1902-1909They recruited William Evans ( Read more... )

Cremona

[The French Army, including a part of the Irish Brigade, under Marshal Villeroy, held the fortified town of Cremona during the winter of 1702 ( Read more... )

H.M.S. Foudroyant

[Being an humble address to Her Majesty's Naval advisers, who sold Nelson's old flagship to the Germans for a thousand pounds.]Who says the Nation's purse is lean ( Read more... )

Christmas In War-Time

1916
Cheer oh, comrades, we can bide the blast
And face the gloom until it shall grow lighter.
What though one Christmas should be overcast,
If duty done makes all the others brighter.

1917
THE LAST LAPWe seldom were quick off the mark ( Read more... )

Sir Nigel's Song A sword! A sword! Ah, give me a sword ( Read more... )

The Song of the BowWhat of the bow ( Read more... )

Now then, Smith!

Twas on Messina's day of wrath,
When one wild morning laid her low,
On either side of that gray path
The cinder piles were still aglow.
Down it there sauntered Skipper Wise,
The Master of the Roderic DhuAnd at his heels, with wondering eyes ( Read more... )

The Guards Came ThroughMen of the Twenty-first ( Read more... )

The Irish Colonel

Said the king to the colonel,
"The complaints are eternal,
That you Irish give more trouble
Than any other corps."

Said the colonel to the king,
"This complaint is no new thing,
For your foemen, sire, have made it
A hundred times before."

By Arthur Conan Doyle

ComradesYou can read their names in the list of games ( Read more... )