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The Legion of Mary, which remains the largest lay organisation in the Roman Catholic Church, was founded in Dublin on this day, September 7th, 1921, by Frank Duff, and celebrates 99 years in existence today. Almost a century after it was founded in a small room on Francis Street, Dublin, the Legion of Mary has […]
Grace O’Malley (Gráinne Ní Mháille) demanded the release of her son, who had been imprisoned by Richard Bingham, Governor of Connacht.
The end of Gaelic Ireland
Rest in… something, anyway.
September 2nd is not a day, oddly, on which much of significance happened. It’s the calendar’s version of a slow news day. But on this day in 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States gave a speech to the Minnesota state fair, in which he uttered a phrase which has long outlived him […]
More than 1,000 prisoners were killed within 20 hours.
She is still a tourist attraction today
He came to the throne at the age of nine months.
A bear-ly believable encounter
The arrival of Strongbow was described in the Annals of Ulster as “the beginning of the woes of Ireland”.
Changed small County Mayo village forever
It has been called the most daring prison escape in history, the news sparked celebrations in Ireland and the US.
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