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 […]
Cringeworthy historical cosplay
Battle of the Boyne
This day 103 years ago – 8 June 1917 – an explosion in a copper mine in Butte, Montana, resulted in the death of 168 miners.
Ó Néill was a Gaelic Irish soldier and one of the most famous of the O’Neill dynasty of Ulster in Ireland.
Were the Irish ever a “homogenous group”, as Deputy O’Flynn appears to assert and An Taoiseach appears to deny?
Liberator, or failure?
The greatest Irishman who ever lived.
Far from being censured for the massacre, Duff upon his arrival in Dublin the following day, was feted as a hero by the British establishment who honoured him with a victory parade
The Céide fields in Ballycastle, Co Mayo, date back 5,500 years, making them the world’s oldest field systems, with a complex of walls, houses and tombs, protected beneath a bog and is the largest Stone Age site on the planet. It is the most extensive Neolithic site in Ireland. Discovered in the 1930s by schoolteacher […]
His Cambridge supervisor Geoffrey Elton came to consider him as the brightest of all his pupils.
Reducing Irish history to goodies and baddies like this is a form of sectarian insanity.