Collection of 5468 signatures of Irish children from northern counties in support of Polish children
This little book is more Famous Five than parenting manifesto
The Zulus never had an independent country again.
Revolt
China is looking at a massive shift in its demographics over the next few decades as the fallout of the one child policy works its way through China’s economy and Chinese society.
Several interesting things happened on August 25th. Most prominently, the date saw the liberation of Paris by the Allies in 1944. But that tale pales into insignificance beside the story of Hugh Glass and the Grizzly Bear. Hugh Glass was an American frontiersman, who lived most of his life in that lawless wilderness of the […]
The rulers of the world’s biggest country are running scared
Richard de Clare, nicknamed Strongbow invaded Ireland to continue the earlier Norman invasion of 1169. Diarmait Mac Murchada was ousted as king of Leinster by a coalition led by the High King, Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair. He fled Ireland and sought military assistance as he wanted to be King of Leinster, and ultimately Ireland, but had to […]
Attacking Pornhub’s credit card facilities is a stroke of genius by activist Laila Mickelwait
Mickey Devine was the last man to die on the hunger strike
Paul Ehrlich’s theory about the “population bomb” is going the way of the Dodo
In 1874, a letter was sent to John Devoy, a leader with the Fenian Irish Republican Brotherhood who was living in exile in the USA. He was planning a rebellion in Ireland when informers altered the British authorities and Devoy was arrested, convicted of treason and sentenced to 15 years labour on the Isle of […]