavin, a postal clerk on a remote stretch of the northwest Irish coast who, in 1944, on her 21st birthday, helped determine the outcome of the Second World War.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/world/europe/maureen-sweeney-dead.html
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By Joe Bukuras
CNA Staff, Jan 4, 2024 / 17:00 pm
A Lebanese Hezbollah-aligned group is calling for an investigation into two Catholic bishops for allegedly committing treason by meeting with the president of Israel.
The two bishops, who oversee dioceses in Israel, were said to have attended a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog that is held annually by the president for Christian leaders in the Holy Land just before Christmas.
It is a crime in Lebanon for any Lebanese citizen to have contact with Israel, under the country’s 1955 anti-normalization laws. There is, however, an exception for religious leaders to minister to congregations living in Israel. Those freedoms, however, have been challenged in past years.
The crime of treason carries severe penalties ranging from a fine and up to life in prison, and death in cases involving armed conflict, Walid Phares, a Lebanese-American author and expert on the Middle East, told CNA.
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Civil War
https://echoesofcivilwar.com/news/
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https://youtu.be/8V-pVGMYmyk
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Newsletter 24 April 2023
From Maine Valley Post May 2023
Irish Volunteers member, Jeremiah ‘Jerh’ O’Leary’s murder at the hands of the ‘Free State’ garrison at Hartnett’s Corner on May 29th 1923 is to be commemorated at the Republican Graves in Kilbannivane and at the monument to his deeds and memory in Scartaglen.
The events will be held on Monday, May 29th at 8pm at Kilbannivane Cemetery and on Saturday, June 3rd at 8pm. in Scartaglen.
Jeremiah O’Leary (1895-1923) or Jerh Leary as he was better known – was born in 1895 at Mount Scartaglen to parents James Jeremiah O’Leary ‘Jim Leary’ and Hanna Scanlon, Knockafrechane, Brosna. Hanna’s parents were Edmond Scanlon and Catherine Horan, Knochafrechane.
Jerh was the eldest child, an only boy with four sisters: Ellie ‘Nell’ O’Loughlin, Cordal; Kate O’Connor, Mount, Scartaglin; Maggie Brosnan, Castleisland and and Nora, Sister Kevin, FCJ;
Plans for the Farm
Jerh was destined to follow in his father’s footsteps into farming. He had plans for the family farm at Mount and he was an avid reader of science books and political literature.
His books remained at the homestead at Mount Scartaglin. Jerh loved nature and talked about planting rows of indigenous trees on all boundary ditches on ‘his’ farm. He joined the Irish Volunteers the night of the rising in 1916, and in July 1921 he became Vice
OC to Humphrey Murphy.
He was captured and surrendered without a shot on May 28th 1923 at Kilmurry House in Cordal, and brought to the Free State HQ at Hartnett’s Corner, Castleisland.
Shut the Gate Ploy
The following morning, May 29th at 11.30am he was ordered outside to ‘shut the gate’ and he was fatally shot from behind.
Jerh was killed a month after April 30th 1923 when Frank Aiken had called an end to IRA military operations, following the death of Liam Lynch, and five days following the May 24th ceasefire ordered by Frank Aiken, an order Éamon de Valera supported.
http://www.mainevalleypost.com/2023/05/13/free-state-murder-of-jeremiah-oleary-to-be-marked-in-castleisland-and-scartaglen/?fbclid=IwAR1_lc5gpP7pQeF27L4nraicdbkhgn6Yv68EgnstUFkmV855bdQOv6cfnuI
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Dr. Tim Horgan’s Oration at Ballyseedy Centenary Commemoration
Posted on March 8th, 2023
Dr. Tim Horgan who delivered the oration at the Ballyseedy Commemoration on Sunday and also at the Republican Graves in Kilbanivane, Castleisland on Tuesday evening – which will be published here on Thursday morning. ©Photograph: John Reidy
Oration at Ballyseedy Centenary Commemoration
By Dr Tim Horgan
And so it began, in 1916, with these immortal words: “Irishmen and Irishwomen, in the name of God and the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.”
Ireland did summon her children to her flag and her sons did strike for her freedom. Many young men from County Kerry would answer that summons.
They would see their comrades fall at Lispole, at Headford and at Gortaglanna. But on they fought.
They would take what England would not give, they would succeed where heroic generations before them had failed, they would drive the forces of the Crown from our county, but alas, alas, not from Ireland.
Pearse and Connolly
The Republic of Pearse and Connolly was not to be. Ireland would be ruled not by Britain but for Britain.
The British general, Bernard Montgomery, writing at the time to a fellow officer stated that he agreed with Lloyd George when he signed the Treaty.
The British Army, Montgomery suggested, would in time have defeated the republicans, but the rebellion would only have broken out again. It was better to give the Irish a degree of self-rule and they would do to each other what the British could not do to them. After eight hundred years, the English knew the Irish well.
An Oath to the Crown
They knew who could be bought and who could be bribed, who could be flattered and who could be fooled. Pragmatism would replace principle, an oath to the Crown would replace an oath to the Republic, a new subservient state would replace our proud nation. Weak hands would tumble what great men had built.
But there are always those would not betray, those could not be bullied or bribed, men who had no price, men who had declared from a Republic and would live under no other law. In Kerry such men were the many and not the few. The eight men who died here were of their people, were of our people, a people who had been dispossessed and displaced, who had been massacred and murdered, who had been starved and exiled.
Out-Gunned – Not Out-Fought
Great men had fought in Kerry’s ditches and bogs, mountains and villages, so that British rule in our land would be no more. They had been out-gunned but not out-fought, they had buried comrades and seen the suffering inflicted on their people. Their rifles had done what generations of rebel pikes and muskets, insurgent spears and swords, had failed to do, it drove the British from County Kerry.
They bought you your liberty, but alas not Ireland its freedom. The task was unfinished. For that freedom they would fight on. The men of Kerry would not be separated from the old Cause except in death, and death did come here at Ballyseedy Cross.
In 1963, John F Kennedy declared that ‘A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but it also by the men it honours, the men it remembers.’
Gathered to Remember
We are gathered here today to honour, to remember eight such great men, for it is such as their idealism and sacrifice that define what the Irish nation is and what the Irish state should be. They died terrible deaths, faithful to cause of Ireland’s freedom and loyal to that cause alone. In 1922, such fidelity had become a crime against the new state and so these eight men would follow the well-trod patriot’s path to death, here at Ballyseedy Cross.
The greatest honour any community on can bestow is that of remembrance. The lives of the dead are placed in the memory of us, the living. It is fitting that we gather here today, not beneath political banners nor to utter hollow slogans, not to garner votes nor increase our profile, but that we assemble here as a community, a people remembering its own.
It’s Our Duty
We have gathered not because we were summoned but because we should, because it’s our duty, because it our small repayment of a large debt that we owe to these eight brave men who paid for our liberty with their lives.
To ignore might be convenient to some, but for us to forget would be to betray. We are proud to remember, for we, the men and women of Kerry, are descendants of a people who rose, were felled but rose again and again, descended from generations who were slaughtered, dispossessed, starved, evicted and exiled, we are of a people who refused to yield, who refused to bow. We will not be told who to commemorate and who to forget. We will remember those eight true men whom Ireland had summoned to her flag to strike for her freedom. We remember those who fell at Ballyseedy Cross.
What the ‘Wise Men’ Told Us
The ‘Wise Men’ have told us that what happened at Ballyseedy is best forgotten, it is not something for modern, mature Ireland to remember. History, like religion, is being pushed from the classroom, the ‘Wise Men’ have decreed that there is now little need for either. Ireland is told what is to be remembered and what is to be forgotten, what is to be commemorated and what is to be ignored, all must rhyme with present day political requirements.
But the history of Ireland is not theirs re-write, not theirs to revise, not theirs to define. Seventy years ago, Ballyseedy had been nudged from the agreed narrative that was beginning to pass as history. But those true to the ‘Old Cause’ rallied to the memory of their fallen comrades.
Exiles Still Remembered
Pence, pounds and dollars were collected, the ordinary people had not forsaken, exiles still remembered. Bronze was fashioned, stone was inscribed, this monument would stand lest any would forget. When it was unveiled, Cáit Larkin, daughter of John O’Connor, who died here, would write; ‘I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I feel for getting this monument erected and my father’s memory dug up from the oblivion to which it was consigned.’
We will be told by historians and politicians that one side in the Civil War was as bad the other, there were dreadful things done by both sides. But that is a lazy and dishonest conclusion.
No Hierarchy of Grief
As a human, I know that there is no hierarchy of grief, as a Christian I cannot but regret the loss of every life, as Irish people we should be embarrassed that we allowed ourselves to be divided by our colonial masters.
However, in our county, there was not an equivalence between those fought to defend the Republic and those who sought to destroy it. There was a difference between those who were tied to a mine here and those who detonated it. There was a difference between those who faced firing squads at Ballymullen Gaol and those who would fire the deadly volleys.
There was a difference between Kerry’s tortured prisoners and their tormentors. There was a difference between the edicts of Bishop O’Sullivan and the laws of God.
History Casts its Judgement
One hundred years later, history has cast its judgement. It is those who suffered the most that are remembered and those that inflicted the most who are forgotten. And so it should be.
A century has passed but their memory has endured. Today we can gather here not in anger, not even in sorrow but in pride, proud to commemorate these eight young soldiers who sought freedom for all of Ireland, a freedom unfettered by foreign interference, a freedom for all Irish people so that they and, they alone, can decide our nation’s destiny.
The victims of war are counted by numbering the dead. But those that suffered most and the longest, are those left behind to mourn.
Convenient to Forget – Subversive to Remember
They are never recalled, their lifelong suffering is forgotten, their loss unending. As an ungrateful state moved on, to forget became convenient, to remember subversive.
Many who benefitted from Civil War politics would find it easy to sleep on other men’s wounds but for those bereaved they would be no rest. John O’Connor would leave a wife and two young children; Patrick Buckley a widow to rear their five children; all the Ballyseedy victims had mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, comrades and friends. While ten thousand tears would be shed at funerals in Tralee, Kilflynn, Lixnaw and Castleisland, for the eight families the silent mourning would last a lifetime. To those left behind to grieve the longest, our nation’s debt should be the greatest.
A Needless War
For they too have paid the price for our freedom. All we can offer is our gratitude and remembrance, small acknowledgements of great sacrifices.
That dreadful conflict cost so many Irish lives on both sides. It was a needless war that divided and beggared us, but for its British architects that was what it was supposed to do. It is called the Irish Civil War but the name is not quite accurate. In essence, it was Britain’s Civil War. For Britain instigated it, it was fought with British weapons and Britain benefited from it.
We should have been oblivious to the differences fostered by an alien power, but we were not, we are not. In the words of the patriot priest, Fr. Michael O’Flanagan, they had fooled us again.
Our Troubled History
Perhaps one day, we will learn the lessons from our troubled history and righteous men, and women, will make our land a nation once again.
WB Yeats would say of the heroes of 1916; We know their dream; enough to know they dreamed and are dead. We say of the heroes of Ballyseedy Cross ‘We too know their dream, enough to know they dreamed and dead.’
Today we remember, Kerry remembers, and let Ireland remember its noble sons who died at Ballyseedy Cross.
Go raibh maith agaibh.
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The Irish Civil War
The civil war was a period in our history that I always felt I knew little enough about. I knew that it was fought particularly viciously hereabouts and it has left a sad legacy that persists today.
I had never heard of The Munster Republic until I watched RTE’s recent centenary programmes. Here is a link to the series on the Rte Player
The Irish Civil War
The Munster Republic was an informal and colloquial term used by Irish republicans to refer to the territory they held in the province of Munster at the start of the Irish Civil War.[1]The “republic” never claimed to be a state as such, but was a base for the republican civil war aim of creating an all-Ireland Irish Republic.
