The destruction of the Irish records occured in 1922 during the civil war. TMcC ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:41:57 -0400 (EDT) From: [email protected] Subject: [NY-IRISH] People's Army List---Easter 1916 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Friends, You may only know of a deliberate fire in Dublin that caused the destruction of genealogically important records. This was part of the Easter Rebellion of 1916, perhaps the most significant modern era event to impact Irish Catholics. The Event: "The Easter Rising (Irish: ?ir? Amach na C?sca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland, secede from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and establish an independent Irish Republic when the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in World War I. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798." SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising Names of Rebelling Irish: http://www.swilson.info/ica.php Up the Irish! Barb ------------------------------ To contact the NY-IRISH list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the NY-IRISH mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of NY-IRISH Digest, Vol 9, Issue 156 **************************************** -- Tony Mc Carthy