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Far from being censured for the massacre, Duff upon his arrival in Dublin the following day, was feted as a hero by the British establishment who honoured him with a victory parade
The Céide fields in Ballycastle, Co Mayo, date back 5,500 years, making them the world’s oldest field systems, with a complex of walls, houses and tombs, protected beneath a bog and is the largest Stone Age site on the planet. It is the most extensive Neolithic site in Ireland. Discovered in the 1930s by schoolteacher […]
His Cambridge supervisor Geoffrey Elton came to consider him as the brightest of all his pupils.
Reducing Irish history to goodies and baddies like this is a form of sectarian insanity.
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.
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