Cork and the First World War
Corcaigh agus an Chéad Chogadh Domhanda
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Victoria Cross Book. This entry details Macroom-born Michael O’Leary’s celebrated career with the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, for which he was awarded a Victoria Cross medal in 1915 (Isaac Nash Notter Collection: U392/004).
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Field Service Postcard. Correspondence from Michael O’Leary VC (see above), bearing the soldier’s hand -written signature (Liam de Róiste Collection: U271/C/TT/272).
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Collection of Great War Medals. From left to right: 1914-15 Star, awarded to all who served in any theatre of war outside the UK between 5 August 1914 and 31 December 1915; Allied Victory Medal with colours representing the combined colours of the Allied nations, and a rainbow additionally representing newfound calm after the war; British War Medal awarded to officers and men of the British and Imperial Forces (Sloanes of Ballycotton Navy Collection: PR103). John Brown Handwritten Letter: An RIC Sergeant details the violence of an anti-conscription demonstration which took place on St Patrick’s Street, Cork in 1917 (John Brown Collection: U97/1).
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Thomas P. Waters’ Papers: An Irish Volunteer looks back on ‘the most pleasant activity’ of heckling British Army recruitment meetings in Bantry, County Cork ( Thomas P. Waters’ Paper s: SM625/1).
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Identity Certificate belonging to Eleanor Bryanna Tivy, a nurse from Barnstead House in Blackrock, Cork who served in St Thomas’ Hospital in London (Tivy Papers: U116/A/33).
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Letter from the War Office, London: A note informing the Tivy family of Barnstead House in Blackrock, Cork (see above) of G.L. Tivy’s gunshot wound, 1917 (Tivy Papers: U116/A/33).
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