The Land War of the early 1880s was about to be renewed after evictions increased and outrages became widespread.
Founded by Charles Gavin Duffy, Thomas Davis & John Blake Dillon
Margarethe Zelle, known to history as Mata Hari, was executed by firing squad by the French Government on this day, October 15th, 1917, after admitting to being a spy for the German Empire. She is one of history’s best known spies. An exotic dancer and courtesan, Zelle was born in the Netherlands in 1876. She […]
Fr. O’Shea’s family had been evicted from their own home when he was a baby himself.
The Battle of Hastings, which decided the fate of England, was fought on this day, October 14th, 1066, between the Anglo Saxon forces of the English King Harold Godwineson, and the Norman army of the Pretender, William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy. The battle ended with a decisive victory for William, and the death of […]
Msgr. Pádraig de Brún was born in Grangemockler, Tipperary in October 1889. His father was a school teacher and the young Pádraig was an excellent student, talented with many natural gifts. He was especially interested in the history of Ireland and the Gaelic language. He was particularly good and excelled at maths and studied it […]
Parnell’s newspaper, the United Ireland, attacked the Land Act and he was arrested together with his party lieutenants, William O’Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt and Willie Redmond. They were imprisoned under a proclaimed Coercion Act in Kilmainham Gaol for “sabotaging the Land Act”, from where the No Rent Manifesto, which Parnell and the others […]
Mass hunger strike of 7,000 republican prisoners begins after Civil War
Assistance to the O’Neill
Kuno Meyer was a German scholar who as an expert in Celtic philogoy and literature and a pioneering scholar of old Irish. He edited and translated scripts and documents which made him the chief interpreter of early Irish literature for English and German readers. He founded and edited four journals devoted to Celtic Studies, published […]
Following a Catholic uprising in 1641, Cromwell and the New Model Army set sail to Ireland to defeat this coalition and reclaim Ireland for parliament. This proved to be a bloody and brutal affair, forever remembered for a series of controversial massacres. The Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland had begun, which included the destruction of Drogheda […]
A black day in Saxon history.