Ireland has a centuries-old, rich and proud history defending its people and attempting to take back control of the Island for the native population (predominantly Roman Catholics) from Britain. The countless men who have fearlessly mounted this defense have been elevated to iconic status. Nonetheless, no matter how wonderful, brave, and pioneering women have been throughout Irish history, they have never been elevated to the same level as their male counterparts.
One such woman was Honora (Nano) Nagle, known as the “Lady of the…..
A heroine, beyond any doubt, our own Irish Joan of Arc, was Betsy Grey .. a folk hero to all of Ulster, with both Loyalist and Republicans claiming her as their own, due to the facts that she was a known to be a Presbyterian…with links to the United Irishman, an non -sectarian Organization, because her father, brother and her fiancé William Boal, were all members this organization.. Her father was Hans Gray, [a widower]…..
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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 many, our past is in another country. As we live life, we experience many different things along…..
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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…..
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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.”
In 1913,…..