#OTD in 1878 – Birth of writer and radical activist, Francis Sheehy Skeffington in Dublin.

23/12/2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Francis Skeffington, writer and pacifist, was born in Bailieborough, Co Cavan on the 23 December 1878 to Joseph Bartholomew Skeffington and his wife Rose née Magorian. The family moved to Co Down shortly after his birth. He was educated by his father, a schools inspector and enrolled in University College Dublin (UCD) in 1896. While […]

#OTD in 1870 – Erskine Childers, novelist, member of the Royal Navy, and later an Irish nationalist, is born in London.

25/06/2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Erskine Childers was the author of ‘Riddle of the Sands’, an arms smuggler via The Asgard, father of the fourth president of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers, and would be executed by the Free State government for carrying an unlawful weapon. Childers supported the Anti-Treaty forces in the vicious Irish civil war which bedeviled the country. […]

#OTD in 1916 – Easter Rising: Courts-Martial Begin.

02/05/2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

There were 160 trials conducted in a two-week period between the 2nd and 16th May 1916. During this period, of the 90 death sentences handed out, 15 of those (including all seven signatories of the Proclamation) had their sentences confirmed by Maxwell and were executed at Kilmainham Gaol by firing squad between 3 and 12 […]

#OTD in 1916 – Francis Sheehy-Skeffington was apprehended while trying to stop looting during the Easter Rising and was later murdered by the British without trial.

26/04/2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1878 – Birth of writer and radical activist, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington in Dublin.

23/12/2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1870 – Erskine Childers, novelist, member of the Royal Navy, and later an Irish nationalist, is born in London.

25/06/2017.Reading time 1 minute.

#OTD in 1916 – Easter Rising: Courts-Martial begin.

02/05/2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1916 – Francis Sheehy-Skeffington was shot and murdered by British forces.

26/04/2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

1870 – Erskine Childers, novelist, member of the Royal Navy, and later an Irish nationalist, is born in London. He was the author of the influential novel ‘Riddle of the Sands’ and an Irish nationalist, who was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War.

25/06/2016.Reading time 1 minute.

1916 – Easter Rising: Courts Martial begin.

02/05/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Stair na hÉireann/History of Ireland

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#OTD in 1878 – Birth of writer and radical activist, Francis Sheehy Skeffington in Dublin.

#OTD in 1870 – Erskine Childers, novelist, member of the Royal Navy, and later an Irish nationalist, is born in London.

#OTD in 1916 – Easter Rising: Courts-Martial Begin.

#OTD in 1916 – Francis Sheehy-Skeffington was apprehended while trying to stop looting during the Easter Rising and was later murdered by the British without trial.

#OTD in 1878 – Birth of writer and radical activist, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington in Dublin.

#OTD in 1870 – Erskine Childers, novelist, member of the Royal Navy, and later an Irish nationalist, is born in London.

#OTD in 1916 – Easter Rising: Courts-Martial begin.

#OTD in 1916 – Francis Sheehy-Skeffington was shot and murdered by British forces.

1916 – Easter Rising: Courts Martial begin.