Monuments

 

1. Fenian Monument

Calvary Cemetery, Queens, NY

Dedicated in 1907 to the Fenians of 1865 to 1867

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2. Manchester Martyrs Monument

Kilrush, Co. Clare , Ireland

Dedicated in 1903 to the

Manchester Martyrs

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3. Fenian Monument

Ford Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Erected to commemorate the 16 Fenians of 1867 buried in the cemetery

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4. Manchester Martyrs Monument

St. Joseph's Cemetery

Morton, Manchester, England

 

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5. The National Monument

Grand Parade, Cork City, Co Cork

Erected in 1906 to commemorate the rebellions of 1798, 1803, 1848 & 1867

 

 

6. Irish Brigade Monument

Gettysburg Battlefield

Gettysburg, PA

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7. Irish Brigade Memorial

at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland honors the Irish volunteers of the 63rd, 69th and 88th New York Voluntary Infantry.

 

8. Maid of Erin,

Erected in 1907 in Tipperary Town

to commemorate the executions

of the Manchester martyrs

Allen, Larkin and O'Brien

 

 

9. Catalpa Wild Geese Memorial

Rockingham, West Australia

Commemorates the escape of the six  Fenians  from Fremantle Jail:

 Robert Cranston, Thomas Darragh, Michael Harrington, Thomas Hassett, Martin Hogan, and James Wilson

 

10. The 1798 Rising Monument in Waverly Cemetery,

 Bronte, Sydney, New South Wales,  Australia

The monument is placed over the grave of

Michael Dwyer (1772–1825) who was a

Society of the United Irishmen leader in the 1798 Rising.

He later fought a guerilla campaign against the British Army

in the Wicklow Mountains from 1798-1803.

11. Ballykissane Monument,

Killorglin, Co. Kerry

Commemorates the deaths of Con Keating, Donal Sheahan and Charlie Monaghan at Ballykissane pier on 21 April 1916 as they attempted to assist the importation of arms on board the Aud for the 1916 Rising.

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12. General Liam Lynch Memorial

at Gleann na gCeabhar Co. Cork.

 

Lynch commanded the Cork No. 2 Brigade  and the 1st Southern Division of the IRA, during the War of Independence and Chief of Staff of the IRA during the Civil War and was killed by Free State forces on

April 10, 1923.

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13. Ricard O'Sullivan Burke Monument

at Kinneigh in Co. Cork.

Erected by Mary Lynch in August 2009

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 14. The Pikeman Statue
located in Wexford Town. Co. Wexford
It commemorates Wexford's failed rebellion of 1798 and the declaration of Ireland's first Republic.
The Statue was sculpted in bronze by Oliver Sheppard.  It's unveiling in 1905 was attended by 30,000.

 

 

 15. Ballyseedy Mouument, Ballyseedy, Co. Kerry, Ireland

At midnight on March 6th 1923, nine prisoners were brought to Ballyseedy Wood near Ballyseedy cross by soldiers of the Free State army. They were Pat Buckley, John Daly, Pat Hartnett, Michael O'Connell, John O'Connor, George O'Shea, Tim Tuomey, James Walsh and Steven Fuller.  When they got there, they were tied around a log and a land  mine was detonated. Most of them survived the initial blast however, the soldiers used machine guns and grenades to finish them off.  All of them died except Steven Fuller who was blown away by the force of the blast.  He landed in the  nearby river Lee from where he crawled for about 500 yards to Currans House. They took him in and hid him in a dugout at the back of their farm for some weeks. He was the only one who survived the massacre

 

 

16. Thomas Francis Meagher Statue

 Meagher, on horseback with sword raised   located on the front lawn of the

Capitol grounds in Helena, Montana. The statue was  erected in 1905

17. Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa Monument

St. Stephen's Green, Dublin Ireland

 

 

18. Commodore John Barry Memorial

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

 

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19. Robert Emmet Statue

The statue is located in the small Emmet Park, near Massachusetts Avenue and 24th Street, in Sheridan Circle. Washington DC.

