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national / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday August 27, 2013 23:12 by Sharon.
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East End , Bundoran , Donegal , Saturday 31st August 2013 , 3PM. 32nd Annual Hunger Strike Commemoration , Bundoran , Saturday 31st August 2013. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Thursday August 22, 2013 14:23 by Turing
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Seminar on the 1913 Lockout Tuesday 27th August Wynn's Hotel 7 pm Speakers include Des Dalton - President - RSF Rita Fagan - Community Activist Malachy Steenson - Solicitor All welcome read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday August 21, 2013 23:25 by Sharon.
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The Annual Eve Of All-Ireland Rally will be held in Dublin on Saturday 21st September 2013 . Assemble at Garden of Remembrance at 1.45pm for parade to GPO for 2pm. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / news report Saturday August 03, 2013 17:29 by Mattie Lennon
John Cassidy goes global..........
Donegal man John Cassidy is embarking on a unique project. The following is the story behind it; In 2011 John found an old famine-pot, broken in pieces, in south Donegal. He had it welded, restored and mounted outside Leghowney Community Hall. Such was the interest shown by American tourists that he decided to do some research on the whole Famine-pot/Soup–kitchen aspect of the famine and found that because of bigotry, pride, misguided patriotism and inherited false information,this aspect of the potato failure was almost air-brushed from our history. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Saturday July 20, 2013 00:13 by Robert English
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Sinn Fein commemorates the 99th anniversary of the yacht Asgard's daring delivery of rifles and ammunition to the Irish Volunteers in 1914, at the Howth Pier Lighthouse. The commemoration will be held Saturday, July 27th at 2:30pm on the East Pier, Howth, County Dublin. Music, re-enactors, colour party, speakers, raffles, food and drink follow at The Waterside Bar. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Monday May 20, 2013 01:56 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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TOUR DE HISTORIA POLÍTICA/ POLITICAL HISTORY TOUR DE DUBLÍN/ OF DUBLIN Sunday May 26th Domingo 26 Mayo The tour will commence at Dublin Castle gate. El tour se inicia a las 14:00 (2pm) en la entrada principal del Castillo de Dublín, Dame Street, BÁC 1. Price per person/ Entrada €5 (rebaja de 50% en el precio habituál). The tour will last approximately two hours. El tour durará aproximamente dos horas, después de lo cual podriamos hir a comer al Food Hall y después quizás a tomar una pinta (o igual dos) en algun bar (el Celt?). It is advisable to bring water to drink/ Se conseja llevar agua para beber, y estar preparado con ropa etc. para lluvia, frio y sol (el tiempo es capaz de cambiar bastante durante un día)/ and to bring clothing appropriate to rain, cold and sun. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday May 08, 2013 10:22 by JK
2013 James Connolly Commemoration, Sunday 12th May. Assemble at Arbour Hill cemetery, Dublin, at 12.30pm. Followed by James Connolly Commemorative Lecture 3pm, 12th May, The Cobblestone. Public Lecture on the revolutionary politics of 1913-1916. Speakers to include Aindrias O' Cathasaigh(Historian and author of a number of books including '1916 Seachtar na Casca', 'Daol na Réabhlóide' and 'James Connolly- The Lost Writings') and Dick Carroll (Lifelong socialist republican activist and member of the Independent Worker's Union; grandson of councillor Richard Carroll). Organised by éirígí. All Welcome. read full story / add a comment
wicklow / history and heritage / event notice Saturday May 04, 2013 15:05 by saoirse
Republican Sinn Féin will be marking the 90th anniversary of the death of Commandant Neil ‘Plunkett’ O’Boyle at the hands of Free State forces with a commemoration in Knocknadruce, Co Wicklow on Sunday May 12 at 3.00pm. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday May 02, 2013 11:41 by Pádraig Ó Ruairc.