After the first week of fighting in the Civil War (28 June – 5 July 1922), Dublin was held by those in support of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Irish Free State.
The main stronghold of Anti-Treaty forces (the Irish Republicans) became the self-styled Munster Republic, consisting of the counties south of a line between Limerick and Waterford. Liam Lynch, the republican commander-in-chief, hoped to use the “Republic” as a means of re-negotiating the Treaty, and ideally reconstituting the Irish Republic of 1919–21. For this defensive attitude, Lynch was bitterly criticised by some other republicans, who felt that he should be acting offensively to bring the war to a quick end.
However, the Anti-Treaty side (who were supported by a large group of rebels from the Irish Republican Army), lacked artillery and armoured cars, both of which the Free State had to borrow from the British. The Free State launched an offensive against the Munster Republic in July 1922.[2] Limerick and Waterford were taken easily, and Cork became the last county independent of the Free State. Michael Collins sent the Free State Army by sea to Union Hall in County Cork and to Fenit in County Kerry. Cork was retaken on 11 August.[3]His opponents then moved into the countryside and continued small-scale guerrilla warfare until April 1923. (Wikipedia)
https://www.rte.ie/player/series/the-irish-civil-war/10001232-00-0000?epguid=IP000067397
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Then I read this in Northkerry blog
Kerry Officers elected by the Gort na Glanna Martyrs’ Cumann, Co. Kerry are as follows: Chairman, John Buckley; Secretary, Bill Horan; Treasurer, Hugh Goulding, P.R.O., Paddy Kennelly; Tom Manaher and Hugh Goulding were appointed delegates to the Comhairle cheantair. Dozens of homes in the Ballybunion area have been raided by members of the Special Branch and uniformed gardai in yet another act of collaboration with the British occupation forces. For over two weeks the raiding parties concentrated on the area, homes were ransacked, bedrooms were torn apart and women and children were terrified. In some cases homes were continuously watched for up to two days. Following the raids one man was jailed.
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Saturday MAY 4 1923 ?
New York NY Irish American Advocate 1922-1924 - 0635.pdf
LATEST HAPPENINGS IN THE NOW- CLOSING STRIFE IN IRELAND
(see paper for many more incidents)
Listowel—Notices have been posted at Lisselton, Listowel, threatening postmen with shooting if they continued to carry out their duties. The house of a man named Luoas, at Whitegate, Mountshannon, was raided during the week-end and the postmistress, Miss O’Sullivan, who lodged
there, was deprived of £2.
Dromin Junction—A soldier returning to his post about 5 P. M„ on Saturday evening on a lonely road from the village was held up by six young men, who drove up in a motor, and, dismounting, compelled their victim to accompany them to a plantation, where they stripped him naked and
drove off with all his clothes.
Ballyheigue—-Armed men visited the house occupied by the Civic Guard and removed them to another house in the village and then burned the house they were in occupation of.
Youghal—Two members of the Civic Guard were held up by masked and armed men outside the town and their uniforms taken. They were warned not to appear there again.
WAR: The proclamation Issued by Mr. De Valera last, week and the documents captured since then, bearing on the Irregulars' revolt against the Government of Ireland, shows that a continuance of active resistance was impossible. The document found on Austin Stack wakes it clear that the end is
nearer than it appeared to be a week ago.
IRISH LAWYERS OF THE OLD DAYS
Bar Wit Has Degenerated. Times have changed remarkably in, the century and a quarter since last
(see Paper for article)
https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
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Kennelly C J CAPE MOUNTED RIFLES
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Kennelly J. E. B182858 R.W. Surrey 29721 View Record
Kennelly J. M. 501620 18th Ldn. Rgt 602005 View Record
Kennelly Joseph 54593 5th Bn King's Spoot 886 View Record
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Kennelly Patrick Labour Corps 568191 View Record
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While working on a project to open up the German-created prisoner of war (POW) record cards (WO 416), Ian Strawbridge felt drawn to a particular photograph. The individual who captured Ian's attention was Jeremiah Anderson, a merchant seaman. Ian traced his records and unfurled a story that, it felt, had been waiting over 75 years to be told. His POW records are in WO 416/7/200 and WO 416/407/26.
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?s=irish
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The 28th of July 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations’ 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
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At the end of the Second World War, it seemed to many that decades of political and social upheaval was at an end, and that with it would end the ‘refugee problem’. Yet within less than 30 years, the start of the Cold War and the dismantling of European empires, including the British Empire, had generated waves of new migrants seeking political and religious asylum around the globe. Through this period of change, between 1951 and 1967, new political and legal discussions eventually generated a new ‘universal’ definition of a refugee, one that might apply to any individual regardless of where they are from. Here below is a selection of three documents from the archives that give us insight into how that new definition emerged.
1951 – the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
In 1946 it was calculated that there were 1,250,000 refugees in Europe
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a-magna-carta-for-refugees/
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New post on West Cork History
1870 Contribution of Catholic United Parishes of Durrus and Kilcrohane to Fund For French Sick and Wounded Soldiers, (Franco/Prussian War).
by durrushistory
Thanks to Ross Hadley, The 3rd column reads like the Sheepshead phonebook
1870 Contribution of Catholic United Parishes of Durrus and Kilcrohane to French Sick and Wounded Soldiers, (Franco/Prussian War).
https://docs.google.com/
1870 French Sick and Wounded Soldiers
The Franco-Irish Ambulance Brigade (known in French as the Ambulance Irlandais)[1] was a volunteer medical corps sent from Ireland to assist the French Army in the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War. At the time Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and parliament had passed the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 which, in most circumstances, prohibited British citizens from enlisting in foreign armies. As a non-combatant force the ambulance brigade was not covered by the act. Around 280 men joined the brigade which arrived in France in early October 1870. They served with the French armies of the North and of the Loire until the signing of the armistice in January 1871. The unit was controversial as only a minority of the men who enlisted were retained for ambulance service, with many choosing instead to fight in the French Foreign Legion. The British government investigated the unit for breaches of the 1870 act but no prosecutions were brought.
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Join us in paying our respects to Margaret Kelly, 94, one of the last remaining female Bletchley Park code-breakers, who passed away this week.
Margaret was only 18, in 1944, when she was posted to the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, during WWII.
She joined a top secret Nazi code-breaking mission and became one of a team of women known as Wrens.
The Wrens operated Colossus - the world’s first computer - and toiled around the clock operating the code-cracking devices that helped to shorten the war.
The invaluable work deciphering coded messages between Hitler and his high command saved thousands of lives and contributed to the Allies' victory.
Margaret died peacefully at her family farm in Wales.
Thank you for your service, Margaret.
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Shamrock Fund and the Irish War Exhibit of 1918
In the last week of June 1918, the “Countess of Kingston” visited Pittsburgh to debut a traveling exhibit of war items intended to raise money for the Shamrock Fund, a charity for wounded Irish soldiers. The collection included “German Uniforms, Helmets, Military Equipment, Hand Grenades, Propaganda Literature, Iron Cross, Lusitania medal, British Battleship Vindictive Souvenir, German Prison Bread, and a Wonderful Collection of British War Pictures,” according to newspaper promotions.
https://www.markholan.org/
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Canadian World War I Personal Records
During the last indexing week, you were almost 2,000 participants and you have indexed more than 200,000 records.
To mark the Armistice of 11 November 1918, we propose to participate in the indexing of Canadian World War I personal records, from November 8, 2019 until November 17, 2019.
Over 600,000 men and women enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War (1914-1918) as soldiers, nurses and chaplains.
To participate, go to the menu "Projects" and "Collaborative indexing", select the collection "Canadian World War I personal records" and the time you can spend on it, then click the button "Start indexing".
The Liberator (Tralee) 1914-1939, Saturday, February 26, 1938; Section: Front page, Page: 1
LIMERICK NOMINATION OF MARES.
A large number of mares presented at Abbeyfeale inspection for west Limerick nominations resulted as follows: Nominations, R. Falley, Ballaugh; J. S. Dalton. Glenearene; Ed. Roche. Athea: E. Barrett, Athea; M. J. Moloney, Abbeyfeale.
KILLED 2,000; WOUNDED 20,000; AND STARTED 1.000 FIRES.
A the morning of December 6th, 1917, life in the seaport of Halifax, Nova Scotia, went on serenely for 17 minutes after a flicker of blue flame first appeared aboard the munitions ship Mont Blanc.
It was nine o'clock, and work had begun in offices, warehouses and factories, all burdened with the rich business of war. Out in the Narrows, freighters were being warped into piers, cruisers and transports swung at anchor, seamen toiled over cargoes of war materials. Suddenly, amid the confusion of shipping, a lifeboat appeared, manned by French sailors rowing furiously for the Northern shore. A second boat followed, also filled with men, all glancing backward in desperation at the thin blue flame on the Mont Blanc. When the first boat struck the beach the sailors flung themselves ashore in terror, gibbering French curses and prayers, and shrieking " Pou-dar ! Pou dar..!''
As the sailors fled up the streets their warning ran garbled from mouth to mouth. Some people legged after the seamen, others hastened to the water's edge to question the men leaping from the second boat.
"She's afire !" blurted a Canadian in the boat. " The Mont Blanc The Imo collided, with her.. Munitions aboard – he raced away.
Meanwhile H.M.S. Highflyer, a British cruiser anchored nearby, had put a boat overside. As the flame; waned, sprang up again, this boat swung smartly alongside the Mont Blanc. Watchers on shore saw offiers and men clamber to the deck and run towards the fire.
The 17 minutes were up. A shaft of yellow light, no thicker than the Mont Blanc's masts, streaked upward from her deck, piercing the sunny air for a mile. For an instant it whirled like a waterspout. Then its top spread, and the whole pillar of fire mushroomed into an enormous purple cloud.
Four thousand tons of TNT had exploded—the greatest detonation ever heard on earth. The Mont Blanc vanished. A fragment of her anchor, weighing half a ton, flew three miles, amid sheets of flame. Plates ripped from her hull fell in a hissing rain on ships and houses. An immense torrent, white and boiling, towered upward where the ship had been. Gulls high in the steaming maelstrom burst into gobs of flesh and feathers.
(See paper for full report)
WAR
We remember those of ‘The Few’ who took to the skies in defence of our nation, and did not return, and just as we have witnessed ‘the few’ escort the roll of honour this morning it is important to remember the sacrifice that they and their comrades made and commemorate the 544 who laid down their lives for the sake of others.
Commemoration is important, for it helps us put things in context. It is easy to look at a memorial or a roll of honour and forget that behind every name there is a story, a family, a wife, a husband, a mother, a father - those who mourn.
Today we have the honour to stand on the edge of living history, and the privilege of being here with some of the few as they remember their friends and comrades who did not return. We who were not there cannot imagine what they experienced, but perhaps a warrior from a later generation captures something of their feelings. Lt Gen Hal Moore in We Were Soldiers Once and Young writes,
‘We went to war because it was our duty. That is one kind of love. Another and far more transcendent love came to us unbidden on the battlefields as it does on every battlefield man has ever fought. We discovered in that depressing, hellish place, where death was our constant companion, that we loved each other. We killed for each other, we died for each other, and we wept for each other. And in time we came to love each other as brothers. In battle our world shrank to the man on our left and the man on our right and the enemy all around. We held each other’s lives in our hands, and we learned to share our fears, our hopes, our dreams, as readily as we shared what little else good came our way.’ They learned the gospel truth that and lived out by Jesus himself, that ‘greater love has no one than to lay down his life for another.‘
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-sermons/the-battle-of-britain#i15550
Army leave letter 1967
24/11/2018
Knocknagoshel
Letter written by my cousin Raymond (Rory) E Marshall born in Minnesota, USA in 1942. In 1964 Rory enlisted in the U.S. Army and attended basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, and the Army Language School in Monterey, CA, where he studied Persian (Farsi). He served for three years in Germany with the Army Intelligence Service and completed his enlistment at Fort Dix, NJ, in 1968. During his stay in Germany he took a trip to his ancestral home in Meenleitrim, Knocknagoshel, Co.Kerry and his observations in this letter are a very interesting history and quiet humorous. Raymond and I are both descendants of the Reidy’s of Meenleitrim. Raymond sadly passed away in 2017 may he rest in peace. Rory didn't share any photos from his visit so I have added some from my own collection from a more recent visit to Meenleitrim.
