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Professor Mezzeroff, a.k.a. Richard Rogers

Professor Mezzeroff traded as a scientist associated with Russian nihilism and as a teacher of ‘the arts of scientific warfare’ to revolutionary movements. He lectured to groups of Cuban nationalists […]

‘Scientific warfare or the quickest way to liberate Ireland’: the Brooklyn Dynamite School

In April 1883, local newspapers lamented the fact that Brooklyn, then a separate city from New York, was quickly developing a global reputation. Brooklyn’s new-found fame was not for its […]

Revolutionary slogans and rhetoric

Land League posters were emblazoned with bold headings straight from Lalor and Davis: ‘The Land for the People’ and ‘Ireland for the Irish’. At the bottom of most was stated […]

‘This extra parliamentary propaganda’: Land League posters

In June 1880 the Freeman’s Journal published a letter by John Devoy defending his support for the Irish National Land League. Devoy railed against nationalists who might claim that he […]

The Manchester Martyrs: a Victorian melodrama

By the mid-1860s the Fenian movement had experienced both extraordinary growth and frustrating schism. Within a few years of its founding in 1858 it had cells throughout Ireland and the […]

September 20

1920 Two RIC officers were shot dead in a public house in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, after which the RIC and Black and Tans rampaged through the town, burning business premises and houses. Two suspected republicans were bayoneted to death.
1920 Three British soldiers from the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, including Pte Harold Washington (15), were shot dead by the IRA as they collected bread from Monk’s bakery in North King Street, Dublin. Kevin Barry (18) of H Company, 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade, was arrested at the scene.
1970 Leo Rowsome, celebrated piper, died suddenly in Riverstown parochial hall, Co. Sligo, while adjudicating in the ‘Fiddler of Dooney’ fiddle-playing championship.
1914 In a speech at Woodenbridge, Co. Wicklow, the Irish Parliamentary Party leader, John Redmond, called on the Irish Volunteers to join the British army and fight wherever the war took them.
1803 Robert Emmet, United Irishman, was hanged in Thomas Street, Dublin.
1922 Four Irregulars, including Brian MacNeill, son of Eoin MacNeill, were trapped by Free State forces on Ben Bulben, Co. Sligo, and summarily executed.

Professor Mezzeroff, a.k.a. Richard Rogers

‘Scientific warfare or the quickest way to liberate Ireland’: the Brooklyn Dynamite School

Revolutionary slogans and rhetoric

‘This extra parliamentary propaganda’: Land League posters

The Manchester Martyrs: a Victorian melodrama

Personal Histories

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September 20