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Assistance to the O’Neill
Following a Catholic uprising in 1641, Cromwell and the New Model Army set sail to Ireland to defeat this coalition and reclaim Ireland for parliament. This proved to be a bloody and brutal affair, forever remembered for a series of controversial massacres. The Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland had begun, which included the destruction of Drogheda […]
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.
His works have been translated into other languages
The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Instanbul
Hunger strike ends
The Whiteboys (na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organisation which defended tenant farmer land rights for subsistence farming. They sought to address rack-rents, tithe collection, excessive dues, evictions and other oppressive acts. As a result they targeted landlords and tithe collectors. Their operations were chiefly in the counties of Waterford, Cork, Limerick, and […]
Many of us, I think, have arrived at the conclusion that something here is fundamentally wrong. Something is broken.
In 1066 the course of British history changed forever when William, the Duke of Normandy, landed on the southern coast of England and seized the country from its Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson. The French had a long history of claims in England, and in 1002 the English king Aethelred the Unready married the sister […]
Ashe took a major part in the 1916 Easter Rising
It was one of the great triumphs of 19th century science.
Forty homes were burned out or badly damaged, including almost all of the main street of the town.
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