Dates for your Diary 2024
UK
15 June Leinster Regimental Association AGM & lunch – London
16 June CIROCA – Cenotaph Parade, Whitehall
Sunday 3 November 3pm – Royal Irish Regiment Service of Remembrance, St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast.
Thursday 7 November 2024 – The Poppy Field of Remembrance, Westminster Abbey.
Sunday November 10 – Remembrance Sunday.
IRELAND
Saturday 13 July – RBL(RoI) – Wreath laying ceremony, Islandbridge, Dublin
Sunday 14 July – 10.30 am National Day of Commemoration, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin
Wednesday 31 July – Opening of Leinster Regiment display at Birr Library
Saturday 10 August – 10 am AGM – Birr Civic Offices.
Followed by Lecture on the Connaught Rangers mutiny and the Birr connection.
Wreath laying ceremony in Crinkle.
Dates for your Diary 2023
2023 Events
10 June Leinster Regimental Association lunch – London
11 June CIROCA – Cenotaph Parade, Whitehall
Saturday 12th August 2023.
10.30hrs: AGM. Birr Theatre.
11.30hrs: Talk on “The Leinsters in Victoria Barracks, Cork” given by Gerry White.
13.15hrs: Crinkhill – Wreath Laying, Exhortation, Silence and Reveille.
9 November Field of Remembrance – Westminster Abbey, London.
11 November Remembrance Day.
12 November Remembrance Sunday
2022 Events
11 June Leinster Regimental Association lunch – London
12 June Disbanded Irish Regiments service – St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.
12 June CIROCA – Cenotaph Parade, Whitehall.
9 July Annual Ceremony of Remembrance & Wreath Laying – Islandbridge, Ireland.
7 August OGM (Ireland), wreath laying – Birr Vintage Week (see below for more details)
10 (tbc) November Field of Remembrance – Westminster Abbey, London.
11 November Remembrance Day.
13 November Remembrance Sunday
19 November Joint meeting – LRA and Western Front Association – details below.
Sunday 7th August 2022.
10.30hrs: LRA Ireland AGM. Birr Theatre.
11.30hrs: Talk on the life and exploits of Martin O’Meara VC, AIF, given by Gerry O’Meara.
12.30hrs: Informal lunch in The Thatch, Crinkill. (Booking through Denis Kirby is essential)
14.30hrs: Colour parties and parade assemble.
15.00hrs: Welcome Address by LRA Chairman, Lt-Col Mark Weldon followed by responses from the principal guests.
15.30hrs: Addresses by Brian Kennedy on the disbandment of the Leinster Regiment and by Stephen Callaghan on the handing over of Crinkill Barracks to the Irish Army.
16.00hrs: Wreath Laying, Exhortation, Past Post, Silence and Reveille.
16.15hrs: The Blessing followed by the march off.
16.30hrs: Conclusion of events.
Saturday 19th November
14.00hrs: Joint Leinster Regiment Association /Dublin Western Front Association meeting
Location: Pearse Street Public Library, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2
Topic: Martin Moffatt VC and the Liberation of Ledegem Presented by Denis Kirby.