Life through lens of the everyday
The Book of Kells contains lavishly decorated copy, in Latin, of the four gospels.
A photograph of the two brothers in their coffins, their bodies mutilated and burned, was taken by Tomás Ó hEighin, a local Irish teacher.
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 […]
It is considered to be, one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history.
Following the surrender Plunkett was held in Kilmainham Gaol, and faced a court martial.
Glaisne Ó Cuilleanáin was born in a family in Connaught remarkable for its piety. He was the oldest of six brothers, of whom were devoted themselves to the service of Christ in the ranks of the clergy secular or regular. He went to Louvain to study there, and later to Rome. Having completed his studies, […]
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He was captured in Buncrana on 3 November 1798
The dismissial of tAthair Micheál Ó hIcí in 1909 ended in a Tribunal in Rome
Willie was very devoted to Pádraig and the brothers had a very close relationship.