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Dates for your diary:
13 July 2014 - National Day of
Commemoration - Royal Hospital
Kilmainham, Dublin
19 July to 23 August 2014 - Ceremonial Guard
- Merrion Square Memorial, Dublin
20 July 2014 - Defence Forces Race Day @
The Curragh Racecourse, Kildare
20 July 2014 - bray Air Show, Co Wicklow
2 September 2014 - Defence Forces veterans'
Day, Curragh Camp, Co Kildare
8 October 2014 - An Cosantóir 10K Road Race
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Award winning historian, author and poet, Airman Michael J. Whelan,
2nd place winner of the Patrick Kavanagh International Poetry Award 2011, 3rd place
winner of the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Awards (poetry) 2012, author of The Battle
of Jadotville: Irish Soldiers in Combat in the Congo, 1961 and Allegiances Compromised: Ex
British Soldiers in the Irish Army 1913-24. He served as peacekeeper in both Lebanon and
Kosovo in the mid 90s. He is now the curator of the Air Corps Museum and Heritage
Project and has recently had some poems published in the Galway Review Literary
Journal, http://thegalwayreview.com/2013/02/07/michael-j-whelan-three-poems/ and
five poems on peacekeeping published in the Three Monkey's Online Magazine, http://
www.threemonkeysonline.com/author/michael-j-whelan
To see more of his work visit his website: www.michaeljwhelan.wordpress.com
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