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Tullamore Tribune

Call for grave of Offaly's first Civil War fatality to be restored

A LOCAL historian had called on the Ulster Bank to restore the grave of its Tullamore branch manager who was killed in the Civil War. Tyrone native Thomas Mitchell was killed by anti-Treaty IRA forces when he confronted them during an armed raid on ...

02 Aug 2022 at 13:02

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THE BIG READ: Offaly's first Civil War fatality - the killing of the manager of the Ulster Bank in Tullamore

SPORADIC violence erupted in the midlands before the pro-Treaty National Army shelled the IRA occupied Four Courts in Dublin, officially starting the Civil War on 28 June 1922. The most serious incident occurred in Athlone on 25 April 1922 when ...

28 Jul 2022 at 18:00

Tullamore Tribune

Sold-out talk on the burning of country houses in Offaly

A sold-out talk on the burning of country houses in Offaly will take place tonight (April 14) as part of a series of lectures hosted by the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates, History Department, Maynooth University, and ...

14 Apr 2022 at 08:00

Tullamore Tribune

Exhausted Ukrainians say 'they've come from hell' – Offaly aid worker

“AS it got dark, and bitterly cold, I lost all count of the numbers of people I was seeing. The faces bore the same expressions – confusion, resignation, exhaustion, and for many, relief. They had finally made it.” For five days, Clara-born ...

14 Mar 2022 at 18:30

Tullamore Tribune

Offaly aid worker on the border of war torn Ukraine

Just days following the outbreak of war and the shattering of "living life in peace" in Ukraine, the UNHCR has reported over 1,745,459 people have fled to neighbouring countries, including Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova and Romania, ...

11 Mar 2022 at 17:46

Tullamore Tribune

Offaly man protests outside the Russian Embassy

AN Offaly mental health campaigner was among many Irish people who joined Ukrainians living here in a protest at the Russian Embassy last weekend. Rahan's Ray Larkin said he was incensed by the Russian invasion of their neighbours ...

01 Mar 2022 at 18:30

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Offaly man protests outside the Russian Embassy

02 Mar 2022 at 11:41

Tullamore Tribune

Offaly lecture on women’s experiences of the Great War in Ireland

A LECTURE on Irish women's experience of the Great War (1914-1918) will be given next Monday at 8pm by Dr Fionnuala Walsh. The lecture takes place in the Offaly History Centre at Bury Quay in Tullamore and all are ...

31 Mar 2022 at 10:11

Tullamore Tribune

HISTORY: The spark that lit the Civil War subject of history talk in Offaly

'Ireland's Sarajevo' is the title of a lecture to be presented by Irish Times journalist and author, Ronan McGreevy in Tullamore on Monday night next. The lecture is presented in person and online through Zoom at ...

07 May 2023 at 13:06

Tullamore Tribune

Offaly History lecture on Civil War takes place tonight

THE grand daughter of leading War of Independence and Civil War figure, Frank Aiken will give this month's Offaly History Lecture. Dr Síobhra Aiken (Queen’s University Belfast) talk entitled “Was there a silence ...

17 Apr 2023 at 12:12

Tullamore Tribune

HISTORY: National Army fatal casualty of Civil War ambush in Offaly remembered

A memorial event to remember Cadet Patrick (P.C.) White of Blessington who died in the days after a Civil War ambush in Offaly was held recently. Patsy White was a soldier of the National Army and was wounded ...

10 Feb 2023 at 09:36

Tullamore Tribune

HISTORY: A fatal Civil War ambush in Offaly and its consequences

The capture of Patrick Geraghty, commandant of the 3rd Battalion (covering Tyrrellspass, Kilclonfert, Croghan and Rhode), North Offaly Brigade IRA, and Joseph Byrne, Adjutant of the same Battalion, on 10 ...

08 Feb 2023 at 12:26

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