UCC Historical Society
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The Official Facebook page for the UCC Historical Society. Recognition at UCC Society Awards 2012:
"Best Week-long Event" for UCC History Week 2012
"Runner-up Best Collaborative Event" for 90th Anniversary Re-enactment of the Anglo-Irish Treaty Debates
"Runner-up Most Improved Society" 2012
Shortlisted for "Best Academic Society" and "Best Small Society" 2012
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facebook.comIrish Soldiers in the Battle of the Somme - Department of Taoiseach
On the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, we note the Irish contribution to what was one of the bloodiest battles in human history. Over a million died when the combined British and French forces clashed with German lines in northern France. Of the dead, at least 3,500 were Irish soldiers. http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/Historical_Information/1916_Commemorations/Irish_Soldiers_in_the_Battle_of_the_Somme.html
Battle of the Somme: Queen leads centenary remembrance events - BBC News
Today marks the centenary of the beginning of one of the bloodiest and largest battles in history - the Battle of the Somme. Well over one million people were killed or wounded throughout the course of what was the largest engagement on the Western Front during the First World War... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36674451