Anzac Day not a celebration but commemoration Martin O’Meara VC served bravely in Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
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Tipperary native Martin O’Meara: “During four days of very heavy fighting he repeatedly went out and brought in wounded officers and men from ‘No Man’s Land’ under intense artillery and machine gun fire.”
In July 2020, I visited the Australian Army Museum of Western Australia at Fremantle. A terrific facility, it holds machines, materials, medals and awards including the Victoria Cross ) awarded to Irish-born Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) sergeant Martin O’Meara, currently on loan to the National Museum of Ireland in Collins Barracks, Dublin.
A farmer in Ireland stumbled across an ancient tomb virtually untouched for thousands of years.
The burial site was uncovered on southwest Ireland s Dingle Peninsula when an excavator overturned a large stone to reveal a hidden chamber underneath.
Inside, local archaeologists found what they believe to be the human bones, along with a smooth oval-shaped stone - all of which could hold clues about pre-historical burial rituals.
They suspect the tomb dates to the Bronze Age, making it between 2,500 and 4,000 years old.
But unlike most Bronze Age tombs, it was constructed completely underground meaning it could be even older.
A farmer in southwest Ireland moved a large stone on his land and discovered this ancient tomb underneath. The site included a sub-chamber near the front of the tomb, as well as a smooth oblong-shaped stone and what s believed to be human bones
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Timeline of Human Activity in Ancient Ireland is 33,000 Years Old!
Signs of early human activity in Ireland dating back to a stunning 33,000 years have been found on a bone fragment which was unearthed in cave over 100 years ago. This paradigm-changing discovery instantly negates everything archaeologists though they knew about humans in ancient Ireland, and across the entirety of western Europe during the Upper Paleolithic.
If you were to Google search “the first people in Ireland” right now, you would read that between 12,000 and 9,000 years ago (around 7000 BC) “Stone Age” people arrived on the island and used stone tools for hunting. However, by the end of today, that same search result will have changed and it will have tripled in age to state that evidence of human activity in ancient Ireland has been discovered dating back to 33,000 years ago.
When a local famer was conducting land improvement work in the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland, he stumbled upon an ancient tomb that archaeologists have described as being “untouched”, “highly unusual”, and a “significant” find.
After a big stone slab was turned over, that’s when the farmer found a slab-lined chamber underneath it. Upon further inspection, there was a sub-chamber located off of it which is believed to be the front part of the tomb. So far, a very smooth oval-shaped stone as well as what appeared to be a human bone have been found. It is believed that the tomb dates back at least to the Bronze Age (between 2000 BC and 500 BC) and could possibly be even older than that.