Life through lens of the everyday
The Book of Kells contains lavishly decorated copy, in Latin, of the four gospels.
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.
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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.
Glaisne Ó Cuilleanáin was born in a family in Connaught remarkable for its piety.
He was captured in Buncrana on 3 November 1798
The dismissial of tAthair Micheál Ó hIcí in 1909 ended in a Tribunal in Rome
Willie was very devoted to Pádraig and the brothers had a very close relationship.