He is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla urged Mexicans to rise up against the Spanish-born ruling class.
ON THIS DAY: 15TH SEPTEMBER 1928
He was a man who wanted the youth of America to live in a country where they could speak their opinions unafraid.
A mistake, in retrospect.
The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence, Scottish rebel William Wallace and others defeated the English at Stirling Bridge.
“Quinctilius Varus, where are my eagles?!!” is what Brian Blessed’s Emperor Augustus exclaims, in the BBC Classic “I Claudius”, upon hearing of the battle of the Teutoburg forest, which took place on this day, September 9th, 9AD. The battle was the most catastrophic defeat the Roman Empire would suffer for several centuries. Three Legions, and […]
Millions either died or emigrated as a result of the catastrophic failures of the authorities
Pádraig Mac Piarais founded St. Enda’s (Scoil Éanna) in Rathfarnham.
Government collapse
Take that, Goliath.
It is not the job of the Garda Commissioner to make the laws – merely to enforce them.