Aug 11, 2021
Kevin Barry’s short life was full of firsts. He was the first person executed since the Easter Rising of 1916 and, as such, the 18-year-old medical student was the first person to be executed in the War of Independence. This story looks at his upbringing between...
Aug 11, 2021
On 13 May 1948, a plane crash in southern France ended the life of both Kick Kennedy, oldest sister of Jack and Bobby, and her lover, Peter, Earl Fitzwilliam. This story recounts the series of events that led up to the tragedy, including Kick’s marriage to the...
Aug 11, 2021
The story of a courageous and fiery priest from County Mayo who sought to end landlordism, evictions and evangelical conversion of Catholic children in the 19th century and who was alleged to have stolen the famous Cross of Cong, one of Europe’s most valuable...
Aug 11, 2021
HENRY ESSEX EDGEWORTH, ABBE DE FIRMONT (1745 – 1807) – KING LOUIS XVI’S LONGFORD BORN CONFESSOR The Rectory in Edgeworthstown, County Longford, was built in 1732, possibly as a dower house for the Edgeworth family. One of the more enterprising babies to have been born...
Aug 11, 2021
The film ‘Albert Nobbs’ is based on a story, first published in 1918, by the Irish author George Moore. In 1912, he abandoned Ireland in pursuit of unrequited love in London with one of the richest women in the world. An early critic of the dictatorial...
