irish history
irish history
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by Russell Shortt - 2008-11-14
Grace O'Malley, Granuaile, Ghrainne Mhaol, The Sea Queen of Connaught - she was known by many monikers - she was a pirate, seafarer, trader and chieftain in sixteenth century Ireland. She was born in...
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by Russell Shortt - 2008-11-14
The Tudor conquest of Ireland was embarked upon, in order to protect England's exposed Western flank in a new Europe divided by religion. However, even after victory in the Nine Years War, the conque...
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by Russell Shortt - 2008-11-14
Thomas Francis Meagher was born in 1823 in Waterford, Ireland. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare and Stoneyhurst College, Lancashire, England. In 1844 he moved to Dublin with the...
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by Russell Shortt - 2008-11-14
After the failed Young Irelanders Rebellion of 1848, many of the movement's leaders made their way to New York. They sought to form an Irish Brigade to free Ireland from British control, they began t...
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by Russell Shortt - 2008-11-14
In a proclamation issued in 1625, it was ordered that Irish political prisoners be transported across the Atlantic and sold as slaves to English planters who were at that time settling the islands of...
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by Russell Shortt - 2008-11-14
George Thomas was born in Tipperary, Ireland, he joined the British Navy when he was just a boy. By the age of twenty-five he had risen to the rank of quartermaster. In 1782 while the ship on which h...
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by Russell Shortt - 2008-11-14
Countess Markiewicz was born as Constance Gore-Booth in 1868 in London. Her father had an estate at Lissadell in the north of County Sligo, Ireland; the children grew up there and Constance and her s...
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by Russell Shortt - 2008-11-14
Ambrose O'Higgins was born in Ballynary, Co. Sligo in 1720. The O'Higgins family had possessed large swathes of land but lost them all in the wake of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. In 1751, Amb...
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by Russell Shortt - 2008-11-14
Napoleon's Irish Legion was created in August 1803 with a view to spearheading an invasion of Ireland. Napoleon thought that the force would be regarded as a liberating force rather than an invading ...
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by Sarah Maple-11606 - 2009-03-18
Like all good Saints days, Saint Patricks is shrouded in mythology and speculation which does little to harm his reputation as being a real swell guy to raise our glasses to. The legend of the snake...