Letter from Rory Marshall
The following is the Army leave letter wrote by Rory
20 June 1967 (letter was typed on 6 part carbon interleaved forms sets we used in "ops" - operations)
Dear Everybody,
I know this is a rather crude way to write a letter, but with so many people interested in my leave to Paris, England, and Ireland, I would die of writer's cramp if I tried to hand write 6 letters or so, or even type them.
First of all, the generalities. I made successful contact and had a wonderful time. The weather during my leave period must have been the 18 most beautiful days that Europe has seen since I don't know when. I will try to go through the leave chronologically to avoid forgetting anything.
We left Bad Aibling about 7 o'clock in the evening on June 1. We reached the French border about 1 o'clock the next morning and were immediately struck with the run down look of things compared to neat and clean Germany. The French Border Patrolman who stopped us looked like the typical Frenchman with a weak chin and a sickly mustache.
Without incident, we reached Paris about 7 in the morning and caught a little rack time in our tent (we camped the entire way, except for when I went to Ireland) and then went downtown for a little sightseeing. We tried to take a downtown tour of Historical Paris and almost were thrown off the bus by rather impolite tour guides but did manage to see a few sights. I was rather struck with the way the Louvre Museum looked more like the Minnesota State Fair than a museum. there were thousands of people trying to see the few (Mona Lisa, Venus D'Milo, Winged Victory) real masterpieces around. Although the atmosphere wasn't quite conducive to proper contemplation, I must admit that they were worth the trip.
I heard from one American couple taking the tour with us that the Sistine Chapel in Rome is even worse with respect to crowds. You stand around looking up at the ceiling and more or less sway back and forth with the crowd.
The next morning began the excitement. We went to the Eiffel Tower and walked up as far as we could (not bad) and got a nice view of the city. Unfortunately it was too hazy for real good pictures. After a couple of hours, we decided to head back for dinner and decided to walk across the Seine. In doing so, we happened to look down and discovered that the body of a dead man was floating in the river, stuck on the pier, about 100 yards down from the excursion dock. After informing a tour ticket seller who called the police, who after about 30 minutes, finally did come to pull the man out. I never did hear any more about it, and probably never will. But it certainly livened up our trip to Paris.
Sunday, the last day in Paris, we decided to go to the Air Show at the Airport. It is supposed to be the best in the world, and it probably very well is. We saw the Russian rocket which launched the Vostok satellites into orbit, a few Soviet and American satellites, the TFX, the Vertical takeoff and landing plane and the Air Show. The Air Show was climaxed by the crash landing (and death) of a French flier who was performing his last stunt before the end of the show when he was unable to pull out of a dive. Fortunately, none of the crowd (approximately 200,000) was injured. We immediately took off for Boulogne, where we were supposed to catch a ferry the next morning.
We made it to London about noon on Monday and I there found out that I couldn't get a ticket to Dublin until Wednesday night. We piddled around for two days and I caught an Aer Lingus (Irish Airlines) flight for Dublin. Arrived in downtown Dublin around 3 in the morning and caught a hotel. I took the train for Limerick the next morning and there my Irish Journey begins.
I first had noticed the difference between peoples and languages when the stewardesses aboard the flight greeted me with "good night." I thought it rather amusing.
On the way to Limerick, I began to have the feeling (which never did leave me while in Ireland), that I was more or less reliving John Wayne's movie "The Quiet Man", about that fighter who killed someone in New York and then returned to Ireland to live.
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I noticed a track gang of about eight or so while going through a small town. I wanted to shout with laughter and joy when a couple of them (all wearing caps like Grandpa used to wear, as do all Irishmen) greeted me with an exaggerated, rather sarcastic bow, as if I were the local landlord or something.
I had already begun to notice the amazing friendliness of the Irish people, of course, by this time.
I noticed another thing on the train which was to be repeated three or four more times almost in the same words while I was there. During some form of a political argument between two fellow passengers, one came out with a statement to the effect that Ireland was a little country and couldn't do much about anything without support from Britain or America. It was very refreshing to visit a people who weren't always worried about righting the wrongs encountered at every turn, etc. etc. etc.
At Limerick, I had to catch a bus for Tralee, on the western coast and arrived there about 4 on Thursday afternoon.
About 6 I caught a train for Castleisland, about 15 miles or so distant. Then, I discovered Meenleitrim (Meen LEE thrim) was a very small farming community stuck out about eight miles north of Castleisland. I got a room for the night and struck out the next morning.
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By now I was in the heart of County Kerry and boy oh boy, what a brogue. They speak a tremendous amount of Irish (Gaelic) there (it is required to be taught in all schools) and speak English so fast that I really didn't understand them very well at all. I never did get to understand the women as well as the men.
I hitched a ride out to Meenleitrim the next day and found the farm of Michael Reidy without delay. Before I get into personalities, let me describe the area, if I can.
The area is kind of hilly, almost treeless, quite rainy, as evidenced by the fact that even the tops of hills are almost too wet to walk on. The land is largely peat and very poor soil, thus almost no profitable agriculture is carried on. Crops planted are generally potatoes and vegetables for the family use. Dairy cattle are the one large source of income for the people in the region. Michael Reidy and his family have 21 cows and a brand new tractor and thus are probably fairly well off.
Many (I should probably say, some) of the people still live in homes with thatched roofs, and others, most certainly a larger number, burn peat (as did the Reidy's) which is cut in the early summer, left to dry and then brought in for the winter.
Although many of the people still don't have cars or tractors, television antennas are quite common, even on the poorest of houses sometimes. I guess it is a good way to pass the time.
But come what may, the people are fantastically friendly and are not really poor for this is all they want. They generally have no real ambitions. Drivers rarely go over 30 miles an hour. What's the rush? As one said to me, "You can only eat three or four meals a day, and only wear one suit of clothes." There is just no hustle-bustle as we know it. But still, it would be hard for us to get used to the area.
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Michael Reidy (whom I thought to be about 20) looks like he is 20, but is actually 30 and still single (as all Irish males - almost - at that age are. He lives with his 34 year old sister, Peggy, also unmarried, and a 37 year old brother, John, unmarried, too, and their widowed mother. A brother, Jerry, works as a bodyguard for the Irish Parliament in Dublin. He is getting married in August. Two more brothers live in Australia and Chicago.
Mrs. Hannah O'Sullivan, who I guess is my 3rd cousin, is 63 years old. Her husband, Paddy, of course, is still living and she has a daughter, Mary Bridget, 21, and Pat, 15 [who was adopted]. As both Mr. and Mrs. O'Sullivan are getting on, their place is rather small with only three or four cows and a small garden patch. I spent most of my time with her or the Reidy's.
I ran into a few more relatives around there, but the brogue and the beautiful weather, the Guiness and the tea, all ganged up to make me forget much of what I heard (mostly the brogue was to blame). Brosna, where the Hartnett's came from is about 10 miles distant, Knocknagashel is actually the parish in which Meenleitrim is located, Castleisland, Tralee, and all kinds of other places. One could spend weeks there just looking up all the people who were even remotely related even from that side of the family.
Again, I say, the friendliness of the people was unimaginable. As an example, on my second day there, 5 people I didn't even know walked out to their gates to talk to me and eventually invited me in for tea (Incidentally, I drank more tea during those few days than I had previously in my life). I was averaging 10-12 cups a day.
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They have their version of hoboes or gypsies. They call them "travelers." The government is trying to settle them but they don't want to. They go around begging and selling junk. One of them was there camped along the road with his pregnant wife and two small kids. it is rather hard to refuse someone who promises to pray for you if you will give him the money for bread for his kids.
After about five days there, I had to get back to London. While there, I saw Hello Dolly, Charlie Girl (both live on the stage) and the movie Doctor Zhivago. All in all I had a wonderful time and didn't want to go back. But I think that largely the reason for this was that London is so much like home compared to the continent. I would like to go back someday however. We felt so much at home, that we did very little sightseeing.
Our arrival back in Bad Aibling was rather eventful. It seems that Harold K. Johnson, Chief of Staff of the Army was to be here yesterday and I was supposed to brief him. Well, they were looking for me for a few dry run practices and didn't know when I would get back. They were so worried that they even ordered a barber to stand by in case I needed a haircut when I got back. Incidentally, the briefing with Gen. Johnson when without incident (I didn't need a haircut, by the way). They took a picture and said they will send it to the Herald. I hope not, but it probably as usual didn't turn out.
Well, I hope I don't get any complaints. This letter must be a record for me (over 4 pages). I want no complaints in the future about laxity in writing. I figure this one should last me for about 6 months or so (just kidding). Well, Auf Wiederschreiben.
Rory
Photo of Rory's great grand father Jeremiah Reidy born c.1842 in Meenleitrim, Knocknagoshel. Jeremiah married Mary Ann Laughlin in Michigan, USA. His sister Catherine Reidy was my 3rd great grandmother.
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Before Rory travelled to Meenleitrim he sent a letter from Germany to his cousin Michael Reidy on April 21st, 1967.
Cork City
https://bit.ly/2r8j1EF #corkcitylibraries
Tipperary
http://tipperarystudies.ie/digitisation-project/tom-burnells-tipperary-war-graves-database/
Castleisland
Kanturk
D DAY invasion June 1944, was saved by weather report from Blacksod Coastguard Station, sent by Ted Sweeney, his wife was Maureen Flavin from Knockanure. See Irelands Own for full report, June 2018.
Nov 2017 blog
Cassowary Colorizations
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Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, known as the Lion of Africa, or the man who told Hitler to “go fuck yourself!”. Von Lettow was a Prussian general in the German Army and the commander of Prussian forces in the German East Africa campaign. For four years, with a force that never exceeded about 14,000, made up with 3,000 Germans and 11,000 Africans drafted units, he held in check a much larger force of 300,000 British, Belgian, and Portuguese troops. Lettow-Vorbeck was the only German commander to successfully invade imperial British soil during the First World War. After the war, he distrusted Hitler and his movement and wanted to unite Germany in a political party to fight politically against the Nazis. In an attempt to take him away from Berlin, Hitler offered him the ambassadorship to the Court of St James's in 1935. A historian later asked the nephew of a Schutztruppe officer who was there, if Von Lettow had told Hitler to go fuck himself. The nephew responded, "That's right, except that I don't think he put it that politely".
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Returned Americans: Identifying American Civil War Veterans on the Irish 1901 Census
The site has often explored the stories of American Civil War pensioners who returned to Ireland, and their dependents (see for example here, here and here). I usually carry out this research by looking through pension files to assess who was claiming from Ireland. But another means of uncovering some of these individuals is to examine the 1901 Census of Ireland. It is intriguing to consider that at the turn of the 20th century, veterans of battlefields like Gettysburg and Chickamauga could be found in counties throughout the island. I decided to conduct an extensive search of the 1901 Census to try and identify more of them, with the results made available below.
Kerry
Daniel Callaghan, Knockardtry, Crinny, Co. Kerry, 74-year-old Roman Catholic, Occupation: “American Army Pensioner”. Pension certificate 786221. Served in the Ordnance Detachment of the U.S. Army.
