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AOH National Convention
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Thanks to the following Dooley Division brothers who represented us this past weekend at the biennial national convention in Pittsburgh....
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(forgive me if our on-the-spot scout missed anyone)
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100 Years Ago This Week In The Irish Civil War
18 July Battle of Waterford…Anti-Treaty garrison is the Flying Column headed by George Lemon
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20 July Bad day for Anti-Treaty forces. Limerick & Waterford both fall.
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Anti-Treaty head south from Limerick...into the mountains from Waterford City
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Prime Minister Craig of Northern Ireland issues statement endorsing Michael Collins’ (Free State) efforts to “bring peace to the South and West”
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24 July Naval landing of 400 Free State troops in Westport (Mayo) quays
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Anti-Treaty fighters ambush a prison train in Wexford, freeing prisoners
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Irish Free State Gen. John T. Prout, emigrated to US as a child, fought in WWI w/Fighting 69th & returned to Ireland to train IRA troops in War of Independence & lead the southeast command for Pro-Treaty forces
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In Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity,
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