President Higgins officially opened a centenary monument at the site of the Clonmult ambush, on the 101st anniversary of the event
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President Higgins officially opened a centenary monument at the site of the Clonmult ambush, on the 101st anniversary of the event
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Pat Poland reflects on the remarkable time when The Nazis arrived in Kinsale It was Saturday morning, 19 January 1946, when local solicitor Dick Hegarty left his home in Kinsale, Co. Cork, to take his usual bracing walk along the pier. World War Two had finally come to an end just four months’ before with the surrender of Japan to General MacArthur in Tokyo Bay. Although Éire had been neutral in the conflict, it was a time of austerity, shortages, and rationing. Most people just wanted to put it all behind them and get on with their lives. Hegarty, lost in thought, was suddenly confronted ...