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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
... in the superb and immensely readable "The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849", by Cecil Woodham-Smith. The first paragraph sets the tone: At the beginning of 1845, the state of Ireland was as it had been for nearly seven hundred years, a source of grave ...
Emmett McIntyre - Oct 21 2017 - 8:33pm
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Negative Foster refuses to support an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland
... launch of her party's election campaign for the Northern Ireland Assembly election she said she would not be supporting the introduction of an Irish Language Act. No surprise there as hostility to Ireland’s indigenous ethnicity including the Gaelic language is deeply ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Feb 6 2017 - 9:05pm - 0 comments
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Ireland: National Famine Commemoration at Glasnevin Cemetery
... Commemoration took place today at Glasnevin Cemetery, in Ireland's capital Dublin. Irish President Michael D Higgins unveiled a Celtic cross memorial to Ireland's one million Famine dead following the failure of the potato crop. At ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Oct 1 2016 - 2:45pm - 0 comments
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The Struggle For The Irish Language Unites All Of Ireland - Demonstration Planned for Belfast
... Irish speaking community. Attracting people from all over Ireland, the “Lá Mór na Gaeilge” (A Great Day Of Irish) was seen as both a celebration of the ...
Emmett McIntyre - Feb 22 2014 - 2:44pm - 0 comments
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Remembering Constance Markievicz staunch Irish Republican who played integral role in birth of modern Ireland
... who was to play an integral role in the birth of modern Ireland. Born Constance Gore-Booth in Lissadell, Co. Sligo on February 4, 1868. ... had already led to her joining Sinn Féin and Inghinidhe na hÉireann ('Daughters of Ireland'), a radical Irish nationalist women's ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Feb 13 2021 - 2:22pm
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On a Second Referendum - Call for the Union of an Independent Scotland and Ireland
... form of union between the republic, an independent Northern Ireland and an independent Scotland, a union which could be of benefit to the ... the title “Agenda – Should an Independent Scotland and Ireland Consider a Union”, the author speculates on the impact of ...
Emmett McIntyre - Apr 4 2017 - 2:43am
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Sleight of hand by BBC on International Women's Day attempt to erase Ireland's Countess Markievicz from history
... that part of the 1918 general election which took place in Ireland. In 1918 the whole of Ireland was a part of the so-called United Kingdom of Great Britain and ...
Alastair Kneale - Mar 9 2019 - 4:57pm
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St Patrick's Day celebrated in Ireland and in many places around the world
... Saint Patrick is the primary patron saint of Ireland and Saint Patrick's Day was oberved yesterday 17 March, which is said to be the date of his death. Celebrated inside and outside Ireland as a religious and cultural holiday, it is also a celebration of ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Mar 18 2019 - 1:50pm
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Subverting Ireland’s Lisbon Treaty Protocols to Allow Supranational EU Law on Same-Sex Marriage Throughout Europe
... This news published by the Celtic League: Subverting Ireland’s Lisbon Treaty Protocols to Allow Supranational EU Law on Same-Sex ... would alter the politico-legal effect AT EU LEVEL of one of Ireland’s Lisbon Treaty Protocols. These were sold to the people in the ...
Myghal Map Serpren - May 16 2015 - 11:08pm - 0 comments
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Irish leader visits and thanks Choctaw Native American community for their generosity to Ireland during the Great Famine
Alastair Kneale's blog Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister) is undertaking his customary visit to the ... of the Great Famine, the Choctaw community sent $170 to Ireland to help the poor and the starving. This at a time when the native ... of thousands of dollars today. The Great Famine in Ireland was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland ...
Alastair Kneale - Mar 12 2018 - 11:26am
