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.
Irish Harps go back 1000 years
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He was uncle to a prominent fenian Peter O’Neill who was born two years earlier in 1832.
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 […]
June 20 marks a strange anniversary in Irish history.
Armed with poles and boiling water
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.
In total 34 people were killed
Joan’s death inspired many Frenchmen to continue her legacy