In 1066 the course of British history changed forever when William, the Duke of Normandy, landed on the southern coast of England and seized the country from its Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson. The French had a long history of claims in England, and in 1002 the English king Aethelred the Unready married the sister […]
Eventually, the scale of the problems created by liberalism and its prejudices allow people to overcome their fears about being called “far right”.
This, I’m afraid, is what most organisations, and the country, would look like in a United Ireland. And yet for some reason, the most devoted nationalists are very upset by it.
Manuel I Komnemos of the Byzantine Empire, also known as “Manuel the Great”, breathed his last on this day, September 24th, 1180. He was the last of the great Byzantine Emperors, and with his death, the Empire began to fall into ruin and decay. Manuel was the third son of his father, John II. On […]
On the night of September 23rd, 1846, the German Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle confirmed the discovery of the planet Neptune, which had been predicted by the French Mathematician Urban le Verrier, based on nothing but numbers. It was one of the great triumphs of 19th century science. Le Verrier discovered Neptune – which cannot be […]
The episode has been withdrawn from the RTE player.
You cannot be a cancer charity and write off half – and probably more than half – of the population as bigoted transphobes
Forty homes were burned out or badly damaged, including almost all of the main street of the town.
“They are coming for Russell Brand because he speaks the truth” is the kind of cheap slogan that is designed, and intended, to stop you from actually thinking.
Robert Emmett was an Irish Republican and patriot, orator and rebel leader. After leading an abortive rebellion in Dublin against British rule in 1803 he was captured then tried and executed for high treason against the British king George III of Great Britain. When asked if he had any thing to say in response to […]
“the Father of Microbiology”
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla urged Mexicans to rise up against the Spanish-born ruling class. He made the first cry for independence. After a moving speech in the Mexican town of Dolores, Hidalgo took up the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a Roman Catholic image of the Virgin Mary as she appears to Juan […]