#OTD in 1921 – Eithne Coyle, May Burke, Linda Kearns and Aileen Keogh, escape from Mountjoy Prison.

30/10/2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

Eithne Ní Chumhaill (Coyle O’Donnell), from Killult, near Falcarragh, Co Donegal, became a member of Cumann na mBan in 1918. As head of the Co Donegal branch of Cumann na mBan Coyle played a leading role in mobilising her members to canvass on behalf of Sinn Féin for the 1918 general election. Between 1918 and […]

#OTD in 1889 – Birth of painter, Seán Keating (born John Keating), in Limerick.

28/09/2018.Reading time 1 minute.

A noted portrait and figure painter, influenced by both Romanticism and Realism, Seán Keating was an Irish nationalist painter who executed several iconic images of the Irish Civil war era, and of the ensuing period of industrialisation. One of the great exemplars of representational painting in Ireland, Keating was an intellectual artist in that he […]

#OTD in 1921 – Eithne Coyle, May Burke, Linda Kearns and Aileen Keogh, escape from Mountjoy Prison.

30/10/2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

#OTD in 1889 – Birth of painter, Seán Keating (born John Keating), in Limerick.

28/09/2017.Reading time 1 minute.

1889 – Birth of painter, Seán Keating, in Limerick.

28/09/2016.Reading time 1 minute.

1889 – Seán Keating, painter, is born in Limerick.

28/09/2015.Reading time 1 minute.

1921 – The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Thomas Gilmartin, issued a letter saying that IRA volunteers who took part in ambushes “have broken the truce of God, they have incurred the guilt of murder”.

24/01/2014.Reading time less than 1 minute.

While the War of Indepence was supported (actively or passively) by the majority of Irish, the Catholic church railed against the violence. A letter from the Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. Thomas P Gilmartin is read at masses, following an ambush on English forces near Kilroe, County Galway. “The misguided criminals who fired a few shots […]

1921 – Patrick Scott, artist, is born in Kilbrittain, Co. Cork.

24/01/2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

Patrick Scott (born 24 January 1921 in Kilbrittain, County Cork) is an Irish artist. Patrick Scott had his first exhibition in 1944, but trained as an architect and did not become a full time artist until 1960. He worked for fifteen years for the Irish architect Michael Scott, assisting, for example, in the design of […]

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#OTD in 1921 – Eithne Coyle, May Burke, Linda Kearns and Aileen Keogh, escape from Mountjoy Prison.

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#OTD in 1889 – Birth of painter, Seán Keating (born John Keating), in Limerick.

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#OTD in 1921 – Eithne Coyle, May Burke, Linda Kearns and Aileen Keogh, escape from Mountjoy Prison.

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#OTD in 1889 – Birth of painter, Seán Keating (born John Keating), in Limerick.

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1889 – Birth of painter, Seán Keating, in Limerick.

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1921 – The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Thomas Gilmartin, issued a letter saying that IRA volunteers who took part in ambushes “have broken the truce of God, they have incurred the guilt of murder”.

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1921 – Patrick Scott, artist, is born in Kilbrittain, Co. Cork.

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