2023-03-22 19:35
EASTER 2023.Easter 1916 Timeline -'07.55hrs - Sackville Street being blown to pieces. The centre of Dublin is unrecognisable this morning. Rubble is strewn everywhere. Burnt-out cars, trams… Read More
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2023-03-20 12:17
ON WEDNESDAY, 22ND MARCH 2023, WE'LL BE.......with a six-parter, including a piece on an explanation issued by the IRA over forty years ago as to why it had carried out a particular operatio… Read More
2023-03-15 08:53
ON THIS DATE (15TH MARCH) 171 YEARS AGO : IRELAND WITNESSES THE BIRTH OF 'THE RISING OF THE MOON'.On the 9th March, 1907, a play entitled 'The Rising of the Moon', by Isabella Augusta Persse… Read More
2023-03-08 15:30
ON THIS DATE (8TH MARCH) 81 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF AN UNYIELDING OPPONENT OF THE FREE STATE.On March 27th, 1872, a baby girl was born in London, was moved to County Cork and reared and educate… Read More
2023-03-01 15:14
ON THIS DATE (1ST MARCH) 42 YEARS AGO : BOBBY SANDS BEGAN HIS HUNGER STRIKE IN LONG KESH PRISON.The 1981 hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during this on-going struggl… Read More
2023-02-24 15:30
...Well - back in Dublin from our escapades in Galway (...more about that later!), but not back posting the blog just yet.As promised before our break, we'll be back here on Wednesday, the 1… Read More
2023-02-08 10:05
ON THIS DATE (8TH FEBRUARY) 37 YEARS AGO : ONE EPISODE IN THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH...'A Jury in Abbeville, Louisiana, in the United States, yesterday (ie Friday, 7th Februa… Read More
2023-02-01 09:58
ON THIS DATE (1ST FEBRUARY) 145 YEARS AGO : 1916 SIGNATORY BORN.On the 1st February 1878 - 145 years ago on this date - a child, Thomas, was born in Cloughjordan in Tipperary, into a househo… Read More
2023-01-25 10:45
ON THIS DATE (25TH JANUARY) 146 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF A REBEL PRIEST.Patrick Canon Murphy was born at Whitehill, Kilmore, in County Wexford on the 25th January 1877 - 146 years ago on this da… Read More
2023-01-18 11:35
ON THIS DATE (18TH JANUARY) 192 YEARS AGO : WESTMINSTER SLAPS DOWN ONE OF ITS IRISH 'PET REBELS'.Daniel O'Connell ('The Liberator', pictured) never claimed to be an Irish republican despite… Read More
2023-01-15 22:58
GETTING FITTER FOR PURPOSE...AND - - on Wednesday, 18th January 2023, we'll be...Our first post of 2023, the 21st year of the '1169' blog, will be landing on this page on Wednesday, 18th Jan… Read More
2023-01-08 13:26
NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE JUST YET (!)...BUT - - on Wednesday, 18th January 2023, we'll be...Phew!Crazy days since we last spoke to you on the blog, and they ain't quite over yet - still recoverin… Read More
2022-12-21 20:01
ON THIS DATE (21ST DECEMBER) 101 YEARS AGO : FERMANAGH COUNTY COUNCIL REFUSES TO RECOGNISE "THE PARTITION PARLIAMENT IN BELFAST..."Fermanagh council offices (pictured) issued the following… Read More
2022-12-07 10:27
ON THIS DATE (7TH DECEMBER) 143 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF AN IRA MAN WHO DARED AND SUFFERED - AUSTIN STACK.Austin Stack (pictured) was born on the 7th December, 1879 - 143 years ago on this date… Read More
2022-12-04 12:07
BITS, BATS AND BRITS...!This republican operative was captured by the Staters in 1923 and went on hunger strike for forty-one days before being released in July 1924 ; de Valera attempted to… Read More
2022-11-30 14:32
ON THIS DATE (30TH NOVEMBER) 122 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF THE IRISH 'GALLEY SLAVE / GOLDEN CHAINS' AUTHOR : OSCAR WILDE.On the 16th October, 1854, a boy was born to a middle-class family who liv… Read More
2022-11-27 11:44
