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“The Fighting Celt” Magic Lantern Show

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Sgt Cornelius Morrgian (Retired)

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Slievemara 1912

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Yesterday evening, the Home Rule Bill passed the House of Commons. The most notable difference from the bill of 1893 was that it would have eventually given control of the police to Ireland. A tremendous outcry arose in Protestant Ulster, which feared Roman Catholic domination. Private armies—the Ulster Volunteers (in the North) and the Irish Volunteers (in the South)—were raised, and civil war threatened if the bill became law.

29 January 1912,Est. 1869

HOME RULE BILL PASSEDThe Times

29 January 1912,Est. 1869

The World News

ARCHDUKE & WIFE SHOT BY SERBIAN YOUTH

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, nephew of the aged emperor and heir to the throne, was assassinated in the streets of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, yesterday afternoon.His wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, was killed by the same assassin. Some reports say the duchess was deliberately shielding her husband from the second shot when she was killed. !One victim was struck in the body and the other in the face; the telegrams are contradictory about which wound the archduke suffered and which his wife. In the afternoon, a Serb student fired a revolver at the car, killing both the archduke & the auchess

29 January 1912,Est. 1869

The World News

WAR DECLARED!!

Great Britain declared war on Germany at 11 o'clock last night. !The Cabinet yesterday delivered an ultimatum to Germany. Announcing the fact to the House of Commons, the Prime Minister said: "We have repeated the request made last week to the German Government that they should give us the same assurance in regard to Belgian neutrality that was given to us and Belgium by France last week. We have asked that it should be given before midnight."

ENGLAND DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY; BRITISH SHIP SUNK; FRENCH SHIPS DEFEAT GERMAN, BELGIUM ATTACKED; 17,000,000 MEN ENGAGED IN GREAT WAR OF EIGHT NATIONS; GREAT ENGLISH AND GERMAN NAVIES ABOUT TO GRAPPLE; RIVAL WARSHIPS OFF THIS PORT AS LUSITANIA SAILS

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JOIN YOUR COUNTRY’S ARMY!GOD SAVE THE KING

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Messine Ridge Belgium

7th June 1917 !

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