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On this day, May 23, in 1798, the United Irishman rebellion, led by Wolfe Tone began. In memory, we look back at the ferocious life of the rebellion's heroine Betsy Gray.
May 22 marks the birthday of Betty Williams, one of the most inspiring figures from the Northern Ireland Peace Process and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize with Mairead Corrigan.
The Walk to the Stone, on May 27, will be attended by the Dublin Mayor. Soon the Canadian city could be celebrating a long fought for Great Hunger memorial.
Central work of the mythological Ulster cycle re-enacted by a dedicated group who trace the route of the magical journey over 150 miles from Roscommon to Louth.
Trying to find your Irish ancestors or delve deeper into your family's history and genealogy? The Genealogy Event is August 30 - September 1, 2018, in Adare, Co. Limerick.
"I lit a candle for little Maggie and all the other little Maggies overlooking us... the intriguing truth is that she knows well what you wrote about her."
Rebecca A. Fried, a high-school student at the Sidwell Friends school in Washington, DC, found overwhelming evidence that the No Irish Need Apply signs were very real and very prevalent.
The biggest manhunt in the NYPD history took place in the summer of 1977 when the serial killer who called himself Son of Sam terrorized New York City. Irish detective Timothy Dowd was the one who cracked the case.
Former Maine police officer Kevin Battle always knew he was adopted but did not know that he had been forcibly taken from his mother in Ireland when she attempted to escape from a Mother and Baby Home.
On this day in 1847, "The Liberator" died in Genoa, Italy. An Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century, O’Connell campaigned for Catholic emancipation.
From 1845 – 51 hundreds of thousands of Irish, in desperate need of aid, landed in coffin ships on the shores of North America. Those Irish who fled the Great Hunger is still remembered today around the country.
Tánaiste Coveney will also launch the Great Irish Famine Online, a new digital resource that charts in detailed information the changes in the social, political and economic landscape of pre- and post-Famine Ireland.
Correspondents for local paper the Cork Examiner spoke about how the general feeling among the people in rural Cork was one of doom and that they would all be eventually found dead, abandoning normal funeral practices as death rates skyrocketed.
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