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History of Irish people serving in the British Armed Forces

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  • history of Irish people serving in the British Armed Forces (en)
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  • Michael McDonough (en)
  • Canon Charles O’Neill (en)
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  • 2012-05-02 (xsd:date)
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  • a teenager enlisting in the Connaught Rangers, 1898. (en)
  • Foggy Dew, 1919. (en)
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  • Oh, had they died by Pearse's side or fought with Cathal Brugha, (en)
  • But their lonely graves are by Suvla's waves on the fringe of the great North Sea. (en)
  • I am full willing to leave my manson and to go into the interiors of Africa to fight vountarilly for Queen Victoria and as far as there is life in my bones and breath in my body, I will not let any foreign invasion tramp on Queen's land. However, if her or her leaders ever turns with cruelty on the Irish race, I will be the first to raise my sword to fight against her. I will have plenty of Irishmen at my side, for they are known to be the bravest race in the world. (en)
  • Their names we'd keep where the Fenians sleep, 'neath the shroud of the Foggy Dew. (en)
  • 'Twas England bade our Wild Geese go, that "small nations might be free", (en)
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  • Irish in the British Armed Forces (en)
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