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Following a Catholic uprising in 1641, Cromwell and the New Model Army set sail to Ireland to defeat this coalition and reclaim Ireland for parliament. This proved to be a bloody and brutal affair, forever remembered for a series of controversial massacres. The Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland had begun, which included the destruction of Drogheda […]
A black day in Saxon history.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.
Schumacher would go on to win four more titles for Ferrari
Turkish Flight
His works have been translated into other languages
October 5th became known as the day that “The Troubles” began.
The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Instanbul
Hunger strike ends
The Whiteboys (na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organisation which defended tenant farmer land rights for subsistence farming.
Muhammed Ali defeated Joe Frazier in the so-called “thrilla in Manila”, on this day, October 1st, 1975. The fight, the third and final between Ali and Frazier, got its name from Ali’s rhyming boast that the fight would be “a killa and a thrilla and a chilla, when I get that gorilla in Manila.” The […]
One of Daniel O’Connell’s so-called Monster Meetings took place in Mullaghmast in Kildare, calling for a repeal of the Act of Union. It was the latest in a series of meetings that took place through out the country in places such as Monaghan, Loughrea and Lismore. Such was the support and excitement surrounding the event, […]
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