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The National Day of Commemoration.
The day commemorates all Irishmen and Irishwomen who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations.
The date is the nearest Sunday to the anniversary of the signing of the 1921 Truce on 11 July.
For those of you who claim 'pride in being Irish' the question is.. were you even aware?
Thank you to those people of sceala for assisting me... in proudly showing this.
59,000 tours of duty, 85 lives lost, 74 missions, 50 years proud service.
The Origins of the Defence Forces
The Irish Volunteers, who gave us our official title, Óglaigh na hÉireann, as well as our cap-badge and buttons, was founded at a public meeting at the Rotunda Rooms in Dublin on 25 November 1913.
An original Volunteers brass badge dating from circa 1914. The inscription reads Drong Áṫa Cliaṫ (Drong Átha Cliath in modern orthography), Irish for 'Dublin Brigade', a variant name for the Dublin Volunteer Brigade.
The badge was designed in 1913 by Eoin MacNeill, a founding member and chairman of the Irish Volunteers. Variations existed for territorial commands, but the majority of volunteers wore the Óglaigh na hÉireann badge. It was worn by Republicans in the 1916 Easter Rising. It was rarely worn by the Irish Republican Army in the War of Independence as doing so could lead to a prison term.
In a surge of national feeling, eight thousand Irishmen from a wide cross-section of our people created 'by acclamation' an Irish Army. Its aims were threefold.
* To secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland.
* To train for this end, discipline, arm and equip a body of Irish Volunteers,
* To unite for this Purpose all Irishmen without distinction of creed, class or politics
Description
The design of the Army Badge which is prescribed in The Defence Force Regulations as follows:
"...As a component of rank insignia and which is specified in the Third Schedule as the form of the cap badge, shall be comprised of a sunburst - An Gal Gréine, surmounted by an 8-pointed star, a point of the star being uppermost, bearing the letters "FF" (in Gaelic characters) encircled by a representation of an ancient warrior's sword belt on which the words "Óglaigh na hÉireann" are inscribed."
Inscription
Commissioned Officer and Senior NCO bronze cap badge.
* "FF" - Fianna Fáil - Soldiers of Destiny
* "Óglaiġ na h-Éireann" - Irish Volunteers
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