The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Instanbul
Hunger strike ends
Recalling an interview with Dan Keating the last survivor of the Tan War
The Whiteboys (na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organisation which defended tenant farmer land rights for subsistence farming.
Last public Monster Meeting to be held
Good for people. Less good for wildlife.
John Devoy was an Irish nationalist leader and exile.
The political class might also remember some other timeless wisdom – absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Father of, well, many of us.
In the past, the presidency had some purpose.
French
Ashe took a major part in the 1916 Easter Rising