THE BARRACK SQUARE

Introduction James McTiernan's Queen's South Africa medal Historical research often throws up small, interesting pieces of information, which at the time of discovery, might have no immediate use. While compiling the names of soldiers for Birr Military Cemetery , an intriguing newspaper article gave a detailed account of the military funeral of Sergeant Patrick McTiernan of the Leinster Regiment, who was buried in Clonoghill Cemetery, Birr in 1903. While the information didn’

Recently, a lot of three King’s South Africa medals came up for auction. Among them was one awarded to Private Peter Meara of the Leinster Regiment. With no accompanying research, I set out to uncover the story behind this soldier.

We pick up regular blog content with an exceptional guest post by Chris Moran. Chris is an easily distracted Drumcondra native,...

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