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Dublin / Re: 3rd Battalion, Fingal Brigade & Leixlip Flying Column
« on: Monday 24 May 10 20:45 BST (UK) »
That's impressive stuff, I'm glad that he survived into his 80s and had the balls the tell the priest like it was! We need more people like that nowadays. I was talking to my Da this morning and he mentioned those parades, and how after my Grandfather died his mother would still drag them along to the masses, he spoke of the pride he could see in his mother during these marches just to have been married to a Volunteer.
I'm 29 and I've been aware since as long as I can remember of his involvement, I remember being in my oldest aunts house in her kitchen feeling and examining the casings from the shells fired at his funeral, I've been trying to get my hands on just one of them, maybe now that I'm an 'adult' she just might....
Do you know where would be the best place to start looking for more info on my Grandfather? Google isn't throwing up anything. It kind of saddens me that no-one in my family recorded any of this when he was alive, maybe he didn't want to talk about it, I'm sure I'll never know.
Thanks again for your story, it's great!
Matt
I'm 29 and I've been aware since as long as I can remember of his involvement, I remember being in my oldest aunts house in her kitchen feeling and examining the casings from the shells fired at his funeral, I've been trying to get my hands on just one of them, maybe now that I'm an 'adult' she just might....
Do you know where would be the best place to start looking for more info on my Grandfather? Google isn't throwing up anything. It kind of saddens me that no-one in my family recorded any of this when he was alive, maybe he didn't want to talk about it, I'm sure I'll never know.
Thanks again for your story, it's great!
Matt