The Proclamation Sculpture | Dublin

25/10/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

‘Proclamation‘ by Rowan Gillespie is an outdoor sculpture honouring the leaders of the Easter Rising, and the authors of the Irish Proclamation of Independence. It stands impressively across the street from Kilmainham Gaol where the proclamation signatories were executed in 1916. Fourteen figures stand in a megalithic circle, at the centre of which is a plaque […]

#OTD in 1897 – Birth of Ernie O’Malley in Castlebar, Co Mayo.

26/05/2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“I had given allegiance to a certain ideal of freedom as personified by the Irish Republic. It had not been realised except in the mind. I had fought against the British Empire in defence of that Republic, against Irishmen in the RIC, Englishmen in the British Army, and Irishmen in the Free State Army. To […]

#OTD in 1915 – Joseph Mary Plunkett travelled to Germany to join Roger Casement and assist him in his efforts to raise an Irish Brigade and garner German support for the planned 1916 Rising.

20/04/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Once in Germany, Plunkett met with Casement, a former member of the British Foreign Office, who had travelled from America, funded by Clan na Gael under the leadership of John Devoy. Arriving in Berlin on 31 October 1914, Casement’s mission to Germany had three basic aims: 1. To secure German help for Ireland; 2. To […]

#OTD in 2018 – A new stamp goes on sale to commemorate the centenary of the founding of Cumann na mBan, designed by Ger Garland.

03/04/2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Featuring Cumann na mBan members leading the funeral of people shot during the Howth arms landing. Cumann na mBan was a women’s nationalist organisation founded to advance the cause of Irish liberty. Its constitution provided for the use of force by arms against British forces in Ireland. Founding members included Jennie Wyse Power, Agnes O’Farrelly, Louise Gavan […]