Archive for the ‘People’ Category
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Parnell, I suppose, was an aristocrat. His father was a Protestant Landowner, descended from a family of well-to-do merchants from Cheshire who had come to Ireland 200 years previously. A cousin was Viscount Powerscourt, descended from Sir Richard Wingfield who had been Marshall of the Queen’s Troops in Ireland 250 years earlier. The Powerscourts are [...]
Tags: Admiral Charles Stuart, Boycott, Captain Boycott, Captain William O'Shea, Charles Stuart Parnell, Gladstone, Ireland, Irish, Irish Land Act, Isaac Butt, Joe Biggar, Kitty O'Shea, Land League, ostracise, ostracism, Parnell, Phoenix Park murders, Powerscourt, Yeats
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Brian mac Cennétig (c. 941 – 1014). 940 AD is the most generally accepted date for the birth of Brian (the ‘Boru’, or Bóruma, suffix only came later, see below). He was originally, of course, Brian mac Cennétig, Brian son of Cennétig, and his father was Cennétig mac Lorcain. He was born at Kincora, Killaloe, about twenty miles [...]
Tags: 1014, 941, Brian Boru, Cennetig, History, Ireland, Irish, Killaloe, Kincora, Limerick, Sigtrygg Silkbeard, Thomond, Vikings
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
To buy the whole book as an eBook (mobi for Kindles, epub for Apple and other devices, and most other formats) for just $5, click HERE. By the time he was nine years old he had progressed to books like Captain Cook’s ‘Voyages round the World’. He used to run away and take his book [...]
Tags: Daniel O Connell, Douai, Ireland, Irish, St. Omer
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
To buy the whole book as an eBook (mobi for Kindles, epub for Apple and other devices, and most other formats) for just $5, click HERE. It was a balmy August Sunday, the 6th. day of that month in 1775, the day Catherine O’Connell was brought to bed of her second child. Morgan and she had [...]
Tags: Daniel O Connell, Derrynane, Ireland, Irish, Kerry
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Chapter 2. Meath and Dublin I was born in 1737, at the Jenkins house near Drewstown in County Meath. That was because my father was an ironmonger in Dublin, with premises in Charlotte Street. Infant mortality was high in Dublin in those days, due to the generally poor sanitary arrangements, and the chances of survival [...]
Tags: 1798, invasion, Ireland, Irish, Napper Tandy
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
There are conflicting views as to who St. Patrick really was. The most recent and increasingly consensual view is based on the Latin document “Confessio”. Essentially this is an autobiography, and it is generally accepted as having been written by St. Patrick.
Tags: History, Ireland, Irish, St Patrick
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