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 ………………………………………………………………………………… 458
John Horne (ed.), Our War: Ireland and the Great War. The 2008 Thomas Davis Lecture Series ……………………………………………………………………… 460
Margaret Baguley (ed.), World War I and the question of Ulster: The correspondence of Lilian and Wilfrid Spender ……………………………………... 461
Michael Kennedy, Guarding Neutral Ireland: The Coast Watching Service and military intelligence, 1939-1945 ……………………………………………………. 462
‘Tailwind’. An 86-minute film (Northern Ireland, 2007). Director John T. Davis. Producer Michael Beattie. …………………………………………………………. 464
J. McDonnell, The Insignia of the Officers’ Training Corps in Ireland, 1908-2007 465
Conor Reidy, Ireland’s ‘Moral Hospital’: The Irish Borstal System 1906-1956 ……. 466
Donal P. McCracken, Inspector Mallon: Buying Irish patriotism for a five-pound note …………………………………………………………………………………. 467
Gerard O’Brien, An Garda Síochána and the Scott Medal …………………….…….. 467
Proceedings
2008 ………………………………………………………………………………… 236
2009 …………………………………………………………………………………. 475
Obituaries: Professor J. L. McCracken; Lieutenant-Colonel James Pearse Coyle; Paul Kerrigan; Dr. Dermot Bradley ………………………………………………… 469
Addenda and Errata : Volumes XXV (2006-7) and XXVI (2008-9) ……………….. 480 ILLUSTRATIONS
Conjectural depiction, by the late Derek FitzJames, of the dress and equipment of an Irish soldier with Montcalm’s army, 1757 ………………………………...… ……frontispiece Plan of Dunalong, Co. Tyrone, c. 1600/1601 [Trinity College, Dublin] ………………………. 4 Anne Eleanor Burroughs (1898-1981) in the uniform of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps .. 9 The château-vieux of Saint-Germain-en-Laye [Bibliothèque nationale, Paris] ……………… 10 Map of Jacobite Paris (after the map of 1696 by Nicholas de Fer) ………………………….. 14-15 Hubert Robert’s small painting ‘La Bastille dans les premiers jours de sa démolition’ signed and dated 20 July 1789 (Paris, Musée Carnavalet) …………………………………………... 56 The Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal [Paris library in which the records of the Bastille are preserved] 56 The ruins of Wijtschate, June 1917 [Imperial War Museum] ………………...………………. 91 The Royal Dublin Fusiliers celebrating with the spoils of war after Wijtschate [Imperial War Museum] ……………………………………………………………..………. 93 The Royal Irish Rifles and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers celebrating their success after Wijtschate [Imperial War Museum] ……………………………………………………...... 94 The Royal Hibernian Military School on parade at Shorncliffe, Kent, June 1924 …………... 96-97 Postcard sent by Conor O’Brien showing the ‘Ruines de Vermelles (Pas de Calais)’, La Grande Guerre 1914-1915 …………………………………………………………………… 104 Lieutenant Charles Stewart, 1802 …………………………………………………...………….. 112 Miniature of Delia Tudor, wife of Charles Stewart ………………………………………...…... 113 The colours of the Hibernia Regiment: Colonel’s Colour (‘Bandera coronela del Regimiento Infantería Hibernia’), from Heráldica e historiales del Ejército (Madrid: Instituto de Historia y Cultura Militar, 1981), vol. v, p. 19, Plate 30.: Battalion Flag of Hibernia from J. L Calvo Pérez and L. Vitoria Grávalos González, Banderas de España (Sílex), pp 118-19 . facing page 121 The Irlanda Regiment, Fusilier of 1806. Figurine by L. Sanchez [Instituto de Historia y Cultura Militar, Madrid] ………………………………………..…………………………….. 150 William Parker Carrol (1776-1842) …………………………………………………………… 151 Grenadier of the Hibernia Regiment, clothed in accordance with the Estado Militar of 1789. [Brown University, Rhode Island, U.S.A.] …………………………………………...……… 165 Title page, and pages 60-62, from the Estado Militar de España año de 1808 …………...…. 166-7 Depictions of the uniforms of Hibernia, Ultonia and Irlanda, from Colección de cien 168 Estampas que Demuestra todas la Nuevas Divisas del Exto. [Exercito] de España segun el 169 hultimo reglamento de este Año de 1805 (Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa, 1986) ………... 170 Antrim Artillery at repository drill at the Garden Battery, Carrickfergus Castle c. 1890 ……… 186 Duke of Connaught’s Own Sligo R.G.A. (M) manning a 9-inch High Angle R.M.L. gun at the High Angle Battery, Portland, Dorset, 1898 ………………………………………………… 186 Officers and Staff of the Antrim Artillery Special Service Company photographed before their departure for South Africa on 25th March 1900. (Belfast Central Library) …………………. 187 Personnel of the Antrim Artillery manning a 6-inch B.L. howitzer in the Grand Bastion, Fort Antrim, Orange River, Northern Cape, 1901 ………………………………………………… 188 Black Castle Practice Battery, Co. Wicklow, as it is today, showing three of the gun positions. 188 Officer’s sabretache of the Antrim Artillery, c. 1900 ………………………………………….. 189 Group of officers of the Wicklow Artillery taken in 1900 at Haslar Links, Gosport, Hampshire 190 Osbourne’s Fort, County Wicklow, 1686. [Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, The Watercolours of Ireland, (1994), p. 19] …………………………...………………………… 193 Monica Katherine Roberts * 12 Nov. 1889; † 18 Sept. 1975 ……………………………….. 194 A weathered envelope with stamp of the Field Censor and postmark of the Field Post Office .. 201 An embroidered postcard, sent by Edward Mordaunt ………………………………………….. 201 Private Edward Mordaunt, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, correspondent of Monica Roberts ……….. 202 Contemporary postcard, with a cartoon figure, more cheerful than Private Mordaunt …….…... 202 Photograph of two Belgian soldiers, correspondents of Monica Roberts ……………………… 202
