ON THIS DATE (30TH AUGUST) 182 YEARS AGO : A NEW NATIONALIST VOICE IS 'PRESSED' INTO ACTION.The front page of the first copy of 'The Cork Examiner' newspaper (pictured), which was produced… Read More
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
IRELAND, 1921 : THE IRA "EXPRESSED A WISH TO MEET THEM IN AN OPEN FIGHT SOON.."
On the 6th of May, 1921, IRA Commandant Michael J. Marren, who was in command of at least forty Volunteers (… 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
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 (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
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
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 (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
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
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
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
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 (20TH JANUARY) 100 YEARS AGO : CLARE IRA AMBUSH BRITISH FORCES.On the 20th January 1921 - 100 years ago on this date - over thirty men of the East Clare Brigade of the IRA ambus… Read More
"IT IS MY DUTY TO TELL YOU WHAT I BELIEVE SHOULD BE DONE..""Because I believe these things I will always stick to them, but I do not want to force any other person to believe as I do. Let ev… 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 (10TH APRIL) 96 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF IRA GENERAL, LIAM LYNCH.'Liam Lynch was born in Barnagurraha, Co Limerick. He joined the Irish Volunteers after witnessing the arrests of th… Read More
ON THIS DATE (19TH DECEMBER) 141 YEARS AGO : 'FATHER OF THE IRISH LAND LEAGUE' RELEASED FROM A BRITISH PRISON AFTER SEVEN YEARS INCARCERATION.On Wednesday, 19th December 1877 - 141 years ago… 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