It was a messy affair – the executioner was drunk.
Feminists might think they’ve cracked the establishment in Ireland, but you can read all the Germaine Greer you want, ladies – you’re still never getting between a Fianna Fáiler and a cosy backroom deal to hand out the big jobs.
As it made its way to Ireland, the yacht ran into the biggest storm to hit the Irish Sea for years.
The rebellion was crushed and he was captured then tried and executed for high treason against the British king George III of Great Britain
Born in 1550, Aodh Mór Ó Néill (Hugh O’Neill) came from a line of the and the successors to the Chief’s of the O’Neills.
Jail time.
Irish Harps go back 1000 years
“What can you do?” he responded. “In war, you still need to live your life”.
And one of those fields just so happens to be innovative, world-changing inventions. Here are just ten.
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 […]
This day 103 years ago – 8 June 1917 – an explosion in a copper mine in Butte, Montana, resulted in the death of 168 miners.