Daniel Connor, Knockeen, Castleisland, Co. Kerry, 76-year-old Roman Catholic, Occupation: “Pensioner American Army”.
Thomas Fitzgerald, Acres, Ballynacourty, Co. Kerry, 70-year-old Roman Catholic, Occupation: “American Army Pensioner”.
William Murphy, Clievraght, Listowel, Co. Kerry, 75-year-old Roman Catholic, Occupation: “Pensioner from the American Army”. Likely the William Murphy that served in Company G of the 23rd Kentucky Infantry (Certificate 1015966).
Limerick
Michael Dore, Ballynacragga North, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick, 65-year-old Roman Catholic, Occupation: “Pensioner from American Army”.
Maurice McAuliffe, Ardagh, Co. Limerick, 73-year-old Roman Catholic, Occupation: “Pensioner United States Army.
https://irishamericancivilwar.com/2016/09/04/returned-americans-identifying-american-civil-war-veterans-on-the-irish-1901-census/
The Miracle of Dunkirk
by Walter Lord
In May 1940, a trapped British army faced total destruction on the beaches of northern France — until it pulled off one of the greatest escapes of all time. “Stirring… Contemporary history at its most readable” (The New York Times) from the bestselling author of A Night to Remember.
Publisher Description
Stranded on the beach with the Nazis closing in, the British army managed one of the most unlikely manoeuvres in modern military history
In May of 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men who gathered on that beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to Paris and London was clear. And so, unable to retreat any farther, the Allied soldiers set up defence positions and prayed for deliverance.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation on May 26th, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But Britain would not let its soldiers down. Hundreds of fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and commercial vessels streamed into the Channel to back up the Royal Navy, and in a week nearly the entire army was ferried safely back to England. Assembled from interviews with hundreds of survivors who witnessed the evacuation, The Miracle of Dunkirk is a striking history of a week when the fate of Britain hung in the balance.
Casualty NZ
http://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties
http://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/search/apachesolr_search/kerry?f[0]=bundle%3Acasualties
James Carr Unit: NZEF, Otago Regiment Conflict: WW1 Additional Details:
Son of James and Ellen Carr, of Kilgarvan, Lisselton Cross, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
LIMERICK
Service Number: 25/437
First Name: Daniel Surname: Hartnett
Rank: Rifleman Date of Birth: 01 April 1890
Place of Birth: Abbeyfeale, Limerick, Ireland
Next of Kin: Mrs M. Hartnett (mother), Abefee, County Limerick, Ireland
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Labourer Nationality of Force: New Zealand
Force: Army Unit: 3 New Zealand (Rifle) Brigade, 3 Battalion
Captain Patrick Dore Military Cross
Unit: New Zealand Chaplains' Department
Conflict: WW1 Additional Details: Son of M. Dore, of Ballylinare, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, Ireland.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sweeney-370
John Joseph Sweeney
Born 2 Apr 1879 in Sprent, Tasmania
Son of Bernard James Sweeney and Elizabeth (Knott) Sweeney
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Amy Keziah Matilda (Ion) Sweeney — married 26 Oct 1904 in Scottsdale, Tasmania
Father of Doris Annie Lucy (Sweeney) Saunders Died 2 Oct 1916 in France
Maurice Kennelly Unit: NZEF, 42nd Reinforcements
Conflict: WW1 Additional Details:
Husband of E. E. Kennelly, (now Mrs. Fitzpatrick), of 145, Macandrew Rd., South Dunedin.
Date of death: 12 July 1920 Conflict: WW1
Charles Henry Kennelly
Unit: NZEF, Wellington Regiment, 2 Battalion
Conflict: WW1 Additional Details:
Brother of Edward and of Miss M. Kennelly, of 3, Cashel St., South Dunedin, New Zealand.
Date of death: 12 October 1918 Conflict: WW1 Cause of Death: Died of wounds.
WAR
The Medal of Honor
The “Medal of Honor” has been described as those who “conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity, at the risk of their life, above and beyond the call of duty, while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States of America”.
The correct title for the military award, often called the “Congressional Medal of Honor” is simply “Medal of Honor”. Those receiving this award are often called “Winners”. But, those who receive it prefer to be called “Recipients”. It is the only US military award that is worn from a ribbon and hung from around the neck. It is also the only award presented by the President of the United States in the name of Congress. It is the greatest award given to American Fighting Hero’s. On this Saint Patrick’s Day let it be known that the Irish earned far more Medals of Honor then any other foreign country.
An Irishman named John Concannon, contributed to the book “Medal of Honor Recipients” 1863 -1994. He noted in an article, that an Irishman named Michael Dougherty from Falcarragh, County of Donegal received the Medal of Honor for pushing back a Confederate Detachment at Jefferson, Virginia. His actions saved 2500 lives by stopping the Confederates from flanking the Union Forces. Dougherty was later captured and he, along with 126 members of his command spent 23 months in prison. After his release from prison Dougherty was heading home on a steal ship on the Mississippi River. One of the boilers on the ship exploded and out of the two thousand passengers only nine hundred survived and Dougherty had survived again. Finally, after 4 years, the 21-year-old Union Veteran reached his hometown of Bristol, Pennsylvania. His remarkable story is why the AOH Division #1 in Bristol is called the Michael Dougherty Division.
Another AOH Division located in Warwick, Orange County NY, is named after Colonel James Quinlan who commanded the Irish Brigades, 88th New York in the battle of Savage Station, Virginia. During the Civil War, 1,523 Medals of Honor were issued. A large number of those recipients were from the Irish Brigade, which fought at Fredericksburg and Antietam.
To date 3,459 Medals of Honor have been awarded and 19 individuals have received the MOH twice. Thirty-three different countries have been listed as birthplaces of recipients of the MOH and Ireland, with 258 recipients, has by far the most. The County in Ireland with the most MOH recipients is County Cork with 19 Medal of Honor recipients. Probably the most famous Irish recipient of the MOH was a movie actor named Audie Murphy. The Marines and the Navy turned down Murphy because he was only 5’5” tall and his weight was 112 pounds. The Army accepted him in June 1942 and he became the most decorated WWII hero ever. Size doesn’t mean a thing when it comes to heroics. Father Timothy O’Callahan was the not only the first Catholic Chaplain to receive the MOH, but the first of any faith to be recognized for heroics. O’Hare Airport in Chicago is named for MOH Recipient Lt. Commander Edward O’Hare, US Navy Fighter Pilot. McGuire Air Force was named for MOH recipient Thomas B. McGuire a WWII ace pilot who shot down 38 enemy planes. In all 245 men were awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War. There are 21 Murphy’s, 20 Kelly’s (or Kelley’s) and eight Sullivan’s, and names with the Irish prefix “Mc” spill into multiple pages.
Lastly, I would like to mention that earning the Medal of Honor is very difficult. A personal experience of mine from the Vietnam War comes to mind. During an all out attack on an outpost, and my MAVC compound, by Viet Cong and North Vietnam Regulars, the Captain ordered the members of the outpost to abandon their position and retreat to the main MACV compound. The Captain remained behind to hold off the advancing enemy allowing others to escape the onslaught. He was killed during the attack but the remaining members of the team survived because of his heroic efforts. He was recommended for the Medal of Honor. It was denied and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross instead, which is the second highest medal in the Service. In this writer’s opinion, having been there that night, he should have been awarded the MOH.
To date 3,459 Medals of Honor have been awarded and 19 individuals have received it twice. Thirty-three different countries are listed as birthplaces of MOH recipients with Ireland receiving the the most. Ireland had 258 Medal of Honor recipients to date. As mentioned above, County of Cork has 19 MOH Recipients. Tipperary, (My Grand Mothers birthplace) and Dublin each have 11 recipients. Limerick has 10, Kerry has 8, and Galway 7, Antrim and Tyrone have 6 each, while Sligo and Kilkenny each have 5. Out of nineteen men to have earned a second Medal of Honor 5 were born in Ireland. Three of the double recipients were Irish Americans. US Marine Daniel Daly, John Joseph Kelly and US Navy John McCoy. The Marines and the Navy turned down a guy named Audie Murphy. He was accepted by the US Army in 1942 and became WWII’s most decorated hero. Audie Murphy was only 5’5 inches tall and weighed only 112 pounds. So, on this Saint Patrick’s Day, my suggestion is to hoist a few pints and remember the “Fighting Irish” and all the troops that are serving and protecting the United States of America. God Bless America and keep her safe from harm. Dennis Small, DAV Transportation
'X' Company 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, B.E.F., France, 22-2-’17.
Dear Mr. Baily – It is with feelings of deepest regret that I write to tell you of the death of your son, Lieutenant D. J. Baily, M.C. Being the Sergeant-Major of his Company, and knowing how he met his death, I thought it my duty to let you know how he died. He relieved me on duty in the front line trenches at 7 a.m. yesterday morning (Ash Wednesday) and a few minutes afterwards I heard he was dead. I went straight back to where I had left him, and found it was only too true. He was hit in the head by a bullet, and death in his case, thank God, was instantaneous,
Limerick Leader 26 Oct 1916
IRISH-AUSTRALIAN WOUNDED—Private T. O'Neill Lane, son of the Irish. Lexicographer-of that-name, has-been on a-visit, to his friends at Abbeyfeale. He volunteered with the Australian contingent, and was wounded in France.
