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On Good Friday, April 21st, 1916, a very young and excited Colm Ó Lochlainn, a captain in the Irish Volunteers, set out that morning in Dublin on his bike, knowing that he would be…..
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Dr. James Miranda Stuart Barry was born Margaret Ann Bulkley. Her parents were thought to be Jeremiah and Mary-Ann Bulkley. However, there is some speculation about the biological father. Barry’s place of birth…..
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“Our past shapes us and makes us what we are” was a favorite adage of my late grand-mother. To qualify this, she would add, “My tough background gave me strength of character which enable me to cope with what life had in store for me…” For…..
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HERITAGE PARTNER Robert Erskine Childers {Erskine} 25th June 1870 – 24 Nov1922 – was born in Mayfair London the second son in a family of five children – to Robert Caesar Childers and Anna Mary Henrietta Barton. His father was an oriental scholar…..
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William Thomas (Liam) Cosgrave was not one of the iconic figures of the early 1900s, nor indeed was he a man who had any real status of leadership in the 1916 Rising, although he was a chief adviser to Eamonn…..
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A controversial figure from a very early age in Irish politics and journalism, Arthur Griffith has been noted by some source’s in history, as a man who courted controversy. While he was a great orator, and not a monarchist himself, he struggled…..
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James Connolly said of “Big” Jim Larkin, his colleague in the labour movement: “We have amongst us a man of genius, of splendid vitality, great in his conceptions, magnificent in his courage.” George Bernard Shaw described him as “the greatest Irishman since Parnell.”
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Alice Milligan (1866-1953) was born into a middle-class Methodist family, one of 11 children. (Some sources would suggest that there were 13 children.) Her father was Seaton Milligan, a writer, poet, antiquary, member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA),…..
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One of the most iconic figures that emerged out of the Easter Rising was Michael Collins. Born in 1890, he was the third son in a family of eight children. Some sources would suggest that the Collins family were part of a very ancient clan who were widely spread over County Cork.
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Shamrock: The National Emblem of Ireland The shamrock is thought by many Irish people globally, to be grown exclusively in Ireland, in Irish soil. Some sources would argue that this is a myth however and was perpetrated by entrepreneurial business people and owes more to their marketing wizardry rather than to horticulture truth. Their wizardry was used to sell the shamrock as an Irish idiom, rather than it being a fact. The shamrock…..