8 4 U ON THE 30TH!We've gone back as far as the 17th century in one of our eight pieces for Wednesday, 30th November 2022, which is the period linked to a well-known author who suggested a n… Read More
2022-11-23 10:03
ON THIS DATE (23RD NOVEMBER) 146 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF THE BLUFFER BATES.'Sir' Richard Dawson Bates (pictured) was born in Strandtown, Belfast, on the 23rd November 1876 - 146 years ago on t… Read More
2022-11-20 11:15
WHY IS THIS STATE POLITICIAN SWEATING...?Would it have something to do with a political buddy of his from Tipperary, and/or an expensive dinner and/or a mobile phone licence?Or maybe it's so… Read More
2022-11-16 15:39
THE 'AARIR' GROWLS (!) IN AMERICA 102 YEARS AGO ON THIS DATE.Ireland 1920 ; Black and Tans on the rampage, the Irish republican Lord Mayor of Cork, Thomas MacCurtain shot dead by RIC members… Read More
2022-11-02 10:02
ON THIS DATE (2ND NOVEMBER) 36 YEARS AGO : SINN FÉIN REORGANISED.'The story of how Gerry Adams tried to turn an eighty year old revolutionary movement into a British constitutional pa… Read More
2022-10-31 11:59
The stalwarts, having said their piece and again having stated and explained their political position, brought proceedings temporarily to an end and moved to a different location where they… Read More
2022-10-19 09:50
ON THIS DATE (19TH OCTOBER) 277 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF THE MAN WHO URGED THE IRISH "TO BURN EVERYTHING ENGLISH EXCEPT THEIR COAL"."Burn everything English but their coal" - the 'Hibernian Pa… Read More
2022-10-05 11:04
ON THIS DATE (5TH OCTOBER) 39 YEARS AGO : BRITISH DIPLOCK 'JUSTICE' FURTHER EXPOSED.On this date - 5th October - in 1983, British 'Lord Chief Justice' Robert Lynd Erskine Lowry, during a 'tr… Read More
2022-09-28 11:00
ON THIS DATE (28TH SEPTEMBER) 102 YEARS AGO : CORK IRA ATTACK BRITISH ARMY BASE.Richard Willis, a carpenter, and his friend Jack Bolster, a painter, sometimes worked together on jobs ; it wa… Read More
2022-09-21 09:38
ON THIS DATE (21ST SEPTEMBER) 195 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF AN RIC MAN WHO RESIGNED HIS POSITION IN OPPOSITION TO 'REPRESSIVE ACTIONS AGAINST THE IRISH'.On the 21st September 1827 - 195 years ago… Read More
2022-09-17 13:01
...we're putting together a special piece for Wednesday, 21st September, 2022, concerning (very concerning, actually..) about the BA in this country, and the everlasting damage inflicted on… Read More
2022-09-14 10:41
ON THIS DATE (14TH SEPTEMBER) 102 YEARS AGO - 3 REPUBLICAN VOLUNTEERS KILLED IN AMBUSH.In late August/early September 1920, the RIC and their colleagues in the British Army vacated their bar… Read More
2022-09-07 11:11
ON THIS DATE (7TH SEPTEMBER) 199 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF A RADICAL 'FEVER DOCTOR'.On the 7th September 1823 - 199 years ago on this date - William Izod Doherty and his wife, Anne (nee McEvoy)… Read More
2022-08-24 06:47
BUNDORAN HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATION, 2022.On Saturday 27th August 2022, the Bundoran/Ballyshannon H-Block Committee will be holding a rally in Bundoran, County Donegal, to commemorate the 4… Read More
2022-08-17 07:47
ON THIS DATE (17TH AUGUST) 53 YEARS AGO : BRITISH PRESS RELEASE RE "DISTURBANCES" EXPOSES WESTMINSTER MINDSET.'Speech by the Prime Minister, Major The Rt. Hon. J.D. Chichester-Clark, D.L… Read More
2022-08-10 07:51
ON THIS DATE (10TH AUGUST) 98 YEARS AGO - IRA EXECUTIVE REVIEW PAST ACTIONS AND MAKE FUTURE PLANS.On August 10th (and 11th) 1924 - 98 years ago on this date - the remaining original members… Read More
2022-08-08 16:43
WE'RE BACK! AND WE'RE.....ON WEDNESDAY, 10TH AUGUST 2022!We didn't so much as enjoy the short break we had, as managed to get through it!We love the family and the extended family and the in… Read More
