#OTD in 1870 – Birth of Eva Gore-Booth, poet, trade unionist and feminist, on the Lissadell Estate in Co Sligo.

22/05/2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. She was born at Lissadell House, Co Sligo, the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, later known as the Countess Markievicz. Both she and Constance, who later became a prominent Irish revolutionary, reacted against their privileged background […]

Ireland, Germany and the Freedom of the Seas | A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 by Roger Casement

06/02/2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

A widely available version of Roger Casement’s political writings on Ireland as collected in 1914 in Casement’s own handwriting is a unique source in that the text constitutes what he viewed as his key writings on Ireland in the context of history, pre-First World War politics and international relations, with annotations delineating some of his […]

Roger Casement | A Man of Mystery

07/08/2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

In the week after Roger Casement’s execution, on 3 August 1916, newsreel footage of the nationalist leader was shown in cinemas across America. At a conservative estimate, some 15 million US citizens saw the moving pictures. A century on, this fragment of film provides a fascinating insight. Casement is glimpsed at his desk writing: The […]

#OTD in 1914 – Irish Volunteers during the Howth Gun Running.

26/07/2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

The plan was first conceived in April 1914, in response to the Curragh incident on 20 March. Many Irish believed that the British army could not be relied on to enforce Home Rule when it was enacted, and many Irish Volunteers also felt that availability of arms would aid recruitment. At a lunch attended by […]

#OTD in 1929 – Death of historian and nationalist, Alice Stopford Green, in Dublin.

28/05/2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Born Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford in Kells, Co Meath, she lived in London where she met the historian John Richard Green. They were married in Chester on 14 June 1877. He died in 1883. John Morley published her first historical work Henry II in 1888. In the 1890s she became interested in Irish history and […]

#OTD in 1870 – Birth of Eva Gore-Booth, poet, trade unionist and feminist, on the Lissadell Estate in Co Sligo.

22/05/2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Ireland, Germany and the Freedom of the Seas: A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 by Roger Casement

06/02/2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Roger Casement | A Man of Mystery

07/08/2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

#OTD in 1914 – Irish Volunteers during the Howth Gun Running.

26/07/2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

#OTD in 1929 – Death of historian and nationalist, Alice Stopford Green, in Dublin.

28/05/2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

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