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Heritage Partner Jennie Wyse-Power: Entrepreneur, Revolutionary, Treaty Supporter
Jane [Jennie] Wyse-Power nee O'Toole was born in Baltinglass, County Wicklow, in 1856 to Edward And Mary O’Toole [nee Norton]. Her father owned his own business and before she was two years of age her father had sold his business and moved the family to Dublin. Some sources say she attended attended Warrenmount National School or the Loreto Day School Dublin.
Pictured, 'Liberty Girls,' with Wyse-Power in the…
ContinueAdded by That's Just How It Was on August 5, 2015 at 8:00am — 5 Comments
Surname August
Recorded in the spellings of August and Augustine, and the more popular Austin and Austen, this is a medieval surname of biblical and Roman origins. Introduced into Europe in the 12th century by the returning Crusaders from the Holy Land, the derivation is from the pre-Christian "Augustus," meaning venerable or sacred. The name was particularly popular on the continent where it was and still is, associated with St. Augustine and the monasteries that he founded in the 7th century, but less so…
ContinueAdded by Dee Notaro on August 3, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments
Clare's Quin Abbey, Among Ireland's Hidden Sacred Ground
Throughout Ireland's lovely and storied countryside, visitors can find magnificent religious sites that are a testament to Ireland's glorious and tragic history. Some of the best known include the Rock of Cashel, St. Kevin's Monastery at Glendalough, and the ancient university of Clonmacnoise.
But in addition to these…
ContinueAdded by Michael Quane on August 2, 2015 at 11:00am — 13 Comments
This Week in the History of the Irish: August 2 - August 8
DOMHNAIGH-- In the early morning hours of August 2, 1943, a small American torpedo boat was moving just west of New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. In command was a young Irish-American destined to one day be the first Catholic…
Added by The Wild Geese on August 1, 2015 at 6:00pm — No Comments
100 Years Ago, From the Ashes of Rossa Rise the Phoenix of 1916
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was born Jeremiah O'Donovan in Reenascreena, County Cork, on 10 September 1831. While he was the son of tenant farmers, the family could trace their ancestry back to nobler days when, before the English confiscation of Irish land, they had held the parish of Kilmeen. (The honorary title "Rossa" came…
Added by Neil F. Cosgrove on August 1, 2015 at 10:30am — 4 Comments
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