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The Great Assembly at Tara (Part 2)
Druid Lochra’s prophecy:
"A tailcenn (baldhead) will come over the raging sea, with his perforated garments, his crook-headed staff, with his table (altar) at the east end of his house, and all the people will answer 'Amen! Amen!"
Soon after Laoghaire Mac…
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Geneva Barracks: Death Camp in Waterford
In 1782, the ruling Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland were given countrywide self-rule by the British Parliament, greatly increasing the powers of the Irish Parliament, situated at College Green in Dublin. One of the first items addressed by the new parliament was the Trade Agreement that restricted what…
Added by John Anthony Brennan on January 9, 2019 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments
The Croppies
There once was a particularly dark time in Ireland when the length of a man's hair determined his fate. If his hair was shorn close to the scalp as opposed to the longer hairstyles of most of Europe at that time, he ran the risk of arrest,…
Added by John Anthony Brennan on January 5, 2019 at 6:30pm — No Comments
Treachery and Betrayal in South Armagh
Added by John Anthony Brennan on October 21, 2018 at 9:00am — 4 Comments
The Human Computer from Donegal
The next time you power up your computer or go to the rifle range, take aim and set your sights on a target off in the distance, knowing that you will hit the target, raise a glass to a ground-breaking Irishwoman from Donegal named Kathleen McNulty. She is one of the six original…
Added by John Anthony Brennan on October 6, 2018 at 3:30pm — No Comments
The Great Famine of 1315
Five hundred and thirty years before the death and devastation caused in 1847 by An Gorta Mor (The Great Hunger), Ireland suffered an equally horrific event that begun in 1315 and was the first in a series of large-scale disasters that devastated Europe in the 14th century. A continent-wide famine began with heavy rains in the spring of 1315 causing crop failures all…
Added by John Anthony Brennan on August 27, 2018 at 7:00pm — No Comments
'Out of the Ice: Ireland Then and Now'
Delighted to learn that my book “Out of the Ice: Ireland Then and Now” has been chosen as an "Award Winning Finalist in the History category of the 2018 International Book Awards."…
Added by John Anthony Brennan on May 27, 2018 at 8:00pm — 5 Comments
O'Reilly: Fenian, Rebel, Convict and Poet
Added by John Anthony Brennan on January 25, 2018 at 8:00am — 7 Comments
Life Along the Border in 1920s Ireland (A Short Story)
He'd had a narrow escape the day before. They had almost caught him and he was lucky that he managed to elude them. An icy cold sweat broke out on his furrowed brow as…
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An Gorta Mor: The Great Hunger
This year 2017, is the 170th anniversary of the ‘great Hunger’ that befell Ireland in 1847. Otherwise known as ‘an Gorta mor’ or more commonly referred to as ‘Black ‘47’ it was a seminal turning point in the long tortuous history of Ireland.With the failure of the potato crop due to a serious blight,…
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How the Ancient Irish Oral Tradition Was Saved From Extinction
On a cold, wet evening in 576 AD, a flotilla of small, wave-tossed, leather-covered boats with tattered cloth sails, came to rest on the rocky shores of Lough Foyle close to the modern-day town of Limavady in what is now County Derry, Ireland. Upon…
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The Destruction of Eamhain Mhacha
According to both oral and written traditions, at the beginning of the 4th century A.D., three brothers, known as the Three Collas, rebelled and killed their uncle, the high king of Ireland, Fíacha Sroiptine. This singular barbarous act started a chain of fateful events that would have a…
Added by John Anthony Brennan on August 13, 2017 at 10:00pm — 7 Comments
For Sinead and Other Kindred Spirits . . .
We Irish artists, descended, as we undoubtedly are from the tribe of Dannan, an ancient breed of mystics, are tasked with the unenviable mission of walking the invisible, fine line. It is a gift that enables us to transcend the mundane, and experience the world as we see and feel it, and know how it should be. We have…
ContinueAdded by John Anthony Brennan on August 10, 2017 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments
The History Behind Lughnasa
At the Ould Lammas Fair boys were you ever there
Were you ever at the Fair In Ballycastle-O?
Did you treat your Mary Ann
To some Dulse and Yellow Man
At the…
Added by John Anthony Brennan on August 1, 2017 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments
Ireland and the Spanish Armada: A Story of Survival
On a cold, stark night in August 1588, as a fierce gale subsided and the clouds slowly parted, light from a full autumn moon revealed a horrific scene strewn along the shoreline of Streedagh Strand in County Sligo, Ireland. The drowned corpses of 800 doomed sailors, washed up by the raging Atlantic Ocean waves, lay…
ContinueAdded by John Anthony Brennan on January 10, 2017 at 3:30pm — 14 Comments
The Founding of Royal Midhe
Most people today will tell you, if you ask, that there are four provinces in Ireland, namely, Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connaught. What many people are not aware of is the fact that in the distant past, there were actually five provinces, the fifth one being the province called Royal Mide.
At the…
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The Winter Solstice
This year’s shortest day of the year is on Wednesday, December 21, which will also mark the longest night of the year. Every year, the winter solstice marks the turn of the calendar as autumn ends and the winter begins. From an astronomical standpoint, the winter solstice means that the two opposite points in the…
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In Time for Christmas
'Christmas is coming; the goose is getting fat.
Please put a penny in the old mans’ hat.
If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will…
ContinueAdded by John Anthony Brennan on December 15, 2016 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments
The Slaughter at Magh Cru (Field of Blood)
The following story tells of a seminal event that took place in Ireland during the latter half of the first century A.D., and which set in motion a chain of events that would influence and forever change the political and economic landscapes of Ireland, Britain and Scotland. The event involved three kings, who together with…
Added by John Anthony Brennan on December 10, 2016 at 5:00pm — 6 Comments
John Winston Lennon: Gone But Not Forgotten
Dear John,
You were a rebel from the beginning and could not have been any other way. You got your survival instincts from your grandparents, who were from County Down, Ireland.
After you were born, during the Second World War in Liverpool England, you lived with your Mother, Julia.…
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