20. Teeling Monument,

Carricknagat, Co Sligo

The Teeling monument outside the town commemorates the capture of a British gun emplacement by Bartholomew Teeling, when the combined Irish-French forces were under pressure at the Battle of Carricknagat.

 

 

21. Roger Casement Monument

 at Banna Strand, Co. Kerry

At a spot on Banna Strand adjacent to here Roger Casement, Robert Monteith and a third man, came ashore from a German submarine on Good Friday morning 21st. April 1916 in furthering the cause of Irish freedom’

 

22. Peter O’Neill Crowley Monument,

Knockanevin,  Co. Cork

 

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23. Pikemen Statue, Wexford

The bronze pikemen monument is located on the N25 Wexford to New Ross road. It memorializes the Battle of Three Rocks fought there during the 1798 Rising.

"There is nothing surer than that Irishmen of every denomination must stand or fall together."  William Orr

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24. Easter Rising Monument

Located on the grounds of the Gaelic-American Club in Fairfield CT

to commemorate the 100th year of the Easter Rising and the ultimate sacrifice made by seven brave heroes and their comrades in arms who  gave their lives so Ireland could gain its independence from England.

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25- Erin's Hope Monument

Located in the Ring Gaeltacht of Co Waterford to commemorate the voyage of  the Erin’s Hope, whose mission was to bring men,  guns and ammunition toIreland in 1867 by way of helping the Fenian Brotherhood during the Rising of 1867.

 

26, Irish Famine Memorial

Located in Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, Australia to commemorate the victims of  the Orphan Emigration Scheme commenced in October of 1848 and ended in August 1850 due to opposition from the Australian colonists after 4,175 young girls had been sent from Irish workhouses to Australia. Many of the Irish workhouses participated in the scheme.

 
   

Memorial to the Soloheadbeg Ambush

Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary

The Soloheadbeg ambush on January 21, 1919, is tagged as the start of the Irish War of Independence  On that day eight Irish Volunteers Seán Treacy, Dan Breen, Seán Hogan, Séamus Robinson, Tadhg Crowe, Mick McCormack, Paddy O’Dwyer, Michael Ryan and Seán O’Meara lay in wait near Soloheadbeg quarry for a cart driven by two council workers who were bringing a consignment of 160lbs of gelignite and 30 electric detonators to the quarry.  On their arrival at the quarry entrance, shots were fired and the two constables Patrick McDonnell and James O’Connell were killed. The workmen were unharmed. South Tipperary was proclaimed a special military area the following day. The gelignite was buried at Goldengarden and used to attack a number of RIC barracks including the Cappawhite RIC barracks on June 4, 1920

 

Kindred Spirit Monument

Midleton’s Bailick Park, Midleton, Co. Cork

The year 1847 was the worst year of the Great Hunger in Ireland, when close to one million people starved to death. Humanitarian aid came from around the world. One of the sources of such aid were the Choctaw Native Americans who raised $170 equivalent to $5,000 today to purchase food for the starving Irish.  What was remarkable about that humanitarian act was that sixteen earlier, the Choctaw people were forced to leave their ancestral lands by then U.S. President Andrew Jackson and trudge five hundred miles on the “Trail of Tears", in terrible winter conditions to Oklahoma.

The Irish people still remember what the oppressed Choctaw indigenous people did for their ancestors in their time of great need. The above monument stands in tribute to their empathy and generosity. Named “Kindred Spirits,” the magnificent memorial features nine giant stainless-steel feathers, shaped into an empty bowl.

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The Trail of Tears refers to the US government enforced relocation of the Cherokee Native Americans from their native lands in Georgia to Tahlequah, Oklahoma. This march was a devastating and deadly one for the Cherokee Nation — over 4,000 deaths occurred during the march and afterwards in Oklahoma. Roughly 20% of the Cherokee Nation died, either during the march or shortly afterwards, due to diseases like dysentery.

To the Cherokee Nation, this event is called the Nunna daul Isunyi, or the Trail Where We Cried. The journey was exceptionally difficult, spanning over 1,000 miles (about 1,600 km). At least 2,000 people died during the march, so cause for weeping is not hard to understand.

 

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