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	Tunnel Trench: The 16th (Irish) Division at Cambrai -- The Wild Geese Today
		According to the divisional historian, at Cambrai, the "swift and successful operation by 16th Division was a model of attack with a limited objective." In addition to securing 3,000 yards of trench, 635 prisoners were captured from the German army's 470th and 471st Regiments and 330 German bodies were counted in the trenches.
		Unfortunately, 3rd Division had failed in its attempt to capture the trench network immediately to the right of 16th Division, and the flank of the Connaught Rangers was thus exposed to a savage counterattack.
		The 16th Irish and 36th Ulster in WWI
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/tunn_tr.html (1739 words)

	16th (Irish) Division
		The Cadre of the Battalion joined the Division on 18 Jun 1918 and was reconstituted on 20 Jun 1918 by absorbing the 25th Bn.
		Absorbed by the 11th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers (which in turn was absorbed by the 5th Bn).
		On 22 Jan 1917 the Brigade left the Division and became an Army Field Artillery Brigade.
	orbat.com /site/warpath/divs/16_div.htm (655 words)

	Irish Battallions - RDF Major Battles
		Of the regular army, the 29th Division, including the 1st Battalions of the Royal Dublin, Munster and Inniskilling Fusiliers, was selected for the offensive.
		The Irish Brigades of the 16th (Irish) were in the trenches at Hulluch when the Germans launched a gas attack on April 27th, 1916.
		The 1st Dublins were sent to the 29th Division, the 2nd and later the 7th RDF joined the 31st Division.
	www.greatwar.ie /ire_batmb.html (0 words)

	Department of the Taoiseach - Irish Soldiers in the First World War
		The course of Irish history was greatly altered, leading to the emergence of forces that still influence the politics of today. The increased awareness of the Irish aspects of the War have helped to put those forces to positive use by allowing people from the two major traditions to meet on common ground.
		The 16th (Irish) Division arrived in France in December 1915 and was assigned to the Loos sector.
		The 36th (Ulster) Division’s was assigned a target that included a huge concrete bunker where German troops sheltered, the Schwaben Redoubt. The Division was one of the few that succeeded in gaining its objectives but the soldiers could not hold them due the failures of the other divisions.
	www.taoiseach.gov.ie /eng/index.asp?docID=2517 (3310 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		One wonders how the volunteers from Cavan and Monaghan, who served with the 9th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers as part of the 108th Brigade, felt in later years when their counties were treacherously excluded from the Union.
		The 108th Brigade saw action in a number of battles alongside the 16th (Irish) Division, which included the Irish Volunteers, raised in response to the formation of the Ulster Volunteers.
		The nationalist community, on the other hand, was encouraged to regard Irish Nationalists who served in the 10th and 16th Irish Divisions and the Connaught Rangers as traitors to Ireland.
	lark.phoblacht.net /inmemory.html (1459 words)

	The 16th (Irish) Division: A Southern Irish Division in WWI \| Southern Irish, SouthernIrish.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The 16th (Irish) Division: A Southern Irish Division in WWI
		The 16th (Irish) Division: A Southern Irish Division in WWI
		Lord Kitchener's call for volunteers, made to a receptive audience in most parts of the British Empire, was answered by thousands.These enthusiasts would form Kitchener's New Army.Kitchener's thirty New Army divisions would supplement the six divisions of Regulars and the fourteen of Territorials.
	southernirish.com /node/97 (111 words)

	Irish nationalism - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Irish nationalism is particularly associated with the Roman Catholic community, especially in Northern Ireland, where the terms "Catholic" and "Nationalist" are used interchangeably.
		However, Irish self-government was limited by the prospect of partition of Ireland between north and south after the British Government bowed to the threat of the Ulster Volunteer Force, at that time the armed wing of Ulster Unionism.
		The concern of the Irish government was that this was subverting the control of immigration by entitling any couple who had a child to stay in the country, regardless of their legal status.
	en.wikilib.com /wiki/Irish_nationalism (5793 words)

