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 […]
The shame here is not theirs. The shame is on the rest of us, who shut up for fear of being called a racist by a vapid clown dressed as a woman.
Galway Bay FM has fascinating podcast
He was captured in Buncrana on 3 November 1798
Think about it, and maybe say it aloud really slowly to yourself: We’re having a warm November because I am drinking too much tea.
Willie was very devoted to Pádraig and the brothers had a very close relationship.
If British couples had done this to Irish people during the famine, we would have a national memorial to the lost babies, and Sinn Féin would call it genocide.
Father Griffin Road in Galway is named after the priest
I don’t drink, I don’t smoke. I rarely go out. The only thing I do for myself is play golf.
Including Dublin In The Green and The Patriot Game
Her main focus was the education for poor Catholics
When women don’t hold up their end of the “deal”, a lot of “good” progressive men suddenly no longer feel as if they need to hold up theirs, and so it’s okay to joke about women maybe being whores again.