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The Murder of Private Daly
In 1793, England needed soldiers to support a war with France. On Oct 3, they advertised in the Connaught Journal for volunteers to start a British Army regiment to be called the Royal Regiment of Connaught Rangers. That advertisement became an invitation to death for thousands of men of the Irish west who gained fame on international battlefields as the Connaught Rangers. It was a time when military service provided the only steady employment an Irishman could find that offered an escape from the serfdom of tenant farm life. Between Nov 1793 and Mar 1794, 30,000 Irish enlisted in the … [Read more...] about The Murder of Private Daly