Irish History Archives - Sligo Walking Tours

Charles Kerrigan

Charles Kerrigan and the Connaught Rangers Mutiny in India 1920

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A piece I wrote for a genealogy history assignment a few years ago about my great grandfather and the Connaught Rangers Mutiny which occurred on this day 100 years ago. Charles…

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Irish Harvesters

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In nineteenth-century, it was the practice of many poor tenant labourers to go to England and Scotland each year for the purpose of harvest work. They arrived in large groups…