One Sunday afternoon in 1907 in the Bronx, New York a group of Irish-Americans gathered to discuss politics. A mixture of recent immigrants and second generation Irish Americans they gathered at the Gurely-Flynn household. The Gurley-Flynn’s were in many ways what we might assume a stereotypical Irish American family to be in the early 20th [...]
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John Quincy Adams: A US president with an unusual connection to Ireland
Posted in 19th century, Irish America, Irish American, Irish history, Medieval Europe, tagged John Quincy Adams on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
US Presidents have a long tradition of forging links with Ireland. In the last six decades numerous presidents have played up their Irish ancestory with many visiting Ireland in an effort to appeal to the Irish American electorate. Perhaps the strangest link though has to be that of President John Quincy Adams. He never visited [...]
Dublin in photos: the difference a century makes.
Posted in 19th century, 20th Century, British Army, Civil war, Dublin, Dublin history, IRA, ireland, Irish history on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In 1961 the Evening Standard Newspaper celebrated its centential with a special supplement looking at Dublin over the previous hundred years (1861 – 1961). This supplment contained these fascinating early photos of Dublin before and after Independence in 1921. The change in Dublin’s streetscape is dramatic, illustrating what the city was like when it had [...]
William and Daniel Cormack: from Execution to International Fame
Posted in 19th century, 20th Century, tagged Cormack, john Ellis, Kitty Cormack, Loughmore, Nenagh Gaol, William Cormack on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In March 1858, two brothers mounted the scaffold in Nenagh Jail in North Tipperary for the murder of John Ellis. One of the brothers, 19 year old Daniel Cormack pleaded “Lord have mercy on me, for you know, Jesus, that I neither had hand, act nor part in that for which I am about to [...]
Photos from a forgotten world: Ireland 1860-1880
Posted in 19th century, famine, Images, Irish history on June 23, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Its almost impossible to comprehend how much Ireland has changed in the last 150 years. This selection of photos from a National Library collection released in 1981 give a rare glimpse into Ireland between 1860-1880. Many of these pictures are of tourists. The late 19th century had seen tourism take off in Ireland (exclusivley among [...]
Images from The Land War
Posted in 19th century on May 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We are used to watching news in real time through television and social media. It was in the 19th century that the antecedent of the modern news industry emerged through newspapers and magazines. Although photographs were around since the Crimean War in 1850′s the hand drawn sketch dominated the print media. The last post I [...]
Grangegorman Military Cemetery
Posted in 19th century, 20th Century, British Army, Irish history on February 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Grangegorman military cemetery is almost completely unknown in Dublin. Situated close to McKee Barracks on Blackhorse Avenue, its anonymity is more to do with those buried there than its location. The issue of Irishmen serving in the British Army has been highly controversial since 1916. This cemetery was forgotten after independence in a country forged [...]
Broadstone Station – A forgotten history of Dublin.
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, 20th Century, Dublin, historical tours, Irish history, tagged Blacqueire Bridge, Broadstone, Canals, Fosters Aqueduct, Midlands and Great Western, Phibsboro on February 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
In the 19th century Broadstone was one of the most well known areas of Dublin, however very few people even know where it is today. From 1817 this area was home to one of the major transport hubs in 19th century Dublin, containing a major railway station and a canal harbour. This area rose and [...]
5 Controversial Dublin Monuments
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, 20th Century, Civil war, Dublin, IRA, ireland, Irish history, War of Independence, tagged Arthur Griffith, Lord Nelson, Michael Collins, millenium Clock, Nelsons Pillar, Sean Russell, Time in the Slime, William Of Orange on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
5.The Time in the Slime (the river Liffey) Back in the late 1990’s when Ireland’s economy started to grow for the first time in centuries the government, instead of building schools and hospitals, decided Dublin needed a clock in the river Liffey that counted down to the millennium. Officially called “The Millennium Clock”, it was [...]
Christmas day in Clifden Workhouse 1847
Posted in 19th century, famine, Irish history, tagged clifden, famine, Irish history, workhouse on December 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I was researching the Great Irish Famine (1845-51) when I came across this bleak report written in Clifden workhouse on Christmas day 1847. The situation in Ireland was desperate by 1847 when famine related diseases started to ravage an already weakened population. The workhouse was what the 19th century offered up as state welfare. Orphans, [...]
Dennis Doherty: A life of survival against the odds….
Posted in 19th century, Irish history, transportation, tagged Dennis docherty, Dennis Doherty, Norfolk Island, Port Arthur, Tasmania on October 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The haunting picture below of an Irish “convict”was taken in Port Arthur prison, Tasmania in 1876. Dennis Doherty[1] had been transported from Europe 43 years earlier and was one of the longest serving prisoners in the Australian penal system. He served a staggering 43 years and received somewhere in the region of 3,000 lashes of [...]
Top 5 Celebrity Jailbirds in Irish history
Posted in 19th century, 20th Century, emigration, historical tours, Irish history, Podcast, Top 5, tagged Allen, Catalpa, Fremantle, Jim Larkin, John Boyle O Reilly, John Devoy, Larkin, Manchester Martyrs, Mother Jones, O Brien, Oscar Wilde on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Never mind X factor or any of that rubbish, here’s 5 people (or groups of people) who are actually worth talking about….. Although not all are recognisable today these were all celebrity jailbirds in their day. 1. Oscar Wilde While celebrated today for his skill with the pen, Oscar Wilde at the time of his [...]
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