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Incidentally Paul,
If you are looking at Irish regiments, I would always buy a medal actually named to an Irishman, rather than another particular man, who was not, easy with the infantry, less so, with the cavalry.
Regards again Frank

Hello Frank,

Impressive ancestry indeed, Connaught's R.I.R. and the Royal Munsters if I am correct?
Thank you for your thoughts and comments.
I agree with this "I think if you were born in the gutter then it is quite right and proper to not want to stay there, so I would use the word magnificent, up to a point at least! "

Cheers
Paul

Frank Kelley wrote: Hello Paul,
There has always been a little something extra for collectors with all the British Armies Irish regiments, I've never fully understood why this was, at the period in question here, the golden age, they were merely thousand man battalions like the others, moreover, there is, so often, these days, certainly "something extra" when it comes to paying for them too.
Having said that, I myself, am ultimately Irish too and in both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a few of my own ancestors served in The Devils Own, The Faugh a Ballagh Boys and rather strangely, given where we were from, even one in The Dirty Shirts.
Some people would say they were just wretched mercenaries, doubtless, others might use the word traitor, for me, well, I think if you were born in the gutter then it is quite right and proper to not want to stay there, so I would use the word magnificent, up to a point at least!
Kind regards Frank

coldstream wrote: Forum members,

While assessing my collecting goals for 2015 I realised a big gap in my medal collection was examples of Irish Regiments.
The only example in my collection is www.angloboerwar.com/forum/5-medals-and-...-irish-regiment#6379
Browsing through the medal dealers websites they do seem to be less abundant.
My obvious thought is that the Irish Regiments were not as numerous as others, would this make the cost, which seem to be a premium relevant.
Are the Irish Regiments more sought after which makes them scarcer on the market or is it because I have not searched for them before.
Your thoughts and comments welcome.

Cheers
Paul

Good point Frank and duly noted

Cheers
Paul

Frank Kelley wrote: Incidentally Paul,
If you are looking at Irish regiments, I would always buy a medal actually named to an Irishman, rather than another particular man, who was not, easy with the infantry, less so, with the cavalry.
Regards again Frank

I have been corresponding with a person the UK, who is compiling a biography of her grandfather. The last few e-mails exchanged brought up the subject of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, so I sent her the pic below that comes from David's Talana book. Unfortunately for me, the medals are not in my collection, but are with a collector elsewhere in Durban.

Regards
Brett

Brett
What a great group; I could envy that!
Regards
IL.

Ian, echoed

Paul

LinneyI wrote: Brett
What a great group; I could envy that!
Regards
IL.