More than 1,000 prisoners were killed within 20 hours.
A terrorist who now identifies as a woman wants a mitigated sentence for his gender dysphoria.
Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died on this day, September 1st, 1914. With her death, her kind became extinct. The passenger pigeon was driven to extinction by humans, and because they were so easy to catch. As recently as 1850, there were almost a million pigeons in North America. But the passenger pigeon was tasty, […]
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The cost in mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence and suicide is staggering.
On Tuesday evening, 24 August 2021, Minister for Defence Simon Coveney sent a number of Irish military personnel to Afghanistan to better coordinate the evacuation of the citizens and dependants of Ireland who want out of there. This followed an effective social and traditional media pressure campaign by Leinster House’s resident veterans—Deputy Dr Cathal Berry, […]
The Zulus never had an independent country again.
Revolt
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 […]
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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 […]
Mickey Devine was the last man to die on the hunger strike