Tag: Loch Garman

1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Tuberneering.

04/06/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Irish rebels continue to have success against English troops. At the Battle of Tuberneering, Co Wexford, under the command of Fr John Murphy, rebels ambush in a narrow defile troops of the 4th Royal Dragoon Guards, militia and yeomanry auxiliaries, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Walpole. Walpole and 100 men were killed, the rest, throwing […]

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1914 – Fethard Lifeboat Disaster: Nine Irishmen and two Norwegians died off the coast of Wexford in a failed rescue mission.

20/02/2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

The tragedy saw nine crewmen of the Fethard ‘Helen Blake’ Lifeboat lose their lives while trying to rescue the crew of the Mexico that had gone aground at the treacherous islands. One of the Mexico crew – a Portuguese sailor – died of exposure on the Keeragh Islands on 21 February 1914, as relatives of […]

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