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Very interesting new article by Barry Sheppard on the #Lurgan weavers' strike of 1913. Wages had not increased since 1886, & weavers who were noted to be living just on the right side of starvation, struck for better pay to keep up with cost of living. theirishstory.com/2026/10/19…
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The Belfast News Letter and the Irish Civil War. This article investigates how Northern Unionists perceived the southern Civil War through the editorials of the Belfast News Letter theirishstory.com/2024/08/02…
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Very interesting new article by @rea_esten on those unwillingly transported from Dublin's quays in the 1700s: 'pressed' into naval service, 'transported' to penal servitude, sold into indentured labour or just kidnapped. theirishstory.com/2026/10/13…
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We have a Podcast on Ireland and the Boer War with @historian1914 here theirishstory.com/2025/06/27…
#OnThisDay 1899 The Second Anglo-Boer War began. At least 30,000 Irishmen would serve there in 13 infantry regiments & 3 cavalry units within the British Army. Another 300 Irishmen, like John MacBride, would fight with the Boers against the British.
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Kilkenny’s own ‘Mini Referendum on the Treaty’ – The Carlow/Kilkenny by-election of 1925 theirishstory.com/2026/09/11…
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#OTD The mass meeting at Clontarf, demanding the Repeal of the Union or the return of Irish self government, was banned the night before it was due to take place and frantically called off by Daniel O’Connell, who feared a bloodbath. theirishstory.com/2011/10/08…
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Revisiting the Red Cow Murders, October 7, 1922 theirishstory.com/2017/11/22…
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Podcast, the Fenians, Part Three. This episode takes the Irish Repubican Brotherhood and its American wing, Clan na Gael from the early 1900s up to the Rising of 1916. @IrishHistoryPod theirishstory.com/2026/10/06…
irishhistoryshow.ie/119-the-… New Podcast! Part 3 of our series on the Fenian movement. #irishhistory #twitterstorians
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Overview article on the Fenians here, for those seeking an introduction theirishstory.com/2017/03/07…
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Revisiting the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement: 1968-69 theirishstory.com/2018/12/03…
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My novelised biography is out!! On Amazon
The Two Geoffreys of Trim Castle (WITAN Publishing, US), revealing the secrets of Trim Castle
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Podcast: Pogrom in Belfast and the McMahon Murders, with Edward Burke with @IrishHistoryPod theirishstory.com/2024/10/16…
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Today in Irish History 27 September 1922, the Passing of legisation set up Military Courts with the power to impose the death penalty, imprisonment or penal servitude. Over 400 men were sentenced to death 81 ultimately executed under its terms. theirishstory.com/2013/09/27…...
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Podast here with @IrishHistoryPod about the Orange Order and its history. Recorded in 2018. theirishstory.com/2018/08/19…
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Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington was born and raised in #Ireland, and though closely associated with British rule is still commemorated in #Dublin, as Jack Croome discovers. Cuid dár stair.
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‘Likely to cause disaffection to His Majesty’, the Seizure of Irish newspapers, September 1919. Alongside the suppression of the Dail as an illegal assembly the British seized a series of separatist printing presses theirishstory.com/2020/05/17…
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#OnThisDay 1884 HMS Wasp crashed on rocks just off Tory Island, Donegal as it made its way to the island of Inishtrahull to evict three poor farming families who could not pay rent.
Fifty two lives were lost in the crash for the sum total of £76.
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We have a full article on this here, by John Joe McGinley. The sinking of HMS Wasp, 1884 – A curse, sabotage or human error? Local tradition had it that the ship, set to carry out evictions, fell victim to a local curse. theirishstory.com/2021/04/16…
#OnThisDay 1884 HMS Wasp crashed on rocks just off Tory Island, Donegal as it made its way to the island of Inishtrahull to evict three poor farming families who could not pay rent.
Fifty two lives were lost in the crash for the sum total of £76.
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