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Pádraig Mac Piarais (Padraig Pearse) was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary; he who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Following his execution along with fifteen others, Pearse came to be seen by many as the embodiment of the rebellion. Pádraig, his brother Willie, […]
Napper Tandy convenes the first meeting of Dublin’s United Irishmen
Tutankhamun (c. 1342 – c. 1325 BC) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th dynasty during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history. His father was the heretical king Akhenaten, believed to be the mummy found in the tomb KV55. His mother […]
The delegation pleaded with Heytesbury to follow the example of Belgium and Portugal, which had closed their ports to food exports
Barry’s execution outraged nationalist public opinion in Ireland and its diaspora.
Due to the massive imbalance in their demographics, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party announced the decision to relax the one-child policy. Under the new policy, families could have two children if one parent, rather than both parents, was an only child. Apart from the violence endured by many Chinese women who were […]
“If I die I know the fruit will exceed the cost a thousand fold.”
It was composed “early in 1910 or late in 1909”, words by Peadar Kearney
He was an Irish priest and scholar, and a key figure in the Gaelic revival of the late 19th century.
The Nation was an Irish nationalist weekly newspaper, published in Dublin in the 19th century. It was founded by Charles Gavin Duffy, Thomas Davis & John Blake Dillon who at the time were part of Daniel O’Connell’s repeal association. #gript
Fr. O’Shea’s family had been evicted from their own home when he was a baby himself.
Parnell’s newspaper, the United Ireland, attacked the Land Act and he was arrested together with his party lieutenants, William O’Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt and Willie Redmond. They were imprisoned under a proclaimed Coercion Act in Kilmainham Gaol for “sabotaging the Land Act”, from where the No Rent Manifesto, which Parnell and the others […]
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