Name of memorial: War Memorial Inventory No. 66
Place: Belvedere College
Address and map reference: Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1. Map reference O 157 353.
Position: On wall of courtyard.
Description and dimensions: Black marble plaque, height about 130cms, width about 120cms.
Recorded by: Michael Pegum, 15 Nov., 2003
Text:
IN MEMORIAM
BOER WAR John O’Sullivan WAR OF INDEPENDENCE Pierce O’Brien Butler Capel O’Brien Butler Kevin Barry4 Stan Cruess Callaghan FIRST WORLD WAR Vincent Byrne IRISH CIVIL WAR Paget O’Brien Butler1(P) Joseph Malone 2 Cathal Brugha Hugh O’Brien Stephen Dolan Fred Lidwell Raymond Redmond William Doyle SJ Francis Lynch1(P), 2 Louis McKeever SECOND WORLD WAR Edmund Burke James Beveridge Frank Stenson Ramsay Hall2 Philip Walsh David Devoto James McLoughlin Louie Herbert Dudley Persse Joynt Gerald Plunkett James Flood Joseph McKenna William McGarry Thomas Brownrigg Robert MacClancy Kevin O’Duffy1(P), 2 John Rossington Barnett Thomas Gray John Dunn Patrick Cunningham Andrew Clinch John Gwynn SJ1(P) Frank Breen 2 Gerald Long Matthew Brady Fred McKenna Kevin Teevan William O’Connor2 Herbert Freeman Patrick Quinn Herbert Tierney Joseph Simington Vincent Coyle Louis Quinlan1(P) James Carroll Donal Bergin Gerald Rooney1(P) Joseph Newton John Hayes SJ Owen Cruess Callaghan2 Dan Crowley James Fagan CYPRIOT WAR OF John Doyle 1916 RISING INDEPENDENCE Jack Anderson Reginald Clery3 James Lane Claude Ingham Joseph Mary Plunkett3(P) Godwin Swifte O’Fflahertie Claude Egan Oliver Walsh2
PER VIAS RECTAS
Page 1 of 2 Mentions in books. (P) means that there is a photograph:
All those on this memorial have entries, with photographs, in
The Cruel Clouds of War
Murphy, Oliver (comp.). Dublin, the Belvedere Museum, 2003
“A book of the 68 former pupils and teachers of Belvedere College S.J. who lost their lives in the military conflicts of the 20th century. Biographical notes and photos of all 68.”
Copies on C.D. are available from Oliver Murphy, Belvedere College, 6, Gt. Denmark St., Dublin 1.
1 = Our Heroes
“Photographs with biographical notes of officers of Irish Regiments and of Irish officers of British Regiments who have fallen in action or who have been mentioned for good conduct, from August, 1914 to July, 1916.”
Dublin, Irish Life, 1916. (reprint available from www.naval-military-press.com).
Also includes photos and biographical details of some other ranks (not officers) who died or were decorated.
2 = University of Dublin War List
Dublin, Hodges Figgis & Co, 1922. (reprint available from www.naval-military-press.com).
List of 3,529 members of Trinity College, Dublin, the Dublin University O.T.C., or employees who served in the Great War. List gives date of graduation or entry to the College, ranks with dates appointed, regiments or services, decorations and, if they died, where.
3= Sinn Féin Rebellion Handbook
Dublin, Weekly Irish Times, 1916.
Contemporary account of the 1916 Rising, with lists of casualties on both sides.
4 = The Story of Kevin Barry
Cork, 1965. Cronin, Seán.
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