th Enlistment form mentioned in Lord Wimbourne’s letter dated October 28 , 1915 ……………. 216 Detail from the Trinity College painting of the Battle of Kinsale ………………… facing page 241 Eric Lambert (1909-96) ……………………………………………………………. 301, 302, 306 Map of the states of South America linked to Bolivar, showing places associated with the Rifles Battalion ……………………………………………………………………………….. 312 Air Corps Anson 19s at Baldonnel [Photo: Air Corps] …………………...…………………… 329 Air Corps Seafire LF.IIIs at Gormanston [Photo: Air Corps] ………………...……………….. 329 The DUKW on the strand at Youghal [Photo: per Eddie Murray] ……….……….……..…….. 330 Denis Gorman in a jeep at Finner Camp [Photo: per Denis Gorman] ………………...……….. 330 Two fine studies of the Operation Sandstone DUKW, probably at Finner Camp and on the beach nearby [Photos: Mike Davey] ………………………………………………….…….. 331 Helicopters at Youghal, 1950. Sikorsky Hoverfly I FT837/GJ-508 ……………………….….. 332 Crash at Collegiate Church, Youghal, of FT 83 [Photos: per Eddie Murray] …………………. 332 Helicopters at Finner Camp. Sikorsky R-6 Hoverfly II KN843/GJ-501 ………………………. 333 Westland Dragonfly HR.1 VX600 [Photos: Eric Myall, Denis Gorman] …………………... 333 Barney, Irish Army guard at Finner Camp, posing with VX600 in front of the hangar ………... 334 Lieut. Dick Beechener, R.N., at Finner in flying kit [Photos: D. Gorman] ………….……… 334 Vehicles used by the Sandstone team at Finner Camp in 1950 [Photos: D. Gorman] Jeep with Irish Naval Service sailor …………………………………………………………. 335 Motor-car ZD 5034 on grass near barrack huts ………………………………………………. 335 Further scenes at Finner Camp: [Photos: D. Gorman]. Huts and jeep ………….……………... 336 Lieut. Dick Beechener, R.N., with Karl, the Commandant’s dog ………………………….... 336 Major John Hamill, Royal Regiment of Malta, c. 1808 [Miniature reproduced in Sir Lees Knowles, The British in Capri 1806-08 (1918) ………………...………..…...…. facing page 361 Patriotic Fund Vase: John Hamill, Maida, 1806 [Photo: Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh] …. 369 Monument to General Richard Montgomery by Jean-Jacques Caffieri (1725 -1792) ………… 372 Map of the Campaign of Malplaquet …………………………………………………………… 375 Marshal Villars painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud ………………………………………………… 393 The Royal Scots Greys at Dublin Castle [Photo: Albert V. Henry] ………………………….... 396 Fitgibbon statue, Limerick [postcard] ……...…………………………………………………... 409 Bronze plaque salvaged from the Fitzgibbon statue …………………………………………… 410 Vicksburg monument to Ninth Connecticut Volunteers, 14 Oct. 2008 [Neil Hogan] ………... 413 No. 2 Squadron at Castle Kennedy, Wigtownshire, en route to Ireland [Photo: J.M. Bruce/G.S. Leslie Collection] …………………………………………………. 416 Captain George Dawes in his Farman 207 at Montrose [Photo: A.D. Nelson Collection] ……. 416 No. 2 Squadron’s Farman Longhorn. [Photo: J.M. Bruce/G.S. Leslie Collection] …………… 417 a B.E. (Blériot Experimental) in flight at Rathbane, south of Limerick. [Photo: 2 Squadron] ... 417 B.E.2a No. 217 on the ground at Rathbane Camp [Photo: Brendan Treacey Collection] …….. 417 Captain George Dawes’s Farman at Newcastle, Co. Down. Belfast Evening Telegraph, 2 September 1913. [Photos: Belfast Newspaper Library] …………………………………….. 418 Scenes at Rathbane Camp, near Limerick the French-built Farman Longhorn [Photo: A.D. Nelson Collection] ………………………. 420 the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2a’s. [Photo: Brendan Treacey Collection] ………………… 420 No. 2 Squadron vehicles. [Photos: 2 Squadron; and Brendan Treacey Collection] …………… 421 No. 2 Squadron pilots: Longcroft, G. Dawes, Becke, Waldron, McLean, Tucker, L. Dawes [Photo: J.M. Bruce/G.S. Leslie Collection] ……………………………….…………………. 423 The Ground Crew at Rathbane. [Photo: Brendan Treacey Collection] ………………………… 423 Certificate of Discharge (from the F.C.Á) of Dermot Bradley, 15 February 1968 ……………. 438 nd Cork-made Spoon of the 2 Battalion, Dutch Light Infantry [Photo: The Finial] …………….. 446 Professor J. L. McCracken (1914-2008) [University of Ulster, 1980] …………….………... 469 Lieutenant-Colonel James Pearse Coyle (1919-2009) .……………………….………………... 470 Paul Kerrigan (1937-2009) …………………………………………………………………….. 471 Dr. Dermot Bradley (1944-2009) …………………………………………….……………….. 473