He made the point that Irish nationalists had no need of Marxists to whom nationalism is anathema, to educate them on anything.
He was uncle to a prominent fenian Peter O’Neill who was born two years earlier in 1832.
The Church was anathema to local loyalists and had been attacked in earlier assaults on the Short Strand in the 1920s.
A cartoon was circulated 1887 by John Fergus O’Hea, a highly regard political cartoonist, to mark the occasion of Queen Victoria’s jubilee celebrating the 50th anniversary of her reign.
June 20 marks a strange anniversary in Irish history.
Secret Catholic societies against colonialism in Ireland
Armed with poles and boiling water
Battle of the Boyne
This day 103 years ago – 8 June 1917 – an explosion in a copper mine in Butte, Montana, resulted in the death of 168 miners.
Though he has not been formally recognized as a saint, Talbot may be considered a patron of those struggling with alcoholism and addiction
Ó Néill was a Gaelic Irish soldier and one of the most famous of the O’Neill dynasty of Ulster in Ireland.
Far from being censured for the massacre, Duff upon his arrival in Dublin the following day, was feted as a hero by the British establishment who honoured him with a victory parade