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.”
A cartoon was circulated 1887 by John Fergus O’Hea, a highly regard political cartoonist, to mark the occasion of Queen Victoria’s jubilee celebrating the 50th anniversary of her reign. After eighty seven years since the Act of Union, Ireland was said to be “distracted, disloyal and impoverished.” It was published in the Weekly Freeman, July […]
June 20 marks a strange anniversary in Irish history.
Secret Catholic societies against colonialism in Ireland
Armed with poles and boiling water
Battle of the Boyne
An Druma Mór
This day 103 years ago – 8 June 1917 – an explosion in a copper mine in Butte, Montana, resulted in the death of 168 miners.