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a significant encounter
She composed the beautiful and poignant 390-line lament mourning Ó Laoghaire’s death and calling for revenge.
Joseph Plunkett was executed on May 4th 1916, with William Pearse, Edward Daly and Michael O’Hanrahan, for their role in the Easter Rising
Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, to Joseph McDonagh, a schoolmaster, and Mary Parker.
Easter Rising leaders: Pádraig Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by a firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol.
“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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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.
In 1974 local farmers digging a well near the Chinese city of Xian came across one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made
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