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On the day Dáil Eireann assembled for the first time on January 21, 1919, across the Irish Sea four Irish men were escaping from a Welsh prison: Frank Shouldice, Joe McGrath, George Geraghty and Barney Mellows.
His eerie prediction about Donald Trump, his first visit to Ireland, his romance with Madonna; just some of the stories about JFK Jr not generally known.
A food and culinary historian has released research on a study into Ireland’s diet in the fifth century as it made the transition from a Pagan to a Christian society. This reveals the foods St Patrick would have eaten when he was in the country.
On October 18, 1919, De Valera, while touring the US as the President of the Irish Republic, was adopted as an honorary chieftain of the nation during a visit to their reservation in Wisconsin.
Traditionally in Ireland, every January 6 the women of Ireland, who have worked so hard over Christmas, are celebrated throughout the country on Nollaig na mBan, aka Little Christmas or The Feast of the Epiphany.
On this day (Jan 5) in 1922 the amazing adventurer, Ernest Shackleton, passed away on the Falkland Islands aged just 47. What he did with his life simply legendary.
The curious tale of how an Irishman who had returned home, just after the Great Famine, built himself a castle and an eccentric inventor’s workshop in County Cork.
