It is generally accepted that the term ‘Home Rule’ is a nation’s desire to self-government without outside interference. To cover this subject in Irish history, it is necessary to go back many centuries…
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DOMHNAIGH -- On March 23, 1862, Irish-born Union General James Shields (left: pictured during the…
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Left to right: Harry Boland, Michael Collins, and Eamon de Valera |
LUAIN -- On March 9, 1932…
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Currier and Ives Robert Emmet stands defiant before the judge at his trial. |
MÁIRT -- On March 4, 1778,…
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Hulton Deutsch Roger Casement being led out of Pentonville Prison, where he would later be hanged. |
DOMHNAIGH -- On February 23, 1965, Irish patriot…
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Belfast Central Library Sir Edward Carson, leader of the Ulster's resistance to Home Rule. |
DOMHNAIGH -- On February 9, 1854, Sir Edward Henry Carson, Unionist politician, was…
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Originally published on November 01, 2006.
Former IRA commander and author Ernie O'Malley left the people of Ireland, indeed the world, a rich legacy, in political conviction, principled action, recorded memory, and commitment to the…
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From Easter 1916 until the bitter end of the Civil War, County Kerry was embroiled in bloody conflict. Now, for the first time in…
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'The Rough Riders' by Theodore Roosevelt (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899) Capt. Buckey O'Neill, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry |
DOMHNAIGH -- On February 2, 1860, William O.…
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Born near Kill, County Kildare, in 1842, John Devoy would go on to become a man described by the London Times as ‘the most dangerous enemy of this country [Britain] Ireland has produced since Wolfe Tone’. His republican career began when, as a teenager, he met the Young Irelander John…
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Library of Congress Simón Bolívar, the South American revolutionary who inspired Thomas Charles Wright. |
LUAIN -- On January 26, 1799, Thomas Charles Wright, an officer in…
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Waterford City, Ireland - From his perch as rector of the Irish College of St. Isidore in Rome, Waterford-born Franciscan Friar Luke Wadding welcomed a steady stream of refugees from the land of his birth - men forced to leave Ireland to pursue their vocations. He came to understand…
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Photo courtesy St. Isidore's Church St. Patrick, from a mural that overlooks the tomb of Luke Wadding at St. Isidore's Church, Via degli Artisti, Rome.… |
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MÁIRT -- On January 20, 1771, Don Hugo O'Conor (left) was named Commandant Inspector of New Spain. O'Conor was born into a…
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Edmund Burke c. 1767/69, by Joshua Reynolds |
DOMHNAIGH -- On January 12, 1729, Edmund Burke, one of the greatest political writers and orators in history, was born in…
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National Museum of Ireland The 'Cuba 5.' From the left: Devoy, Charles Underwood O'Connell, Henry Mulleda, Rossa, and John McClure. |
DOMHNAIGH -- On Jan. 5, 1871, the British…
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WGT photo by Joe Gannon Carriganuss Castle, an O'Sullivan castle just outside of Glengariff |
MÁIRT -- On December 31, 1602, Dónall…
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Linen Hall Library A 17th century portrait of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. |
MÁIRT -- On December 24, 1601,…
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(First published in 1998) Joseph Gannon's review of Terry Golway's book
Revolution has usually been a young man's game. John Devoy was definitely an exception to this rule; -- a man who lived to a very old age, through times…
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National Library of Ireland. Gen. Richard Mulcahy in the uniform of the Irish Free State. |
MÁIRT -- On Dec. 16, 1971, soldier and politician General Richard Mulcahy died in…
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