Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, to Joseph McDonagh, a schoolmaster, and Mary Parker.
Easter Rising leaders: Pádraig Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by a firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol.
“There’s nobody living that can tell anyone where to put the grace notes,” Joe Éinniú once told an interviewer. The best songs had to be learned over years of listening, and sung with great passion and deep feeling. He preferred the laments – Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire, Anach Chuain, Úna Bhán – the great Conamara […]
Spectacular hoard
“You must not grieve for all this. We have preserved Ireland’s honour and our own”
A British inquiry did not recommend charges and the killings were largely forgotten given the scale of the Rising deaths.
Sa bhliain 2000, vótáladh Nagle mar Bhean Éireannach na Mílaoise, “mar aitheantas ar a tábhacht mar cheannródaí in oideachas na mban in Éirinn.”
The Count was offered a pardon from all his crimes by the Anglican Bishop of Meath, Bishop Jones, if he testified against the Catholic priests.
The story of Roger Casement’s landing and capture at Banna Strand in Kerry as he attempted to bring arms ashore for the 1916 Rising, is commemorated in the famed ballad Banna Strand.
Start of ‘gigantic’ movement
Joseph Plunket and Grace Gifford married just hours before he was executed in the Stone-breakers’ Yard on the morning of 4 May 1916.
When William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim inherited a vast estate from his father in 1854 he became a controlling landlord and bullying tyrant.