The most unlikely Petticoat Rebel after the Easter Rising was Doctor Kathleen Lynn. Appointed Chief Medical Officer of the Irish Citizen Army she trained the rebels in first aid and was active in smuggling arms before the Easter Rising ever took place but her accomplishments...
Some of the most unlikely rebels were women who grew up in Protestant Unionist households, in other words part of the Anglo Irish elite .They went to private schools, socialized with those of their own class, lived in large Georgian houses in the same neighborhoods as...
In 1911,The Ladies School Dinner Committee or the LSDC organized a free lunch for every poor child in Dublin regardless of religion, parents political backgrounds, or race. Before this time, the School Meals Act of 1906 allowed government money to be allocated for the provision of...
An Irish bus is the only way to travel for some people. Let’s face it. Driving in Ireland is not for everyone. The drawbacks are numerous including expense, lack of street signs, dangerous roads and definitely driving on the left if you come from the...
After the Easter Rising in 1916, England was faced with what to do with the several thousand men they’d arrested.The answer was Frongoch Internment Camp in Wales. Frongoch Internment Camp, a converted whiskey distillery did not squash the desire for Irish independence among the Irish rebels. The...
Grosse Isle was another tragedy made possible from the great famine, a mass death and heartbreaking tale of desparation continued from Ireland across the sea. Any local from Dublin will tell you there was no famine but there was … “a potato blight which destroyed the only...
The violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland cannot be overlooked in Irish history so this post is dedicated to that subject. In honor of the loyal readers of Celticthoughts.com,. There are over 900 now and the numbers grow consistently day by day, I am running...
America was built by the Irish. I’ve said that before but did you know the grass-roots of this fine country, the very fiber of America, the existence of the American government, the life blood that makes America great is due largely in part because of Irish...
A landlord is a man who has property or keeps lodgings to whom tenants pay a fixed rent. The operative word here is fixed, something an Irish landlord had complete will to establish as he wished, often using his immense power to do just that. Many Irish...
100 Things You Didn’t Know About Ireland, filled with little known Irish history, is soon to be released May 1st. Over thirty four million Irish Americans live in the U.S alone, more than 7 times the population of Ireland. Do you wish you knew more...