Military History

See separate files for 'World War I' and 'Royal Munster Fusiliers'

I. Newspaper reports about Military History 

• West Limerick man's death in Korea, Limerick Leader 15/08/1951, p3

• Limerick man who was killed in Korea, Limerick Leader 05/01/1952, p1

• Killed in Korea: Buried in Co. Limerick, 03/06/1953, p1 

• Twenty - One Limerick Men For The Congo, Limerick Leader 04/01/1961, p1

• Over 40 city soldiers for Congo duty, Limerick Leader 20/05/1961, p1

• Joyful Return of Limerick Soldiers From the Congo, Limerick Leader 16/01/1961, p1

• Limerick troops back from the Congo, Limerick Leader 20/11/1961, p1

• The 12th Battalion of Limerick: The pride of the South, Limerick Leader 25/01/1964, p4

• Limerickman's son killed in Vietnam, Limerick Leader 12/06/1965, p5 

• Doddering generals and merry archdeacons, Limerick Echo 17/04/1982, p11

• Death of William (Bill) Broggy, Limerick Leader 01/10/1983, p9 

• Poppy Day fading away in Limerick, Limerick Leader 12/11/1983

• The adventures of Monty's batman, Limerick Leader 18/02/1984, p3 

• Praise as Limerick Soldiers go to Lebanon, Limerick Leader 19/10/1987, p7

• Limerick soldiers top guns, Limerick Leader 25/07/1992 

• Trail of wartime tragedy leads to Limerick, Limerick Chronicle 01/10/1994

• Limerickmen in the Spanish Civil War, Limerick Leader 01/01/2000 [Milenium supplement]

• New book tells of city' war heroes, Limerick Leader 17/11/2001

• Limerick's Korean War dead, Limerick Leader 06/04/2002, p16 

• US honours Limerick's Korean War dead at last, Limerick Leader 08/12/2003, p8

• Limerick's Vietnam dead are honoured, Limerick Leader 03/01/2004

• Major Spanish Civil War archive for city, Limerick Leader 27/01/2004, p8

• Looking for help to honour Limerick's war dead, Limerick Leader 03/04/2004, p8

• Limerick's soldiers head for Kosovo, Limerick Leader 03/04/2004, p1 & 2

• Battling to clear a soldier's name, Limerick Leader 04/03/2006, p14 

• Old friends like old soldiers, never die, Limerick Leader 04/11/2006, p24

• Soldier Jack remembered in war plaque ceremony, Limerick Post 10/02/2007, p17 

• Limerick heroes of the Boer War remembered, Limerick Leader 01/05/2007, p8

• Servicemen are honoured at wreath-laying ceremony, Limerick Chronicle 29/05/2007, p4

• Military honours: Mayor salutes ex-servicemen, Limerick Chronicle 26/06/2007, p10 

• Downey family to seek royal pardon, Limerick Chronicle 21/11/2007, p3 

• Former soldiers honour those who died as POWs, Limerick Leader 24/11/2007, p11

• New book tells life story of Limerick war hero, Limerick Post 08/12/2007, p14

• British army veterans visit ONE in city, Limerick Leader 14/01/2009, p5 

• Irish soldiers' little known part in Vietnam honoured in new book, Limerick Leader 28/03/2009, p16

• Local heroes laid down their lives on distant battlefields, Limerick Leader 07/02/2009, p4 [Leader2]

• Seven Irishmen killed in the Congo, Limerick Leader 10/10/2009, p14

• Remembering the heroes [photographs], Limerick Leader 31/07/2010, p1 [Leader 2]

• 50 years on, a Limerick soldier remembers, Limerick Independent 21/07/2010 p10

• First wave set for Congo, Limerick Leader 27/10/2012, p16

• Call to honour Limerick men who fought fascism, Limerick Leader 09/03/2013, p11

• Ireland's forgotten war, Limerick Leader 16/03/2013, p1 & 2 [Leader 2]

• Andy Irvine celebrates the International Brigade, Limerick Post 13/09/2014, p77

• Spanish Civil War memorial removes 'stain of shame', Limerick Post 20/09/2014, p12

