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CONTENTS VOLUME TWENTY-SIX ARTICLES AND NOTICES IN THE TEXT PAGE Montcalm’s Irish soldiers, 1756-1757 (Illustrated) .…………….. René Chartrand 1 Dunalong, Co. Tyrone –– the ‘fort of the ships’ ………………….. G. V. C. Young 3 Anne Eleanor Burroughs (1898-1981) –– Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps [and Addendum, p. 218] ………………… F. Glenn Thompson 9 The Wild Geese in France, 1688-1715: a French perspective …………………………………..………... Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac 11 Biographical notes on two general officers of the Dutch-linked family of O’Farrell [Offarell] ……………………..…………. Jonathan Peacock 51 The Irish prisoners in the Bastille ….………………….… Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin 57 The Battle of Wijtschate – Messines Ridge, June 1917: Brotherhood among Irishmen? …………………………………………...………... Tom Burke 79 The last Roll Call of the Royal Hibernian Military School, 1924 A. W. Cockerill (Illustrated) …………………………………………………….. and P. J. Goble 95 The Colours of the Hibernia Regiment …………...………………….... facing page 121 The Connaught Army of the Confederate Catholics, 1642-1649 Andrew Williams 121 Facsimile of the printed Prayer composed by Lancelot Bulkeley, Archbishop of Dublin, and ordered by the Earl of Ormonde to be used at all times of public prayer in all expeditions, 28 February 1642/3 ………………………….….. 128 The Manifesto of Field Marshal Hugh O’Donnell, in justification of his departure from the kingdom without leave from Charles II, King of Spain, c. 1690 ……………………..………………... Benjamin Hazard 129 Sixty-two veteran Irish sergeants in the Invalides …….... Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin 138 William Parker Carrol and the frustrated re-establishment of the Irish Brigade in Spain (1809-11) ...…………….. Alicia Laspra Rodríguez 151 Irish Militia Artillery, 1854-1909 ………………………………… W. H. Clements 171 The Wicklow Artillery in 1900 ……………………………..... F. Glenn Thompson 191 ‘Osbourne’s Fort, County Wicklow’ ……….…………………………………..…… 193 The Monica Roberts Collection of Letters from the Western Front, 1914-1918 ………………………………...... Bryan MacMahon 195 ‘Deaths in Irish Regiments 1939–1945 and the extent of Irish volunteering for the British Army’: a response ……………... Richard Doherty 210 PAGE Detail from the Trinity College painting of the battle of Kinsale ……….. facing page 241 Towards a new interpretation of the Nine Years’ War ………………... Eoin Ó Néill 241 The battle of Kinsale and other military associations with the Library of Trinity College, Dublin ………..………...……….. Kenneth Ferguson 263 George Matthews: a County Down gentleman turned soldier ……... Ivan F. Nelson 287 The Waterloo Priest: The Reverend William O’Donnell, formerly Ensign William O’Donnell, XXth (East Devonshire) Foot …… Richard Doherty 297 Remembering Eric Lambert (1909-96) ……………………………... Laragh Neelin 301 The Rifles Battalion in Bolivar’s army, 1818-30 …….... Moises Enrique Rodríguez 307 Daniel O’Connor’s account of the 1st Light Infantry Regiment of the Irish Legion intended for Venezuela, 1819-1820 …….….. René Chartrand 321 Operation Sandstone –– a story of British and Irish post-war co-operation …………………….…………………………………... Guy Warner 325 Major John Hamill, Royal Regiment of Malta: Recipient of a Patriotic Fund Vase of £100 value for his conduct at the Battle of Maida, 4th July 1806 (Illustrated) ….……………………………… Stephen Wood 361 General Richard Montgomery’s Memorial, New York (Illustrated) ... Michael Aidin 373 The battle of Malplaquet, 11 September 1709 …………….. Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin 375 –– Some observations on Marshal Villars ………………... Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin 393 The Royal Scots Greys at Dublin Castle ……………………... F. Glenn Thompson 396 Captain Sir William Augustus Smith Bt. and the pay and allowances of Assistant Engineers in Ireland 1805-1825 ……….. W. H. Clements 397 The Fitzgibbon Memorial at Limerick …………………………….. Tadhg Moloney 401 Connecticut’s Irish regiment finally honoured at Vicksburg …………. Neil Hogan 411 No. 2 Squadron –– The Irish Connection …………………………..... Guy Warner 415 Britain’s cordite crisis in the First World War: contributions of an Irish scientist towards solving the problem ………….…………...…... Conor Reilly 427 The early days of Oatlands College, Mount Merrion, and the F.C.A. ………...………………………………………………. Dermot Bradley 437 NOTES A gift of some comforts, December 1899 [A. Kinsella] …………………..……….. 101 Annual range practice, 3rd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, Ballykinlar, July 1903 [A. Kinsella] …………………………………………………...…………………… 102 Bands and theatrical performances, 1912 [A. Kinsella] ……………………………. 103 Conor Francis O’Brien’s postcard from the Front, May 1916 [Conor Reilly] …….… 104 Wimborne and Kitchener letters on recruiting, 1915 [A. Kinsella] ……………….. 217 Addendum to ‘Anne Eleanor Burroughs (1898-1981)’ [p. 9] [F. Glenn Thompson] 218 Barracks in Limerick [Kenneth Ferguson] ………..