This was one of the events which helped see the end of Gaelic Ireland
British embassy was burned down
Is sa Leabhar Breac a dtugtar an teideal ‘Muire na nGael’ uirthi.
Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, to Joseph McDonagh, a schoolmaster, and Mary Parker.
One of Ireland’s patron saints.
6 of those shot dead with 17 years old
Crotty is probably best known to the general public for the ‘Crotty judgement’ of 1987
An encounter between eight young volunteers from the 1st Battallion IRA and a large body of the Black and Tans took place at Tolka Bridge in Drumcondra on 21 January 1921 during the War of Independence. The volunteers set out to ambush the Royal Irish Constabulary patrol which used that road to travel from their […]
‘An Irishman in Antarctica’
‘The cost of food, fuel, lighting, and living expenses had all increased substantially and the Society are forced to make urgent…”
It was the intervention of Cardinal Manning that was perhaps the key factor in the workers gaining an important victory.
The mother of Bobby Sands MP died this day in 2018. She was 95. She was born in the Markets area of south Belfast in 1922 and her father died when she was just 12 years old. The young Rosaleen Kelly was set to emigrate to New Zealand, with a job lined up at the […]