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Irish Links With Dunkirk

... Irish Links With Dunkirk HOn far foreign fte:ds from Dunkirk to Be grade I Lie the so.dters and chiefs of the Irish Brigade THE Irish Brigade (although broken 1 up during the French Revolution) had remarkable associations with Dunkirk. and Irishmen nobly ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PARACHUTIST ON BEACH AT DUNKIRK-KILLED 211

... PARACHUTIST ON BEACH AT DUNKIRK-KILLED 211 . _ Four French soldiers, 21 of whose c.unrades were killed in a party by a German arachutist on the beach at Dunkirk, arrived at a south coast town on Monday with other French troops. One of them said: We were ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CHURCH OF THE 3UNEB

... OF THE 3UNEB DUNKIRK itself is of considerabk. historic interest. It owes 3 origin. it is said, to the church built by St. Eioi in th- 7th century. This building. taised in the midst of dreary and featureless sandhills, was called Dunkirk—the Church of ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 243 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BY SEAN CRAWFORD

... OIARARAS OF DUNKIRK to the Revolution in France various O'Meara' were officers there in the Irish Tkigade, from the rank of sub-lieutenant to that of colonel. Many also were Chevaliers of St. Louis, and M. de la Ponce specifies four as born at Dunkirk from 1752 ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DESTITUTE OF DEFENCE

... DESTITUTE OF DEFENCE THE Duke a York described Dunkirk as being destitute of any real defence againt his force of over 35.000 THOS. JOHNSON & SONS LTD., ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 27 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

POLICE RAID BELFAST GAELIC CLUB

... French y and three French Generals arrived at a south-east coast port of Britain yesterday with French troops evacuated from Dunkirk. They travelled - to visit the Admiralty and II ti 07. 41% . . ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRITAIN'S DAY OF PRAYER FOR FRANCE

... hordes and the unequal forces of our gallant Allies, aided by the British. Our prayers have been answered in marvelous ways at Dunkirk. Not alone on tanks and on battleships and air-borne forces but on God depends the victory—to Him we must turn with renewal ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WAR DIARY

... May 28—Belgian Army capitulated by King Leopold's order. June 4 Prime Minister revealed 335.000 Allied Iroops rescued Irons Dunkirk. June 9—German reconnaissance units reached outskirts of Rouen. June 11—Germans reached Seine. June 12 Germans entered Paris ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TO FOLLOW SURRENDER OF 300,000 BELGIANS

... the road to Dunkirk to the Germans, the Allied Command has rover lost its coolness for a moment. The watchword immediatcle went out - the British and French go or fighting. The Belgian Army's task had been to defrnd the sector north of Dunkirk. while the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 581 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CORI'S JUNIOR ALSO AN IRISHMAN

... CORI'S JUNIOR ALSO AN IRISHMAN. The less senior efficer - to whom Lord Gort handed over command of the l'emaining troops at Dunkirk when he cturned to Eng:and last Saturday was Major-General H. R. Alexander. a Northern Ireland man and brother of the Earl ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A FIGHT FOR BRITISH LIFE —Churchill

... DIVISIONS. This delay entailed the loss of 15 or 16 French divisions. The army and 120,000 French troops were rescued from Dunkirk, but only with the loss of all their material. This loss took some weeks to repair. In the first two of those weeks the battle ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PETTY MANOEUVRING FOR PARTY ADVANTAGE

... Prime when Mr. Henderson interr4ted wh - Ah, shut up ! What about ,iicri!ice of the men at Dunkirk ? Mr. Brown—l am glad to have beside ire one of the men from Dunkirk (reicr.ng to Mr. Tony Clark). Mr. Clark—The hon. member has h::: misinformed. Mr. Nixon ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1437 | Page: 7 | Tags: none