Unwelcome Return of Auxiliary to Kilkenny
https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Eamon-Kiely-The-unwelcome-return-of-an-Auxilary-to-Kilkenny-4.04.mp3 Unwelcome Return of Auxiliary to Kilkenny Eamon Kiely The British Auxiliaries or Auxies were a paramilitary unit of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). They were founded in July 1920 […]
Tales from James Stephens Barracks’ Walls 1923- 2023
By Comdt. Larry Scallan (Retd)
Colonel Dan Bryan – Ireland’s Great Intelligence Chief
Written and read by Eamonn Kiely (2018) Military intelligence is often put forward as an oxymoron – a contradiction in terms. That is to misunderstand the study. In the military […]
Captain James Arnold Smithwick
Captain James Arnold Smithwick of Kilkenny Ken Kinsella Very few families in Kilkenny remained unaffected by the Great War and the parallel struggle for Irish independence in the period 1914 […]
Grace’s Card
Grace’s Card Eamonn Kiely Kilkenny has produced a number of distinguished military families such as the Rothes, Butlers and Shortalls. However, none are more celebrated than the Graces. They came […]
Inistioge Barracks Attack
Failed Attack On The Auxiliary HQ At Inistioge, December 1920 Ken Kinsella When the Government of Ireland Bill passed through Parliament in December 1920, effectively creating two states, the IRA […]
The Kavanaghs
The Kavanaghs: A Martial Family Patrick Neary My story begins in September 1876 when my great grandparents Martin Kavanagh of Knockbaun, County Carlow and Catherine Corcoran of Skehana, Castlecomer, County […]
Lebanon 1978
Lebanon 1978 Eamonn Kiely The crowds were descending on Dublin Airport to see the C-5 Galaxy, then the World’s largest transporter. Irish soldiers had been through intensive training in the […]
Take-over of Kilkenny Barracks 1922
Takeover Kilkenny Military barracks – 7th Feb 1922 Eamonn Kiely It is said that the old Dublin City could be reconstructed by a reading of Ulysses. If so, Kilkenny is […]