• Limerick salutes its brigadistas with memorial unveiling, Limerick Leader 20/09/2014, p4

• Military history to get a city showcase, Limerick Chronicle13/01/2015, p11  

• Limerick's fighting story, war and remembrance, Limerick Leader 17/01/2015, p2 [Leader 2]

• Stand up and fight for Limerick military history, Limerick Post 17/01/2015, p20

• Irish Volunteers - Cumann na mban, 09/06/1914 

• France's highest honour is bestowed on Limerickman, 91, Limerick Leader  28/11/2015, p2 

• Photograph of 19^th Rifle Battallion, L.D.F. in the 1940s, Limerick Leader 18/04/2016, p27

• My uncle the deserter – and why we should all give thanks to him [Christy O’Shaughnessy], Limerick Life 16/11/2016, p26 

• Home from Congo, Limerick Leader 25/03/2017, 1&2 

• Congo mission better paid than equipped, Limerick Leader 08/04/2017, p21 

• Prisoner-of-war has 'honour restored' 56 years after siege, Limerick Leader 17/02/2018, p11

II. Articles about Military History

• Studiisque asperrima belli by Tony McMahon, Old Limerick Journal, vol. 8, Autumn 1981

• The Limerick City Militia 1798 by Kieran Kennedy, Old Limerick Journal vol. 35, Winter 1998

• Limerick Volunteers 1776-1793 by Kieran Kennedy, Old Limerick Journal vol. 36, Winter 1999

• The Battle of Plassey and its Limerick connections by Brian Hodkinson, Old Limerick Journal vol. 43, Summer 2009

• Extract from "The Irish Regiments", Part One: Early and disbanded regiments, Army file, Ref: 309415R, p 11-19 

• Extract from "Renaissance Armies 1480-1650" by George Gush, p39-43 

• Extract from "Military transactions in Ireland & Flanders 1633-1718" by Parker, London 1747, various pages 

• Extract from "Munster Volunteer Registry", Limerick Cavalry, edited by Brett Smith, N:341782, various pages 

• Extract from "Munster Volunteer Registry", a complete list of the field officers, and officers of the several corps of Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry of the Volunteer Army of Munster Province, edited by Brett Smith, N:34, 1782 

• Extract from "They shall not grow old" by Ron Kirwan, Limerick Leader 10/11/2001, p1-4

• Extract of "The Independent Troops and Companies of Militia in Ireland" taken from the Books in the Secretaries Offices, Dublin, Genealogical Library, 1761, various pages

• The Shannon in military history by Caoimhin Ó Danachair, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 14 (1971)

• Limerick Men in the Hôtel Royal des Invalides / Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 42 (2002)

• Extract from "Notes on the Volunteers of Co. Limerick" by O. Snoddy, Irish Sword, Vol. 10, Winter 1971, p125-139

• The Soldiers Houses in Limerick: Story of the Irish Sailors & Soldiers Land Trust by Anthony O'Brien, Old Limerick Journal vol. 35, Winter 1998

• The Irish Brigades in the South African War [Boer War] 1899-1902 by Des Ryan, Old Limerick Journal vol. 36, Winter 1999

• Eyre Lloyd's Boer War diary by Tony Browne, Old Limerick Journal vol. 37, Summer 2001

• Freedom and conflict [Boer War] by Des Ryan, Old Limerick Journal vol. 43, Summer 2009

• Limerick and the war in South Africa 1899-1902 by Tadhg Moloney, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 38 (1997)

• The Last Crusade: Limerick's Role in the Spanish Civil War by Barrie Wharton & Des Ryan, Old Limerick Journal vol. 37, Summer 2001

• Limerick and the Victoria Cross by Patrick McNamara, Old Limerick Journal vol. 39, Winter 2003

• Limerick Recipients of the Victoria Cross: John Danagher and Nathaniel Burselm by Patrick F. McNamara, Old Limerick Journal vol. 40, Summer 2004

• The pope's emigrants by Des Ryan, Old Limerick Journal vol. 39, Winter 2003

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