gundy
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Post by gundy on Oct 3, 2011 3:51:04 GMT
The Easter Rising
Recently in the course of doing some family history research I came across the following interesting story. I wonder if anyone can throw any light on an important incident, which took place on the morning of the Easter Rising.
Samuel Tinsley a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers came from a Protestant family of Ballysax. He saw service with that regiment in South Africa and later in France in World War 1 where he was gassed. He married a beautiful Catholic girl from Kilcullen ten years his junior named Molly Carney and they had three children Charlotte, Vera and Charles. Samuel Tinsley died young as a result of being gassed during his war service. He is buried in Ballysax CoI churchyard. Molly was left a widow with three young children Charlotte, Vera and Charles.
The eldest of these children Charlotte (Tinsley) Morrow aged 95yrs and her husband John Morrow aged 99yrs who live in Brighton recently visited the Curragh Camp and the surrounding area from where both her parents came from.
Charlotte’s mother Molly (Carney) Tinsley later took as her second husband a man from Blackrath named Martin Brady.
In the course of a conversation with Charlotte and John during their visit they told me that Matthew Brady was the man who cut the telephone wires to the Curragh Camp on the morning of the Easter Rising thereby isolation the Camp from Dublin.
I wonder has anyone any information on this singular action and was in fact communication between the Curragh and Dublin broken on that historic occasion.
Best regards,
Gundy
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Post by Matt McNamara on Oct 3, 2011 11:53:12 GMT
Hi Gundy
Nice piece of history there.
Matt
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Post by johnnykelly on Oct 3, 2011 13:59:06 GMT
Re:The Easter Rising
Hi Gundy
I was reading recently a book in reference to activities leading up to and at the time of the Rising. indeed there were incidents of wire cuttings and railway lines and bridges sabotaged to prevent reinforcements travelling from the Curragh to Dublin again in this book by James Durney there are more stories of these activities of the time of the Rising all over the Kildare area. bye for now Johnny
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Post by mick on Oct 4, 2011 16:42:22 GMT
Hi - I found an article in the New York Times of April 30, 1916, which quotes Baron Wimborne as saying the following: "The rebels ... had not succeeded in discovering a telephone wire which connected the Curragh Camp with headquarters. This was one of their great mistakes."
There was probably more than one wire, by the sounds of it...
Cheers
Mick
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Post by gundy on Oct 6, 2011 2:56:11 GMT
Hi Matt, johnny and Mick,
Matt many thanks for your comment. There is much more to this story.
Johnny can you let me have the title of that book. It may have something which rings a bell.
Mick, I am sure that the Camp had many telephone lines out at the time. There semms to be some sort of contradiction here. A bit more research should turn up the facts.
Best regards,
Gundy
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Post by johnnykelly on Oct 6, 2011 22:20:23 GMT
Re:The Easter Rising
Hi Gundy
Iam out of town at present (footie international) will get my finger out and find the name of the book for you asap. bye for now Johnny
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Post by johnnykelly on Oct 7, 2011 18:43:00 GMT
Re:The Easter Rising
Hi Gundy
The name of the book is, ON THE ONE ROAD, Political unrest in kildare, 1913-1994 Author James Durney
bye for now Johnny
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Post by andybrennan on Oct 8, 2011 8:16:27 GMT
Hi Gundy,
Have you being following the series Reahbold I think that is the spelling it aired on RTE1 7.30pm this last few weeks.
It showed the rising from a different perspective, The women who fought in The RIsing, most if not all were air brushed from photographs and from history, in order that it was a male dominated Rising.
Andy
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Post by 10bmcdonagh on Oct 8, 2011 17:51:44 GMT
Good point Andy
A photograph can do more to inform us about the state's (heavily infuenced by the church) attitudes to Irish women's huge input to the struggle for independence.
The picture of Pearse's formal surrender to British officals is very poorly doctored, the body of Elizabeth O'Farrell standing beside Pearse has been removed, but her feet are still visible behind him
BMCC
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Post by andybrennan on Oct 9, 2011 7:42:18 GMT
10 McDonagh
Guest,
How goes it, some where in the recess of my memory re the picture you mention, there was not one woman, but two the other was the Countess and she was completely brushed out and the feet in question belong to the lady mentioned by you.
Andy
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