Kennelly War 11 List
Kennelly 109 Army War 11 USA Page Raymond E Kennelly Place: BlackHawk County, Iowa Birth Date: 1917 Birth Place: Iowa Footnote Page William J Kennelly Place:San Joaquin County, California Birth Date:1920 Birth Place:Illinois Page John J Kennelly Birth Date:1920 Birth Place: New York Place: NewYork County, New York Footnote Page Vincent P Kennelly Person Full name: Vincent P Kennelly Birth Date: 1912 Birth Place: New York Place: Kings County, New York Footnote Page Walter J Kennelly Person Full name: Walter J Kennelly Place: Kitsap County, Washington Birth Place: Montana Birth Date: 1912 Footnote Page Chester Kennelly Birth Date: 1913 Birth Place: Connecticut Person Full name: Chester Kennelly Place: Hartford County, Connecticut Footnote Page Patrick C Kennelly Person Full name: Patrick C Kennelly Birth Date: 1910 Birth Place: Irish Free State Place: NewYork County, New York Footnote Page John J Kennelly Person Full name: John J Kennelly Birth Date: 1919 Birth Place: Ohio Place: Cuyahoga County, Ohio Footnote Page John F Kennelly Person Full name: John F Kennelly Place: Monroe County, New York Birth Place: New York Birth Date: 1924 Footnote Page Edward J Kennelly Birth Date: 1913 Person Full name: Edward J Kennelly Footnote Page William J Kennelly Place: Monroe County, New York Birth Place: New York Birth Date: 1912 Person Full name: William J Kennelly Footnote Page John D Kennelly Birth Date: 1923 Birth Place: New York Person Full name: John D Kennelly Footnote Page John M Kennelly Birth Place: New York Birth Date: 1917 Person Full name: John M Kennelly Place: Queens County, New York, Limited Service Or (Ceylon Or India Or Maldive Islands) Footnote Page Martin J Kennelly Birth Date: 1897 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Place: Suffolk County, Massachusetts Person Full name: Martin J Kennelly Footnote Page Edward F Kennelly Birth Date: 1907 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Person Full name: Edward F Kennelly Place: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Footnote Page Edward J Kennelly Person Full name: Edward J Kennelly Birth Date: 1913 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Place: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Footnote Page Thomas E Kennelly Place: Bronx County, New York Birth Date: 1917 Birth Place: New York Person Full name: Thomas E Kennelly Footnote Page Frank J Kennelly Birth Date: 1919 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Place: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Person Full name: Frank J Kennelly Footnote Page William H Kennelly Birth Date: 1910 Birth Place: Illinois Person Full name: William H Kennelly Place: Cook County, Illinois Footnote Page James J Kennelly Person Full name: James J Kennelly Birth Place: Connecticut Birth Date: 1907 Place: NewHaven County, Connecticut Footnote Page Howard J Kennelly Birth Place: Illinois Birth Date: 1916 Place: Kings County, New York Person Full name: Howard J Kennelly Thomas F Kennelly Place: NewYork County, New York Birth Place: Alaska Birth Date: 1932 Person Full name: Thomas F Kennelly John W Kennelly Person Full name: John W Kennelly Place: Bergen County, New Jersey Birth Place: New Jersey Birth Date: 1925 Ren M Kennelly Person Full name: Ren M Kennelly Place: Lorain County, Ohio Birth Place: Ohio Birth Date: 1906 Footnote Page Herman J Kennelly Jr Person Full name: Herman J Kennelly Jr Place: Marion County, Indiana Birth Place: Indiana Birth Date: 1921 Edward J Kennelly Person Full name: Edward J Kennelly Birth Place: New York Birth Date: 1914 Place: Kings County, New York Patrick W Kennelly Birth Place: New York Birth Date: 1903 Place: Kings County, New York Person Full name: Patrick W Kennelly Edward L Kennelly Person Full name: Edward L Kennelly Birth Place: Pennsylvania Birth Date: 1921 Place: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Joseph T Kennelly Jr Birth Place: Pennsylvania Birth Date: 1927 Person Full name: Joseph T Kennelly Jr John J Kennelly Jr Person Full name: John J Kennelly Jr Birth Date: 1918 Birth Place: Dist Of Columbia James G Kennelly Person Full name: James G Kennelly Birth Place: Ohio Birth Date: 1925 Alexander R Kennelly Person Full name: Alexander R Kennelly Birth Place: New York Birth Date: 1908 Place: Queens County, New York Clarence E Kennelly Jr Place: Harris County, Texas Birth Date: 1917 Birth Place: Texas Person Full name: Clarence E Kennelly Jr Leighton S Kennelly Birth Date: 1908 Birth Place: Ohio Person Full name: Leighton S Kennelly Clarence H Kennelly Person Full name: Clarence H Kennelly Place: BigStone County, Minnesota Birth Place: Minnesota Birth Date: 1919 John J Kennelly Birth Date: 1912 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Person Full name: John J Kennelly Leo L Kennelly Place: Kitsap County, Washington Person Full name: Leo L Kennelly Birth Place: Montana Birth Date: 1919 John J Kennelly Place: Kings County, New York Birth Date: 1932 Birth Place: Alaska Person Full name: John J Kennelly David Kennelly Person Full name: David Kennelly Birth Date: 1916 Birth Place: New Jersey Place: Passaic County, New Jersey Thomas M Kennelly Place: Queens County, New York Birth Date: 1908 Birth Place: New York Person Full name: Thomas M Kennelly Everything 109 Don't show matches from OCR (example: newspaper text) < 1 2 3 4 5 6 > Footnote Page Edward P Kennelly Person Full name: Edward P Kennelly Birth Place: New York Birth Date: 1903 Place: Queens County, New York Footnote Page Daniel E Kennelly Place: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Birth Date: 1918 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Person Full name: Daniel E Kennelly Footnote Page William J Kennelly Jr Person Full name: William J Kennelly Jr Place: Nassau County, New York Birth Date: 1922 Birth Place: New York Footnote Page John J Kennelly Person Full name: John J Kennelly Place: NewYork County, New York Birth Date: 1915 Birth Place: New York Footnote Page James F Kennelly Birth Date: 1916 Birth Place: New Jersey Place: Hudson County, New Jersey Person Full name: James F Kennelly Footnote Page Richard P Kennelly Person Full name: Richard P Kennelly Birth Place: Minnesota Birth Date: 1919 Place: Freeborn County, Minnesota Footnote Page Francis X Kennelly Place: Hudson County, New Jersey Birth Place: New Jersey Birth Date: 1926 Person Full name: Francis X Kennelly Footnote Page John M Kennelly Person Full name: John M Kennelly Birth Place: Pennsylvania Birth Date: 1911 Footnote Page Edward R Kennelly Place: Cook County, Illinois Birth Date: 1917 Birth Place: Illinois Person Full name: Edward R Kennelly Footnote Page Thom S J Kennelly Birth Date: 1915 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Person Full name: Thom S J Kennelly Footnote Page George J Kennelly Birth Place: Ohio Birth Date: 1916 Person Full name: George J Kennelly Place: Cuyahoga County, Ohio Footnote Page Thomas E Kennelly Person Full name: Thomas E Kennelly Birth Date: 1917 Birth Place: Illinois Place: Cook County, Illinois Footnote Page William S Kennelly Place: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Birth Place: Pennsylvania Birth Date: 1913 Person Full name: William S Kennelly Footnote Page Orville W Kennelly Person Full name: Orville W Kennelly Birth Date: 1916 Birth Place: Texas Place: Harris County, Texas Footnote Page James H Kennelly Place: Kitsap County, Washington Person Full name: James H Kennelly Birth Place: Montana Birth Date: 1918 Footnote Page Donald F Kennelly Birth Place: New Jersey Birth Date: 1921 Place: King County, Washington Person Full name: Donald F Kennelly Footnote Page Daniel J Kennelly Person Full name: Daniel J Kennelly Birth Date: 1924 Birth Place: New York Place: Westchester County, New York, Limited Service Or (Ceylon Or India Or Maldive Islands) Footnote Page William F Kennelly Place: Queens County, New York Person Full name: William F Kennelly Birth Place: New York Birth Date: 1910 Footnote Page William J Kennelly Place: NewYork County, New York Birth Date: 1915 Birth Place: New York Person Full name: William J Kennelly Footnote Page Michael J Kennelly Person Full name: Michael J Kennelly Birth Date: 1912 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Everything 109 Don't show matches from OCR (example: newspaper text) < 1 2 3 4 5 6 > Footnote Page Robert A Kennelly Place: Kidder County, North Dakota Person Full name: Robert A Kennelly Birth Date: 1919 Birth Place: North Dakota Footnote Page Claire D Kennelly Birth Place: Connecticut Birth Date: 1898 Place: Hartford County, Connecticut Person Full name: Claire D Kennelly Footnote Page Albert S Kennelly Birth Date: 1918 Birth Place: New York Person Full name: Albert S Kennelly Place: Ontario County, New York Footnote Page Edward J Kennelly Place: Hudson County, New Jersey Birth Date: 1925 Person Full name: Edward J Kennelly Footnote Page William M Kennelly Place: Hudson County, New Jersey Person Full name: William M Kennelly Birth Date: 1906 Birth Place: New Jersey Footnote Page Martin E Kennelly Person Full name: Martin E Kennelly Place: SanDiego County, California Birth Place: Illinois Birth Date: 1914 Footnote Page John P Kennelly Birth Place: Irish Free State Birth Date: 1913 Person Full name: John P Kennelly Place: NewHaven County, Connecticut Footnote Page Thomas J Kennelly Birth Place: Alaska Birth Date: 1931 Place: NewYork County, New York Person Full name: Thomas J Kennelly Footnote Page Arthur W Kennelly Person Full name: Arthur W Kennelly Birth Date: 1913 Birth Place: Illinois Place: Cook County, Illinois Footnote Page Thomas B Kennelly Place: Alameda County, California Birth Date: 1919 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Person Full name: Thomas B Kennelly Footnote Page Robert J Kennelly Place: Fresno County, California Person Full name: Robert J Kennelly Birth Date: 1914 Birth Place: Washington Footnote Page Martin R Kennelly Place: Cook County, Illinois Person Full name: Martin R Kennelly Birth Place: Illinois Birth Date: 1922 Footnote Page Mary M Kennelly Person Full name: Mary M Kennelly Place: Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Birth Place: Pennsylvania Birth Date: 1921 Footnote Page Donald J Kennelly Place: Washington County, Wisconsin Person Full name: Donald J Kennelly Birth Date: 1922 Birth Place: Indiana Footnote Page Roger J Kennelly Place: Pima County, Arizona Birth Place: Pennsylvania Birth Date: 1906 Person Full name: Roger J Kennelly Footnote Page Edward J Kennelly Jr Birth Date: 1916 Birth Place: New Jersey Place: Hudson County, New Jersey Person Full name: Edward J Kennelly Jr Footnote Page Emmett T Kennelly Birth Date: 1914 Birth Place: Iowa Place: SanFrancisco County, California Person Full name: Emmett T Kennelly Footnote Page Edmond F Kennelly Birth Date: 1913 Birth Place: Illinois Person Full name: Edmond F Kennelly Footnote Page Robert E Kennelly Place: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Person Full name: Robert E Kennelly Birth Place: Pennsylvania Birth Date: 1927 Footnote Page Harold P Kennelly Jr Birth Date: 1927 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Place: Clearfield County, Pennsylvania Person Full name: Harold P Kennelly Jr Don't show matches from OCR (example: newspaper text) < 1 2 3 4 5 6 > Footnote Page Joseph F Kennelly Person Full name: Joseph F Kennelly Place: Cook County, Illinois Birth Place: Panama Canal Zone Birth Date: 1912 Footnote Page Alan Kennelly Birth Place: Alaska Birth Date: 1921 Place: Hudson County, New Jersey Person Full name: Alan Kennelly Footnote Page Robert A Kennelly Birth Date: 1919 Birth Place: South Dakota Place: Natrona County, Wyoming Person Full name: Robert A Kennelly Footnote Page Frank E Kennelly Sr Birth Place: Pennsylvania Birth Date: 1915 Person Full name: Frank E Kennelly Sr Place: Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Footnote Page John J Kennelly Person Full name: John J Kennelly Birth Date: 1922 Birth Place: Alaska Footnote Page James E Kennelly Jr Birth Date: 1905 Birth Place: New York Person Full name: James E Kennelly Jr Place: Queens County, New York Footnote Page Edward W Kennelly Birth Date: 1920 Birth Place: New York Place: NewYork County, New York Person Full name: Edward W Kennelly Footnote Page Earl R Kennelly Birth Place: Ohio Birth Date: 1921 Person Full name: Earl R Kennelly Place: Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Footnote Page John E Kennelly Person Full name: John E Kennelly Birth Date: 1919 Birth Place: Washington Place: Multnomah County, Oregon Footnote Page Robert W Kennelly Birth Place: Minnesota Birth Date: 1918 Person Full name: Robert W Kennelly Place: Stearns County, Minnesota Footnote Page Thomas J Kennelly Birth Place: Illinois Birth Date: 1926 Place: Cook County, Illinois Person Full name: Thomas J Kennelly Footnote Page Thomas J Kennelly Place: Genesee County, Michigan Person Full name: Thomas J Kennelly Birth Place: Michigan Birth Date: 1913 Footnote Page John M Kennelly Place: Ontario County, New York Birth Date: 1917 Birth Place: New York Person Full name: John M Kennelly Footnote Page Elizabeth G Kennelly Person Full name: Elizabeth G Kennelly Birth Place: Missouri Birth Date: 1916 Place: Missouri Footnote Page Teddy A Kennelly Place: Knox County, Illinois Birth Place: Illinois Birth Date: 1923 Person Full name: Teddy A Kennelly Footnote Page Martin J Kennelly Place: Cook County, Illinois Person Full name: Martin J Kennelly Birth Date: 1910 Birth Place: Illinois Footnote Page Henry A Kennelly Birth Date: 1910 Birth Place: New York Place: Dutchess County, New York Person Full name: Henry A Kennelly Footnote Page Patrick J Kennelly Jr Birth Date: 1922 Birth Place: New York Place: Bronx County, New York Person Full name: Patrick J Kennelly Jr Footnote Page John E Kennelly Jr Person Full name: John E Kennelly Jr Place: Hamilton County, Indiana Birth Date: 1924 Birth Place: Indiana Footnote Page Clyde B Kennelly Place: FortBend County, Texas Person Full name: Clyde B Kennelly Birth Place: Texas Birth Date: 1916 Everything 109 Don't show matches from OCR (example: newspaper text) < 1 2 3 4 5 6 > Footnote Page Paul A Kennelly Place: Providence County, Rhode Island Birth Place: Ohio Birth Date: 1925 Person Full name: Paul A Kennelly Footnote Page Patrick J Kennelly Place: Kidder County, North Dakota Person Full name: Patrick J Kennelly Birth Date: 1900 Footnote Page Stanley Kennelly Birth Place: New York Birth Date: 1913 Place: Queens County, New York Person Full name: Stanley Kennelly Footnote Page James Kennelly Jr Person Full name: James Kennelly Jr Place: Tioga County, New York Birth Date: 1907 Birth Place: New York Footnote Page Joseph V Kennelly Place: Bergen County, New Jersey Person Full name: Joseph V Kennelly Birth Place: New Jersey Birth Date: 1908 Footnote Page John J Kennelly Birth Date: 1921 Birth Place: New Jersey Person Full name: John J Kennelly Place: Hudson County, New Jersey Footnote Page Robert P Kennelly Person Full name: Robert P Kennelly Birth Place: Massachusetts Birth Date: 1889 Place: Worcester County, Massachusetts Footnote Page George W Kennelly Birth Date: 1920 Birth Place: Massachusetts Place: Worcester County, Massachusetts Person Full name: George W Kennelly Footnote Page William P Kennelly Birth Date: 1907 Birth Place: New York Person Full name: William P Kennelly Place: NewYork County, New York
Kerry World War One
Sample list
War 1 deaths,Sample Index ;Denis Daly; Listowel Rank: Corporal. Regiment or
Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: Depot.