	Irish Battalions
		Ulster and Southern Irish regiments fought side by side and high regard for the courage demonstrated was mutual.
		Irish Parliamentary Party opposition notwithstanding, the Conscription Bill was passed.
		By ignoring the protests of the Irish Party, the government dealt another blow to Redmond's group and lent weight to Sinn Féin's argument that attending Westminster was pointless.
	www.greatwar.ie /ire_bat.html (0 words)

	A Brief History of the British Army's 16th (Irish) Division -- The Wild Geese Today
		By the time 16th Division was relieved on April 3rd, it had suffered 7,149 killed, wounded, and missing, the highest casualties of any division engaged in the battle.
		By contrast, the 16th Division was assigned battalions drawn from the five southern Irish-based regiments (in addition to non-sectarian battalions of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Inniskillings), so there were never more than two or three battalions from the same regiment within the division.
		When Irish recruitment dried up in the wake of the Easter Rising and Irish battalions were forced to disband, or amalgamate, several of the Regular Irish battalions were transfered into the 16th Division to fill in the gaps.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/16thdiv.html (0 words)

	History of the Royal Irish Rangers TheRoyal Inniskilling Fusiliers
		The 4th division was directed to a breach in the La Trinidad fort and although the assault started well the troops lost their bearings in the noise and confusion and attacked the unbreached part of the wall.
		The 16th (Irish) Division, which included the 7th and 8th Inniskillings, and the 36th (Ulster) Division, including the 9th, 10th and 11th Inniskillings, served in France and Flanders, fighting with great gallantry, and suffering terrible casualties, in many campaigns from the Somme in 1916 until the end of the war.
		The foundation of the Irish Free State (as Eire was then called) in 1922 led inevitably to the disbandment of the five splendid regiments which had recruited in the Southern provinces.
	www.royalirishrangers.co.uk /ennis.html (1934 words)

	ireland.com / Focus / The Somme
		The 16th (Irish) Division, was largely from the south, and the 36th (Ulster) Division was from the north.
		Territorial army divisions were numbered 42nd to 74th, except for the 63rd originally formed from “spare” naval reservists.
		Major Irish companies, including Guinness and Bank of Ireland, released staff who volunteered to serve in the war, and subsequently maintained rolls of honour recording their names, and often their deaths.There were specific battalions and brigades formed in major British cities to recruit men with Scottish and Irish connections such as the Tyneside Irish.
	www.ireland.com /focus/thesomme/p3bott.htm (496 words)

	Private Maurice Duggan Royal Irish Regiment - Waterford County Museum
		The 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment was formed at Clonmel on 6th September 1914 as part of the second 100,000 troops, generally known as "K2", required by Lord Kitchener.
		It was attached to the 47th Brigade and to the 16th (Irish) Division.
		It is thought that Maurice was wounded on 6th June, during the exchange of artillery fire along Wytschaete Ridge, as it was on this part of the Messines Ridge that the 16th Division was deployed.
	www.waterfordcountymuseum.org /exhibit/web/Display/article/64/?lang=en (662 words)

	The 16th Irish Division in the Great War: Ireland United, 1917
		Whilst a serious conflict divided their homeland, the two Irish divisions were united side by side in the fight against the Germans.
		And, there, beyond, advanced the 16th Irish Division, a formation from the south of Ireland, brought together by the leader of the Irish Party John Redmond.
		The story of the Irish soldiers in the Ypres salient is first and foremost a story of solidarity among brothers in arms.
	freespace.virgin.net /sh.k/zoek.html (0 words)

	The Great War, Ireland and the Forgotten Battle By Gary Enright
		The 16th Divisions was withdrawn from the Hulluch sector on the 24th August and travelled to Corbie, east of Amiens.
		On the 1st September the 16th Division’s 47th Brigade was in the line attached as reserve to the 20th Division.
		The 20th division was to capture Guillemont, a village north of the Somme.
	www.angelfire.com /pe/riversdale/Greatwar.html (1363 words)

