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          346 Archival description results for Historical events

          IE OH OHS31/B · File · 1966
          Part of O'Brennan Family Papers

          Two handwritten accounts relating to the background to the Easter Rising and the Tullamore Incident. The accounts were prepared by Aloysius O'Brennan for the 50 year commemorations in 1966. A further memoir on the events of Easter Week was written by Alo's [wife], Maura O'Brennan. Also includes a scrapbook of cuttings compiled in 1966 during the Jubilee commemorations of the 1916 Rising.

          O'Brennan, Alo
          Memoir 'Why Easter Rising'
          IE OH OHS31/B/1 · Item · 1966
          Part of O'Brennan Family Papers

          Memoir by Aloysius O'Brennan describing 1798 Rebellion, the Great Famine, Irish Parliamentary Party, Home Rule, the futility of constitutional agitation, formation of Irish Volunteers, Redmonite split in volunteers in 1914, Sinn Fein, the Howth gun-running, and the rise of Gaelic League.

          Memoir 'Tullamore'
          IE OH OHS31/B/2 · Item · 1966
          Part of O'Brennan Family Papers

          Memoir by Aloysius O'Brennan recounting the Tullamore Incident of 20 March1916 and the subsequent charges brought against 12 men in relation to the incident.

          IE OCL P31 · Item · 1918-1985

          Typescript of memoir titled ‘Do You Remember’. Recounts the life in Birr and covers the following subjects: soldiers from Birr returning from World War I (1918), the Treaty (1921), occupation of Free State Troops of ‘The Gorm' (the workhouse) in Birr (1922), burning of Crinkle Barracks (1922) and other reminiscences of life in Birr from 1930s to 1980s.

          Barnwell, Kathleen