Category Archives: Co Antrim

A dignified burial: military funerals for paupers, 1908-15.

by igt_admin Posted on January 31, 2018

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’ … Continue reading →

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“The Battle of Kinsale refought”: a riot and a song, 12 July 1859

by igt_admin Posted on July 11, 2017

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 … Continue reading →

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