#OTD in 1916 – Irish prisoners interned at Frongoch are released.

25/12/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Frongoch Internment Camp at Frongoch in Merionethshire, Wales was a makeshift place of imprisonment during the First World War. Until 1916, it housed German prisoners of war in an abandoned distillery and crude huts, but in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, the German prisoners were moved and it was used as […]

#OTD in 1916 – Irish prisoners interned at Frongoch are released.

25/12/2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1916 – Irish prisoners interned at Frongoch are released.

25/12/2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1916 – Irish prisoners interned at Frongoch are released.

25/12/2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1916 – Irish prisoners interned at Frongoch are released.

25/12/2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1918 – The Irish Labour Party declared a one-day strike in protest over the conscription act.

25/04/2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Conscription Crisis of 1918 stemmed from a move by the British Government to impose conscription (military draft) in Ireland during the First World War. Vigorous opposition was led by the trade unions, nationalist parties and Roman Catholic bishops and priests. A conscription law was passed but was never put in effect; no-one in Ireland […]