Orange Order parade
He made the point that Irish nationalists had no need of Marxists to whom nationalism is anathema, to educate them on anything.
He was uncle to a prominent fenian Peter O’Neill who was born two years earlier in 1832.
The Church was anathema to local loyalists and had been attacked in earlier assaults on the Short Strand in the 1920s.
For the day of what Seamus Heaney described as “the final conclave.”
June 20 marks a strange anniversary in Irish history.
Secret Catholic societies against colonialism in Ireland
Armed with poles and boiling water
Having been crowned King of England, Scotland, and Ireland some 14 months earlier, on April 11th, 1689, William III of England landed in Ireland on this day to confront the Jacobite supporters of his father in law, the deposed King James II. A short military campaign that followed would lead to the Battle of the […]
This day 103 years ago – 8 June 1917 – an explosion in a copper mine in Butte, Montana, resulted in the death of 168 miners. 38 of them were from Ireland, by far the largest group of foreign-born workers. The fire in the Speculator Granite Mountain Mine shocked America and is still the worst […]
Though he has not been formally recognized as a saint, Talbot may be considered a patron of those struggling with alcoholism and addiction
Ó Néill was a Gaelic Irish soldier and one of the most famous of the O’Neill dynasty of Ulster in Ireland.