Father of, well, many of us.
French
Patron Saint of Cork City
Ashe took a major part in the 1916 Easter Rising
Born in the purple.
Got his sums right.
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 […]
4,000 men
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