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 […]
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It is considered to be, one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history.
Glaisne Ó Cuilleanáin was born in a family in Connaught remarkable for its piety.
Following the surrender Plunkett was held in Kilmainham Gaol, and faced a court martial.
On this day in 1920, the body of Fr Michael Griffin was found dumped in a shallow grave in Cloghscoltia near Barna in Co Galway. The popular priest, who was serving in the parish of Rahoon was known as being a zealous supporter of the republican cause and was believed to have been targeted because […]
The dismissial of tAthair Micheál Ó hIcí in 1909 ended in a Tribunal in Rome
He was captured in Buncrana on 3 November 1798
Willie James Pearse – Uilliam Seamus Mac Piarais – was an Irish republican executed for his part in the Easter Rising. He was a younger brother of Pádraig, a leader of the rising; Willie was very devoted to Pádraig and the brothers had a very close relationship. Pearse inherited his father’s artistic abilities and became […]
Father Griffin Road in Galway is named after the priest
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