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Hello All - Here is my review of the controversial TV3 Irish War of Independence documentary "In the Name of the Republic" which was presented by Prof. Eunan O'Halpin of Trinity College which has just been published in the May/June issue of History Ireland Magazine. Enjoy: IRA leader, Tom Barry, once likened the more unsavory aspects of the War of Independence to being dragged “down into the mire”. The two-part documentary, 'In The Name of The Republic', presented by Professor Eunan O'Halpin, explored that mire by examining the uglier aspects of the period. These included the assassination of RIC men, the killings of unarmed British soldiers and the execution and secret burial of alleged British spies. The first episode focused on Ashbrook Farm, Laois. The owner of the farm related how a predecessor, Jack Walpole, told him that three bodies were dumped there in the 1920's. Walpole, who was described as “a bit eccentric”, claimed to have buried one of the bodies himself. The supernatural was a strong feature of Walpole's tale and he stated his horse could sense the location of the graves, refusing to draw a plough over them. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Sunday April 28, 2013 23:27 by DF
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The Inchicore Friends of the International Brigades is a local group dedicated to remembering those who volunteered to defend the Spanish Republic against the forces of international fascism and capital. As part of the Friends of the International Brigades in Ireland (FIBI), the group is affiliated with the International Brigades Memorial Trust. Future projects include the erection of a memorial to Jim Prendergast in Temple Bar in September 2013 and the continuation of a second-level schools’ essay competition, launched successfully in 2012. read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / event notice Monday April 22, 2013 20:06 by Sharon.
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Wolfe Tone to be commemorated in Bodenstown on Sunday 16th June 2013. read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday April 16, 2013 22:27 by Sharon.
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Between the years 1917 and 1981 , 22 Irish republicans died on hunger-strike. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Wednesday March 27, 2013 13:52 by Turing Test
Revisionists given a hammering by John Borgonovo . They are searching for an ouija board to contact Peter Hart for advice. Full text at link. UCC historian John Borgonovo casts doubt on some claims made in the TV3 series ‘In The Name Of The Republic’ TV3’s TWO-PART documentary series, In the Name of the Republic has created a stir among historians, though perhaps not in the way the filmmakers intended. The programme illustrates the danger of accepting local folklore as historical fact, especially during this much-heralded “decade of centenaries”. In the first episode, viewers met an aged Co Laois man who related his boyhood encounter with a neighbouring farmer, who claimed he had dug up a body while ploughing his field, one of three corpses supposedly buried there by the IRA. Series host Prof Eunan O’Halpin (of Trinity College Dublin) told the audience hisresearch had uncovered two civilians abducted by the Tipperary IRA and “never seen again”. The rest of the episode attempted to prove his theory that they were interred in this Laois field. The episode concluded with O’Halpin opening the sealed files, only to learn that both had survived the conflict. They were never killed by the IRA, much less secretly buried in Laois. The obvious lesson here is: Finish your research before you rent the JCB. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Monday March 25, 2013 14:39 by J Keegan
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Free Walking Tour, visiting the main locations of the Easter Rising. Meeting at Liberty Hall, 1pm on Good Friday. All very welcome. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday March 22, 2013 21:01 by Case Carver
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The political agenda regarding foreign policy,is to continue to spend American resources on what is still far too much for Israel’s objectives (such as war with Syria and Iran), ; as these goings-on continue to motivate more dismantlement of American Constitutional liberties here at home (in order to get away with their forms of betrayal (treason) to our founding fathers’ American Creed (which is not protecting the Holy Land) and to true interests of the American peoples. We now continue to live within a tyranny of corrupt betrayal. So to ban the personal right to own rapid-fire weapons here in the United States could happen within this significant context of an ever-evolving totalitarian reality that continues to wrap its dangerous tentacles around our quickly dying freedoms. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Monday March 04, 2013 22:09 by Sharon.
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Easter Monday Commemoration at the GPO , O'Connell Street , Dublin. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Monday March 04, 2013 21:56 by Sharon.
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Easter Sunday Commemoration in Deansgrange , Dublin. read full story / add a comment 
meath / history and heritage / press release Tuesday February 26, 2013 18:01 by Slane Local Heroes
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Celebrating Slane as the home of St Patrick and the Lighting of the Pascal Flame in 432 AD is the central theme of The Flame of Slane Spectacular. This event was first run in 2012 on Easter Saturday and was a great success. It is fair to say that the audience of about 2000 people were astonished with the show. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 20, 2013 10:07 by Matt Treacy
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Regarding Anthony Coughlan’s latest attempt to denigrate my books. The books stand on their merits and I have no need to repeat what is in them. They stand or fall on their own merits. However a number of points in Coughlan’s ‘review’ do need to be addressed. First of all, the production issues relate to a small number of books sold at the time of the launch. All of these have been corrected and the index is now fully accurate. He claims the book is ‘thoroughly nasty’. I take it that is a reference to it’s critical analysis of the pro-Soviet Communist movement. I make no more apology for being anti-Stalinist than I do for being anti-Nazi. It is also clear that one of the features of the CP book most upsetting to the inheritors of Irish Stalinism is its exposé of the dishonesty and intellectual gymnastics that were employed to justify the Stalin/Hitler Pact between 1939 and 1941. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Sunday January 20, 2013 15:58 by Sharon.
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