Local Studies Department

WORLD WAR I: Chapter 2 - The Home Front

• Kildare County Council
  Minutes from 1913 to 1920 show that its quarterly meeting agendas were dominated not by issues of war but those of rural and urban development...
• National Relief Fund
  A National Relief Fund was set up in early August, 1914, by the Prince of Wales; various individuals around Ireland were selected to raise money...
• Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association
  The S.S.F.A., a long-standing organisation set up to look after and provide for the families of all Branches of the services, Naval and Military...
• Royal Dublin Fusiliers
  Stationed in Naas, had the most direct effect on the lives of Kildare men and women as most within the Regiment were natives of Co. Kildare...
• Prisoners of War
  A dispatch from the German War Office in March 1915 relayed details of a uniform rule laid down for all Prisoner of War Camps...
• Belgian Refugees
  In December 1914 twenty two wounded Belgian soldiers arrived in Celbridge Union and were housed in the workhouse there...