Patron Saint of Cork City
Ashe took a major part in the 1916 Easter Rising
Born in the purple.
Got his sums right.
At 4 o clock on the night of the 22nd of September 1917 an explosion occurred at the Kynoch Cordite (a smokeless explosive) factory in Arklow which claimed the lives of 28 people and injured many more. The factory was established by a British industrialist and engineer in the 1890’s in Arklow’s North Beach area […]
Today, the 22nd September, marks the 102nd anniversary of the Rineen Ambush, which took place at Rineen Cross, halfway between Miltown Malbay and Lahinch in 1920.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court, died over the weekend, triggering an American political crisis. But the first woman to sit on the court, Sandra Day O’Connor, is very much still alive, and celebrates the thirty-ninth anniversary of her confirmation, today, September 21st. O’Connor took to the bench in […]
On September 21st 1601 the Spanish landed in Kinsale Co Cork with some 4,000 men, took the town and awaited the arrival of the Gaelic chiefs from Ulster. With a fleet of twenty-eight, they occupied the port at Kinsale under the maestro de campo general, Don Juan del Águila. The ships were to be brought […]
Forty homes were burned out or badly damaged, including almost all of the main street of the town.
Robert Emmett was an Irish Republican and patriot, orator and rebel leader.
She was buried in a paupers plot in Glasnevin Cemetery
The writings of Davis are still of interest, particularly as they relate to the relationships between national sovereignty and culture,