Eamon Bulfin, the Irish-Argentinian who hoisted the Green Flag of the Republic over the GPO.

26/04/2023.Reading time 1 minute.

Eamon Bulfin was an Argentine-born Irish republican. A former pupil at Pádraig Pearse’s school St Enda’s (Sgoil Éanna), in Rathfarnham, Dublin. Bulfin was a member of the Irish Volunteers and the IRB and along with some fellow St Enda’s students created home-made bombs in the school’s basement in preparation for the Easter Rising. He was […]

#OTD in 1916 – Pádraig Pearse read out the Proclamation of Independence after his men had seized the GPO.

23/04/2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

At four minutes past noon on Easter Monday, Pearse, read the Proclamation. It signified the start of the Easter Rising. POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND Irishmen and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition […]

Éirí Amach Ná Cásca 1916 | The Birth of a Nation!

21/04/2023.Reading time 35 minutes.

The Easter Rising took place in April 1916 in Dublin and is one of the pivotal events in modern Irish History. At the end of the Easter Rising, fourteen men identified as leaders were executed at Kilmainham Gaol. To some, these men were traitors, to others they became heroes. It was the first major armed […]

#OTD in 1881 – Birth of William Pearse, brother of Pádraig, in Dublin.

15/11/2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Pádraig’s younger brother was also educated at Westland Row and was a promising sculptor. He founded the Leinster Stage Society and acted in the Abbey Theatre. William shared his brother’s dream for an independent Ireland and assisted him at St Enda’s. The two brothers fought alongside each other in the GPO. Although not a ringleader, […]

Eamon Bulfin, the Irish-Argentinian who hoisted the Green Flag of the Republic over the GPO.

26/04/2022.Reading time 1 minute.

#OTD in 1916 – Pádraig Pearse read out the Proclamation of Independence after his men had seized the GPO.

23/04/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

Éirí Amach Ná Cásca 1916 | The Birth of a Nation!

21/04/2022.Reading time 35 minutes.

#OTD in 1881 – Birth of William Pearse, brother of Pádraig, in Dublin.

15/11/2021.Reading time 1 minute.

#OTD in 1916 – Pádraig Pearse wrote an entry into a Manifesto on this date.

28/04/2021.Reading time 1 minute.

‘I desire now, lest I may not have an opportunity later, to pay homage to the gallantry of the soldiers of Irish Freedom who have during the past four days been writing with fire and steel the most glorious chapter in the later history of Ireland. Justice can never be done to their heroism, to […]

Eamon Bulfin, the Irish-Argentinian who hoisted the Green Flag of the Republic over the GPO.

26/04/2021.Reading time 1 minute.

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