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A wonderful website, particularly the short history of Ireland. Not just useful for Irish Americans, but for any Irishman there are plenty of useful facts or forgotten nuggets of our heritage.
did not earn any major level of suffrage or the right to election until 1829 when Daniel O’Connell’s election in County Clare forced through the Catholic Emancipation
Born in Mayo in 1865. MacBride travelled to America in 1896 to further the aims of the I. R. B., thereafter travelling to South Africa where he raised the Irish Transvaal Brigade to fight agains...
Maude Gonne in 1903. During the Rising, he fought at the Jabob’s factory. MacBride was father of Irish Nobel Peace prizewinner and one time militant Republican Sean
to fight against the English during the Second Boer War where as happened too often in history, Irish fought Irish. He married the Irish nationalist and one time W.B. Yeats lover Maude Gonne in ...
https://todayinirishhistory.com/2011/12/15/yeats-nobel-prize/#comment-12566
born St. Clair A Mulholland reports on the activities of the Irish Brigade at Chancellorsville. The battle would be fought
1969: Terence O’Neill, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland resigns.
https://todayinirishhistory.com/2012/01/14/sean-lemass-and-terence-oneill-meet/#comment-12308
artist Daniele Maclise’s portrayal of the Duke of Wellington meeting with German ally Blucher after
as Prime Minister he steered through the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 under pressure from Daniel O’Connell which allowed Catholics (with restrictions) become Members of