Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court, died over the weekend, triggering an American political crisis. But the first woman to sit on the court, Sandra Day O’Connor, is very much still alive, and celebrates the thirty-ninth anniversary of her confirmation, today, September 21st. O’Connor took to the bench in […]
On September 21st 1601 the Spanish landed in Kinsale Co Cork with some 4,000 men, took the town and awaited the arrival of the Gaelic chiefs from Ulster. With a fleet of twenty-eight, they occupied the port at Kinsale under the maestro de campo general, Don Juan del Águila. The ships were to be brought […]
RTÉ sought to restrict speech
Forty homes were burned out or badly damaged, including almost all of the main street of the town.
Robert Emmett was an Irish Republican and patriot, orator and rebel leader.
She was buried in a paupers plot in Glasnevin Cemetery
Profit over excellence
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.