A significant event
It was a messy affair – the executioner was drunk.
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.
If one could previously have said metaphorically that digging up the past was a favourite pastime of modern Ireland, we can now say it literally.
Trade worth €0 is certainly worth losing $43 billion for, isn’t it?
Irish Harps go back 1000 years
The GAA was part of a Gaelic revival at the end of the 19th century that revived a suppressed pride in the nation’s traditions and history
He made the point that Irish nationalists had no need of Marxists to whom nationalism is anathema, to educate them on anything.
There is a reason we have a standing joke in this country about everybody having had an ancestor in the GPO, and it is precisely because so few of us had.
He was uncle to a prominent fenian Peter O’Neill who was born two years earlier in 1832.