Did Dev go to a Christian Bros?
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Frank Browning continued to be much involved with rugby, and played for Wanderers Rugby Union Football Club. According to one report, he was a reserve for the Irish team in 1901. He is unique in having been President of both the Irish Cricket Union and the Irish Rugby Football Union, a post to which he was elected in 1912.
In September, 1914, he issued a circular to all the rugby clubs in the Dublin region, urging the members to enlist in the Army. A friend of his, Lt. Col Geoffrey Downing, was the officer commanding the 7th (Service) Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, a regiment with the nickname (among others) of âThe Old Toughsâ. He agreed to keep open âDâ Company of the Battalion for recruits from the rugby clubs, and they joined up as a Pals Battalion, known as âThe Toffs in the Toughsâ. They paraded at the stadium at Lansdowne Road, with Frank Browning at the front; many of the men in this photograph died at Suvla Bay in Gallipoli the following year.
Frank Browning in the uniform of the Irish Rugby Football Volunteer Corps
He also inaugurated the Irish Rugby Football Union Volunteer Corps, consisting mainly of men who were too old for military service. The Volunteer Training Corps had been set up, throughout Great Britain and Ireland, to satisfy the desire of civilians to be of some military service, though the Army could find little for them to do. Unlike the many other âVolunteerâ organisations in Ireland at the time, it was strictly apolitical. They wore an armband with the letters âG.R.â, and were nicknamed the Gorgeous Wrecks.
On Easter Monday, 1916, the 1st Dublin Battalion of the V.T.C., including the I.R.F.U.V.C., were on an exercise in the Dublin Mountains when they received news of the rebellion in Dublin. They marched back to their base in Beggars Bush Barracks in Ballsbridge, most of them in a uniform similar to that of the Army; they carried rifles, but had no ammunition. The subsequent events are described in a memoir by Henry Hanna (TCD 10066/192).
Frank Browning, leading about forty of them, came under fire from No. 25, Northumberland Road, which was occupied by Lieut. Michael Malone and Volunteer SĂ©amus Grace, members of the Irish Volunteers who were under the command of Commdt. Ăamon de Valera, based in Bolandâs Bakery. Frank Browning sustained a head wound and was taken to Baggot Street Hospital, where he died two days later. He was buried in Deanâs Grange cemetery.
Volunteer Malone put manners on them.
Went to Charleville CBS and then Blackrock?
That was my first reaction @Fitzy but in this age of fake news, conspiracy theories and frame ups it is important to retain as much unbiased perspective as possible, even when it comes to the rnli so no I donât think they were directly involved here.
However pretty obvious they are busy attempting to bring down the Irish economy by colluding with the speaker of the House of Commons to subvert Theresa Mayâs withdrawal deal as the attached link clearly shows
https://www.johnbercow.co.uk/content/john-joins-rnli-organiser-mrs-anne-maltby-high-street-princes-risborough
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Browning must have been a Walter Mitty type.
There was never any great secret about it with Dev. He was quiet open about the fact that rugby was his sporting preference.
Did he say it was the game best suited to the oirish ?
do you already know the answer?
80% sure .
He was of hispanic origins - what would that little cunt have know about the irish?