the final end of the Irish nation was at hand, unless they acted dramatically to call back the nation’s soul from the very shadow of death. Continue reading
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Féile Bríde 2016
Remembering the women of the 1916 Dublin rising. Continue reading
John Ford, Ireland 1916 Easter Rising Film Night
International film historian Charles Barr charts a pivotal moment in Ireland’s Independence, Continue reading
Death or Liberty – an Australian/Irish documentary
‘Death or liberty, and a ship to take us home’ was the catch cry of the largely Irish convicts ——- who staged the Castle Hill rebellion in NSW in 1804: Continue reading
‘Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky..’
Dublin was full of mourning, and on the faces one met there was a hard brightness of pain… Continue reading
Globalising the Rising: 1916 in context
the 1916 Rising was watched closely by radicals and aspirant revolutionaries as far away as India and Russia Continue reading
Celts at the British Museum
The objects presented here give a sense of peering through chinks in remote historical time, gaining privileged glimpses of a little known world. Continue reading
Celtic Mythology Short Story Competition,
Celtic mythology or folklore must be a fundamental element of the story Continue reading
Clann MacKenna International Gathering
A two-day International Clann Gathering will be held in the heart of “McKenna Country” – Emyvale, the Barony of Truagh and Monaghan Town to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising Continue reading
Review of Famine Rock Commemoration
the main emphasis of his address was to the impressive histories of all the Irish diaspora around the world, Continue reading
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