ON THIS DATE (18TH OCTOBER) 232 YEARS AGO - 'REFORM DEMANDED FOR ALL'.On the 18th October 1791 - 232 years ago on this date - a group of socially-minded Protestants, Anglicans and Presbyteri… Read More

ON THIS DATE (20TH SEPTEMBER) 220 YEARS AGO : 'DARLING OF ERIN' BUTCHERED BY WESTMINSTER.Robert Emmet was born on the 4th March, 1778, a son of Dr Robert Emmet and Elizabeth Mason. His fat… Read More

ON THIS DATE (13TH SEPTEMBER) 87 YEARS AGO : TWENTY-FOUR YEAR OLD IRISH REPUBLICAN KILLS HIMSELF OVER MENTAL TORTURE BY FREE STATERS.'In fond and loving memory of Seán Glynn, Captain… Read More

ON THIS DATE (6TH SEPTEMBER) 83 YEARS AGO : REPUBLICANS EXECUTED BY DE VALERA.Tom Harte and Paddy McGrath (pictured), two Irish republicans executed on the 6th September 1940 - 83 years ago… Read More

ON THIS DATE (2ND AUGUST) 101 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF "AN INFLUENTIAL AND FORMIDABLE" IRISH REPUBLICAN SOLDIER.Henry James 'Harry' Boland (27th April 1887 – 2nd August 1922). "I rise to s… Read More

ON THIS DATE (23RD AUGUST) 225 YEARS AGO : A FRENCH BATTLECRY ON IRISH SOIL."UNION, LIBERTY, THE IRISH REPUBLIC!"- the words and ideals proclaimed in Ballina, County Mayo, on the 23rd August… 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

Did you know that there is a famous missing horse case that is still open? The case surrounds Shergar, a stunning racehorse from Ireland that won two major races and stole the hearts of many… Read More

ON THIS DATE (26TH JULY) 109 YEARS AGO : HOWTH GUNS AND A BRITISH MASSACRE ON THE DUBLIN QUAYS.'A nationalist depiction of the shootings at Bachelor's Walk, in which British troops killed th… Read More

A splash of pomp and a dose of politics are on the agenda throughout a stopover go to to the U.Ok. the place President Joe Biden will talk about the setting with King Charles III … Read More

ON THIS DATE (7TH JUNE) 102 YEARS AGO : TWO IRA MEN EXECUTED BY WESTMINSTER.Patrick Maher (left), executed by the British on the 7th of June 1921 - 102 years ago on this date. Ned Foley, exe… Read More

ON THIS DATE (24TH MAY) 82 YEARS AGO : 'DRAFT RIOTS' AS WESTMINSTER PUSHES FOR CONSCRIPTION IN IRELAND.In Ireland, in 1941, conscription was again being discussed in Westminster ; this time… 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 (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

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 (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

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

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 (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

Every ghost town has a story. Maybe people left because of an economic collapse. Perhaps they perished in a natural disaster. Something even more sinister may have happened. From “The… 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

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

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

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

SPEAK-TRUTH-TO-POWER Speak Truth to Power Yesterday was three years to the day that my friend, colleague and fellow National Union of Jour… Read More

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