Today, the 22nd September, marks the 102nd anniversary of the Rineen Ambush, which took place at Rineen Cross, halfway between Miltown Malbay and Lahinch in 1920.
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 […]
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Legal immigration
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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.
Irish politicians didn’t want the figures released. Now we have them. 42% of the households on Dublin City Council’s social housing list are non-Irish. Ben Scallan reacts.
She was buried in a paupers plot in Glasnevin Cemetery
He is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla urged Mexicans to rise up against the Spanish-born ruling class.
Is the gravy-train losing its wheels?