Countdown to 2016 : Larne Gunrunning
‘Bravo, Ulster! Unloading the guns at Donaghadee’—one of several propaganda postcards produced after the event. In anticipation of the possibility of Home Rule, Edward Carson and James Craig founded the…
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COUNTDOWN TO 2016: Emmet Dalton and Tom Kettle at the Battle of the Somme
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr Above: Tom Kettle. Shortly before his death he sent his wife a sonnet that he wrote for their daughter, Barbara. Its lines expressed the disillusionment…
COUNTDOWN TO 2016: Life in Frongoch
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr Frongoch internment camp was located in a former whiskey distillery in Merionethshire, Wales. Until 1916 it housed German prisoners of war in the disused distillery…
COUNTDOWN TO 2016: Release of prisoners, Christmas 1916
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The Rising had hardly been the work of a massive conspiracy, but the British acted as if it were. British security forces arrested 3,430 Irish…
Counting down to 2016
…enthusiastic haste to arrive at 2016, as your countdown gathers pace and the Dictionary of Irish Biography column heads for the hills! I do, however, appreciate the absolute necessity for…