Age at death: 26. Date of Death: 26-December-1918. William Danaher;
Listowel, Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Irish Guards. Unit: 3rd
Reserve Battalion. Age at death: 21. Date of Death: 19-July-1917. Michael
Dee; Coolard, Rank: Lance Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster
Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion. Age at death: 28. Date of Death:
20-October-1918. John Dore; Listowel, Rank: Private. Regiment or Service:
Irish Guards. Unit: 1st Battalion.
Date of Death: 13-February-1916. Service No: 3307.
Michael Dore;Listowel, Rank: Corporal. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster
Fusiliers. Unit: 7th Battalion. Age at death: 27. Date of Death:
08-October-1916. Maurice Downes; Lisselton, Rank: Sapper. Regiment or
Service: Royal Engineers. Unit: 520th Field Coy. Date of Death:
23-March-1918. Henry J de Courcy; Born Tarbert; Rank: Second Lieutenant.
Regiment or Service: Leinster Regiment. Unit; 3rd Battalion attached to the
6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment. Date of Death:18-January-1917. Age at
Death,20. John C Donovan; Bprn Tarbert, Rank: Sergeant. Regiment or Service:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment). Unit: 87th Battalion.
Age at death: 38. Date of Death: 31-May-1918. Michael Dunord; born
Duagh,Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Leinster Regiment Regiment. Unit;
2nd Battalion. Date of Death:24-January-1917.Thomas Dillon;Asdee, Rank:
Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 2nd Battalion.
Age at death: 27. Date of Death: 15-November-1914.
Cork’s Darkest Day of World War Two? Cork Losses on HMS Glorious, 75 Years Ago
Langan, Maurice. HMS Glorious. Stoker First Class, age 33. Son of Peter and Anne Langan, Tarbert, Co. Kerry.
Australia
https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1441131/
Also known as: Molyneux. Service Number: 827; Rank: Sergeant. Unit: Artillery
Service: Colonial Military Forces. Conflict: Sudan, 1885. Date of enlistment: 23 December 1881
Age at enlistment: 23y 11 months. Date of embarkation: 03 March 1885; Fate: Returned to Australia
Date of return: 23 June 1885; Ship returned on: SS Arab
Birth place: Listowel, Ireland. Religion: Roman Catholic; Notes: Also recorded as Molyneux
Also known as: Molyneaux; Molyneux; Service Number: 373; Rank: Driver. Unit: Artillery
Service: Colonial Military Forces. Conflict: Sudan, 1885; Date of enlistment: 04 July 1877
Age at enlistment: 26 years. Date of embarkation: 03 March 1885; Fate: Returned to Australia
Date of return: 23 June 1885. Ship returned on: SS Arab; Birth place: Listowel, Ireland
Religion: Roman Catholic; Occupation: Groom. Notes: Also recorded as Molyneaux & Molyneux
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Pat Brosnan
Con Colbert gave a brief description of his famous uncle’s career, how in
his younger days he refused to take up a lucrative civil service position
because it would mean taking an oath of allegiance to the English King. He
also told of his friendship with Padraig Pearse and the students of St.
Enda's School and his help in training them.
He outlined his uncles association with the volunteers and how he became
involved with a leadership role in the Irish Republican Brotherhood in the
lead-up to the 1916 Rising. He also stated that he would like to dispel some
of the myths that had grown up about some of the things that Con Colbert was
reputed to have done and said in the immediate period before he was
executed.
By Pat Brosnan
Armistice Day Thoughts
Last week on November 11th the day known as Armistice Day which commemorated
the end of the First World War in 1918. There are many people both here and
in Britain who also refer to it as Poppy Day, but which is better known as
Remembrance Sunday. All during the week around Armistice Day members of the
British Legion each year sell artificial poppies in fund-raising for their
organisation. Up until a few years ago the British Legion kept a low profile
in the sale of the poppies and more or less confined the wearing of these to
their own members and their sympathisers and supporters who for the most
part had relatives who fought or died with the British Armed forces in both
World Wars. These generally consisted of a small but closely knit minority
of the general population and were either ignored or barely tolerated by the
majority in this State. In the North of course it was somewhat different
where the majority there were pro-British.
To understand the symbolism of the poppy one must know that the idea of it
originated from the battles of the first World War that were fought in the
fields around Flanders and other areas of Northern France where the poppies
grew in profusion, so because of this the poppy as a remembrance symbol is
of comparatively recent origin just as the Easter Lily here commemorates the
1916 Rising. Last week as well there was a gathering of people in Glasnevin
cemetery where some new headstones had been put in place to mark the graves
of some of the Irish who served with the British forces particularly in the
1914-1918 War. When some of these returned home after the War in Europe they
found a very different Ireland where the republican forces were engaged in a
bitter war against the British Empire. Then when the Country achieved a
measure of independence and self-government after the Truce and the Treaty
and of course the tragic Civil War all the focus in the newly established
State turned to the men and women who had fought and died for Ireland in the
War of Independence and indeed in the Civil War as well. Most of the books
that were then written during that period, most of the songs and ballads
that were composed then and even yet were and still are in praise of the
republicans who died. Whoever heard a song about a dead Black and Tan or
R.I.C. officer, except perhaps in scorn. How many ballads did we ever hear
about the Free State Army who were killed in the Civil War. Very few indeed,
apart from those about Michael Collins himself.
Then if we think about the Irishmen who were killed in either the First or
Second World War, or those who returned home after serving in the British
Army we know that those who died were not either remembered or honoured in
the new emerging Ireland at the time. The dead who were brought home were
buried in un-marked graves and forgotten about up to now and the survivors
who came back were mostly looked upon with scorn and contempt and mostly
lived the rest of their lives in obscurity except for meeting their ex-army
comrades occasionally in organisations such as the British Legion.
In hindsight now even some ardent Republicans would concede that to a
certain extent anyway the treatment meted out to these ex British soldiers
was a little unfair. When some of these young lads joined the British Army
it was not for any political reasons. It was mostly to get out of the
poverty trap they were in here and not because of any great grá for England.
After all did not the great and famous Tom Barry join the British Army and
was sent out to the war in Europe where he first learned of the 1916 Rising.
He later returned and successfully fought the Black and Tans and British
Army in the Cork area. Last week these forgotten soldiers of the First World
War were belatedly honoured in Glasnevin and in a ceremony in St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, Dublin. And as well as that President Mary McAleese laid a wreath
at a ceremony in their memory on Sunday, Remembrance Day. So, generally
there now seems to be a more tolerant, possibly a more Christian attitude
towards those unfortunate Irishmen who died fighting for a cause they may
have believed to be right at that particular time. But yet it is all so sad
compared to those Republicans who are remembered.
“For had they died at Pearse’s side
Or fought with Cathal Brugha
There names we’d keep where the Fenian’s sleep
‘Neath the shroud of the foggy dew.”
But yet many families in Ireland had near relatives on different sides in
some wars. All my own immediate ancestors were on the republican side during
the Tans and Civil War. Yet my Uncle Thade's only son Jackie Brosnan, who
was a postman in England before the 1939-1945 War and whose wife was from
Kilmallock, joined the British Army and was a gunner during the fighting in
Italy where he was wounded. Mary’s uncle Ned Dillane from Glenastar was in
the Canadian Army during the first World War, and my nephew Willie Brosnan
(now also deceased) was with the American Forces in Vietnam.
Looking at the overall picture in this context there is many a paradox and
many a contradiction even among family members or close relatives. And this
makes the recent An Post slogan “We’re all connected” all the more relevant.
For this reason even if for no other we will not begrudge the honour that
was paid to these practically unknown and unheard of soldiers in Dublin on
Armistice Day or over the weekend.
“May the Lord grant them all eternal peace”.
Loyola’s University history with sports has been rocky
By SCOTT O’BRIEN Senior Staff Writer
Published: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Updated: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:04
Loyola’s athletic program came to a halt in the spring of 1972 when University President the Rev. Michael F. Kennelly, S.J. announced that the university would discontinue intercollegiate athletics.
In the years following the cancellation of intercollegiate athletics The Maroon focused its sports coverage on intramural athletics until 1991 when intercollegiate sports were reinstated.
The announcement was made at a press conference in the Danna Center on Jan. 28.
“The Board of Directors of Loyola University has authorized me to announce its decision to discontinue intercollegiate athletics at the end of the current semester and to concentrate, instead, on a broad-based program of intra-university athletics to benefit more students,” Kennelly said. “The reasons for the board’s decision are educational and financial. Private universities…are experiencing economic difficulties and have been required to reassess their priorities in light of its financial and educational needs.”
In the Feb. 4, 1972 issue of The Maroon, basketball co-captain Tim Schneider described his reaction to the announcement as an immediate let down.
“I think the students, especially the athletes, should have heard something about it beforehand rather than hearing it here. The timing of the announcement is very bad,” Schneider said.
The decision to cancel the athletic program came as more of a shock than a surprise to then-baseball coach Lou “Rags” Scheuermann, who was quoted in the Feb. 4 issue of The Maroon.
“It’s like death — you know it’s going to come, but it’s a shock when it finally arrives,” he said.
Scheuermann said that he felt the athletics program was poorly run and that its lack of leadership, in the form of a Sports Information director, led to the program’s demise.
“We had the money for intercollegiate athletics. That was no problem. It just wasn’t run right. Since we did not have leadership, we did not have a strong program,” Scheuermann said.
In the same Maroon issue, basketball coach Bob Luksta agreed with Scheuermann’s sentiments, saying the program lacked organization and job positions.
