Excerpt/translation from Kerzhentsev’s Revolutsiayannaya Irlandiya (1918): Easter Monday in Ireland — a day with an aura of reverence. Therefore, the arrival of a small group of Irish volunteers in the province did […]
Read More →Patrick Joseph Ramsbottom (1891–1965)—my great-grand uncle. Edward Ramsbottom (1901–66), brother of Patrick—my great-grandfather. Eamonn Ramsbottom (b. 1937), son of Edward—my grandfather. Linda Murphy (b. 1969), née Ramsbottom, daughter of Eamonn—my […]
Read More →This competition for primary and post-primary schools is sponsored by the Department of Education and Skills, Mercier Press, UCC School of History and History Ireland. There are four categories: Ireland […]
Read More →When they returned to France, Fr Pierre Batiffol wrote an account of their trip in the Catholic daily newspaper La Croix. A longer description was recorded in a French Catholic […]
Read More →The war had brought the French State and the French Catholic Church much closer than they had been for some time. Ever since the French Revolution of 1789, anti-clericalism had […]
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