Talk:List of Irish Victoria Cross recipients

Bib entry from Irelands VCs

Irelands VCs (up for deletion as I write this) basically contains one bibliographic entry, and it might be useful to editors of this list:

"Irelands VC's" (ISBN 1 899243 003) Published in 1995 by the community development LTD research department. Sponsored by Department of Economic Development and the Cultural Traditions Group. Research Co-ordinator Tommy Kirkham.

I figured I'd leave it here for posterity because that article will probably not survive AfD. — mendel ☎ 17:30, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

List of 168 Irish-born Victoria Cross recipients

If any subscriber to Wikipedia know of any more VC recipients born in Ireland please add their names to this list adding their birth dates and places where born.

• The Irish Daily Star's Northern Political Columnist Dr John Coulter explores the campaign to have all 168 Irish-born Victoria Cross recipients honoured by the English Queen at a ceremony in Dublin's Collins Barracks. 12 November 2005.

Comments

It seems vaguely offensive that you refer to "the English Queen"--that's Sinn Fein talk; you could have said "Queen Elizabeth II of the UK" if you wished to keep some distance between you and her.

And it is particularly offensive that any such event would be held at [Michael] Collins Barracks. 70.19.52.19 23:25, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

true maybe it was a ceremony for a barracks of people refusing to agree to results of voting or of an army refusing to follow its government. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kindred of St. Columba (talk • contribs) 09:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I moved the above various misc comments from the article to here where they belong ... mervyn 08:57, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

interesting if one looks at "ranks" crosses until 1898 before SA War. People from one particular isle stick out, by far.

Linking

I have reverted the selective delinking of some countries and some wars to maintain consistency within this article and within the range of VC recipients articles. Why delink only some of the countries? The list then becomes inconsistent as you arbitrarily try to judge which countries and conflicts are well known, leaving some linked and some that are not. That leaves an ugly, inconsistent table. This has been discussed before within the FLC for this article and the others. Regards, Woody (talk) 01:50, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Please provide a link to the discussions you mention. The benefit of linking to any countries at all, even lesser-known ones, is questionable, since all but a few are immediately preceded by a more specific link, to the relevant town. And surely no-one will ever follow one of the repeated links to First World War or Second World War, so they have no value either. Could some of those valueless links be replaced by a link to an article on the specific battle/phase/theatre where the VC was earned? Colonies Chris (talk) 15:31, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

See the link to the FLC candidacy at the top of the page. David Underdown (talk) 16:12, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the response, but I can't find anything in the FLC discussion that covers this issue at all. Where exactly are you referring to? Colonies Chris (talk) 17:12, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

In fact, I see that the Australian and Canadian VC lists, which are also featured lists, don't link to conflicts or locations at all. Colonies Chris (talk) 19:01, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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Irish VCs by parentage & highest British honour

The first sentence should be amended to include, in addition to those born on the island of Ireland, Irish recipients who are considered Irish VCs by parentage. Already listed are a number of Irish VCs by parentage, some but not all noted in footnotes in the list. Jack Carroll VC could be included since both his parents were Irish born.

The second line ‘The Victoria Cross is the highest war honour of the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations’ should be amended to ‘The Victoria Cross is the highest war British honour, last awarded to Dominion and Indian forces in the Second World War with the exception of four awards to the Australia Army for Vietnam’. Anthony Staunton (talk) 01:55, 7 September 2021 (UTC)