2022-07-20 07:34
ON THIS DATE (20TH JULY) 101 YEARS AGO : BRITISH ARMY MAJOR IN IRELAND DIES BY HIS OWN HAND. On the 20th July, 1921, a British Army Major in the hated Black and Tan/RIC 'Auxiliary' force in… Read More
2022-07-13 08:47
'CATHAL GOULDING, PADRAIG PEARSE AND SEÁN HEGARTY'. From 'The United Irishman' newspaper, April 1955.Sentenced to eight years penal servitude on October 7, 1953, on arms raid charge."… Read More
2022-07-06 10:15
(Please note - this blog post is best viewed and read on a mobile phone ; we are having some trouble with the display of same on desktop computers etc, an issue we are working to correct. Th… Read More
2022-06-22 08:05
NATIONAL GRAVES ASSOCIATION FOUR COURTS RALLY, DUBLIN, SUNDAY 26TH JUNE 2022.'In Defence of The Republic.Join us as we mark the 100th anniversary of the Shelling of the Four Courts on Sunday… Read More
2022-06-15 14:17
ON THIS DATE (15TH JUNE) SIX YEARS AGO : REPUBLICAN FIGHTER WITH 73 YEARS SERVICE COMMEMORATED.On the 13th June 1991, Tony Ruane (pictured) died in Dublin’s Mater Hospital — he w… Read More
2022-06-08 09:53
"A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT, A DEDICATED REVOLUTIONARY.....UNDETERRED BY THREAT OR PERSONAL RISK." (FBI description of Peter Roger Casement Brady / Ruairi O Bradaigh, from here.)Nine years… Read More
2022-06-05 21:25
ON OUR WAY TO YA : ETA WEDNESDAY, 8TH JUNE 2022...This young Irish republican was the fifth of twelve children living in a three-bedroom house in Derry which had been built by the man of the… Read More
2022-06-01 09:10
ON THIS DATE (1ST JUNE) 100 YEARS AGO : BRITISH PARAMILITARY GROUP IN IRELAND RENAMED.In every country it occupied (and in every country it continues to either occupy or take an 'interest' i… Read More
2022-05-25 14:11
ON THIS DATE (25TH MAY) 160 YEARS AGO : BAPTISED INTO A LIFETIME OF REPUBLICANISM.James Nowlan (pictured) was born in Kilkenny in 1862 into a republican household - his father, Patrick, was… Read More
2022-05-18 10:29
ON THIS DATE (18TH MAY) BIRTH OF A CLONGOWES COLLEGE POSH BOY.John Gerard Bruton (left of pic, posing with his role model) was born into a wealthy farming family in Dunboyne, in County Meat… Read More
2022-05-15 15:01
Once one of the top* politicians in Leinster House (*by State 'standards', anyway, which isn't really saying much...), this millionaire 'Landlord' almost wet himself with excitement, in publ… Read More
2022-05-04 08:39
ON THIS DATE (4TH MAY) 49 YEARS AGO : BRITISH ATTORNEY GENERAL INTERFERES WITH 'BLOODY SUNDAY' INQUEST.'CONFIDENTIAL.(To) The Chief Crown Solicitor,Royal Court of Justice (Ulster),BELFAST, B… Read More
2022-05-02 10:47
(..EVEN IF I HAVE TO PRACTICALLY ROB IT FROM YA..!)'We'll be posting the contents of a letter marked 'CONFIDENTIAL', dated 4th May 1973, sent from one high-ranking British politician to anot… Read More
2022-04-27 09:07
ON THIS DATE (27TH APRIL) 93 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF AN IRA MAN WHO DARED AND SUFFERED - AUSTIN STACK.Austin Stack (pictured) was born on the 7th December, 1879, in Ballymullen, Tralee, County… Read More
2022-04-25 15:53
COMIN' AT YA...!Republican Ireland had lost one of her best soldiers, but we hold him safe in Glasnevin Cemetery, in Dublin ; in late 1923, he bravely took part in his 5th hunger-strike in 6… Read More
2022-04-20 08:47
ON THIS DATE (20TH APRIL) 99 YEARS AGO - NEW IRA CHIEF-OF-STAFF ELECTED. UNFORTUNATELY.Frank Aiken (Francis Thomas Aiken, pictured) was born on the 13th February, 1898, at Carrickbracken, in… Read More
2022-04-12 20:44
A 'LICENSED' EASTER AND A MIS-MATCHED COLLAGE.Two examples of political ignorance, as practised by those who apparently consider themselves to be 'republicans' but, judging by that with whic… Read More
