Posted By: July 06, 2020
tip-off that led to raiD CONNLA YOUNG Paper Trail: Researcher Ciarán MacAirt WHILE it was previously suspected that Official IRA weapons found in a house at Balkan Street in west Belfast on July 3 1970 were discovered after a tip-off, details which identify the informer have now been uncovered. They are contained in British army […]
Posted By: July 06, 2020
Fr. McManus’ Partitioned Parish and Partitioned Country The British government’s 1920 Government of Ireland Act (the “Partition Act”) not only divided Fr. McManus’ country. It also divided his historic parish of Kinawley—an area that has had an ecclesial presence since the Sixth Century. Part of the parish is now in the artificially created Northern Ireland, […]
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 […]
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 […]