“There was no leadership and no organization. We needed a ticket manager, a field house manager, a full-time director of athletics and a business manager,” Luksta said.
Scott Obrien can be reached at sjobrien@loyno.edu
Party to celebrate late author Ardyth Kennelly Ullman born April 15th 1912.
Died 19th Jan 2005 in Vancouver
By Nancy Trotic
ntrotic @comcast.net
A “birthday party” to celebrate the life of the late author Ardyth Kennelly Ullman, who grew up in Albany, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 15, at Ashwood Court II, 5331 Clay St. S.E., Mennonite Village, Albany.
Friends, family, and anyone who wishes to share personal memories of Ms. Ullman on what would be her 100th birthday are invited to attend. For further information, please contact Nancy Trotic at ntrotic @comcast.net or 503-775-9022; or call Jean Anderson at 541-704-4110.
Ardyth Kennelly Ullman was born April 15, 1912, in Glenada, Ore. (near Florence), on the night the Titanic went down. She died Jan. 19, 2005, in Vancouver, Washington. Her earliest years were spent in Salt Lake City.
After her father died in 1921, the family moved to Oregon to help care for the children of Ullman’s widowed uncle, brick mason George R. Olsen of North Albany. Her mother then married a neighbor, the farmer and lumberman Hiram Parker. Ullman and her sister spent a happy childhood on the Parker farm with their new step-siblings and their many Olsen cousins.
After graduating from Albany High School, Ullman attended Oregon State University and Reed College. She moved to Portland and was briefly married to an Albany friend, Howard Gibbs. In 1940 she married Dr. Egon V. Ullman, an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist who had emigrated from Vienna, Austria.
Ullman began publishing short stories in various magazines at age 20. Her first novel, “The Peaceable Kingdom” (1949), was her biggest success and was chosen as a Literary Guild selection that year.
The book’s Mormon heroine, Linnea Ecklund, was based on the author’s maternal grandmother, the second wife of a Utah polygamist. In this and some of her subsequent novels, Ullman retold many of the stories she had heard from her grandmother about life, love, and polygamy in nineteenth-century Salt Lake City.
Ullman went on to publish four more novels: “The Spur” (1951), a fictionalized account of the final days of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth; “Good Morning, Young Lady” (1953), a coming-of-age novel set in the Old West; “Up Home” (1955), continuing the story of Linnea Ecklund; and “Marry Me, Carry Me” (1956).
She gained a national reputation when her first book sold half a million copies, and she was featured in Life magazine in January 1950.
According to her sister, Marion, Albany held an “Ardyth Kennelly Day” to celebrate her success. The author, a shy and insecure person, was so terrified before the event that even though she didn’t drink, she had to ask her sister to bring her some wine to calm her nerves.
Ullman drank the wine, said “My, that was fine!” and beamed and talked happily to people throughout the event.
Late in life, Ullman became a collage artist. Her unique artwork was exhibited in galleries and in her downtown Portland apartment.
At her death she left several late manuscripts, including an autobiography, a memoir of her yearlong sojourn in New York after the death of her husband in 1962, and a long novel—a four-generation family saga that begins with a fictional daughter of John D. Lee, who was executed for the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah. These works are being prepared for publication by her family.
Ullman had no children but was very close to her sister, Laura Marion Kennelly Brownell, who passed away Nov. 12, 2011.
I'm afraid I don't know really anything about her Irish roots. Her father was James Daniel Kennelly. I don't know if this helps, but here is a huge Website about the descendants of someone named Roger Billings that includes a lot of Kennellys, with links and sources. Scroll down until you find James Daniel Kennelly and then you can click on links from there.
http://www.ogsottawa.on.ca/billings/p141.htm#i78429
You could also try searching on Ancestry.com for information (if you don't have an account, you can try it free for 14 days). Search on James Daniel Kennelly, birth Jan. 16, 1880, death Apr. 21, 1921, both in Salt Lake City. There are a number of family trees you can see with information on the Kennellys, though I don't know how far back the family has been traced.
Or just search Google on "james daniel kennelly" "salt lake city". I am not an expert family-history researcher when it comes to tracing roots, so there are probably other sources and ways to look for info that I don't know about. The Mormon Church has a database, but I haven't explored it.
I do know that Ardyth's father was born a Catholic and had five names: James Daniel Thomas Aquinas Kennelly. Here is a small excerpt from an interview I had with Ardyth's sister last year about their father: "His family was Catholic, and his parents wanted to make a priest out of him. So of course they were unhappy when he married a Mormon woman. He dumped Catholicism after studying Mormonism and becoming one--though not at Lula’s [his wife's] request; he did it on his own. Lula’s in-laws never forgave her for the fact that she was a Mormon and her husband adopted her religion."Best of luck in your search, Nancy.
Fr Michael Morrison of Listowel
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In October 1908 Michael Morrison was born in Listowel, Co. Kerry. His first school was called C.B.S. Sexton Street. When he was fourteen he enrolled at the local Jesuit secondary school, Mungret College in 1922. While here Morrison showed himself to be an excellent student and an equal sportsman, winning the 0’Mara cup with his Hurling team. At age 18 Morrison decided to become a Jesuit and entered the Novitiate in 1925. As part of his training Morrison was sent to Belvedere College S.J. to teach Maths and Religious Knowledge and to live in a Jesuit Community. He brought his love for the game of hurling with him and soon started to train a few teams within the college. He was finally ordained in 1939 and continued to teach in Belvedere.
When World War 2 broke out across Europe, the British army appealed for any Irish priests to join the army as chaplains. In 1941 Morrison answered this call and joined the 2/5th Battalion of the Welsh Regiment. His first foreign posting was in the Middle-East in October 1942. He performed the duties of any army chaplain, saying mass and giving counseling to the troops of his regiment no matter what religion they were. In 1943 Morrison was sent to the No.13 General Hospital of the Middle Eastern Forces. During his time here Morrison saw many sick and dying men and would regularly have to give the last rights to men who would not survive much longer and to those who had already passed on. This experience would be of help in his later duties. In 1944 Morrison was moved from the Welsh regiment to the 2/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, Derry regiment. His job here reverted back to the normal duties of a chaplain until his regiment was sent to liberate the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.
The camp was liberated on the 25th of April 1945. It was the first camp on the Western Front to be liberated and so the British where totally unprepared for what they faced. When Morrison arrived there, he was confronted with a sight of “between 10,000 and 15,000 corpses lying about unburied”. In his first letter home Morrison talks about the total desperation of the situation. He wrote, “The C.O. expects 5,000 to die in the next two weeks. After that he expects the death rate to go down”. Morrison even admits later on that the estimate was a lot smaller than the number that actually died.
Unlike other camps such as Auschwitz, Belsen had no gas chambers to kill the prisoners as it was originally used as a prisoner-of-war camp for French and Belgian captives. This was changed in 1943 when Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to emigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to emigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals. The lack of exchanges led Belsen to serve mainly as a holding camp for the Jewish prisoners. The camp was divided into eight sections, a detention camp, two women’s camps, a special camp, neutrals camps, "star" camp (mainly Dutch prisoners who wore a Star of David on their clothing instead of the camp uniform), Hungarian camp and a tent camp.
Bergen-Belsen was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners; however, by the war’s end more than 60,000 prisoners were detained there, due to the large numbers of those evacuated from Auschwitz and other camps to the East. Tens of thousands of prisoners from other camps came to Bergen-Belsen after agonizing death marches. As a result the main causes of death within the camp were malnutrition and typhus.
The first few days of Morrison’s time in Belsen were the worst. He spent his first 10 days anointing about 300 dying people a day, stopping only for two short meal breaks per day. He describes the sights that he had to witness in his letters home: “What we saw within the first few days is utterly beyond description” and “people crawling on their hands and knees because they have not got the strength to walk”.
Morrison was placed in camp No.1, nicknamed “Horror Camp” because it was by far the worst. In this camp the number of dead was so great that the army was forced to use bulldozers to push the mounds of dead bodies into large pits, serving as mass graves. Morrison would have to stand over these pits, staring at the rotting corpses and praying for the dead. While there he found that there were many nationalities within the camp: Poles, Hungarians, Russians, French, Belgians and Dutch had all been brought there as the front line had moved closer to their original camps.
Morrison found seven other Jesuits imprisoned in the camp. They were there because of their race or their political views. Over the first few weeks all but two of these died. However he became very good friends with one of the Jesuits who survived, Fr. Kenopka SJ. Kenopka was the Provincial for Krakow and as soon as he was well enough, he began to help Morrison with his duties around the camp. Morrison began to write regularly to the Provincial of Ireland in order to get Kenopka a posting there. However there was no free position in Ireland and so Kenopka stayed in the camp until 1946, when he left to go to another country.
During his time in Belsen, Morrison witnessed many horrors but he also had times of great joy. After the first few days of total chaos, Morrison began to set himself up properly. When his work of anointing the sick and the dead began to lessen, Morrison decided to hold the first mass to be said in the camp. However on the day he was supposed to hold the mass, it poured rain. The rain was so bad that Morrison thought of canceling the mass as he felt that no one would come. When he walked out on the makeshift altar he was stunned to see hundreds of people of many different religions waiting. He felt this to be one of the greatest moments of his life and so began to say mass every day.
As the first month ended, life began to settle down in the camp. The British army forced the local hospital to take the sick and the sanitary conditions in the camp improved greatly. Near the end of the year the camp was fully organized. The 11,000 Jews still in the camp where moved out of “Horror Camp” to better conditions and on a day which Morrison describes as “White Monday”, the camp wad burned to the ground.
After the war, Morrison was sent to Australia. His first position was at Riverview College and he was later sent to St. Ignatius church and served as a parish priest there. He returned to his first posting, Belvedere College S.J., to work as a maths teacher again and later to retire there too. He was never the same after his experience in Belsen and spoke little of what he had witnessed while serving there. His health was affected by the experience and he would be sick for the rest of his life. He collapsed while walking up the steps in Belvedere House and died in Jervis Street Hospital soon after in April 1973.
Until his death Morrison spoke very little of what he witnessed. In the years that followed the war the world began to fully realize what had happened in the concentration camps. However the many students that Morrison taught had no idea what he had witnessed as a chaplain. He showed extraordinary courage in his duties and paid for it with his health. Fr. Michael Morrison SJ went into Belsen a fit and energetic man but came out of it somewhat broken and suffering gradually failing health.
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In Herald.ie Gerry O'Carroll remembers his father who played his part in WW1
02 JULY 2014 12:00 AM
LAST Saturday marked the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
The shooting led, of course, to World War i, a conflict which drew in millions of people around the world.
Among them was a young man from Listowel, Co Kerry, named James O'Carroll. He was my father.
He was one of thousands of young Irishmen who answered John Redmond's call to join the British Army and fight for the freedom of small nations.
My dad was just 16 when he left north Kerry for London in 1916. There he joined the Royal Engineers and, after four months of basic training, was sent to the Western Front.
He fought in France and later in Belgium. Like thousands of his fellow countrymen he endured the horrors and hardships of the Great War - the mud, the blood, the daily terror and struggle for survival.
In early 1918, having survived two years of that living hell, he was seriously wounded during an over-the-top attack in Ypres.
He was shot through the shoulder and, following a mustard gas attack, lay blinded and choking in a shell-hole for ten hours before he was rescued.
My father was taken to hospital and recovered from the wound. Alas he suffered lifelong effects to his lungs from the gas attack.
James O'Carroll remained in France with his regiment until the Armistice in 1918 and was demobbed the following year, after which he returned to Listowel.
My dad's experiences in France and Belgium left him a changed man. In later years he became a committed pacifist.
veterans
He also went on to raise a family of 15, living in the soldiers' houses in Listowel, a terrace built by a trust for wounded veterans of the War.
