January 2025 Blog Posts (5)

This Week in the History of the Irish: January 26 - February 1

Thomas Charles Wright

DOMHNAIGH -- On January 26, 1799, Thomas Charles Wright, an officer…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: January 19 - January 25

LUAIN -- On January 20, 1771, Don Hugo O'Conor was named Commandant Inspector of New Spain (Mexico). O'Conor was born into a Jacobite family in Dublin in December 1734. The family name was most likely originally spelled O'Connor and changed as…

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Civil War General John “Black Jack” Logan: “The Radiant Incarnation of War.”

It was mid-afternoon of July 22, 1864, and the Confederate infantry of General Cheatham’s Corps of John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee was breaking through the Federal…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: January 12 - January 18

DOMHNAIGH -- On January 12, 1729, Edmund Burke, one of the greatest political writers and orators in history, was born in Arran Quay, Dublin. Burke was the son of a mixed marriage -- his mother was Catholic, and his father Protestant. Burke…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: January 5 - January 11

DOMHNAIGH -- On Jan. 5, 1871, the British in a general amnesty released 30 Fenian prisoners. Most of these prisoners were men who had either been swept up by the British in 1865,…

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Added by The Wild Geese on January 4, 2025 at 6:30pm — No Comments

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