#OTD in Irish History – 3 November:

03/11/2018.Reading time 10 minutes.

In the Liturgical calendar, today is the Feast day of Maél Máedoc Úa Morgair, St Malachy of Armagh. 1380 – Edmund Mortimer, 6th Earl of Ulster, holds a parliament at Dublin, which confirms the Statutes of Kilkenny. 1692 – The only session of the exclusively Protestant Irish parliament of William III and Mary ends on […]

#OTD in 1972 – Death of Longford poet and playwright, Padraic Colum. He was one of the leading figures of the Irish Literary Revival.

11/01/2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival. Colum wrote and met a number of the leading Irish writers of the time, including W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Æ. He also joined the Gaelic League and was a […]

#OTD in Irish History – 3 November:

03/11/2017.Reading time 10 minutes.

1972 – Death of Longford poet and playwright, Padraic Colum, in Enfield, Connecticut.

11/01/2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

Today in Irish History – 3 November:

03/11/2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

In the Liturgical calendar, today is the Feast day of Maél Máedoc Úa Morgair, St. Malachy of Armagh. 1380 – Edmund Mortimer, 6th Earl of Ulster, holds a parliament at Dublin, which confirms the Statutes of Kilkenny. 1692 – The only session of the exclusively Protestant Irish parliament of William III and Mary ends on […]

1972 – Padraic Colum, Longford poet and playwright, dies.

11/01/2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival. ‘An Old Woman of the Roads’ by Padraic Colum (1881-1972) O, to have a little house! To own the hearth and stool and all! The heaped up sods upon the fire, […]

Today in Irish History – 3 November:

03/11/2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

1972 – Padraic Colum, Longford poet and playwright, dies.

11/01/2015.Reading time 1 minute.

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