Joan’s death inspired many Frenchmen to continue her legacy
a significant encounter
She composed the beautiful and poignant 390-line lament mourning Ó Laoghaire’s death and calling for revenge.
In her biography of the 1916 proclamation signatory, Joseph Plunkett, Honor O Brolchain tells a fascinating story. A Dublin jeweller on the afternoon of May 3rd 1916 was attending to a young lady who was purchasing wedding bands. She bought two rings but seemed very upset. When he asked her what the matter was she […]
Easter Rising leaders: Pádraig Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by a firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol.
Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, to Joseph McDonagh, a schoolmaster, and Mary Parker.
“You must not grieve for all this. We have preserved Ireland’s honour and our own”
The Count was offered a pardon from all his crimes by the Anglican Bishop of Meath, Bishop Jones, if he testified against the Catholic priests.
The highest priority in the modern world for almost everybody is the maintenance of their identity
Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916 and lasted for six days.
Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Sesamh Máire Pluincéid) was an Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising
When William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim inherited a vast estate from his father in 1854 he became a controlling landlord and bullying tyrant.