Growing up In the staunchly Republican heartland of north Kerry I always had the feeling that the houses were looked on by many people as a curious anomaly.
Perhaps one of the reasons for this was that our family would sell the poppy each November, not a common practice in the town.
Sadly my dad, like many other veterans, was seen by many not as a person who fought for freedom, but instead as someone tainted by treason, for taking 'the King's shilling'.
Likewise no monuments were erected to my dad's many Irish pals who never came home.
Only now, at last, are they being properly recognised. It's taken a century but I'm glad to see it.
I'm sure my dear departed father would be too.
MALTA:
LETTER FROM A SOLDIER IN HOSPITAL Waterford News, Page 5 19th May, 1916
c/o Mother Cloran,
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Tal Bullut, Malta, 9th May. 1916.
Dear Sir—I feel sure that many of your readers will be pleased to know that, although many of their loved ones have found their last resting-place far from the land they fought and died for, yet their memory will ever live in the hearts of those who admire the principles for which they gave their lives. I enclose you a newspaper containing an account of the Memorial Service and Requiem Mass celebrated on last Thursday for the happy repose of those buried in the holy isle of Malta and their many comrades who sleep in nameless graves after their brave fight for home and honour. Would that I could pay a fitting tribute to the goodness of the people of this saintly isle, who have not spared themselves in doing everything possible for the comfort and happiness of those whom wounds and illness cast in their midst. The few lines which I enclose from a grateful patient are only one of the many tributes to their kindness. It may interest some old friends to know that as well as having a brother killed early in the war, I also have a brother in France, who returned there after being seriously wounded and has now obtained a commission. My youngest brother is with the Australians, and my only sister is a nurse in one of the war hospitals. I would be pleased to receive any Irish or Catholic publications at any time, as I meet many lads from near the banks of the Suir. Wishing you every blessing.— Mise, le meas mor, SEAGAN UA DUBAIN. R.A.M.C. (56884, Pte. Dobbyn, J.J.)
("The poem, one of three stanzas, is entitled "Malta." The second stanza runs:
Dear Fortress Isle, may good attend and none thy sanctuary offend with cursed shot and shell. Still be thou nurse and helper kind to helpless ones to thee consigned.
That thou may'st make them well. The Memorial Service consisted of Requiem Mass, followed by an address from the Archbishop of Malta. The affecting ceremony was held in the Addolerata Cemetery in charge of the Capuchins. Lord Methuen, Governor of Malta, was present occupying a special dais.
BRODER, JOHN.
Rank: Private. Regiment or Service: Royal Munster Fusiliers. Unit: 1st Battalion.
Age at death: 23. Date of Death: 07-May-1915. Service No: 9320. Supplementary information: Son of William and Bridget Broder, of Cleveragh, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Born in Cleveragh, Listowel, County Kerry. Enlisted in Tralee while living in Listowel, County Kerry. Died of wounds in Gallipoli. Grave or Memorial Reference: E. EA. A. 639. Cemetery: Addolorata Cemetery in Malta.
http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/27th-february-1942/5/obituary
ONE OF TWENTY CHILDREN
Father Francis Lacy, who died at Richmond, Yorkshire, where he had been in charge of the parish since 1933, spent over twenty years teaching at -St. Michael's College. Leeds. Born in Liverpool in 1874, he was the youngest of a family of twenty children and was educated at St. Francis Xavier's College in that city. Having entered the Society of Jesus on September 7, 1892, he followed the usual course of studies during which he ' taught for five years at St. Ignatius' College, Malta, and was ordained priest at St. Beuno's in 1908.
MR. FLAVIN (Kerry, N.) House of Commons
CRIMEAN VETERANS.
HC Deb 23 June 1899 vol 73 c437 437
I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that Patrick Hennessy, whose regimental number is 1,780, enlisted at Tralee, County Kerry, in January, 1846, for service in the 95th Foot (Derbyshires), and served with his regiment all through the Crimean War, and was engaged in all the battles under the command of Colonel Smith, and was wounded at the battle of Inkerman; that he also served all through the Indian Mutiny under Colonel Hume, taking active part in all the battles; that he was specially noted for his bravery in action by General Sir H. Rose; and that he also served in China for four years, also in Egypt, Malta, and Africa; and whether, seeing that Patrick Hennessy is now aged 76 years, and was discharged in 1868 with only a pension of 8d. per day after over 21 years' active and foreign service, the War Office authorities will take into consideration with a view to an increased pension the condition of this man.
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Army recruiting poster, 1915, featuring Michael O'Leary
List of Irish Victoria Cross recipients lists all recipients of the Victoria Cross (post-nominal letters "VC") born on the island of Ireland, together with the date and place of their VC action. The Victoria Cross is the highest war honour of the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. The whole island of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom until 1922 when it was partitioned into Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. In 1948 the Irish Free State became the Republic of Ireland and left the Commonwealth in 1949. Despite this citizens of the Republic still enlist in the British Army and thus are eligible for the Victoria Cross.
IRISH RECIPIENTS
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BURNS: Advocate (Melbourne, Vic. : 1868 - 1954) Thu 2 Jan 1941’Page 18
Fifteen-year-old William Roderick Burns, killed in London through enemy
action, was the son of Major William Ignatius Burns, a school contemporary
with the celebrated Mgr. William Barry, and an ardent worker in the
cause of Catholic education as a councillor, Justice of the Peace, and as a
member of the Westminster Catholic Federation. Major Burns's father was
Responsible for the construction of much of the London Metropolitan
Railway, and erected the world's greatest railway arch in brickwork, spanning
the Thames between Taplow and Maidenhead, for the G.W.R. main line.
His wife is a granddaughter of John Bird, builder of many of London's
largest Catholic churches. In 1859 Major Burns's father supplied premises
to the S.V.P. Society, for use as a refuge for boys, out of which was born
the Crusade of Rescue. Mrs. Burns, on her father's side, is closely connected
to the architectural generations of Pugins.
Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932) Thu 23 Sep 1915 Page 10
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115595806?searchTerm=Irish%20pattern%20day&searchLimits=
The prominent part which Irishmen are
playing, in the work of Scottish regiments
receives additional proof from day to day.
'We are still up in the firing line/' wrote a
member of the 6th Black Watch on -the iiJth
ult. 'i 'During the day things are quiet ex
cept for the snipers , who are always busy.
We lost a couple of lance-corporals in No. 1
Platoon on Saturday night. They were both
Irishmen. They were out in front on patrol
duty ;at the time, and both were so severely
wounded that they died shortly afterwards.'
Other recent casualties in Scottish regiments
include Lance-corporal Patrick O'Neill, of the
King's OAvn Scottish Borderers, killed in ac
tion at ,the Dardanelles. Private Donnelly,
of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
has also been killed in action. Three of his
brothers are serving with the colours. Pri
vate Foley, of the Highland Light Infantry,
has died from wounds at Rouen. Private
Edward Quigley, of the Argyll and Suther
land Highlanders, was killed in France.
Drummer Boy
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Tablet 17 Oct 1914
THE LORD CHANCELLOR Addressing on Saturday a recruiting meeting at the Tyne Theatre, GERMAN MILITARISM. Newcastle, at which the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle was on the platform, the Lord Chancellor delivered a condemnation of German militarism and a declaration on the justice of England's cause which should carry conviction. Lord Haldane said that we were at war because it was our sacred duty to be at war. We were fighting for the right. He was not one of those who even now failed to respect the finer qualities of the German race, but all those great qualities had been prostrated to an unworthy purpose. They had been placed under the domination of that military spirit which should be exterminated. Had we, in this conflict, stood by and folded our hands, France
might have been crushed and made a province of Germany, Belgium might have been annexed to the German Empire, Holland might have followed, and Russia might possibly have been checked, and we should have been without a friend in the world, dis-honoured and disgraced. Our time would have come two or three years later, and we should have had to fight alone, with nobody to mourn us. Rather than that we should have flinched from the ordeal he would have seen the British Empire come to an end. It was better that it should perish gloriously than go down, as it inevitably would have gone down, in disgrace and dis- honour. Lord Haldane then proceeded: to point out that we must win. Germany had lost time, her preparations were being worn down, and her resources in men and money were inferior to those of the Allies. Lord Kitchener wanted two more battalions from Newcastle. At a later meeting M. Maeterlinck spoke after Lord Haldane, describing how little Belgium had kept her pledge of neutrality and died for it. " Belgium has been called England's foster-child, and England has certainly proved herself a good foster-mother. My countrymen realize that England's word is her bond."
MR. J. REDMOND-- An enthusiastic welcome was given to Mr. J. Redmond when on Sunday he visited his constituency of Waterford to present colours to and review the local battalion of the National Volunteers. In the course of his speech to the men he insisted that the success of the Volunteer movement depended on the spirit of the men and their organization. Their spirit was a sound National spirit—a desire to do their duty to Ireland, a desire to emulate the glory of the Volunteers of 1778 and of 1782, to safeguard the liberties which had been won for them, and to defend Irish rights here or else-where, wherever they were assailed. The central and headquarters organization which had been deficient was now united and efficient.
http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/issue/17th-october-1914/1/46980/chronicle-of-the-week
WAR;
Tablet 21 July 1900
THE NURSING AT KIMBERLEY.
The Rev. Mother General, Nazareth H ouse, Hammersmith, has heard from Sister Superior, Nazareth House, Kimberley, who wrote on June 24 : Very many thanks for your letter of last mail with enclosure of for our poor soldiers. Some of our patients have already been taken to the Field Hospital ; the remainder are to go this week. Amongst those who left was our old friend, Mr. Helmouth, and you will be surprised to hear that he is back with us again and settled in the Old Men's quarters. (Of course, after his leg was amputated he was no longer a prisoner.)
http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/issue/21st-july-1900/25/63048/the-war
Tablet 20 Jan 1906
Executive Committee of the Workmen's Delegates declares that the St. Petersburg proletariat does not connect its future offensive with any date fixed before-hand; that all rumours of an armed rising on January 22 are provocative and obviously untrue, and that the anniversary of Red Sunday' will be commemorated by St. Petersburg workmen as a day of national sorrow and mourning on which work will be suspended.
A banquet organised by the Berlin Chamber of Commerce in Berlin on Tuesday, for the purpose of furthering the maintenance and strengthening of the friendly relations between Great Britain and Germany, received something like official recognition from the presence of the British Ambassador and the Prussian Ministers of Commerce and Finance. Sir Frank Lascelles, in replying to the toast of the King, after pointing out that whilst it was perhaps too much to expect that the misunderstandings upon which jealousy and suspicion were based should suddenly disappear, added that the important meetings which had recently been held throughout Germany would do much to clear the air. " They will, however," he continued, " be closely criticised, and may in some quarters be so misinterpreted as to lead to the suggestion that friend-ship between our two countries might imply hostility to some other country. I think it important that it should be clearly understood that this is not the case. The friend-ships we have both contracted are no bar to our being friends ourselves, and the friendship which I sincerely hope to see established among us need not interfere with or in anywise diminish the friendship we have contracted with others.
http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/issue/20th-january-1906/1/58441/chronicle-of-the-week
News of Old Reedonians
Norman Alvey
(Blathwayt 1938) The following
appeared in the ‘Herts Advertiser’ on 11th September
2014. “Russia’s Ambassador to the UK has awarded a
medal to a 92 year old Second World War veteran from
Harpenden, in recognition of his service on the perilous
Arctic convoys. Norman Alvey was recently presented
with his Ushakov Medal by Alexander Yakovenko at the
Ambassador’s official London residence in Kensington
Palace Gardens. His citation includes words of
appreciation from President Vladimir Putin for the crucial
role the Arctic convoys played as part of Britain’s help in
defeating Nazi Germany.