#OTD in 2007 – Death of life-long republican and patron of Republican Sinn Féin, Dan Keating.

02/10/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking: Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our isle’s enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er, Dream of fighting fields no […]

#OTD in 1942 – Twenty miles off the coast of Donegal, the luxury Cunard liner Queen Mary – converted into a troop carrier for the war smashes into her escort ship, the British cruiser Curaçao.

02/10/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

The Curaçao which had connected with the Queen Mary to escort her for the final two hundred miles to the port of Greenock, Scotland sinks with the loss of 338 men. As were his orders, Captain Cyril of the Queen Mary which was carrying an estimated 15,000 US troops does not stop to mount a […]

#OTD in Irish History | 2 October:

02/10/2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

1600 – O’Neill engages Mountjoy’s forces in the Battle of Moyry Pass. 1815 – Birth of politician, James Agnew, in Ballyclare, Co Antrim. He was Premier of Tasmania from 1886 to 1887. 1833 – Birth of Father William Corby who became Chaplain of the Irish Brigade in Detroit, Michigan. 1852 – Birth of writer and nationalist, […]

Róisín Dubh (Black Rose) by Phil Lynott

01/10/2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

The song was inspired by Phil Lynott’s fascination with Irish history and Celtic mythology, and ironically was to become his epitaph. Go dtuga Dia suaimhneas da anam. ‘Róisín Dubh (Black Rose)’Phil Lynott Tell me the legends of long agoWhen the kings and queens would danceIn the realm of the Black RosePlay me the melodies I […]

#OTD in 1930 – Birth of actor, Richard Harris, in Limerick.

01/10/2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

Actor Richard Harris was born in Limerick city on this date. Harris’ career scored rave reviews (and another Oscar nomination) for The Field (1990). He then locked horns with Harrison Ford as an IRA sympathiser in Patriot Games (1992) and got one of his best roles as gunfighter English Bob in the Clint Eastwood western […]

#OTD in 1911 – Statue of Charles Stewart Parnell is unveiled in Dublin.

01/10/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Charles Stewart Parnell was one of the most significant political figures in Ireland during the second half of the 19th century. As leader of the Home Rule Party, he made a notable contribution to the progress towards national self-determination and he also played an important role in the Land War in post-Greater Hunger Ireland. His […]

#OTD in Irish History | 1 October (Deireadh Fómhair):

01/10/2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

1600 – Robert Grave, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, and his family drown in Dublin Bay on their way home to Wexford. 1796 – The Royal College of St Patrick, a Catholic seminary, is opened in Maynooth, Co Kildare. 1751 – Cornelius Bolton, politician, Volunteer and improving landlord is born. 1761 – […]

Knight of Glin and Glin Castle

30/09/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

The Knight of Glin (dormant 14 September 2011), also known as the Black Knight or Knight of the Valley, was a hereditary title in the FitzGerald families of Co Limerick since the early 14th century. The family was a branch of the FitzGerald dynasty, or Geraldines, related to the Earls of Desmond (extinct), who were […]

#OTD in 1994 – Death of Irish patriot, Michael Flannery, in New York City.

30/09/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

The fight of the Irish against the British was the great theme of Mr. Flannery’s life. As a boy of 14 in Ireland, he joined the Irish Volunteers and learned to fire a machine gun behind a monastery cloister. In 1970, after 43 years in the United States, he was one of the founders of […]

#OTD in Irish History | 30 September:

30/09/2022.Reading time 12 minutes.

1430 – A great council meets at Dublin on this date; it states that Irish enemies and English rebels have conquered almost all of Limerick, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Wexford, Carlow, Kildare, Meath and Louth, so that hardly anything but Dublin remains in the colony. 1598 – The English poet Edmund Spenser is appointed Sheriff of Cork. […]

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#OTD in 2007 – Death of life-long republican and patron of Republican Sinn Féin, Dan Keating.

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#OTD in 1942 – Twenty miles off the coast of Donegal, the luxury Cunard liner Queen Mary – converted into a troop carrier for the war smashes into her escort ship, the British cruiser Curaçao.

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#OTD in Irish History | 2 October:

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Róisín Dubh (Black Rose) by Phil Lynott

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#OTD in 1930 – Birth of actor, Richard Harris, in Limerick.

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#OTD in 1911 – Statue of Charles Stewart Parnell is unveiled in Dublin.

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#OTD in Irish History | 1 October (Deireadh Fómhair):

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Knight of Glin and Glin Castle

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#OTD in 1994 – Death of Irish patriot, Michael Flannery, in New York City.

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#OTD in Irish History | 30 September:

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