Mar 9, 2022
Michael Finucane’s great uncle bought the bar from The O’Rahilly, the only leader to die in action during the Easter Rising. It was inevitably a stronghold for Republican get-togethers during the formative years of the new state. Customers sat at the bar and drank...
Mar 8, 2022
A fascinating map coloured to show how people voted on the Home Rule question in 1886. The ares in green were in favour. It would be another 35 years before the Irish Free State was born; the six counties of Northern Ireland remain part of the United Kingdom. Become...
Jan 19, 2022
Interviewed at the age of 97, Nellie was full of memories of her home village of Rathvilly during the awfulness of the Spanish Flu (or the Asian Flu, as she called it) and the War of Independence. Three of her brothers emigrated to the USA, including one who was a...
Jan 19, 2022
On Sunday 18 April, 2021, I had the honour of unveiling a plaque to the memory of Michael Fay, who had been killed in an ambush at Ballymurphy, County Carlow, precisely 100 years earlier. The kind invitation came my way after I submitted the following report to the...
Jan 3, 2022
The evening of Sunday January14th, 1923 was like any other for the Sherlock family who lived in Roundhill House just outside Bandon, in County Cork, except that the servants were out for the evening. When suddenly a large number of armed men broke through the front...
