Zbudowany w 1897 roku okręt podwodny Holland VI był szczytowym osiągnięciem Johna P. Hollanda. Dzięki samozaparciu konstruktora jednostka została przemianowana… Read More
Neither squad has been published by UEFA despite clubs around Europe revealing their own lists
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ON THIS DATE (16TH AUGUST) 103 YEARS AGO : AN IRISH FIGHTER IN A BRITISH 'COURT OF JUSTICE'.Pictured : Terence MacSwiney, his wife Muriel and their daughter, Máire, photographed in 19… Read More
ON THIS DATE (9TH AUGUST) 82 YEARS AGO : REVOLUTIONARY IRISHMAN EXECUTED BY THE STATERS.Ireland 1915 ; the Irish Volunteer Movement had split ; approximately 170,000 men stayed with John Red… Read More
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
Forty years of ParisIt is a long and feverishly agitated period that Mr Lonerganps's volume covers; and although devoid of striking portraiture and description, it certainly helps us to a cl… Read More
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
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 (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 (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
The height of the abstentionist movement in England was in the late 19th century. In 1882 the Blue Ribbon Army was established, who proclaimed their abhorrence of alcohol by wearing a br… Read More
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
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
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
ST. PATRICKS DAY 1858 AND THE IRISH STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM.Joseph Denieffe (pictured), one of the founders of the 'Irish Republican Brotherhood'.Born in Kilkenny City in 1833, Joseph Denieffe… Read More
* Copy courtesy of Scribe Publications * IntroBeowulf is an epic poem that is approximately 1,000 years old. Written in Old English, it has been translated many times, with varying interpret… Read More
A Royal Navy vessel sinks in calm weather along the Irish coast with the loss of most of the crew, along a route it had travelled many times before.HMS Wasp, pictured in 1880.Unknown, HMS Wa… Read More
ST. PATRICKS DAY 1858 AND THE IRISH STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM.Joseph Denieffe (left) , one of the founders of the 'Irish Republican Brotherhood'.Born in Kilkenny City in 1833 , Joseph Denieffe gr… Read More
ON THIS DATE (18TH SEPTEMBER) 168 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF AN IRISH HEROINE.'Anne Devlin was born in County Wicklow around the end of the 1770s into a nationalist family. In 1800, Anne met Rober… Read More
ON THIS DATE (9TH MAY) 190 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF AN IRISH REVOLUTIONARY, NOVELIST, POET AND JOURNALIST.Charles Joseph Kickham (pictured), an Irish revolutionary and a leadership figure in t… Read More
Thomas Fitzgerald’s review of Out of the Ashes by Robert W White appeared in the October issue of the Dublin Review of Books and is available here. Professor White’s respons… Read More