#OTD in 1922 – Michael Collins is buried in Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin.

28/08/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

The seven mile journey from Dublin’s pro-cathedral to the Big Fella’s final resting place was lined with half a million mourners, many of whom, would have differed with him on the Treaty. After lying in State for three days, his funeral was held in Dublin on 28 August 1922 where 500,000 people turned out to […]

#OTD in 1922 – Michael Collins is killed in an ambush. On the last day of his life, he set out from Cork in a convoy that passed through Bandon, Clonakilty, and Rosscarbery on its way to Skibbereen.

22/08/2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. “Give us the future, we’ve had enough of your past. Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in, to love.” –Michael Collins Michael Collins was killed during Ireland’s Civil War at Béal na mBláth – not far from Woodfield, Clonakilty, Co Cork where he […]

#OTD in Irish History | 22 August:

22/08/2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

565 – St Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. 1755 – Birth of General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert. He was a French soldier, a participant in the French Revolution, who led a failed invasion of Ireland to assist Irish rebels in 1798. 1791 – Theobald Wolfe Tone publishes “An argument on behalf […]

#OTD in 1922 – Liam Mellows, Rory O’Connor, Joseph McKelvey and Richard Barrett, Irish patriots – one from each of the four provinces – are executed by the Free State forces.

08/12/2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

It was just one more harrowing chapter in a vicious civil war fought between erstwhile friends. Just one year and two days after Ireland achieved a level of independence, four of the men who fought in the War of Independence against British forces were executed by Irish government edict. On the evening of 7 December, […]

#OTD in 1922 – Michael Collins is buried in Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin.

28/08/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1922 – Michael Collins is killed in an ambush. On the last day of his life, he set out from Cork in a convoy that passed through Bandon, Clonakilty, and Rosscarbery on its way to Skibbereen.

22/08/2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 22 August:

22/08/2022.Reading time 9 minutes.

#OTD in 1922 – Liam Mellows, Rory O’Connor, Joseph McKelvey and Richard Barrett, Irish patriots | one from each of the four provinces – are executed by the Free State forces.

08/12/2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1922 – Michael Collins is buried in Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin.

28/08/2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The seven mile journey from Dublin’s pro-cathedral to the Big Fella’s final resting place was lined with half a million mourners, many of whom, would have differed with him on the Treaty.

#OTD in 1922 – Michael Collins is killed in an ambush. On the last day of his life, he set out from Cork in a convoy that passed through Bandon, Clonakilty, and Rosscarbery on its way to Skibbereen.

22/08/2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

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#OTD in 1922 – Michael Collins is buried in Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin.

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