The Story of Roger Casement Part II Roger Casement may have been gay but is that important to his accomplishments? He was hung by the British for being a traitor. Some thought it was his homosexuality that tipped the scales of justice. Casement did admit being...
Part I Irish Men and Irish Women / Political Statements 1. The Irish Proclamation of the independence, (the first official political document of the Republic) addresses Irish women as well as men. , ‘ IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: in the name of God and of the dead generations from...
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...
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...
In commemorating the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland, here are just a few of some less known facts, for all my Irish History Buffs out there. FACT 1:. Did you know that the ‘Easter Rising of 1916′ which catapulted Ireland to its dream of Freedom...