Military Rowdyism: the Derbyshire (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment in Limerick, 1888
Why a song provoked mob violence in the Limerick city's streets in 1888.
Irish Garrison Towns
Stories of soldiers in Irish streets
Irish Garrison Towns
Stories of soldiers in Irish streets
A dignified burial: military funerals for paupers, 1908-15.
Source In February 1909, 83-year-old Patrick Hanlon died in Waterford workhouse, but he was not buried in an anonymous grave in the Poor Law Union burial plot.1 The coffin was a ‘nice’ coffin with a breastplate rather than the cheapest ‘shell’…
“The Battle of Kinsale refought”: a riot and a song, 12 July 1859
On the afternoon of 12 July, fighting, window breaking and shouting disturbed the residents of Kinsale, a small Cork town with a large barracks on the outskirts. A group of Antrim militiamen who had been drinking in a local pub…