	John (Jack) Slator (1892-1976)
		The 16th Irish Division was a "forgotten division," which, ironically, fought alongside the loyalist 36th Ulster Division.
		One of the most famous regiments was the 16th Irish Division, which fought with the 36th Ulster Division in the closing stages of the war.
		However the brave and dutiful men of the 16th Irish Division are not often remembered because the Ireland from which they joined to fight for the freedom of small nations had undergone a sea-change in nationalist aspirations by 1918.
	www.angelfire.com /mn2/slator/John_Slator.html (2716 words)

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		As the rebellion roared in Dublin, more than 540 men of the Irish Division were killed instantly from the effects of the gas; the remainder would suffer chronic lung and breathing conditions for the rest of their lives.
		Irish nationalist politician John Redmond pronounced the Rising a "German invasion of Ireland, as brutal, as selfish, as cynical as Germany's invasion of Belgium".
		He contrasted the "treason" in Dublin with the fortitude and loyalty of the Irish troops of the 16th (Irish) Division in France.
	www.newsletter.co.uk /ViewArticle.aspx?sectionid=3901&articleid=1444350 (602 words)

	Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots Forums > The Somme
		The Irish on the Somme is packed with superb illustrations, maps and some fantastic photos of the Irish men from the frontline and an allencompassing index for those interested in particular relatives or regiments.
		With the failure of the 29th Division attack to their left, the German guns in Beaumont Hamel were able to turn south on the Ulstermen, while the withering artillery and machinegun fire now being unleashed on No-Man's-Land was savaging the later waves and preventing further reinforcements.
		As a result, virtually all the pre-war Irish infantry battalions which had fought on the Somme in 1916 (with the notable exception of the Irish Guards, the 1st remaining with the Guards Division and the 2nd transferring to the 31st Division) had been transferred to either the 16th or 36th divisions.
	www.scotchirish.net /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t1703.html (11273 words)

	First World War.com - The Western Front Today - 16th Irish Division Memorial, Wytschaete
		The memorial to the 16th (Irish) Division is sited next to Wytschaete cemetery in the Ypres Salient.
		It commemorates 16th Division's capture of Wytschaete on 7 June 1917, the opening day of the Battle of Messines.
		A second memorial to the division is located at Guillemont on the Somme.
	www.firstworldwar.com /today/16thirishdivisionmemorial.htm (0 words)

	28 November 1997
		The idea was to have a substantial monument to the Irish soldier on the Somme, but when we investigated, it turned out that the 16th Irish Division, which is known as the Redmondite Irish Volunteer Division, and the 36th Ulster Division did not fight together on the Somme.
		The Irish Government cannot be trusted, and, of course, they swear an oath, on taking office, to uphold the constitutional imperative, according to their Supreme Court, to bring to fruition their claim of jurisdiction over us in articles 2 and 3.
		The Irish Government's position on any such inquiry could not be taken seriously because of the activities of their predecessors and the fact that they have made no attempt whatsoever either to apologize for or to inquire into what actually happened.
	www.ni-forum.gov.uk /debates/1997/281197.htm (22931 words)

	The Somme Association
		Divisions were gifted with the best trophy of the ridge - the fortress-village of Wytschaete.
		The boundary line between the two divisions ran along the main street of Wytschaete, half of the village being in the objective of the other.
		The characteristics of the various parts of the front were similar with the conditions of the soil the same throughout.
	www.irishsoldier.org /messines.html (2056 words)

	Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association - Association Information
		The actual number of Irish deaths remains to be established as many enlisted in other regiments, the naval services, and the armies of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
		While the focus is on the Irish men and women who served, we also remember the many English, Scots, Welsh and other nationalities who served in the Irish regiments and who fought and died side by side with their Irish comrades.
		To commemorate all Irish men and women who volunteered, served and died in the Great War 1914-1918 by organising public exhibitions, lectures, seminars, visits and the publication of a journal.
	www.greatwar.ie /assoc.html (0 words)

