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1. Kilclooney More Court and Portal Tombs

   ... the R261 road on the Loughrea Peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland (Contae Dhún na nGall, Éire). There are court and portal tombs in ... about 1.8 metres in height. There is a backstone and another stone on top supporting the roofstone. Pieces of Neolithic pottery at this site ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - May 16 2021 - 8:30pm

2. Eamon de Valera's audacious escape from English prison 100 years ago

   ... (14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975), a leading figure in Ireland's fight for independence, made an audacious escape from Lincoln Gaol in ... was launched by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic. During the Rising he ...

   Eibhlin O'Neill - Feb 4 2019 - 9:54pm

3. Irish Neolithic logboat discovered in River Boyne

   ... of a prehistoric logboat in the River Boyne (An Bhóinn) in Ireland. A sample of the wood has now been radiocarbon dated to between ... 4m long and shaped out of the trunk of an oak tree using stone implements. The boats were used in Ireland for transport and fishing ...

   Eibhlin O'Neill - Nov 24 2018 - 1:34pm

4. Calls for Sinn Féin to take seats in British parliament wrong

   ... from constituencies in the Six Counties in the north of Ireland. Quite rightly, Sinn Féin has always contested general elections in the north of Ireland on the basis of abstentionism. As the political voice of nationalism in ...

   Eibhlin O'Neill - Nov 28 2018 - 2:35pm

5. Lesson From 'The Emerald Isle'

   ... in thrall to them sounds almost like Mann today but it was Ireland before the banking collapse. In this article Eibhlin O'Neill says ... Paradoxically the Manx government were recently in Ireland on a ‘fact-finding’ mission over the plans for their EDF what they ...

   Eibhlin O'Neill - Jan 28 2016 - 1:19pm - 0 comments

6. Opposition to controversial hydro scheme at Glencoe continues

   ... choice, Alasdair MacIain, the Chief of Glencoe, came to Fort Willliam on 31 December 1691 to take the oath. However, he was informed ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Feb 18 2019 - 8:29pm

7. Celtic League at Frongoch 1916 Commemoration

   ... part of Welsh and Irish history, although well-known in Ireland is little known in Wales. To mark the centenary of the arrival of the ... in the 1916 Rising in Dublin but were arrested from all over Ireland. Their time in Frongoch together was invaluable in raising morale, ...

   Alastair Kneale - Oct 2 2016 - 3:40pm - 0 comments

8. British clandestine security service MI5 planned terrorist assassination plot on Irish political leader

   ... rule" is the informal name given to laws in the Republic of Ireland, that under the 1986 National Archives Act, allows certain government ... an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in the north-east of Ireland. The other main loyalist paramilitary group is the Ulster Defence ...

   Eibhlin O'Neill - Jan 1 2018 - 8:33pm

9. Hill of Tara - Cnoc na Teamhrach

   ... ceremonial and burial site near Skryne, County Meath, Ireland (Irish: Scrín Cholm Cille, Contae na Mí, Éire). It contains a number ... and Farradh and in the middle of Forradh is a standing stone, Lia Fail where it is said that the High Kings were crowned. North ...

   Transceltic team - May 24 2021 - 10:05pm

10. Scottish crannogs thousands of years older than previously thought

    ... the waters of lochs, rivers and sea inlets of Scotland and Ireland. On these island were built ancient loch dwellings, known as crannogs. ... being piled onto the loch bed to make an island onto which a stone dwelling was then built.  There are many hundreds of such crannogs in ...

    Douglas MacQueen - Jun 18 2019 - 10:34pm

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