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Posted By: July 06, 2020

Top of Form Bottom of Form Kinawley GFC [Gaelic Football Club] History http://kinawleygfc.com/index.php/kinawley-gfc-history   Introduction The Kinawley & Killesher parishes in South Fermanagh have long been strongholds of the GAA in the Erne County. The Club, it’s players, administrators and Gaelic supporters from the area have played important roles in keeping the Gaelic torch burning […]

The disturbing origins of the Irish Famine term “take the soup”

Posted By: July 05, 2020

  How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland’s Great Hunger. Gerard McCarthy. Irish Central.February 20, 2020   https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-famine-take-soup?utm_campaign=IC+Fav+-+July+5+-+2020-07-05&utm_content=Story1&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Infusion&inf_contact_key=55210b4bb7f2433944798ed18e7ac4ac842e902fbefb79ab9abae13bfcb46658 How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland’s Great Hunger and how “take the soup” became etched in Ireland’s psyche. […]

The Irish and Irish American signatories of the Declaration of Independence

Posted By: July 04, 2020

  There were three men who were born in Ireland that were signatories of the US Declaration of Independence. Learn about the historic document’s Irish links here! Brendan Patrick Keane @IrishCentral   Saturday, July 4, 2020 https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/declaration-of-independence-irish-signatories?utm_campaign=Best+of+IC+-+July+4+-+2020-07- The Declaration of Independence has several Irish links, Getty The Declaration of Independence’s Irish signatories officially signed the document […]

How Alexander Hamilton defended the rights of Catholics in a young America

Posted By: July 03, 2020

  Jason K. Duncan. America Magazine.  October 26, 2016 Alexander Hamilton—the founding father of the moment thanks to the hit musical based on his life—is generally not associated with the cause of religious freedom in the United States. Among Hamilton’s contemporaries, that honor is usually reserved for one of his great rivals, Thomas Jefferson, the […]

Victims’ advocate scathing of legacy issue handling

Posted By: July 02, 2020

  David Young. Irish News. July 2, 2020Halting investigations into the majority of unsolved Troubles’ killings will send a signal to dissident republicans that they can get away with violence, a Westminster committee has heard.Victims advocate Sandra Peake said loyalists still engaged in violence could also be emboldened by the plans.Ms. Peake, who is CEO of the Wave trauma centre in […]