What is driving the rise in the numbers of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men?
ON THIS DAY: 12 OCTOBER 1645: Archbishop Rinuccini arrives in Ireland to offer assistance to O’Neill and the Irish Confederate Catholics in their war against English Protestant rule He wrote this letter to his brother, describing the Irish he met: “The men are fine-looking and of incredible strength, swift runners, and ready to bear every […]
Following a Catholic uprising in 1641, Cromwell and the New Model Army set sail to Ireland to defeat this coalition and reclaim Ireland for parliament. This proved to be a bloody and brutal affair, forever remembered for a series of controversial massacres. The Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland had begun, which included the destruction of Drogheda […]
Kuno Meyer was a German scholar who as an expert in Celtic philogoy and literature and a pioneering scholar of old Irish. He edited and translated scripts and documents which made him the chief interpreter of early Irish literature for English and German readers. He founded and edited four journals devoted to Celtic Studies, published […]
Charles the Great, known to history as Charlemagne, was crowned King of the Franks on this day, October 9th, 768AD. As King, he would go on, over the next 32 years, to unite most of Europe, and found the Holy Roman Empire. Successive wars brought the Kingdom of Lombardy (modern Italy) under his control, and […]
‘Follow the science’ is not a scientific attitude
“An apology and clarification from RTÉ is much needed for the Polish community”: Anna Sochańska, Polish Ambassador to Ireland
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100% redress, Donegal Protestors march on Dublin Streets, Dublin, 8th October 2021
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ON THIS DAY: 8TH OCTOBER 1974: SEÁN MACBRIDE became the first Irish person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize MacBride was born in Paris in 1904 and remained ther until his father’s execution after the Easter Rising of 1916, when he was sent to school at Mount St Benedict’s, Gorey. In 1919, aged 15, […]
Acceptance of the notion that gender identity is a mental, rather than a biological, state has advanced the interests of a tiny proportion of males.