Westport Remembers the MEN of 1916 Old I.R.A Veterans Warmly Applauded On Parade Route The rising sun on Easter Sunday morning leapt joyfully in full, brilliant radiance as Westport prepared to stage the County Commemorative Celebrations on the Golden Jubilee of the 1916 Rising. And at Westport Quay the bright, warm sun cast deep shadows […]
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Westport and the Irish Volunteers 1916 – Vincent Keane
Westport and the Irish Volunteers 1916 Vincent Keane By 1916 Westport was a well-established battalion in the Mayo Brigade of the Irish Volunteers. Westport was given Battalion status and the various outlying companies became attached to the battalion. Natural leaders were now coming to the fore and a true patriotic Irish-Ireland ethos was emerging. Names […]
Major John MacBride – Owen Hughes
Major John MacBride Owen Hughes One of the first effects of the 1916 Rising was the creation of a political revolution which, under the Sinn Féin organisation, gave an overwhelming majority to nationalist Ireland in the General Election of 1918 for self-determination, which led to withdrawal from the British House of Commons and the setting […]
Speech by President Éamon de Valera on the occasion of the unveiling of a Commemorative plaque to Major John MacBride
Major John MacBride Speech by President Éamon de Valera on the occasion of the unveiling of a Commemorative plaque to Major John MacBride on his birthplace at the Quay, Westport, on 4 August 1963. This house is now the premises known as ‘The Helm’, owned by Mr. Vincent Keogh. It is said that there is […]
Major John MacBride – A Review For 2016 by Anthony J. Jordan
Major John MacBride A Review For 2016 Anthony J. Jordan “The veracity of the charges against MacBride, has attracted some historiographical attention in recent years, largely as a result of the energetic writings of Anthony Jordan, The target of Jordan’s argument has been a number of biographies of W. B. Yeats, particularly Roy Foster’s… The […]
The Rising and my Dismissal by Elizabeth Bloxham
The Rising and my Dismissal. Elizabeth Bloxham I was in the North when I read news of the Rising in the Evening Telegraph. Though I knew from a talk I had with MacDonagh the previous summer that things were coming to a head I was shocked into a state of unreality by the bald report […]
‘How he died’ by Kevin Christopher Higgins
by Kevin Christopher Higgins (courtesy of Una Higgins O’Malley) I never was greatly a friend to John MacBride But he caught my heart in the end by the death he died, Rich be his sleep and deep By Kilmainham side! For when they called him out, the cold last tryst to abide, The […]
Major John MacBride – A BALLAD
Hurrah for Major John MacBride, For him we give three cheers, For Ireland’s grand old cause he died, With the Dublin Volunteers. He fought the English ten to one, And tamed their Saxon pride, But now our gallant chief is gone, Brave Major MacBride. With Kruger and the fearless Boers, He fought for liberty, And […]
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