2022-04-06 09:47
ON THIS DATE (6TH APRIL) 101 YEARS AGO : TWO VOLUNTEERS MURDERED BY 'ROGUE' RIC MEN.The RIC and the Black and Tans (pictured), representatives of 'British justice' in Ireland in the 1920's w… Read More
2022-03-30 17:10
ON THIS DATE (30TH MARCH) 142 YEARS AGO : IRA 'GAMEKEEPER-TURNED-FREE STATE POACHER' BORN.Seán Hales (pictured),a brigadier in the Free State Army and a Cumann na nGaedhal member of t… Read More
2022-03-27 21:41
WORKING OUR WAY TO YA FOR WEDNESDAY, 30TH MARCH 2022...These two brothers fought on the same side to 'break the connection with England' then fought against each other, politically, in Leins… Read More
2022-03-23 09:13
ON THIS DATE (23RD MARCH) 176 YEARS AGO : BRITISH HOUSE OF 'LORDS' MEMBER ACKNOWLEDGES THEIR 'DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT IN IRELAND'.On the 23rd March, 1846 - 176 years ago on this date - a member… Read More
2022-03-16 11:46
ON THIS DATE (16TH MARCH) 115 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF A "LIFELONG IRISH SUBVERSIVE".'John O'Leary was a lifelong subversive, whose participation in extra-parliamentary attempts to achieve Irish… Read More
2022-03-09 09:16
ON THIS DATE (9TH MARCH) 68 YEARS AGO : IRISH REPUBLICAN ICON BORN.Bobby Sands (pictured, left) - born on this date (9th March) 68 years ago (1954).Bobby Sands was born on the 9th March 1954… Read More
2022-03-02 09:57
ON THIS DATE (2ND MARCH) 108 YEARS AGO : PEARSE IN NEW YORK DELIVERS EMMET COMMEMORATION SPEECH.On the 2nd March 1914 - 108 years ago on this date - Patrick Henry Pearse, 37 years of age, de… Read More
2022-02-23 10:04
ON THIS DATE (23RD FEBRUARY) 57 YEARS AGO : THE BODY OF A 1916 HERO IS RETURNED TO IRELAND.On the 3rd August 1916, at 9am, Roger Casement (pictured) was placed on a scaffold in Pentonville P… Read More
2022-02-20 12:07
AND WE'RE (almost) BACK...!Our BIG birthday party (a 21st - not mine, by the way : I'm not THAT old...!) couldn't have been timed better - Covid restrictions in this State were just about li… Read More
2022-02-09 17:34
ON THIS DATE (9TH FEBRUARY) 119 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF A KNIGHTED, DISILLUSIONED 'NATIONALIST'.Charles Gavan Duffy (pictured) was born in Dublin Street in County Monaghan on the 12th April, 18… Read More
2022-02-02 09:24
ON THIS DATE (2ND FEBRUARY) 50 YEARS AGO : BRITISH EMBASSY IN DUBLIN ATTACKED.The British Embassy in Dublin was burned down by protesters on Wednesday, 2nd February 1972, who were demonstrat… Read More
2022-02-01 12:32
(..just not today!)We'll be posting our usual busy offering tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd February 2022, in which we'll be detailing the following stories -This Westminster-inspired 'bonfire' in D… Read More
2022-01-26 19:21
CLAIMED AS MEMBERS OF THE IRA, BUT NOT MEMBERS OF THE IRA.Three young men who were executed by firing squad at Birr Castle by the Leinster House administration on the 26th January, 1923 - 99… Read More
2022-01-19 09:57
ON THIS DATE 76 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF A PARTY PERSON.Pádraic Ó Máille (pictured), one of the founders (in 1906) of the Sinn Féin organisation and of the Conradh na… Read More
2022-01-12 10:24
ON THIS DATE (12TH JANUARY) 83 YEARS AGO : REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT ULTIMATUM DELIVERED TO WESTMINSTER.An ultimatum from the Government of the Irish Republic was delivered to the then British F… Read More
2022-01-10 19:48
ATHBHLIAIN FAOI MHAISE DUIT!We're putting together an 8-part post (one of which, our 'Short Stories' piece, will itself cover eleven such 'shorts') for...We'll be writing about a lady, her h… Read More
2021-12-22 09:57
