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’. […]
A summer school is held in his honour every year in his hometown at the beginning of July and is highly regarded amongst traditional musicians.
102 years ago
Gifford becomes interested in the Catholic faith which leads to a deepening relationship between herself and Plunkett.
She was Police Ombudsman from 1999 to 2007.
Finnian’s gift for teaching and his absolute dedication to the ascetic ideal.
ON THIS DAY: 12TH SEPTEMBER 1919 Dáil Éireann was declared illegal by the British Parliament when Sinn Féin TDs refused to sit in Westminister and set up their own parliament in Dublin, Dáil Éireann The British authorities called it a ‘dangerous assembly, because of this the first Dáil had to meet in secret at different […]
On this night, the Black and Tans burnt Cork City Centre with a devastating series of fires that swept through the city centre; looted businesses, assaulted firefighters and shot at the local population. The burning and the subsequent controversy is one of the most significant events of the Irish War of Independence; on the day […]