Which came first? The Catholic Church? Or the people? The latter, surely: nowhere else in Europe was the Catholic Church given such power by democratically-elected governments.
Take that, Goliath.
The Legion of Mary, which remains the largest lay organisation in the Roman Catholic Church, was founded in Dublin on this day, September 7th, 1921, by Frank Duff, and celebrates 99 years in existence today. Almost a century after it was founded in a small room on Francis Street, Dublin, the Legion of Mary has […]
Rest in… something, anyway.
More than 1,000 prisoners were killed within 20 hours.
He came to the throne at the age of nine months.
One of the problems Ireland and Irish leaders have is that if our problems could be solved by a few speeches at Beal na Bláth and some flowery rhetoric about our glorious republican dead, then this would be the wealthiest nation on earth.
A bear-ly believable encounter
The real caped crusader.
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
Eleven were sent to trial.
The traditional date for their foundation is 632 BC.