#OTD in 1764 – Birth of United Irishmen Leader, James Hope, in Templepatrick, Co Antrim.

25/08/2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

James “Jemmy” Hope fought in the 1798 and 1803 rebellions against British rule in Ireland and born to a Presbyterian family originally of Covenanter stock. He was apprenticed as a linen weaver but attended night school in his spare time. Influenced by the American Revolution, he joined the Irish Volunteers, but upon the demise of […]

#OTD in 1798 – United Irish Rebellion begins in Wexford and in Leinster.

23/05/2023.Reading time 1 minute.

The short-lived, brutal 1798 Rebellion instigated by the United Irishmen commences when on the night of the 23rd May, the mail coaches leaving Dublin were seized – as a signal to those United Irishmen outside the capital that the time of the uprising had arrived. Founded in 1791, The United Irishmen had been inspired by […]

#OTD in 1764 – Birth of United Irishmen Leader, James Hope, in Templepatrick, Co Antrim.

25/08/2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1798 – United Irish Rebellion begins in Wexford and in Leinster.

23/05/2018.Reading time 1 minute.

#OTD in Irish History – 21 November:

21/11/2017.Reading time 8 minutes.

615 – Death of Columbanus. He was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries on the European continent from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy. He is remembered as an exemplar of Irish missionary activity in early […]