Pádraig Mac Piarais founded St. Enda’s (Scoil Éanna) in Rathfarnham.
Take that, Goliath.
Ballinamuck
Founder Frank Duff
Grace O’Malley (Gráinne Ní Mháille) demanded the release of her son, who had been imprisoned by Richard Bingham, Governor of Connacht.
The end of Gaelic Ireland
He is now regarded as the patron Saint of paediatricians.
Éamon De Valera
Rest in… something, anyway.
September 2nd is not a day, oddly, on which much of significance happened. It’s the calendar’s version of a slow news day. But on this day in 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States gave a speech to the Minnesota state fair, in which he uttered a phrase which has long outlived him […]
More than 1,000 prisoners were killed within 20 hours.
She is still a tourist attraction today