Added by Ryan O'Rourke on August 7, 2014 at 6:30am — 4 Comments
Ireland in the 1650s lay in ruins. Twelve years of calamitous warfare had destroyed the country's infrastructure and resulted in the death of over 20% of the Irish population.
In August 1649 the New Model Army, led by Oliver Cromwell, went to Ireland to re-occupy the country following the Irish Rebellion of…
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A priceless film archive which includes extensive footage of the Easter Rising and its aftermath has been released online by British Pathé.
The multimedia resource has made its entire archive, consisting of 3,500 hours of coverage on 85,000 films, available on YouTube. For…
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April 23, 2014 will mark the 1,000th anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf. The battle was fought between the forces of Brian Boru and the forces led by the King of Leinster, Máel Mórda mac Murchada: composed mainly of his own men, Viking mercenaries from Dublin and the…
ContinueAdded by Ryan O'Rourke on April 10, 2014 at 4:30am — 2 Comments
The Desmond Fitzgerald Photographs, a stunning collection of 179 photos is now available to view on the University College Dublin Digital Library website. This collection of photographic prints forms part of the papers of Desmond FitzGerald. The majority of these photographs arise out of the…
ContinueAdded by Ryan O'Rourke on February 17, 2014 at 4:30am — 5 Comments
On New Year's Eve of 1602, Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare (Domhnall Cam Ó Súilleabháin Bhéara), Chieftain of the great O'Sullivan clan of west Cork and 1,000 others from the area over which he ruled set out on one of the most harrowing and brutal treks in the history of Ireland. Of…
ContinueAdded by Ryan O'Rourke on December 30, 2013 at 1:30pm — 10 Comments
Check out this absolutely brilliant history of Ireland in six minutes created by Wild Geese member …
Added by Ryan O'Rourke on October 15, 2013 at 3:00am — 8 Comments
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