The Grand Armee of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte entered Moscow and captured it on this day, September 14th, 1812. It was the culmination of the biggest – and ultimately fatal – mistake of Napoleon’s brilliant career. Napoleon’s invasion of Russia was a major miscalculation. At the time of the invasion, he dominated Europe, with only […]
Photo Credit: www.chrisboland.com Had Rooney made these comments about Muslims, or Jews, she would be denounced by consensus as a far-right extremist. As it is, all she has done is to articulate the acceptable, and accepted, bigotry of her own caste. Say whatever you like about catholics, and the most people will do is maintain […]
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 […]
Got woke, went…. you know the rest.
Angelina Carberry Musician of the Year
Millions either died or emigrated as a result of the catastrophic failures of the authorities
These laws sowed the seed for further discontent and rebellion.
Oliver Cromwell, the butcher of Drogheda, died on this day in 1658, having suffered a painful end from a urinary tract infection that caused blood poisoning. Three years after he died, his body was exhumed and ceremonially hanged in chains, and then thrown into a pit, so that his enemies could be sure that he […]
More than 1,000 prisoners were killed within 20 hours.
There have been sufficient articles written in Ireland about the legacy of so-called “catholic guilt” in Ireland that, if stacked one on top of the other, you’d be unwise to bet against them reaching the moon. How many times, over the years, have you heard people sobbing on the radio about dealing with the “legacy […]
Last month, Clapton came out in defiance of some restrictions
In all seriousness, and, accepting that there is much competition for the accolade, this might be the stupidest story of the year. Imagine being the Garda who had to take the call from an adult complaining that other adults were mean about her in a whatsapp group: A prominent Green Party TD and Oireachtas committee […]