The Forming Of The Gaelic League
As the 19th century was coming to a close, there were many in Ireland who recognized that the Irish language (Gaeilge), was in danger of…
Read MoreAs the 19th century was coming to a close, there were many in Ireland who recognized that the Irish language (Gaeilge), was in danger of…
Read MoreWilliam Butler Yeats, poet, playwright and Irish nationalist was born in Sandymount, County Dublin on July 13th, 1865. His father, John, was a portrait painter…
In the aftermath of the Great Famine, Ireland was exhausted. The population had fallen dramatically through death from hunger and disease, and from mass emigration….
Wilde, born in Westland Row in Dublin, was the middle child of Sir William Wilde, a successful eye and ear surgeon, and his wife Jane…
As Ireland struggled with the dire effects of the Great Famine, supporters of Daniel O Connell had started to become disappointed by his failure to achieve…
Mass migration of the Irish peaked during the Great Famine (An Gorta Mor) or commonly known as the Potato Famine of 1845-1850. The Famine in Ireland With…
Between the years of 1845 and 1852 famines struck Ireland along with disease that would leave 1,00,000 Irish people dead and just as many leaving the country….
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was an Irish revolutionary. Born on 18 September 1831 devoted over 60 years of his life to Irish independence. Born in Reenascreena,…
After his success in achieving Catholic emancipation in 1829, Daniel O’ Connell’s next objective was the quest to repeal the Act of Union between Great…
The failure of the Union of Ireland with Great Britain was that in practical terms it did little to ease the terrible poverty endemic throughout…
In March 1802, just two months after the creation of the United Kingdom and Ireland, the British signed a peace treaty with the French at…
The Act of Union came into effect on January 1, 1801, joining Ireland to Great Britain, creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. At…
Irish history in the 1800’s saw the introduction of the Act of Union after the Irish Rebellion of 1798 by the United Irishmen and Wolfe Tone.