#OTD in 1981 – After 71 days on hunger strike, Kevin Lynch dies at Long Kesh prison.

01/08/2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. The eighth republican to join the hunger-strike for political status, on 23rd May, following the death of Patsy O’Hara, was twenty-five-year-old fellow INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch from the small, North Derry town of Dungiven who had been imprisoned since his arrest in 1976. Image | Mural to Kevin […]

#OTD in 1872 – John Mitchel returns to Ireland from America.

25/07/2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

John Mitchel was born at Camnish, near Dungiven, Co Derry. The Irish nationalist, writer for The Nation and founder of The United Irishman newspaper openly preached rebellion against England. Convicted of treason in 1848, Mitchel was sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). In 1853, he escaped to America, where he published […]

#OTD in 1956 – Birth of Kevin Lynch, an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry.

25/05/2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. Kevin Lynch was a republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry. The Dungiven Hurling team was renamed Kevin Lynch’s Hurling Club in his honour after his death. Lynch’s older brother, Frank, was an amateur boxer and he also […]

#OTD in 1848 – John Mitchel publishes first United Irishmen.

12/02/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

John Mitchel was one of the great propagandists of his day, although the causes he espoused often placed him on the wrong side, he was loved and loathed in equal measure. He was one of the few Irishmen to have incurred the wrath of the British government and of the Federal administration of the USA. […]

Finvola | The Gem of the Roe

15/12/2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Local legend mourns the 17th century story of Finvola, the young and beautiful daughter of Dermot, the Chieftan of the O’Cahans, who fell in love with Angus McDonnell of the McDonnell Clan from the western isles of Scotland. Dermot consented to the marriage on the condition that on his daughter’s death, she would be brought […]

#OTD in 1981 – After 71 days on hunger strike, Kevin Lynch dies at Long Kesh prison.

01/08/2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

#OTD in 1956 – Birth of Kevin Lynch, an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry.

25/05/2021.Reading time 1 minute.

#OTD in 1848 – John Mitchel publishes first United Irishmen.

12/02/2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

#OTD in 1981 – After 71 days on hunger strike, Kevin Lynch dies at Long Kesh prison.

01/08/2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

#OTD in 1872 – John Mitchel returns to Ireland from America.

25/07/2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

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