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Harry Rice
Though born in Portarlington in 1894 Harry Rice was closely
identified with Athlone. He was educated at Enniskillen and
Trinity College where he qualified as a doctor. He served with
the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I and later as
Port Embarkation Officer in Brussels. Following
his release from the British Army he joined the Indian Army
where he served for a further twenty-five years.
He had a close relationship with Athlone as two of his sisters
had married Chapman brothers of Athlone Printing Works. In 1922
he married his first wife, Lillian Geoghegan, a daughter of
the proprietor of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Athlone. After
her death in 1951 he married Cynthia MacWeeney. |
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Harry Rice retired to Athlone and wrote a weekly column for The Westmeath
Independent. He was a founder member of the Inland Waterway Association
of Ireland and the author of a classic book on the Shannon "Thanks
for the memory" originally published in 1952 and reprinted a
number of times since.
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