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June 20 marks a strange anniversary in Irish history.
Armed with poles and boiling water
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.
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 […]
In total 34 people were killed
Joan’s death inspired many Frenchmen to continue her legacy
a significant encounter
In her biography of the 1916 proclamation signatory, Joseph Plunkett, Honor O Brolchain tells a fascinating story. A Dublin jeweller on the afternoon of May 3rd 1916 was attending to a young lady who was purchasing wedding bands. She bought two rings but seemed very upset. When he asked her what the matter was she […]
Easter Rising leaders: Pádraig Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by a firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol.
Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, to Joseph McDonagh, a schoolmaster, and Mary Parker.
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