William Hickie
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Major-General Sir William Bernard Hickie,, FRGS was an Irish-born senior British Army officer and an Irish nationalist politician.
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Cardinal Francis Bourne, the Head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and Major-General Hickie, GOC 16th (Irish) Division, inspecting troops of the 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers at Ervillers, France, 27 October 1917.
Major-General Hickie
National Volunteers
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The National Volunteers were the majority faction of the Irish Volunteers that sided with Irish Parliamentary Party leader John Redmond after the movement split over the question of the Volunteers' ro
William Hickie
…appointment which required the professionalism and political awareness Hickie, fortunately, possessed as the division was formed around a core of Irish National Volunteers in response to Sir Edward Carson's Ulster Volunteers. He was much more diplomatic and tactful than his predecessors and spoke of the pride which his…
1914 recruitment poster for the National Volunteers
Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony ("The O'Mahony of Kerry"), a nationalist, was member of the Irish Recruiting Council during World War I