Posts Tagged "war of independence"


Heritage Week

Heritage Week


Posted on Aug 18, 2014

Generations Exploring Heritage Together Heritage Week 23rd – 31st August The theme of this year’s Heritage Week which runs from Saturday 23rd – Sun 31st August is “Generations Exploring Heritage Together”.  Local heritage groups have compiled a fabulous programme of events.  Our military heritage is very well represented in the programme, and includes guided walks and talks about the contribution that Kilkenny men and women made to...

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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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Kilkenny’s Independence Story – Heritage Week Event The decade of commemoration recalls some of the most significant events in the history of modern Ireland and the modern world.  Join in a walking tour through Kilkenny with a guide from the Kilkenny Military Heritage Project to hear about Kilkenny’s Independence Story.  This is the third year of this walking tour which aims to give people an understanding of the events as...

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