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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted By: July 01, 2020
Deaglán de Bréadún. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, July 1, 2020 Anyone who uses the Irish-language version of their name will be all-too-familiar with the difficulty some people have in pronouncing it.I could write a book on the subject and, if they were still around, the Marx Brothers might turn it into a movie script.Remember the fun they had with the other name […]
