The 10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was formed in 1715, when it was known as Gore's Regiment of Dragoons. It was renamed the 10th Regiment of Dragoons in 1715 and, after two further name changes, became known as the 10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars. The regiment saw action during the Peninsular War, Crimean War, Second Anglo-Afghan War, Madhist War and Second Boer War and was subsequently stationed in India and South Africa. In October 1914, the regiment returned to Britain to join the British Expeditionary Force for service on the Western Front during the First World War. On its return to Britain in 1921, the Regiment was retitled The 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own). In October 1969, it amalgamated with the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) to form the Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own).
The 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons was a cavalry regiment in the British Army. It was first raised in 1689 as Sir Albert Cunningham's Regiment of Dragoons. It was renamed Echlin's Dragoons in 1691, 6th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Dragoons in 1751 and 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons in 1861. The regiment fought in the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 and also saw action at the Battle of Waterloo, the Crimean War, the Second Boer War and the on the Western Front during the First World War. In 1922, the regiment amalgamated with the 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon guard to form 5th/6th Dragoons in 1922.
Swythamley Historical Society (SHS) was founded on 1 September 2003 to promote interest in the history of the Swythamley Estate and the surrounding area of the Staffordshire Moorlands, north Staffordshire, on the Cheshire border in England.
For a full biography of Thomas Clarke, please refer to the Dictionary of Irish Biography, https://www.dib.ie/biography/clarke-thomas-james-tom-a1713.
Margaret ('Madge') Daly was born on 4 February 1877 as the second of the ten children of Edward Daly and Catherine O'Mara. Her siblings included Kathleen Daly, Mayor of Dublin and wife of the Irish revolutionary Thomas Clarke; and Edward ('Ned') Daly, commandant of Dublin's 1st battalion of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising and the youngest of the leaders executed in its aftermath. Margaret's father died in 1890, and six years later his brother, John Daly, assumed responsibility for the support of his widow and children. In May 1898 he established a bakery in Limerick city at 26 William Street, where several of his nieces worked.
When an auxiliary branch of the women’s nationalist organisation Cuman na mBan was established in Limerick on 5 June 1914, Margaret and her sisters became heavily involved in its activities. She was also actively involved in the planning of the Easter Rising. When her uncle died in 1916, Margaret inherited his bakery business and revealed herself to be an astute businesswoman. From the proceeds of the bakery she helped to support not only her sisters and their families but also the newly formed Volunteers. Her strong republican views subjected Margaret to repeated harassment by the military and the police, including the looting and burning of the bakery and the stopping of the bread van during delivery because of Gaelic lettering displayed on its side. Each time, she withstood the ordeal and successfully fought the authorities for compensation.
In the 1940s, Margaret relocated from Limerick to Dublin, where she died unmarried on 21 January 1969.
Patricia Durcan (née Cochrane) was born in Belfast and attended the Jim Johnson School of Dance in that city.
Siân Ferguson is a professional Labanotator, director, dancer, and choreographer. She trained at the Laban Centre for Dance in London, the City College of New York, and the Dance Notation Bureau in New York, completing an MA in Dance Research & Reconstruction in 1987 and a Professional Notator Certification in 1992. She has taught at Stanford University, SUNY Purchase, City College of New York, and Hofstra University and worked as Paul Taylor's Company Notator for five years. She has taught adults at Dance Theatre of Ireland and children at Encore! School of Performing Arts in Dublin, where she founded a programme in Tumbling for Tots. She is currently retired and living in the Bay Area of California.
Joan Denise Moriarty was a seminal character in the development of ballet in Ireland, both at amateur and professional levels. Little is known of her early life, including her date and place of birth. She was brought up in England and studied ballet in her youth with Marie Rambert. In 1933 her family returned to their native Mallow, where a year later Moriarty set up her first school of dance. In 1940, she established the Moriarty School of Dancing in Cork. She was also the founder of Cork Ballet Company (1947-1993) and Irish Theatre Ballet (1959-1964), which in 1963 merged with Patricia Ryan's National Ballet Company to form the short-lived National Ballet (1963-1964). The third ballet company associated with Moriarty was the Irish Ballet Company, later renamed Irish National Ballet, founded by the government in 1973 and financed by the Arts Council until 1989, when the funding was withdrawn and the company was forced to disband.
Moriarty was also a noted choreographer and drew inspiration from traditional Irish dance, a dance form in which she also excelled. Some of her best known ballets include Puck Fair (1948), The Children of Lír (1950), Papillons (1952), West Cork Ballad (1961), Devil to Pay (1962), Lugh of the Golden Arm (1977) and, perhaps most famously, The Playboy of the Western World (1978).
Joan Denise Moriarty continued her work with the Cork Ballet Company until the end of her life. She died in Dublin on 24 January 1992.
Dr Ruth Fleischmann was born in Cork in 1942 as the eldest of five children of the composer and conductor Aloys Fleischmann and his wife Anne née Madden. She graduated from University College Cork in 1963 and continued her studies at the German University of Tübingen. She was awarded a PhD by University College Cork in 1983. From 1981 until her retirement in 2007, Fleischmann held a lectureship in the English Department of the University of Bielefeld in Germany. She lives in Germany, has written extensively on Irish literature, and is the editor and author of several books on Joan Denise Moriarty and members of the Fleischmann family.