Centenary
Known as the fastest field game in the world, a sliotar can top 93mph from a good strike.
It shows a large number of women defending a family from being evicted from their home for failure to pay rent.
North London
Desperate Mayo, Sligo families
Life through lens of the everyday
A photograph of the two brothers in their coffins, their bodies mutilated and burned, was taken by Tomás Ó hEighin, a local Irish teacher.
His surviving verses date from the period 565 and 604, and are among the earliest examples of Irish writing in the Latin alphabet.
The Irish Citizen Army was founded at the height of the Dublin Lockout of 1913 to protect strikers at their demonstrations from the police.
On this day
It is considered to be, one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history.
Following the surrender Plunkett was held in Kilmainham Gaol, and faced a court martial.