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The GAA was part of a Gaelic revival at the end of the 19th century that revived a suppressed pride in the nation’s traditions and history
He made the point that Irish nationalists had no need of Marxists to whom nationalism is anathema, to educate them on anything.
There is a reason we have a standing joke in this country about everybody having had an ancestor in the GPO, and it is precisely because so few of us had.
He was uncle to a prominent fenian Peter O’Neill who was born two years earlier in 1832.
A cartoon was circulated 1887 by John Fergus O’Hea, a highly regard political cartoonist, to mark the occasion of Queen Victoria’s jubilee celebrating the 50th anniversary of her reign. After eighty seven years since the Act of Union, Ireland was said to be “distracted, disloyal and impoverished.” It was published in the Weekly Freeman, July […]
Cringeworthy historical cosplay
Battle of the Boyne
This day 103 years ago – 8 June 1917 – an explosion in a copper mine in Butte, Montana, resulted in the death of 168 miners.
Ó Néill was a Gaelic Irish soldier and one of the most famous of the O’Neill dynasty of Ulster in Ireland.
Were the Irish ever a “homogenous group”, as Deputy O’Flynn appears to assert and An Taoiseach appears to deny?
Liberator, or failure?
The greatest Irishman who ever lived.
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