Posts made in July, 2014


World War One – “Kilkenny’s Fallen”   Centenary Memorial Mass & Talk will take place at St. John’s Church Kilkenny on Wednesday July 30th at 7.30p.m. Speaker: Mr. Paddy Neary, Wolfe Tone Street Wreath laying: Bishop Seamus Freeman SAC, Bishop of Ossory, and Mr. Andrew McGuiness, Mayor of Kiolkenny. Music: Thukolo Gospel Choir  

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Heritage Week Military Events

Heritage Week Military Events


Posted on Jul 22, 2014

This year’s Heritage Week runs from 23rd August to 31st August; this year’s programme includes a number of events focusing on various aspects of our military heritage.  See the Kilkenny Event Guide 2014 for details of military events organised throughout the county: Exploring Gowran’s Contribution to the Great War (event no. 16) We Will Remember Them (event no. 20) Exploring Our Military Heritage (event no. 24)...

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Photograph above: Taken from front cover of the ‘Guide to the Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection’   The Military Service Pensions Collection is the Military Archives’ latest online collection and is the single most important archival collection relating to Ireland’s revolutionary period, comprising hundreds of thousands of individual accounts of the activities of nationalists throughout the period from...

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Heritage Week Event – Exploring Gowran’s Contribution to the Great War Padraig Yeates will outline the situation which existed in Ireland during the War years.  This will be followed by Alyson Gavin who will speak about her quest for Aubry White, the soldier who is commemorated in the beautiful stained glass window in St Mary’s Church.  Military historian Gordon Power will hold a talk and workshop on associated...

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The decade of commemorations recalls some of the most significant events in the history of modern Ireland and the modern world.  Visit a photographic exhibition at Kilkenny Castle commemorating Kilkenny Families in the Great War.  To find out more about this event visit the Hertiage Week website at www.heritageweek.ie.  

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