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A month to St Patrickâs Day and Irelandâs diaspora around the world are warming themselves up to play the roles handed them by central casting in Dublin.
Welcome: Irish emigrants in Auckland missing Tayto crisps and Barryâs tea on Twitter; also welcome are emigrantsâ young children on TikTok, Riverdancing in Reading and Reykjavik.
Less welcome: critical artists like John Buckley McQuaid. His new album, This Is Where I Keep My Dreams, released this week on all digital platforms, is a tough love letter to a place and people he left for Denmark in 1973, but has never escaped.
Mystery of Patrick Sarsfield’s grave may finally be solved Independent.ie 16/02/2021 Allison Bray
Officials from France and Belgium believe they may have solved the mystery of the final resting place of Irish war hero Patrick Sarsfield after more than three centuries.
Sarsfield, the First Earl of Lucan, was killed during the August 29, 1693 Battle of Landen or Neerwinden in Belgium during the Nine Year’s War but his remains have never been found.
An estimated 12,000 Jacobite soldiers and their families fled to France from Ireland under Sarsfield’s command following the siege of Limerick in 1691 as part of the terms agreed under the Treaty of Limerick.
Major breakthrough in search for Patrick Sarsfield s remains
Campaigners in Limerick believe they may have finally found the burial site of the 1st Earl of Lucan
Last November, Dr Loïc Guyon, the Honorary Consul of France in Limerick, wrote to the Mayor of Huy to request his assistance in trying to locate Sarsfield’s burial site.
Tue, 16 Feb, 2021 - 11:00
Steven Heaney
Campaigners searching for the remains of Patrick Sarsfield believe they may have found the 1st Earl of Lucan’s burial site.
In the aftermath of the signing of the Treaty of Limerick in 1691, Sarsfield, along with some 15,000 Irish Jacobite soldiers went into exile in France.
Breakthrough in search for Sarsfield s remains
Updated / Tuesday, 16 Feb 2021
16:29
Patrick Sarsfield is believed to have been buried on the grounds of Saint Martin s church in the Belgian town of Huy
Mid West Correspondent
A group seeking to locate the remains of Patrick Sarsfield, the famous historical figure who led the Jacobite army in the siege of Limerick in 1691, have had a breakthrough in their search and efforts to repatriate the remains to Limerick.
The Sarsfield Homecoming Project was launched last October by the organisers of the Limerick Bastille Day Wild Geese Festival with the aim of locating the remains of the First Earl of Lucan and bring them to Ireland.