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On Saturday news of the general surrender in Dublin reached Enniscorthy. The Volunteers required that the surrender be confirmed: the following day the British escorted Captain Seamus Doyle and Captain Seán R. Etchingham to Dublin to consult Pearse in Arbor Hill.
- ‘Extreme National Views’
- On Again Off Again
- The Rising in Enniscorthy
- British Response
- The Surrender
- The Rising in Wexford – A Failure?
County Wexford, like most of Ireland in 1916, was dominated politically by the Irish Parliamentary Party and it auxiliary the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The one exception to this was Enniscorthy, which had a nucleus of separatist activists. There was a strong Irish Republican Brotherhood presence in the town and in the local Volunteers. One local...
The Easter Rising very nearly did not happen. Eoin MacNeill, the titular head of the Volunteers, had been kept in the dark by the IRB-dominated Military Committee and when informed of the plans for insurrection, on Easter Sunday 1916, tried to call it off. In Dublin itself, O’Neill and his ally in the IRB, Bulmer Hobson, were sidelined and the Risi...
Galligan’s subsequent 200 km cycle took him on a wide detour to avoid British troops, via the North Circular Road, Mulhuddart and Maynooth and through County Carlow. It was late on Wednesday evening before he reached Enniscorthy. On the outskirts of the town he happened across a Volunteer who was delivering bread and told him to gather the officers...
On Saturday, the RIC County Inspector reported, “ the rebels are concentrated at Enniscorthy and are stated to be entrenching themselves there, the Police are still holding out (presumably in the Police Barracks). The approaches to Enniscorthy within a radius of three miles of the town were blocked with felled trees and in one case by a telegraph p...
By Sunday morning, there had still not been any sight in Enniscorthy or Ferns of the British Arklow garrison or the mobile column from Cobh that had landed at Wexford town. Later that afternoon, one of the Volunteers’ cycle patrols returned to the outpost at Ferns and told Paul Galligan that an RIC District Inspector and Sergeant had arrived under ...
The Rising in Wexford therefore amounted to a great political spectacle but not much in military terms. Nearly thirty years later, in the Dail, the independent Irish parliament, Deputy Corish of Wexford complained that only 70 of the 260 men who had submitted claims for a state pension for their service in the Easter Rising in Enniscorthy had had t...
Apr 22, 2022 · Enniscorthy: In 1888, Rafter began living in Hayes’ in Enniscorthy. Enniscorthy of course is and was a town shrouded in Republican heritage. The town stands in the shadow of Vinegar Hill where the rebel forces of 1798 made their valiant last stand.
Sep 8, 2024 · Enniscorthy was a particular stronghold of radical nationalism – the RIC noted that the Irish Volunteers, Sinn Fein, the Gaelic Athletic Association and the Gaelic League (and though they didn’t know it, the IRB) were the most influential nationalist organisations there.
It has been suggested that a street overlooking the River Slaney in Enniscorthy was sacrificed (pre-1872) to make way for the extension of the Dublin and South Eastern Railway (DSER) line to Wexford Town by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company.
The Athenæum was a hive of social activity for the first seventy years of its life and hosted many leading touring companies from home and abroad who staged a variety of performances including concerts, dances, operatic recitals and variety shows.
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On Saturday news of the general surrender in Dublin reached Enniscorthy. The Volunteers required that the surrender be confirmed: the following day the British escorted Captain Seamus Doyle a. d Captain Seán R. Etching-ham to Dublin to consult Pearse in Arbor Hill.
