She was Police Ombudsman from 1999 to 2007.
On this night, the Black and Tans burnt Cork City Centre with a devastating series of fires that swept through the city centre; looted businesses, assaulted firefighters and shot at the local population. The burning and the subsequent controversy is one of the most significant events of the Irish War of Independence; on the day […]
Centenary
It shows a large number of women defending a family from being evicted from their home for failure to pay rent.
ON THIS DAY: 3RD DECEMBER 1974: Maguire Seven charged with possessing materials for bomb making 40-year-old Irish born Anne Maguire, from North London, was convicted of possessing nitro-glycerine, which was then allegedly passed on for use to the IRA. Her husband, Patrick Maguire, 42 was also sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. Her two younger sons, […]
Known as the fastest field game in the world, a sliotar can top 93mph from a good strike. Hurling is also mentioned in the 11th/ 12th century Leabhar na hUidre, while further descriptions are to be found in 13th/14th century romantic tale Cath Mhaigh Tuireadh Chunga. This latter account details a very bloody hurling game […]
Desperate Mayo, Sligo families
Life through lens of the everyday
The Book of Kells contains lavishly decorated copy, in Latin, of the four gospels.
A photograph of the two brothers in their coffins, their bodies mutilated and burned, was taken by Tomás Ó hEighin, a local Irish teacher.
His surviving verses date from the period 565 and 604, and are among the earliest examples of Irish writing in the Latin alphabet.
The Irish Citizen Army was founded at the height of the Dublin Lockout of 1913 to protect strikers at their demonstrations from the police. Three years later it took part, alongside the Irish Volunteers, in the insurrection of Easter 1916. Its leader James Connolly along with his second, Michael Mallin, were executed for their part […]