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@irishacw
Nov 5, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
A little while back my research into the Irish who died in Canadian service during #WW2 uncovered the story of the three Sheehan brothers from Fermoy, #Cork, who all lost their lives in separate missions while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force. 1/4
Their deaths may represent the greatest loss of life suffered by a single family from what's now the Republic during Allied combat operations. I was humbled to discover that the research has now led to the brothers becoming the focus of this year's @irishineurope Remembrance. 2/4
This Saturday the Irish in Europe Association will gather at the grave of Edward (below), the eldest, in Heverlee War Cemetery, Belgium, to remember both the Sheehans and all the other Irish who lost their lives in Allied service. 3/4 Image
You can find details of the event here: meetup.com/Irish-in-Europ…. If you would like to read about the brother's story, here is my original piece on them: irishamericancivilwar.com/2017/11/12/cos… 4/4 Image

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Apr 16, 2023
This is one of the very best images of Irish troops from the American Civil War. Surprisingly, it's not very well known, despite Thomas Francis Meagher's presence. Taken in the summer of 1861, it contains lots of fascinating details. A short🧵on some of them👇#IrishDiaspora Image
This is Meagher before he was a General, taken only a short time before he and the men around him - Zouaves attached to the 69th New York State Militia as Company K - would see action for the first time at the Battle of Bull Run on 21 July 1861. Image
The image offers incredible detail of some of the men. Many would have been born in Ireland, and many, if not most, would have been Famine emigrants. The “69” on their caps is clearly visible, as is a white Havelock (left), which some of the 69th NYSM wore at Bull Run. Image
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Aug 9, 2022
100 years ago today the most intensive day of fighting in the Battle for Cork was taking place around Rochestown. To mark the anniversary of the bloodiest engagement of Cork's revolutionary period, this🧵explores some of the archaeological traces left behind. #BattleforCork100 /1
The National Army had landed in Passage West the previous day, moving to engage IRA defenders on the high ground to the west. Some of the very first fire of this engagement can be traced today- these are impact scars from National Army bullets on buildings opposite the docks. /2
The IRA defence was aided by fire from Carrigaloe across the Lee Channel on Great Island. Fire from buildings here directed at the National Army landing force smacked into buildings in Passage West, especially those on higher ground. Here are impacts in Passage from that fire. /3
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Apr 12, 2021
The Irish and the start of the American Civil War-A Short Thread. The conflict began today in 1861, when Confederates opened fire on Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Within the Fort's walls, there were more Irish-born than American-born soldiers. 1/9 #IrishDiaspora
Within the Fort, Captain Abner Doubleday is regarded as the man who gave the command to return fire- the first U.S. shot of the war. Galwegian Private James Gibbons (below) may well have served that gun. Years later he would claim to be the man who physically fired that shot. 2/9
The Confederates had opened fire due to the imminent arrival at Fort Sumter of provisioning U.S. vessels. Many of those ship crews were also Irish-born. Dubliner Stephen Rowan held a key role during the operation, as Commander of the sloop-of-war USS Pawnee. 3/9
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Sep 30, 2020
The taoiseach: “iconic and historic locations such as this should be preserved or at a minimum incorporated into any new developments” But successive govts have not acted to identify & map these sites so they can be considered in planning. Thread /1 irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i…
The damage and destruction of revolutionary sites is wholesale around the country. For a small number of them (not many), a public outcry has occurred, but almost always late in the planning process (e.g. Moore St/O'Rahilly home). Very few have any significant protection. /2
Our legislation is extremely limited- we refuse to consider post 1700AD sites archaeologically, making it hard to protect them as historic landscapes. The protected structure mechanism works only in certain circumstances, and is also a limited form or protection. Fundamentally /3
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Sep 3, 2020
We have to try and start to resist the temptation to place new memorials and "tidy up" already memorialised revolutionary sites for the centenary when there hasn't been landscape archaeological assessments. Aside from other issues, we have no clue about any damage being done.
Having been banging on about if for years it's a bit exasperating to see additional memorialisation is still the unquestioned mainstay of remembrance. We need some funding guidelines at Council level. It would be great to see @HeritageHubIRE develop best practice guidelines.
Memorialisation has its place, but when as a State we are not prepared to place any protection on these sites, or even require that we understand them as landscapes, we have to try and be extra careful about the potential unintended damage we can cause them with new memorials.
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Jul 29, 2020
An urgent appeal re Vinegar Hill. Planning permission is being sought for a major development that will have an irreversible and catastrophic impact on the 1798 battlefield site. Details here. Time is short, but anyone who can should seek to lodge objections this week. Please RT Image
We have recently lost one portion of the battlefield in the vicinty of Green Hill, but this development will be even more detrimental. Located on the site of the former golf course, on 21 June 1798 it was within the United Irishmen's lines and is part of the core battlefield area
For those familiar with Vinegar Hill, if granted permission, the development (a nursing home and major residential estate) will be sited below the current battlefield carpark, forever impacting the visual setting of the Monument. Its detrimental impact can't be overstated.
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