By December 1915, recruitment figures as per Province;
Ulster 49,760
Leinster 27,458
Munster 14,190
Connacht 3,589
At this time, there were 416,409 unmarried men of military age in the country.
Id have to go looking for total figures from 1916 on but I actually have a life so…
From 1914 - 1918 206,000 Irishmen were members of the British Army Forces. Between 30,000 - 35,000 were killed.
I would very much doubt that you will get conscription numbers for ireland.
I had to drive to Clones from Waterford today. I approached Clones from the Cavan side. In doing so I drove through one of Ireland’s foremost geographical quirks, the Drumully salient. This piece of land is part of Co Monaghan, and part of the Republic but juts into Fermanagh and can’t be accessed by any roads from the Republic
Things I learned today - there is such a thing as a pene-enclave.
I despise FF but this has got to be one of the stupidest posts we’ve ever had on TFK
Wow, dredging up a post from four years ago, well done you.
I stand by it. Dev was a horrid cunt that set the country back decades with his vision for a rural Ireland with comely maidens dancing at the crossroads.
Enjoy your night. As a proud multi generational Irish Republican I will be raising several glasses to the sea change in Irish politics seen today. Hopefully Sinn Fein will be brave enough to enter government now, this isn’t the time for heckling from the gallery.
Tiocfaidh ár lá my friend, hopefully Sinn Fen will be brave enough to resist the siren cal of ministerial cars now, this is the perfect time for heckling from the gallery. The SF project includes nothing less than the complete re-shaping of politics in the 26 counties, never even mind on an All Ireland basis and to do that they have to stay out of government a little longer and be something more than the new labour party. The hopes and aspirations of an entire generation lie with them.
Coming to the time of year.
The stardust tradegy where 48 lost their lives 100s burnt.
What I would change is cover ups that prevented the truth to come out.
39 years ago today. God be good to the 48 children that never came home. Of all the bad shit Haughey got up to, the shafting of these kids and their families from the heart of his own constituency was the worst.
What was the story, whats the cover up and how did he shaft them, or is there a good article to read on it
I used to work with a guy who made it out of it that night. Lost his sense of smell, only ever spoke of it once in my company. Always got very down this time of year.
What a shower of cunts these Butterlys are
Awfully crap for the families
They’re certainly that
Was the 82 tribunal crooked or misguided?
They actually made money out of their own negligence while the families got fuck all. They even successfully sued Christy Moore for the song he wrote about it. Dunphy has a good podcast where he interviews Frank Connolly about it. GUBU would be an understatement
What makes it even worse is haughty grew up less than ten mins away from the stardust.
He is originally from Belton park donnycarney.
I know the Buckleys very well think 2 or 3 of them died in the tragedy.
Their is photos on google of all the coffins a having one big funeral in donnycarney church
How exactly did Haughey screw the victims over? Was he taking coin from the Butterleys?
I do not know if he was getting coin but he dis not call for a full and proper enquiry nor did he acknowledge the disaster properly.
There was no full enquiry into the deaths until years later which was also flawed.
The butterlys still own the business park which is outdated and a eye sore.
There is also a pub artane house that is stood where the tragedy was it was a old snooker hall converted into a pub