3655 The Irish Sword. The Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland
Volume XXVI. Number 105. Summer 2009. €15.00
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Detail from the Trinity College painting of the battle of Kinsale facing page 241
Towards a new interpretation of the Nine Years’ War by Eoin Ó Néill 241
The battle of Kinsale and other military associations with the Library of Trinity College, Dublin by Kenneth Ferguson 263
George Matthews: a County Down gentleman turned soldier by Ivan F. Nelson 287
The Waterloo Priest: The Reverend William O’Donnell, formerly Ensign William O’Donnell, XXth (East Devonshire) Foot by Richard Doherty 297
Remembering Eric Lambert (1909-96) by Laragh Neelin 301
The Rifles Battalion in Bolivar’s army, 1818-30 by Moises Enrique Rodríguez 307
Daniel O’Connor’s account of the 1st Light Infantry Regiment of the Irish Legion intended for Venezuela, 1819-1820 by René Chartrand 321
Operation Sandstone –– a story of British and Irish post-war co-operation by Guy Warner 325
Notes: Unfit for Duty at Peking in November 1862: ‘Old Jerry the Piper’; Serious military disturbances in Athlone [1902]; Return of the South Cork Militia: Skibbereen Brass Band refuses to turn out 343
Query: [315] Lord Clare (1797) on the ‘mad Methodist’ and ‘other military exotics’ 348
Book Reviews 351
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