……..…………………………… 219 Re-naming the New Barracks [at Limerick] after Sarsfield [Tadhg Moloney] …..… 222 Unfit for Duty at Peking in November 1862: ‘Old Jerry the Piper’ [Seán Donnelly] 343 Serious military disturbances in Athlone [1902] [A. Kinsella] …………………..… 347 Return of the South Cork Militia: Skibbereen Brass Band refuses to turn out [A. Kinsella] ……………………………………………………………………….. 347 Irish pipers in the Army: four newspaper reports [Seán Donnelly] ...…………….… 441 Minden Day at Richmond Barracks, 1859 [Irish Times] ………...…………………. 444 QUERIES 313. — Succession Books of the six Provincial Regiments, 1782 [J.A. Houlding] .. 223 314. — 24-pounder cannon cast in 1747 by John Fuller, Heathfield [Ruth Brown] .. 223 315. — Lord Clare (1797) on the ‘mad Methodist’ and ‘other military exotics’ [Kenneth Ferguson] ….....……… …………………………………………... 348 316. — ‘2nd Battalion, Dutch Light Infantry’, in Cork [E.M. Brett] …...………... 446 BOOK REVIEWS David Edwards, Pádraig Lenihan and Clodagh Tait (eds.), Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland ………………………………..….. 107 Raymond Gillespie, Seventeenth Century Ireland ………………………………..…. 108 Ryan R. Gale, ‘A soldier-like way’: The material culture of the British Infantry 1751- 68 …………………………………………………………………………………... 109 Nicholas Maclean-Bristol, From Clan to Regiment: Six Hundred Years in the Hebrides 1400-2000 …………………………………………………..…………… 111 Claude Berube and John Rodgaard, A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the U.S.S. Constitution …………………………………………………………...…. 112 David Murphy, Irish Regiments in the World Wars ………………….……………..... 113 David Murphy, The Irish Brigades, 1685-2006 ……………………………………... 114 Wallace Clark (ed.), Five Years on Full Alert: Memoirs of Major Harry Clark, Major John McConnell and Bombardier Godfrey Lindsay as Ulster Anti-Aircraft Gunners in World War Two ………………………………………………………... 116 Joost Augusteijn (ed.), The Memoirs of John M. Regan, a Catholic Officer in the R.I.C. and R.U.C., 1909-48 ……………………………...……………………….... 117 Declan O’Carroll, Finner Camp: A history ….……...………….……………………. 119 Jeff Kildea, Anzacs and Ireland ..……………………………………………………. 120 Nollaig Ó Muraíle, From Ráth Maoláin to Rome …………………………………… 225 B. G. Scott, R. R. Brown, A. G. Leacock and C. J. Salter, The Great Guns like Thunder: The cannon from the City of Derry ………………………………………. 226 T.W. Moody, R.B. McDowell and C.J. Woods (eds.), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763-98. Volume III. France, The Rhine, Lough Swilly and death of Tone, January 1797 to November 1798 ……………………………………………. 227 Peter Crooks, Government, War and Society in Medieval Ireland. Essays by Edmund Curtis, A. J. Otway-Ruthven and James Lydon ………………………………...….. 229 Ivan F. Nelson, The Irish Militia, 1793-1802: Ireland’s forgotten army ……………. 230 Nicola Morris (ed.), Memoir of Andrew J. Byrne (1830-1911) Veteran of the American Civil War. Foreword by Séamus B. Condon …………………………….. 232 Mark M. Hull, Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Ireland 1939-1945 ……….……. 234 Fergus A. D’Arcy, Remembering the War Dead: British Commonwealth and International War Graves in Ireland since 1914 …………………………………... 351 Catherine Switzer, Unionists and Great War Commemoration in the North of Ireland 1914-1939 ………………………………………………………………………….. 352 Paul O’Brien, Blood on the Streets: 1916 and the battle for Mount Street Bridge ….. 353 Eunan O’Halpin (ed.), MI5 and Ireland, 1939-1945: The Official History ………… 355 Paul McMahon, British Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945 ………………………………………………………………………….. 356 Eunan O’Halpin, Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality during the Second World War ……………………………………………………………… 356 Heinz-Jürgen Kumpf, The Military Postal History of Ireland ………………………. 357 Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin and Cathal Davey, More than a Sporting Experience: 30 Years of Gaelic Games in Luxembourg ……………………………………………. 359 Dianne W. Ressinger (ed.), Memoirs of Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet: A gentleman of Normandy ………………………………………………………………..…………. 447 Richard Holmes, Marlborough: England’s fragile genius ………………………….. 449 Mark Urban, Fusiliers ……………………………………………………………….. 450 David Blackmore, British Cavalry in the mid-18th Century ………………………….. 452 De Witt Bailey, Small Arms of the British Forces in North America 1664-1815 ……. 453 Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac and Colonel Frédéric Guelton (eds.), Revue historique des armées: ‘France Irlande’, No. 253 (2008) ………………………………….……… 454 Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac and David Murphy (eds.), Franco-Irish Military Connections, 1590-1945 ……………………………………………………………. 454 Martin Steffen (ed.), Die Schlacht bei Minden: Weltpolitik und Lokalgeschichte …… 456 Paul R. Wylie, The Irish General – Thomas Francis Meagher ……………………… 457 Máirtín Seán Ó Catháin, Irish Republicanism in Scotland 1858-1916: Fenians in exile …………………………………………………………………………………