Rebel Posted by That’s Just How It Was on March 12, 2020 at 10:00a
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Martha “Matilda “ Tone [ wife of Theobald Wolfe Tone] was born in Dublin to Catherine Witherington [née Fanning]. Records show that her father was listed as a Woolen Draper, a Wine Merchant and a merchant between the years 1768 – 1793, some sources claim that he was a Lieutenant in…..
HERITAGE PARTNER Posted by That’s Just How It Was on March 17, 2020 at 10:32am View Blog
As a child running around the garden’s and fields in Wolfe Tone Square where I was raised ,playing with friends on the Bray Head that rose above the Town of Bray .. I was always fascinated by Butterflies and their…..
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Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in 1763,… Descendant from French Protestant family who fled Religious Prosecution in the mid-16th century. One branch of the Tone family settled in Dublin….Peter Tone , the son of one of these descendants , and Wolfe Tones father [ !! ] . was. a Church of Ireland Coach Maker and Tone;s [snr] father owned a Farm near Sallins Co Kildare.. Baptised Theobald Wolfe Tone,…..
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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HERITAGE PARTNER Irish-Born James Barry, UK’s First Transgender Physician
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…..