South Dublin County Roll of Honour 1914-1918

South Dublin Libraries Local Studies section has just finished compiling a Roll of Honour of men from the current South Dublin County parishes who died in the First World War.  Click  HERE  to view.

It will be located on South Dublin Libraries’ “Source” Digital Archive from tomorrow, the 12th of November.

The list was compiled from printed publications, WWI memorials, CD and online databases.

The Roll of Honour lists those men whose death record includes the name of the parish in which they were either born or resided. However not all of the death records include this information, and for this reason the list is incomplete.

If you know of any person who died in the First World War, was born or resided in the South Dublin County area (Tallaght, Lucan, Clondalkin, Newcastle, Palmerstown/Palmerston, Rathfarnham, Saggart, Rathcoole or Whitechurch)  and would like the person included in the Roll of Honour, please send as many details as you have (Name, Rank, Number, Regiment, year of death) to library@sdublincoco.ie, and we will find additional detail for inclusion in the Roll.

More information on sources to help you research relatives who served in WWI can be found  HERE .

Watch this space for upcoming Irish UN Peacekeeping and World War 2 Rolls of Honour.

Talk by ‘Allegiances Compromised’ author Michael Whelan

Award winning local historian and author Michael Whelan will give a lecture entitled Allegiances Compromised: Ex-British Soldiers in the Irish Army 1913-1924 at the County Library, Tallaght next Tuesday evening, 27th September at 7:00 p.m.

South Dublin Libraries published Michael’s book of the same title this summer, and it explores the stories of Irish men who fought in the British Army in World War I, and then returned home and joined the effort to fight for Ireland’s independence. Their military expertise and war experience were invaluable to the Volunteers and the Irish Army, yet they were treated with suspicion and, in some cases, contempt by their fellow Irishmen for their perceived disloyalty.

Michael Whelan has been a serving member of the Irish Air Corps for twenty-one years. He was served with the United Nations Peacekeeping forces in Lebanon and with the Peace Enforcement forces in Kosovo. He works at Casement Aerodrome where he is the curator of the Air Corps Museum and Heritage Project. He is also the author of The Battle of Jadotville: Irish Soldiers in Combat in the Congo, 1961 published by South Dublin Libraries in 2006.

All are welcome to this event!