Many were from the vanished tribe of Catholic ‘loyalists’ who saw no contradiction between their faith, desire for Home Rule and loyalty to the British Empire
Fr Francis Gleeson depicted giving"general absolution" to Royal Munster Fusiliers on the eve of battle in 1915 by Italian artist Fortunino Mataniapublished a Roll of Honour of its students, staff and alumni who served in what would become known as thewere created in 1845 “to afford a university education of members of all religious denominations” in Ireland and as an alternative to the
He described them as “the medical specialists, fashionable dentists, barristers, solicitors, wholesale tea and wine merchants, owners of large drapery stores and a very few owners or directors of large business firms”. Names of members of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on a memorial at Thiepval in France include that of former MP Tom Kettle
He later recalled the ambiguities and competing loyalties of the time: “My generation in Maynooth embraced the ideals of Easter Week 1916 with 100 per cent fervour. That did not prevent us from become chaplains in the British army. Hence, when in 1917, Cardinal Logue issued a special appeal for Irish chaplains, I volunteered. And I went off to France with the blessing and the encouragement of every friend I had in advanced Sinn Féin circles in Dublin.
NUI women were among those engaged on the home front. Mary Donovan O’Sullivan, who was appointed the first professor of history at University College Galway, chaired the Galway Ladies Recruitment Committee. Alice Perry graduated from Queen’s College Galway in 1906 with a Bachelor in Engineering, the first woman in Ireland or Britain to qualify as an engineer. Perry spent the war in England and Scotland serving as a factory inspector.
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