All Blog Posts Tagged 'Europe' (259)

This Week in the History of the Irish: May 11 - May 17

DOMHNAIGH -- On May 11, 1745, the Irish Brigade of France, whose soldiers are most identified in Irish history as …

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This Week in the History of the Irish: May 4 - May 10

The National Library of Ireland

Willie Pearse

DOMHNAIGH -- On May 4, 1916, the British executed …

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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 27 - May 3

DOMHNAIGH -- On April 27, 1779 Irish-born (County Donegal) U.S. Navy Capt. Gustavus Conyngham ,…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 19 - April 26

DOMHNAIGH -- On April 20, 1772, William Lawless, revolutionary and officer in Napolean's Irish…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 13 - April 19

MÁIRT -- On April 15, 1848, in Dublin, Thomas Francis Meagher presented the tricolor national flag of Ireland to the public for the first time at a meeting of the Young Ireland Party. Meagher had recently gone to Paris with an Irish delegation sent to…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 6 - April 13

MÁIRT -- On April 7, 1865, …

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This Week in the History of the Irish: March 30 - April 5

DOMHNAIGH -- On March 30, 1873, Richard Church (left), of County Cork, soldier, sometimes called the "liberator of Greece," died in Athens. Church was born in Cork in 1784. As a young man, he ran off to join the British army. As ensign in the 13th (Somersetshire) Light…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: March 23 - March 29

DOMHNAIGH -- On March 23, 1862, Irish-born Union …

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This Week in the History of the Irish: March 16 - March 22

DOMHNAIGH -- On March 16, 1828, Patrick Cleburne, one of the finest generals produced by either side during America's long, bloody civil war was born at Bride Park Cottage in Ovens Township, Co. Cork, just outside Cork City. Robert E. Lee would one day say…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: March 9 - March 15

Left to right: Harry Boland, Michael Collins, and Eamon de Valera

DOMHNAIGH -- On March 9, 1932, Eamon de Valera formed his first Free…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: February 2 - February 8

DOMHNAIGH -- On February 2, 1860, William O. 'Buckey' O'Neill, sheriff, politician, and one of …

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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 in …

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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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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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This Week in the History of the Irish: December 8 - December 14

DOMHNAIGH -- On December 8, 1831, James Hoban, the architect of the White House, died in Washington, D.C. Hoban, a native of County Kilkenny, was educated as an artist by Thomas Ivory in Dublin. He worked as one of the architects on a number of…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: December 1 - December 7

DOMHNAIGH -- On December 1, 1901, Fenian Thomas Clarke Luby died in New York. Luby was born in Dublin in 1821. He was the son of a…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: November 17 - November 23

DOMHNAIGH -- On Nov. 17, 1814, Joseph Finegan, a Confederate general in the …

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This Week in the History of the Irish: November 10 - November 16

DOMHNAIGH -- On November 10, 1896, Lady Mary Heath (born Sophie Catherine Pierce), pioneer aviator and athlete, was born in Newcastlewest, County Limerick. Sophie was brought up in Newcastlewest and Dublin, where she attended a boarding school. At the outbreak of World War…

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This Week in the History of the Irish: October 13 - October 19

LUAIN -- On Oct. 14, 1814, Thomas Osborne Davis, the poet laureate of the Young Ireland party and one of its founders, was born in Mallow, Co. Cork. Like many other revolutionary Irish leaders, Davis was of an Anglo-Irish family; his father was a British army surgeon. He graduated from Trinity College and was called to the bar in 1838, but he never practiced.

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This Week in the History of the Irish: September 22 - September 28

MÁIRT -- On September 24, 1798, United Irishman Bartholomew Teeling was executed in Dublin. Teeling was the son of wealthy linen merchant in Lisburn, County Antrim. His father was involved in both the Defender and United Irish movement and Bartholomew and his brother joined…

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