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From Jacobitism to Jacobinism: a reconsideration

Published in Early Modern History (1500–1700), Hedge School Recordings

with Billy Kelly, Éamonn Ó Cíardha, Richard Doherty and Hiram Morgan.

21 July 2012 at the Battle of Aughrim Interpretative Centre, Aughrim, Co. Galway.

On this Day

1969 Robert Briscoe (75), Dáil deputy for 38 years and the first Jewish lord mayor of Dublin (1956), died.
1914 The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland sank on the St Lawrence River after colliding with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad; 1,012 passengers and crew died.
1972 The Official IRA ordered a cessation of hostilities following the killing, four days earlier, of Ranger William Best while visiting his family.
1660 Charles II entered London, marking the restoration of the monarchy. He had been proclaimed king of Ireland on 14 May.
1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961–3), born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children of businessman Joe Kennedy and philanthropist/socialite Rose Fitzgerald.