	Islandbridge War Memorial, Dublin (Sir Edwin Lutyens) [Archeire, Irish Architecture Online]
		The wooden cross had been designed on a sheet of blotting paper, by Major General W.B. Hickie,the commander of the 16th (Irish) Division, and was made from old oak beams by the divisional pioneer troops.
		It was originally erected during the war on the Somme in a field between the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy.
		Granite replicas of the original cross were erected in 1926 at Guillemont and at Wytscheate in Belgium, while a third was erected in Salonica,in Macedonia, to commemorate the 10th (Irish) Division who fought in Gallipoli, Macedonia and the Middle East.
	www.irish-architecture.com /buildings_ireland/dublin/islandbridge/islandbridge.html (357 words)

	Home Rule Act 1914 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		However, the implementation of both it and the equally controversial Welsh Church Act 1914 was postponed for a minimum of twelve months with the outbreak of the First World War; subsequent developments in Ireland led to further postponements which meant that the Act never took effect, and it was finally repealed in 1920.
		Instead of home rule as envisioned in the act, most of Ireland was to achieve independence in 1922 as the Irish Free State; however, the six north-eastern counties that remained within the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland did obtain home rule in the previous year.
		Both mainstream nationalists and unionists, keen to ensure the implementation of the Act on the one hand and to influence the issue of how temporary was partition to be on the other, rallied in support of Britain's war commitment to the Allies under the Triple Entente.
	www.surfindark.com /index.cgi/000110A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Rule_Act_1914 (2670 words)

	Search results – Irish Resources in the Humanities
		The American Conference for Irish Studies is a multidisciplinary scholarly organization with approximately 1500 members in the United States, Ireland, Canada, and other countries around the world.
		Compiled by The Irish Writers Centre, this anthology of contemporary Irish writing is a project in progress and includes prose, poetry, and critical writing.
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	www.irith.org /irith.service?request=search&subject=art (800 words)

	The 16th Irish Division in the Great War 1914-18
		The raising of the 10th(Irish) Division was in accordance with the well-established practice of recruitment of Irishmen to fight in the British Army.
		Although recruitment to the Ulster-based 6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles was satisfactory, by the end of August 1914 the numbers joining the other two Ulster-based regiments, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the Royal Irish Fusiliers, had not reached 20% of that required.
		The Irish Brigade(47th) on Divisional Transport, 4 Sept 1916
	freespace.virgin.net /sh.k/xvidiv.html (0 words)

	Irish battle of Somme stamp is first to mark British military past \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Next week the Irish government will break fresh ground by staging a state ceremony at the Islandbridge war memorial in Dublin to remember the thousands of Irish soldiers and those from the Ulster Division who perished in one of the bloodiest engagements of the first world war.
		Public praise was reserved for those who participated in the "blood sacrifice" of the 1916 Easter uprising and the war of independence which led to the withdrawal of British troops and the foundation of the Irish state.
		Both the 36th (Ulster) Division and the 16th (Irish) Division took part in the battle.
	www.guardian.co.uk /military/story/0,,1803916,00.html (384 words)

	Irish Examiner> Breaking News> Sport
		The battle for Messines Ridge was the first time that members of the 16th Irish division who were Southern nationalists and the 36th Ulster division who were Northern unionists fought and died side by side in the war.
		Hundreds of Irish including the Nationalist MP Willie Redmond died in taking Messines although thousands of Germans were killed.
		The carnage began when landmines were detonated beneath their trenches creating an explosion which it is claimed was heard in Dublin.
	www.irishexaminer.com /breaking/story.asp?j=212780423&p=zyz78yyxx&n=212781102&x= (155 words)

	Delahunty Website
		Quite the reverse; the very historical processes which were to raise the 36th Ulster to pious and immortal memory, were to obscure completely the fate of the nationalists of the 16th Irish Division 80 years ago this week.
		Yes, we can say with reasonable certainty, it was, as was the sacrifice of the Germans they killed and of the countless millions of other nations called from hearth and field and mill to perish as empires collapsed, old orders vanished, and European civilisation fell upon itself and devoured its children.
		At the same time the vast influx of Irish Immigrants fleeing famine issues in Ireland in the late 1840's, prompted a growth of various social societies in the USA - the largest of which was, and continues to be, the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
	www.delahunty.com /irish.htm (1779 words)

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