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Keeping the head down — Protestants in Independent Ireland.

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20161110-HistoryIrelandShow-068.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Saturday 5 November at the Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal […]

The Somme: an ambiguous legacy

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The Belfast Blitz (75th anniversary)

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Women of the South: Radicals and Revolutionaries

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Women of the Irish Revolution—Constance Markievicz

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April 25

1922 Commandant O’Neill, 3rd Cork Brigade IRA, was shot dead at the home of a Protestant family in Bandon, Co. Cork. In a series of unattributed reprisals, thirteen Protestant civilians were shot dead in the surrounding area over the following four days.
1920 RIC Sergeant Cornelius Crean, brother of the explorer Tom Crean, was killed by the IRA in an ambush near Upton, Co. Cork.
1870 Daniel Maclise (64), history and portrait painter who worked for most of his life in London, died.
1719 The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe was published.
1819 Vere Foster, philanthropist and educationist, born in Copenhagen, where his Irish-born father was British minister.
1987 Lord Justice Gibson and his wife were killed by an IRA bomb as they crossed the border south of Newry, Co. Down.
1917 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer, born in Newport News, Virginia.
1922 Commandant O’Neill of the third Cork Brigade IRA was shot dead at the home of a Protestant family in Bandon, Co. Cork. In a series of unattributed reprisals, thirteen Protestant civilians were shot dead in the surrounding area between 26 and 29 April.
1915 During the First World War, Allied troops landed on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula. The disastrous Gallipoli campaign, ending in January 1916, cost 46,000 Allied lives, including over 2,295 Irishmen.

Keeping the head down — Protestants in Independent Ireland.

The Somme: an ambiguous legacy

The Belfast Blitz (75th anniversary)

Women of the South: Radicals and Revolutionaries

Women of the Irish Revolution—Constance Markievicz

Personal Histories

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April 25