Category: ON THIS DAY
ON THIS DAY: 10 MAY 1650: Battle of Macroom
And the murder of Baothnalach MacAodhagáin (Catholic Bishop of Ross) The Battle of Macroom was a...
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ON THIS DAY: The last words of Éamonn Ceannt, 1916 leader
On this Day: 8th May 1916, Éamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Seán Heuston and Cornelius Colbert were...
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ON THIS DAY: 4 May 1916: Poet and Revolutionary, was executed for his leadership of the Easter Rising
In her biography of the 1916 proclamation signatory, Joseph Plunkett, Honor O Brolchain tells a...
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ON THIS DAY: 4 MAY 1773 : Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill wrote the beautiful lament for her murdered husband Airt Uí Laoghaire
Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill c. 1743 — c. 1800, was an Irish noblewoman and poet, and the composer of...
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ON THIS DAY: 3 May 1916: Thomas MacDonagh, Leader in the 1916 Rising, was executed
Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary in 1878 to schoolteacher parents. His...
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OTD: 1 MAY 1984: Bás Joe Éinniú – The death of Joe Heaney, famed seannós singer
“There’s nobody living that can tell anyone where to put the grace notes,” Joe...
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ON THIS DAY: 25 APRIL 1681: Count Redmond O’Hanlon fatally shot by his step brother
Redmond O’Hanlon is often described as the ‘Irish Robin Hood’ or Scotland’s Rob Roy McGregor. Born...
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ON THIS DAY: 21 April 1916: Roger Casement captured at Banna Strand landing rifles for 1916 Rising
“It was in an English prison that they led him to his death. ‘I’m dying for my...
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ON THIS DAY: 10 April 1966: Kilmainham Gaol opens as a museum
Since the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising the men and the words that inspired the eventual...
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ON THIS DAY: EASTER MONDAY 1916: Easter Rising takes place
Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on...
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ON THIS DAY: 2 APRIL 1878: Lord Leitrim murdered on the way to Milford
When William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim inherited a vast estate from his father in...
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ON THIS DAY: 30 MARCH 1849, Doolough Tragedy
ON THIS DAY: 30TH MARCH 1849, Doolough Tragedy where a large crowd of starving people died on the...
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