We are still heading into the town of Boyle showing Ma Femme the historic wonders of this small town I adopted many years ago. Ma Femme is quietly amazed at its riches as we trundle along Military Road and past the Garda Barracks, a new construction built about 30 years […]
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Private Egerton Arthur Emerson of the Connaught Rangers – Teb
One day in May this year I met a woman in King House here in Boyle who asked me the question as to how a man from Drogheda came to be fighting with the Connaught Rangers, we talked some more and this is the story that came out of that […]
Peter Dunne – Connaught Ranger
This is a story of soldiering in the 19th century, when England ruled nearly half the world with a standing army of approximately 100,000 men. It was a life; full of action and bravery some of the time, but mostly a life of humdrum boredom, basically a lowly labourer’s life […]