St. Ultan was the Bishop of Ardbraccan, near Navan, in Meath in the seventh century. His feast day is the 4th September. His life and death is recorded in most of the Annals and in the Martyrology of Aengus. Ardbraccan (Irish “Hill of Breacan”) is an ancient place of Christian worship taking its name possibly from a […]
The end of Gaelic Ireland
Oliver Cromwell, the butcher of Drogheda, died on this day in 1658, having suffered a painful end from a urinary tract infection that caused blood poisoning. Three years after he died, his body was exhumed and ceremonially hanged in chains, and then thrown into a pit, so that his enemies could be sure that he […]
A combination of arrogance and indifference is proving fatal to Western interests
More than 1,000 prisoners were killed within 20 hours.
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Sybil and Feidelm
Henry VI of England came to the throne on this day, August 31st, 1422, at the age of nine months. His disastrous reign would last 39 years, until it ended with the wars of the roses. His father, Henry V, was amongst the great English Kings, finally unifying the thrones of England and France, which […]
Transgender orthodoxy is stifling free speech.
Irish missionary tradition
Jaushieh Joseph Wu, the the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan, discusses Taiwan’s hope to be a force for good in the world.