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John and Michael Walker, Olympic revolutionaries

Qualitymark · 2014-01-13 10:15:04

Crosslinking here to get wider coverage - I'm trying to find out a little more about John and Michael Walker, who represented Ireland (officially, Great Britain, but they didn't believe that for a moment) in the 1912 Olympics as cyclists, and who fought in 1916 in Jacob's.…

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13-01-2014 11:15am

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Crosslinking here to get wider coverage - I'm trying to find out a little more about John and Michael Walker, who represented Ireland (officially, Great Britain, but they didn't believe that for a moment) in the 1912 Olympics as cyclists, and who fought in 1916 in Jacob's.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=88444032#post88444032

I'd like to find out more about them; Michael Walker is interviewed in the Bureau of Military History collection, but John isn't.

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History Ireland devoted a whole issue to the Olympics in the middle of 2012, including an article on the Irish cycling team at Stockholm in 1912, using Irish manufactured bikes.

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feargale wrote: »

History Ireland devoted a whole issue to the Olympics in the middle of 2012, including an article on the Irish cycling team at Stockholm in 1912, using Irish manufactured bikes.

http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/cycling-spokes-and-political-strokes/

Thanks, Feargaele.

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