ON THIS DATE (3RD MAY) 107 YEARS AGO : THREE REPUBLICAN DISSIDENTS EXECUTED BY THE BRITISH.Pictured - Pádraig Pearse, Thomas J Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh.On the 29th April 1916, a re… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ON THIS DATE (23RD DECEMBER) 36 YEARS AGO : RUC DISRUPT REPUBLICAN FUNERAL.IRA Volunteer Ciarán Fleming (pictured) - 'On Sunday 2nd December 1984, IRA Volunteers Antoine Mac Giolla Bh… Read More
ON THIS DATE (12TH AUGUST) 66 YEARS AGO ; SCOTLAND YARD MEN IN DUBLIN.'Commander Len Burt, Special Branch Chief of Scotland Yard, and an Inspector Gale, also of Scotland Yard, visited Dublin… Read More
ON THIS DATE (29TH APRIL) 104 YEARS AGO : REPUBLICAN 'SURRENDER ORDER' AND FR. ALOYSIUS. On Saturday, 29th April, 1916 - 104 years ago on this date - Pádraig Pearse issued the 'Surren… Read More
ON THIS DATE (21ST NOVEMBER) 98 YEARS AGO : BRITISH SPIES EXECUTED IN DUBLIN.Members of the British 'Cairo/Special Gang', pictured, who were executed in Dublin by the IRA on the 21st Novembe… Read More
ON THIS DATE (20TH DECEMBER) 95 YEARS AGO : POACHER-TURNED-GAMEKEEPER SHOT DEAD BY IRA.'Seamus Dwyer was christened James and took the Irish form of his name in later life. He was the younge… Read More
BLIANTÚIL CUIMHNEACHÁIN WOLFE TONE.....TÉIGH IN AITHNE AR 02.30, SALLINS, CONTAE CHILL DARA, DÉ DOMHNAIGH, 26th MEITHEAMH 2016.Annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration, as… Read More