He is now regarded as the patron Saint of paediatricians.
Éamon De Valera
Rest in… something, anyway.
September 2nd is not a day, oddly, on which much of significance happened. It’s the calendar’s version of a slow news day. But on this day in 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States gave a speech to the Minnesota state fair, in which he uttered a phrase which has long outlived him […]
More than 1,000 prisoners were killed within 20 hours.
She is still a tourist attraction today
He came to the throne at the age of nine months.
A bear-ly believable encounter
The arrival of Strongbow was described in the Annals of Ulster as “the beginning of the woes of Ireland”.
Changed small County Mayo village forever
It has been called the most daring prison escape in history, the news sparked celebrations in Ireland and the US.
The so-called “hardest day” battle was fought, as part of the battle of Britain.