Vision for Ireland
He was involved in the establishment of the Irish Manuscripts Commission in 1928.
‘An Irishman in Antarctica’
Gifford becomes interested in the Catholic faith which leads to a deepening relationship between herself and Plunkett.
Grace Gifford was born in Dublin on the 4th March 1888. She was the second youngest of 12 children born to Frederick Gifford, a Catholic, and Isabella Julia Burton, a protestant. Grace and her sisters attended Alexandra College in Earlsfort Terrace. At age 16, Grace went to the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, where she […]
Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha was born near Dingle, Co. Kerry in 1883, one of nine children to Patrick Sugrue and Ellen Cleary. He attended the local CBS until he was 16 where he was educated under English, and learned to read and write Irish from a local school master with the assistance of the Irish grammer […]