His life was much shorter, he having died in March 1964 at the age of 41.
Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of Crossbarry
St Patrick is now one of the world’s best known Catholic figures
22 other young men joined the hunger strike and 10 men died.
Great cruelty during Famine
On this day
Thomas Clarke was born in Hampshire in the UK to Irish parents.
He was involved in the establishment of the Irish Manuscripts Commission in 1928.
There were Five demands that the prisoners were looking for.
The Fenian Rising of 1867 nó Éirí Amach na bhFíníní was a rebellion against British rule in Ireland, organised by the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
“There were two classes of charitable people; one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all”
ON THIS DAY: 4TH MARCH is shared by 3 famous people connected with Irish freedom, whose birthdays occurred on this day.