Nobody – and I do mean nobody – on planet earth exerted more pressure on the vaccine companies to compress their testing schedules and rush the vaccines to market, more than Donald Trump
There’s respectable Brit-Bashing, and then there’s “up the ra”.
Parnell’s newspaper, the United Ireland, attacked the Land Act and he was arrested together with his party lieutenants, William O’Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt and Willie Redmond. They were imprisoned under a proclaimed Coercion Act in Kilmainham Gaol for “sabotaging the Land Act”, from where the No Rent Manifesto, which Parnell and the others […]
Assistance to the O’Neill
Following a Catholic uprising in 1641, Cromwell and the New Model Army set sail to Ireland to defeat this coalition and reclaim Ireland for parliament. This proved to be a bloody and brutal affair, forever remembered for a series of controversial massacres. The Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland had begun, which included the destruction of Drogheda […]
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.
“Three deaths that are better than life: The death of a salmon; the death of a fat pig; the death of a robber” – Triad no 92 Sometime in the 9th century, a list of mnemonic axioms were recorded by an unknown author which were titled ‘Trecheng Breth Féne’ (A Triad of Judgments of the […]
His works have been translated into other languages
The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Instanbul
Hunger strike ends
The Whiteboys (na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organisation which defended tenant farmer land rights for subsistence farming. They sought to address rack-rents, tithe collection, excessive dues, evictions and other oppressive acts. As a result they targeted landlords and tithe collectors. Their operations were chiefly in the counties of Waterford, Cork, Limerick, and […]
And when you have a media that is dependent on the Government for its very existence, how can you trust them to hold that Government to account?