FCA fifty years anniversary medal

Fuinseog

Does anyone know anything about this medal? i came across it recently when visiting a fellow collector.
who is entitled to wear it? Just ONE members or ayone who served in the FCA during 1946-96?
I think it was silver with a green ribbon. It may not have been offically issued at all.

HerrScheisse

Check the link below - is this the medal you mean?

http://irishmedals.org/gpage21.html

Irish medals are quite expensive and there are an awful lot of repros out there sold as originals. And it is very hard to tell the difference :mad:

Fuinseog

HerrScheisse wrote: »

Check the link below - is this the medal you mean?

http://irishmedals.org/gpage21.html

Irish medals are quite expensive and there are an awful lot of repros out there sold as originals. And it is very hard to tell the difference :mad:

it is. it seems to be unofficial.

its hard to get information on some Irish medals, although Jim Hogan brought out a book on them 20 years ago.

repros can be a problem. they is a crowd in Belfast selling repros of modern PDF badges and in Australia there is a developing market for fake 1916.

a service medal seem to retail at around 80 euro, which is not cheap, but they can be as rare as hens teeth.

irishuser69

50 year FCA medal is not an Irish army issued medal, its made up!!!! There is a new book (Oct 2010) on Irish Army medals. Worth a read if you can get it.

Fuinseog

irishuser69 wrote: »

50 year FCA medal is not an Irish army issued medal, its made up!!!! There is a new book (Oct 2010) on Irish Army medals. Worth a read if you can get it.

thanks for the input. Do you have details on the book?

danpatjoe

Fuinseog wrote: »

thanks for the input. Do you have details on the book?

Is this the one?

"MEDALS of the IRISH DEFENCE FORCES"
by BQMS Ger O'Connor HQ Bty, 54 FAR

Here's a pdf version of the book:
http://www.military.ie/dfhq/pubrel/publications/documents/Medals%20of%20the%20Irish%20Defence%20Forces.pdf

Fuinseog

the book is also available free of charge from the army. the exact address is in An Cosantoir.