The Irish Genocide 1845–52

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‘Oakum’ picking in the Workhouses. A person was given a hunk of rope and told to ‘pick’ it. This meant ripping the rope apart, breaking it down from the cable to the rope, to yarn to thread, right down to the fibers of hemp. This required digging their nails into the rope fibers to pull […]

📍Castle Donovan, West Cork 📸 @lemonlimod

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#OTD in 1957 – Birth of Thomas McElwee, Irish political prisoner, who died on the sixty-second day of his hunger strike in Long Kesh Prison.

30/11/2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. The tenth republican to join the hunger strike was twenty-three-year-old IRA Volunteer Thomas McElwee, from Bellaghy in South Derry. He had been imprisoned since December 1976, following a premature explosion in which he lost an eye. He was a first cousin of Francis Hughes, who died after […]

#OTD in 1900 – Death of playwright, novelist, and poet, Oscar Wilde, in Paris.

30/11/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. […]

#OTD in 1967 – Death of poet and novelist, Patrick Kavanagh, who was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan in 1904.

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Patrick Kavanagh was born on 21 October 1904, in Mucker townland, Inniskeen parish, Co Monaghan, the son of James Kavanagh, a small farmer with sixteen acres who was also a cobbler, and Bridget Quinn. He attended Kednaminsha National School from 1909 to 1916 and worked on the family farm after leaving school. His poem ‘Raglan […]

#OTD in 1922 – In reprisal for the executions, Liam Lynch, Anti-Treaty IRA Commander, issues a general order to his forces to kill members of the Dáil (T.D.s) and senators who had voted for the Emergency Powers legislation.

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In response to the executions, on 30 November, Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff of the Anti-Treaty IRA, ordered that any member of Parliament (TD) or senator who had signed or voted for the ‘murder bill’ should be shot on sight. He also ordered the killing of hostile judges and newspaper editors. On the same day, […]

#OTD in Irish History | 30 November:

30/11/2022.Reading time 11 minutes.

1667 – Birth in Dublin of Jonathan Swift, poet, satirist and clergyman. 1670 – Birth of rationalist philosopher, freethinker and occasional satirist, John Toland, in Inishowen, Co Donegal. He wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion. He also produced some highly controversial polemics, including the Treatise of the Three Impostors, in […]

📍Torr Road, Co Antrim 📸 @sixmileimages

30/11/2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

#OTD in 1898 – Birth of novelist, C.S. Lewis, in Belfast.

29/11/2022.Reading time 1 minute.

‘Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.’ –C.S. Lewis Born in Belfast, on 29 November 1898, C.S. Lewis went on to teach at Oxford University and became a renowned apologist writer, using logic and philosophy to support the tenets of his Christian faith. He is also […]

#OTD in 1895 – Death of Young Irelander, Author and Poet, Denny Lane.

29/11/2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

Denny Lane, one of the most popular of the Young Ireland leaders, and the writer of the two well-known poems, ‘Kate of Araglen’ and ‘Carraigdhoun’ (or ‘Lament of the Irish Maiden’). Although a Catholic, he graduated from the mainly Protestant Trinity College, Dublin, where he joined the College Historical Society, became a friend of Charles […]

#OTD in 1901 – Death of Revolutionary, Author and Journalist, Thomas Clarke Luby.

29/11/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

Thomas Clarke Luby was born in Dublin on 16 January 1822. His was the son of the Reverend James Luby a Protestant clergyman and a nephew of Dr. Thomas Luby a Senior Fellow and Dean of Trinity College in Dublin. At age 18 he graduated from Trinity and afterwards studied law at the Temple in […]

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

The Irish Genocide 1845–52

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#OTD in 1957 – Birth of Thomas McElwee, Irish political prisoner, who died on the sixty-second day of his hunger strike in Long Kesh Prison.

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#OTD in 1900 – Death of playwright, novelist, and poet, Oscar Wilde, in Paris.

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#OTD in 1967 – Death of poet and novelist, Patrick Kavanagh, who was born in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan in 1904.

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#OTD in 1922 – In reprisal for the executions, Liam Lynch, Anti-Treaty IRA Commander, issues a general order to his forces to kill members of the Dáil (T.D.s) and senators who had voted for the Emergency Powers legislation.

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#OTD in 1898 – Birth of novelist, C.S. Lewis, in Belfast.

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#OTD in 1895 – Death of Young Irelander, Author and Poet, Denny Lane.

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#OTD in 1901 – Death of Revolutionary, Author and Journalist, Thomas Clarke Luby.

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