Irish Hero s !

[Foyleview]

Through out the history of Ireland and the World, Irish people have done great things and fought in almost every conflict there was. I would like to ask members to remember them here . give the name and tell us about their struggle,discovery,fight,loss and victory. lets remember with pride !

[Foyleview]

John Reilly. The patrickas . mid 1850 s. Celebrated still every st patricks day in Mexico. Leader of the Irish regiment who defended Mexico against the aggression of the United states invasion. Had green flag with Erin go bragh as mascot. regiment was captured and although citizens of mexico were all executed by hanging except for reilly who was flogged branded and forced to witness execution of his men.

[garrettDA]

Thomas Leddy great great grandfather of mine fought for 6th Louisiana Irish battalion, survived the whole American civil war through every major battle besides bull run. His Battalion started with 900 soldiers and ended up with 12 him being one of them.

Mícheál Ó Foghludha friends granpa helped found IRA and start easter rebellion

[Foyleview]

Theobald Wolfe tone, a presbyterian, an Irishman and an officer in the French army was one of the leaders of the up rising of 1798. He attempted to gain equality for all. the father of Irish republicanism .This untalked about uprising, which in a few short months saw the killing of about 30,000 irish men and woman who attempted to charge down british cannon with nothing but farm implements and crude pikes. The uprising which had bad luck in some parts of the country and took its inspiration from the french and american revulations almost suceeded. it lead to the act of union.

[CmObyrne]

Theobald Wolfe tone, a presbyterian, an Irishman and an officer in the French army was one of the leaders of the up rising of 1798. He attempted to gain equality for all. the father of Irish republicanism .This untalked about uprising, which in a few short months saw the killing of about 30,000 irish men and woman who attempted to charge down british cannon with nothing but farm implements and crude pikes. The uprising which had bad luck in some parts of the country and took its inspiration from the french and american revulations almost suceeded. it lead to the act of union.

I thought Wolfe Tone was Anglican?

[rebel_bhoy]

I’m a direct desendant of John O'Mahony. He was born in 1816, in Kilbeheny, in County Limerick, Ireland. He was the founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood in America, sister organisation to the Irish Republican Brotherhood. His father and uncle had been members of the United Irishmen, and had taken part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. He ignored the ban by the Roman Catholic Church on its adherents attending Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied Sanskrit, Hebrew and Irish.

He left Ireland for France, where he lived in great poverty, and moved to the United States in 1852. It has been said that the Fenian Society originated in America and was transplanted to Ireland; but, as a matter of fact the plans for both the Irish and American organizations were drawn in Paris by a small group of the Irish revolutionary exiles in 1848.

In 1854-58, he organized the American wing of the IRB, initially known as the Fenian Brotherhood. Its principal object was to supply money and arms to the Irish branch. The Civil War in the United States gave the Fenians a great opportunity to obtain military training. A large part of the Irish soldiers engaged on both sides in the struggle were Fenians. Because of his popularity among Irish-Americans he was soon-after made a colonel in the mainly Irish 69th Regiment of the Union Army, which fought in the American Civil War. He helped organise the first of the Fenian Raids into the then British colony of Canada in 1866 and the Fenian Rising in Ireland in 1867.

In his later years he had a hard struggle to secure the bare means for subsistence. He died in New York in 1877 and was interred in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

[Hessian Peel]

Theobald Wolfe tone, a presbyterian, an Irishman and an officer in the French army was one of the leaders of the up rising of 1798. He attempted to gain equality for all. the father of Irish republicanism .This untalked about uprising, which in a few short months saw the killing of about 30,000 irish men and woman who attempted to charge down british cannon with nothing but farm implements and crude pikes. The uprising which had bad luck in some parts of the country and took its inspiration from the french and american revulations almost suceeded. it lead to the act of union.

I can't remember the exact quote, but Wolfe Tone himself said that the kind of revolution that took place in North America was nothing like what the UI wanted for Ireland. Even calling it a revolution is a bit like saying the Third Reich was revolutionary because there were improved living standards for the majority of Germans compared with the Weimer Republic. The United States was founded as an empire and has remained one ever since.

[Seán1798]

Paine and the French Revolutionaries felt the American Revolution was betrayed the second that the slaves weren't freed and doubtless Tone, Tandy et al felt the same

[IgorT]

I am a 4th cousin of the great Michael Collins. The IRB/IRA Minister for Murder and Mayhem and Minister of Finance in the Dáil's first sitting. He was later to become signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and General in the Irish Free State Army before his assassination by irregulars in Béal na Bláth.

[mac_talla]

I am a 4th cousin of the great Michael Collins. The IRB/IRA Minister for Murder and Mayhem and Minister of Finance in the Dáil's first sitting. He was later to become signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and General in the Irish Free State Army before his assassination by irregulars in Béal na Bláth.

Name dropper. :icon_lol:

[Red Revolutionary]

I am a 4th cousin of the great Michael Collins. The IRB/IRA Minister for Murder and Mayhem and Minister of Finance in the Dáil's first sitting. He was later to become signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and General in the Irish Free State Army before his assassination by irregulars in Béal na Bláth.

:icon_lol:

[IgorT]

Hmm...my comment seems to be very funny...

[Davey2]

Michael Collins isn't ever ones favourite Irish man, I think thats half the trouble. Don't take offense if your offended everytime someone has a jibe at you here youll not last long. :icon_biggrin:

[IgorT]

I am not offended I pretty much expected a few jibes...I was just confused by the laughter, I thought that I may have said something stupid.