If you have an Irish relative that served in WW1 do you know that copies of many of their wills are free to view online at http://soldierswills.nationalarchives.ie/search/sw/home.jsp. It will be 100 years later this week since Private Patrick Mulrooney was killed in action in Mesopotamia (current day Iraq) on January 21st 1916, age 28. Patrick served […]

Bringing our Soldiers Home: Throughout 2016 we hope to bring the crosses of our Kilkenny WW1 soldiers back to their place of origin. These are the crosses that we had on display in Kilkenny Castle in August and again in November. Thanks to the Johnstown Historical Society for organising the first of these this coming […]