#OTD in Irish History | 19 July:

19/07/2022.Reading time 9 minutes.

1608 – Preparations commence for the plantation of six Ulster counties (Armagh, Cavan, Coleraine, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone). 1735 – Garrett Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, politician, musician, and father of Duke of Wellington, is born in Co Meath. 1771 – Colonel Thomas Talbot is born at Malahide Castle near Dublin. He was the fourth […]

#OTD in Irish History | 19 July:

19/07/2021.Reading time 9 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History – 19 July:

19/07/2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History – 19 July:

19/07/2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History – 19 July:

19/07/2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History – 4 March:

04/03/2018.Reading time 20 minutes.

1704 – Penal law ‘to prevent the further growth of popery’ restricts landholding rights for Catholics; gavelkind is reimposed on Catholics (unless the eldest son converts to Protestantism, in which case he inherits the whole); a ‘sacramental test’ for public office is introduced, directed mainly at Ulster Presbyterians. 1771 – John Ponsonby resigns as Speaker […]

#OTD in Irish History – 19 July:

19/07/2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History – 4 March:

04/03/2017.Reading time 13 minutes.

Dia daoibh ar maidin. Good morning from Stair na hÉireann.

24/01/2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hurting someone can be as easy as throwing a stone into the sea… but do you have any idea how deep that stone can go? The foot of Conor Pass overlooking a snow capped Mt Brandon, Co Kerry, Florian Walsh Photography

Today in Irish History – 4 October:

04/10/2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

1331 – Birth of James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, as a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1359, 1364, and 1376. The son of James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond and Eleanor de Bohun, James was born at Kilkenny and given in ward, 1 September 1344, to […]

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

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