Crotty is probably best known to the general public for the ‘Crotty judgement’ of 1987
An encounter between eight young volunteers from the 1st Battallion IRA and a large body of the Black and Tans took place at Tolka Bridge in Drumcondra on 21 January 1921 during the War of Independence. The volunteers set out to ambush the Royal Irish Constabulary patrol which used that road to travel from their […]
‘An Irishman in Antarctica’
‘The cost of food, fuel, lighting, and living expenses had all increased substantially and the Society are forced to make urgent…”
The mother of Bobby Sands MP died this day in 2018. She was 95. She was born in the Markets area of south Belfast in 1922 and her father died when she was just 12 years old. The young Rosaleen Kelly was set to emigrate to New Zealand, with a job lined up at the […]
Thomas Ashe trained as a teacher and worked as a school principal in Lusk, Co. Dublin. He was a poet, piper and talented singer and having being reared in the Gaeltacht in Kerry, was an avid supporter of the Irish language. This brought him to the governing body of the Gaelic League, he was also […]
He was viewed as a threat to authority, and would be closely watched.
Clansmen and women of native Irish families were lured to discuss terms with the English at Mullaghmast, Co. Kildare. To the famous Rath at Mullaghmast which has figured in Irish history from as far back as 82AD. The site consists of a raised circular rampart breached at two sides allowing grazing cattle to wander through […]
The British put a £1,000 price on Breen’s head, which was later raised to £10,000
In Irish, it is called Lá Fhéile Stiofáin or Lá an Dreoilín
‘Irish priest who resisted Chinese communists’
ON THIS DAY: 25 DECEMBER 1351: A special feast was held for poets, bards and harpers on Christmas Day At Christmas 1351, Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh issued a gairm sgoile, ‘the summons of a poetic school’, to ‘all the Irish poets, Brehons, bards, harpers, Gamesters or common kearoghs, Jesters and others of theire kind of Ireland’. […]