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The September Massacres were a number of killings in Paris and other cities that occurred from 2–6 September 1792 during the French Revolution. Catholic Bishops, priests, prisoners and peasants were singled out. More than 1,000 prisoners were killed within 20 hours. By 6 September, half the prison population of Paris had been summarily executed: some […]
The Dublin lock-out began led by Jim Larkin. William Martin Murphy dismissed hundreds of workers who he suspected of membership of the ITGWU. William Martin Murphy, a major employer at the time, was chairman of the Dublin United Tramway Company, owned Clery’s department store, and the Imperial Hotel and controlled the Irish Independent, Evening Herald, […]
The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland (Irish: Annála RÃoghachta Éireann) or the Annals of the Four Masters (Annála na gCeithre MáistrÃ) are chronicles of medieval Irish history. They were a compilation of earlier annals, although there is some original work. They were compiled between 1632 and 1636 at a Franciscan friary near the Drowes […]
On this day 1915 – tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin leading up to Glasnevin Cemetery for the funeral of the old Fenian rebel Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. Patrick Pearse gave the funeral oration with the ending “…Ireland unfree shall never be at peace”. Photo Credit: Dublin South 1916 Centenary Committee.
HISTORIAN Brian Nugent says the evidence from the Tuam site shows that babies were not ‘thrown in a septic tank’ but actually re interred in an ossuary after the county council started building in the area.
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