I hear some people say that they were actively working together, and others say that UVF/UDF would sometimes kill British police and soliders, so what was their relationship like really.
Not sure if this is the right place to post but I found this off the west coast and was wondering for any information on what it is and what to do thanks
Let me know if I missed a clan/family I should have included or your thoughts on the order!
Notes on inclusion:
-I included overseas diaspora in list only if they were operating in a semi-cohesive unit (i.e. Kennedy's counted but Biden did not)
-The clan/family had to be powerful across multiple generations to be included
Back in February, An Post issued a stamp to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. It features Irish-born John Dunlap, who was the official printer of the document in Philadelphia.
The accompanying text states that "almost a century later", the values of that 1776 Declaration were "clearly echoed in the 1916 Proclamation of Irish Independence".
Since when has 140 years been considered "almost a century"??
I remember reading about "The Hungry Grass". According to folklore it refers a patch where a victim of famine died. If you step onto one of these patches you'd get intense feeling of hunger.
Anyone else know anymore folklore associated with the famine?
No doubt many of you have heard the wonderful Irish ballad "Grace", originally sung by Jim McCann.
It was 110 years ago today that Grace Gifford married Joseph Plunkett in the chapel of Kilmainham jail , just hours before he faced a firing squad for his part in the Easter uprising. Grace promised him she would never marry again, and never did.
I've created an updated map showing the distribution of all recorded Souterrains across Ireland. These mainly date to the early medieval period. Definition is included on the map for reference.
The map is populated with a combination of National Monument Service data (Republic of Ireland) and Department for Communities data for Northern Ireland. The map was built using some PowerQuery transformations and then designed in QGIS.
I've taken on helpful feedback from various comments so please do keep them coming as I love making these maps and am keen to keep improving on them.
THE Bobby Sands Trust has disputed a suggestion in a new book that the republican hunger was taken from the Maze prison to Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital.
In ‘The Troubled Adventures of a Student Nurse’, Liz Laird recalls a night porter telling her that Sands had been admitted to the hospital where she worked in 1981 with only days to live.
Danny Morrison, secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust, said while he wished the author well with her memoir, he wanted to correct the record regarding the death of the hunger striker.
“Bobby Sands not only did not die in an outside hospital but there is no record of him ever being taken out to any hospital while he was on the blanket,” he said.
Mr Morrison also rejected a suggestion that families of hospitalised hunger strikers faced “a barrage of questions” from republican supporters.
“A prisoner only ever ended up in an outside hospital, such as the RVH, upon lapsing into unconsciousness in the prison hospital, followed by an understandably distressed next-of-kin relative authorising medical intervention. There then followed transfer to an outside hospital,” he said.
Responding, Ms Laird said “accepts entirely” what the trust says and offers the Sands family sincere apologies.
“I would stress that my memoir ‘The Troubled Adventures of a Student Nurse’ is an honest account of what I believed at the time,” she said.
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I know that the Plantation was a result of the British victory over the Gaelic lords at the end of the 1500s and then the Flight of the Earls in 1607. The British crown then confiscated the native lands and brought in settlers from Northern England and Lowland Scotland.
But I was curious about what happened to the Irish who lived in Ulster during this, did they get outnumbered by settlers and became a small minority and what would the population have been during this era?
I know that when Northern Ireland was created it was about 300 years after the plantation and they claimed that the majority of the population were descendant of these British settlers. So, did the same thing that happened to the native Americans happen to the Irish in Ulster?
Another thing I was curious about is since the Irish were heavily disfranchised by the British and lived in poverty wouldn't they have had bigger families than the settlers that were brought in?
A Dublin member of the Irish Volunteers. The only piece official uniform he is wearing is a service cap with no badge, the rest is personal or hunting equipment.
I've been designing personalised certificates featuring Irish surnames and counties. I'd really appreciate honest feedback on the design, readability, and whether this is something people would actually be interested in. I'm open to all constructive criticism.
I wonder does anyone have any knowledge about this? I heard there was a small percentage of Irish Catholics in the colonies. There were some in Maryland because of it's origins as a Catholic colony.
Here is an article
This article shows that there were many Irish names among the revolution soldiers. However I know that there were Ulster Presbyterians with Irish names too. I have researched all the common Ulster Irish names and all of them were present among Ulster Presbyterians in America. This was obviously because of some Catholic's converting post plantation.
Here are some examples of this.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10755133/george-daugherty_doherty
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68113757/peter-o'neal
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5085104/william-mcguire
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15830200/darius_b-o'neil
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22154355/john-donnell
I have found a few Irish Catholic soldier graves such as
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136997229/patrick-cassidy