ON THIS DATE (22ND DECEMBER) 139 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF AN UNREPENTANT IRISH REBEL.Joe Clarke (pictured [Seosamh Ó Clérigh]) was born in Rush, County Dublin, on the 22nd December… Read More
2021-12-15 10:08
ON THIS DATE (15TH DECEMBER) 101 YEARS AGO : 'INSANE' ADRIC MEMBER SHOOTS TWO PEOPLE DEAD.An elderly priest in Dunmanway, in Cork - 73-year-old Canon Magner, had no time for the British and… Read More
2021-12-08 10:31
FREE STATE EXECUTIONS OF 8TH DECEMBER 1922 REMEMBERED.The 8th December 2021 is the 99th anniversary of the executions, by the Leinster House political administration, of four imprisoned Iris… Read More
2021-12-01 10:06
ON THIS DATE (1ST DECEMBER) 147 YEARS AGO : ICA CHIEF-OF-STAFF BORN IN DUBLIN.'Commandant Michael Mallin, Chief of Staff of the Irish Citizen Army, was one of the executed. He was court-mart… Read More
2021-11-24 10:13
ON THIS DATE (24TH NOVEMBER) 79 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF THE 'SOLDIERS SONG' STATER.'(Peadar) Kearney was born at 68 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin, in 1883 (on the 12th December) (and) often walke… Read More
2021-11-10 13:36
ON THIS DATE (10TH NOVEMBER) 223 YEARS AGO : WOLFE TONE SENTENCED TO DEATH.Theobald Wolfe Tone was born on the 20th June, 1763 - the exact time and date of his death are unknown.He was sente… Read More
2021-11-03 10:13
ON THIS DATE (3RD NOVEMBER) 99 YEARS AGO : FINANCIAL WARNING ISSUED BY DÁIL ÉIREANN.On the 3rd November 1922 - 99 years ago on this date - Irish republicans loyal to the 32-Cou… Read More
2021-10-27 10:31
ON THIS DATE (27TH OCTOBER) 9 YEARS AGO : WORLD-WIDE PROTEST HELD FOR IRISH POW'S.'On Saturday 27th October 2012, there were some 16 protests in 11 countries on three continents such as New… Read More
2021-10-25 19:18
ON WEDNESDAY 27TH OCTOBER 2021.....we will be posting a six-part post (one of which, our popular 'Short Story' piece, will be referencing 13 different events, all linked) in which we will be… Read More
2021-10-20 09:53
ON THIS DATE (20TH OCTOBER) 88 YEARS AGO : LEINSTER HOUSE SPENDS (ANOTHER) 30 PIECES OF SILVER.On the 20th October, 1933 - 88 years ago on this date - the Free State Leinster House administr… Read More
2021-10-18 15:34
In 1933, the shoneens in Leinster House and the author of a piece of work came to a financial agreement that suited both parties in more ways than one - the author/artist in question sold ou… Read More
2021-10-13 09:16
ON THIS DATE (13TH OCTOBER) 98 YEARS AGO : MASS HUNGER STRIKE BY IRISH REPUBLICANS.On the 13th October, 1923 - 98 years ago on this date - a mass hunger-strike began by 424 Irish republican… Read More
2021-10-06 17:06
IRELAND'S YOUNG WARRIORS.'Glaine 'nar gcroi – Purity in our hearts. Neart 'nar ngeaga – Strength in our arms. Beart do reir ar mbriathar – Truth on our lips : Na Fianna &Ea&hell…Read More
2021-09-29 09:37
ON THIS DATE (29TH SEPTEMBER) 93 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF JOHN DEVOY.'The most dangerous enemy of this country that Ireland has produced since Wolfe Tone..' - 'The London Times' newspaper, descr… Read More
2021-09-22 09:48
ON THIS DATE (22ND SEPTEMBER) 101 YEARS AGO : BRITISH MAGISTRATE SHOT, NOT "BURIED ALIVE AND DROWNED".On Wednesday, 22nd September in 1920 - 101 years ago on this date - a British 'law maker… Read More
2021-09-19 19:53
A BRITISH PROPAGANDA LIE THAT LASTED FROM 1920 TO AT LEAST 1989.Ireland 1920 : a British 'law enforcement agent' approached a group of Irish republicans who were better armed than he was.Wor… Read More
2021-09-15 09:04
ON THIS DATE (15TH SEPTEMBER) 156 YEARS AGO : FENIAN NEWSPAPER CLOSED DOWN.The Fenian Brotherhood was founded in Dublin on Saint Patrick’s Day in 1858 and, by 1863, had grown to such a… Read More
2021-09-08 08:49
