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Post by shtock on Feb 8, 2010 13:53:18 GMT
Hello all,
I am a student in NUI Maynooth studying for a masters degree in military history. I am carrying out research for my thesis about K Lines internment camp. I have visited the military archives in Cathal Brugha Bks and have read the books written about the camp by T Ryle Dwyer and Ralph Keefer to get information on the camp. I am interested to find any other information that anybody might have about the camp such as photographs or any relatives that might have lived or served in the Curragh at this time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Post by tommyhetherington on Feb 11, 2010 20:56:20 GMT
Hi shtock, I passed that message onto my Brother and he will give you assistance if he can I will leave his details on your mail later,
Tommy H
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Post by smicheal01 on Feb 13, 2010 18:32:55 GMT
hi I am looking to do work on a piece which involves the k lines internment camp in particular on what was the camp known to the locals around the curragh ..and also would like to know was there any shots actually fired by thr army of ldf who were on guard duty..have looked at the web site page on k lines and highly commend all who have worked on it..looking forward to finding out more.......michael
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Post by Matt McNamara on Mar 15, 2010 22:38:28 GMT
Leinster Leader 31st May 1975
FORMER INTERNEE ON VISIT A former Luftwaffe flyer who crash-landed in Wexford in April ’41 and was interned at Curragh Camp from then until the summer of ’46 renewed acquaintance with a number of friends in the Newbridge-Curragh area during the last week. Austrian Max Galler, now working in his native country, stayed in Newbridge during his visit to the country and met many people whom he knew here during the Emergency. One man with whom he was very anxious to renew acquaintance was Mr. Mick Sheehan of Newbridge and Curragh Camp in whose shoe repair shop at Curragh Camp Herr Galler worked for a time while interned. The Austrian visited other places where he worked while here. He was accompanied by his son Maxie, and had some amusing anecdotes to tell of the years when he was the enforced guest of the Irish nation at Tintown, Curragh Camp.
The Leinster Leader of May 1975 reports on a nostalgic visit to the Newbridge-Curragh area of a former Luftwaffe flyer who crash-landed in Wexford in April ’41 and was interned at Curragh Camp from then until summer '46
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Post by smicheal01 on Mar 28, 2010 19:21:43 GMT
thank you matt ...its a lead i will follow up much appreciated..michael
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Post by Matt McNamara on Jun 6, 2011 18:24:41 GMT
Hi All Just completed some work on the K-Lines page that I had planned to do for ages. It gives a list of crew members who were interned in K-Lines during the emergency. The information is from the book called " Guests of the State" by T. Ryle Dwyer Click Here to see the page: www.curragh.info/klines.htmMatt
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Post by jjcurran on Jun 7, 2011 18:31:14 GMT
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Post by Matt McNamara on Jun 18, 2011 13:37:11 GMT
Leinster Leader, August 6, 1969Luftwaffe man visits scene of internship A former member of the German Luftwaffe on a nostalgic visit to Ireland this week called to Curragh Camp and no doubt recalled memories, pleasant and otherwise, of the barbed wire enclosure where he was interned during the war. The former internee, Harbert Schultz, is accompanied by his wife and two children and realising an ambition of almost thirty years in revisiting the scene of his captivity during the Emergency. Herr Schultz wrote from Germany to the Gardai in Bandon, Cork, and asked if they could put him in touch with anyone in the area who could point out to him the exact field into which he crash-landed in 1941. When he did arrive in Bandon he had the names of several locals who could recall the incident and the scene and the exact spot on which he made his original unintended entry into this country was pointed out to him. He camped there, with his wife and family, on the first night of his visit of recollection and on the following day retraced in his car the route which had eventually taken him into captivity on the Curragh Camp almost thirty years ago. Having had a good look at the scene of his former internment, Herr Schultz visited Droichead Nua, Kildare and other centres close to the Curragh which he remembered as places he had frequented on parole from the camp. In Droichead Nua he renewed acquaintance with quite a number of people he met during the war years and was able to give them information regarding other internees whom they had known at that time. Thanks to Co. Kildare Online Electronic History Journal Matt
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Post by Liam on Nov 16, 2012 19:32:01 GMT
Hi, my name is Liam Pierce and I'm doing a project on my family history. My Grandfather's maternal uncle Duncan Fowler went to Canada as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and trained at the 9th elementary school at Ontario. On the 16th of December 1941, on a delivery flight his spitfire crashed at clogher strand, Donegal and was arrested and taken to the Curragh Camp. I read a number of canadian archive newspapers, and I found his name. I was hoping if anyone had any information or any photos that i could identify him in. My email is liamp95@live.ie Many thanks
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