ON THIS DATE (8TH SEPTEMBER) 209 YEARS AGO : AN IRISH THORN IN THE BRITISH IMPERIAL SYSTEM IS BORN.John Martin, Irish revolutionary, transportee and politician, was born at Loughborne, near… Read More
2021-09-06 10:41
POLITICAL POISON AMALGAMATES IN IRELAND.On Wednesday, 8th September next, we'll be posting a seven-part blog post which will include a few paragraphs on fascism in Ireland, from the 1930's t… Read More
2021-09-01 09:09
ON THIS DATE (1ST SEPTEMBER) 218 YEARS AGO : TWO 'DISSIDENTS' EXECUTED BY THE BRITISH.On the 1st of September, 1803 - 218 years ago, on this date - two Irishmen were executed by the British… Read More
2021-08-25 06:43
ON THIS DATE (25TH AUGUST) 82 YEARS AGO : EXPLOSIONS FOLLOW ULTIMATUM.'I have the honour to inform you that the Government of the Irish Republic [32 counties], having as its first duty towar… Read More
2021-08-18 06:24
BACK FROM STAYCATION (AND SAVING FOR A REAL HOLIDAY!).We survived it!By hook and by crook, by pure good fortune, quick thinking, the gift of the gab, and by being quick on our feet, we survi… Read More
2021-08-04 18:50
ON THIS DATE (4TH AUGUST) 143 YEARS AGO : MARGARET MARY PEARSE BORN.On the 4th of August, 1878, James and Margaret Pearse (nee Brady), then living in number 27 Great Brunswick Street in Dub… Read More
2021-08-02 19:08
OVER ONE MILLION HITS. AND COUNTING...!It has taken us a good few years to get here although, really, we never started this blog with a 'hits/views' objective in mind. But, having said that… Read More
2021-07-28 19:31
'THE BREAK OF ARMAGH : A SUGGESTION BY A WORLD-FAMOUS POET'.From 'The United Irishman' newspaper, July, 1954.Dear Sir,The major portion of the multitude who were elated by the brilliant coup… Read More
2021-07-21 08:53
ON THIS DATE (21ST JULY) 45 YEARS AGO : WILLING EMPIRE PAWN ASSASSINATED IN DUBLIN.Christopher Thomas Ewart-Biggs (pictured), a British career diplomat and a 'CMG', an 'OBE', and an M16 'Sen… Read More
2021-07-14 19:06
ON THIS DATE (14TH JULY) 223 YEARS AGO : SHEARES BROTHERS MURDERED BY THE CROWN."Adieu, Julia, my light is out. The approach of darkness is like that of death, since both alike require I sho… Read More
2021-07-07 18:53
ON THIS DATE (7TH JULY) 99 YEARS AGO : CATHAL BRUGHA DIES FROM FREE STATE-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND.On the 18th July, 1874, Thomas Burgess and his wife, Marianne (nee Flynn), who lived at that… Read More
2021-07-04 14:09
WOUNDED BY THE BRITISH, FINISHED OFF BY THE STATERS...This Irish rebel was on active duty in 1916, and before then. He had some lucky escapes over the years but, in Easter week in 1916, he m… Read More
2021-06-30 06:36
ON THIS DATE (30TH JUNE) 99 YEARS AGO : PRO-BRITISH MERCENARIES IN DUBLIN RETAKE THE FOUR COURTS.The Four Courts building in Dublin, located on Inns Quay, was abandoned by Anti-Treaty forces… Read More
2021-06-23 20:54
IRISH HISTORY SHORTS : FROM REGISTERING YOUR INTERESTS (!) TO PRESSURIED 'COMPASSION' TO A 16-YEAR-OLD...On this date (23rd June) in the year......1704 : The British introduced (and enforced… Read More
2021-06-09 20:41
ON THIS DATE (9TH JUNE) 68 YEARS AGO : CINEMATIC 'BLOCKBUSTER' BANNED!The year 1953 started, politically, in Ireland, with Sinn Féin declaring, to great applause from republicans and… Read More
2021-06-02 08:41
ON THIS DATE (2ND JUNE) 100 YEARS AGO : IRA VICTORY AT CARROWKENNEDY (CEATHRÚ CHINNÉIDE), COUNTY MAYO.'It was late afternoon of a warm day (on Thursday, 2nd June 1921) in Carro… Read More
2021-05-26 09:55
AN APOLOGY TO OLIVER HOYLE, WILLIAM BURKE AND CHRISTOPHER BYRNE.When Ireland called forth her true sons of the heather,O'Boyle was the foremost to answer the call,The sons of the Rosses he b… Read More
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