When nature writer Paul Clements needed a place to recover after surgery, he retreated to the woods. His chosen hideaway was ...

A graveyard which contains the remains of one of the great, forgotten Irish rebels, the grandmother of Oscar Wilde, and the ...

Her brother, and leader of the United Irishmen Henry Joy McCracken, was executed by the British for his part in the 1798 rebellion. Local sculptor Anto Brennan, who created the first piece ...

The Irish poor, according to many English commentators ... as some would have characterized it—was starkly manifest, yet again, in the 1798 Rebellion, a popular uprising that took its ...

In response to this 18th-century vandalism/terrorism/coercion, the British government introduced a series of punitive measures under the Coercive Acts including dissolving the colonial assembly, ...

The latest ‘equality’ propaganda stunt from the republican movement is to use the commemorations of the failed 1916 Easter ...

His first of 1,125 entries was about The Groves of Blackpool, which has its roots as a loyalist ballad going back to the United Irishmen’s 1798 rebellion. He singles out Cork is an Eden ...

After the law passed, Federalists regularly rounded up, or sparred with, Irish Americans thought or known to be sympathetic to the 1798 rebellion of the United Irishmen against England.

This passage is taken from his book “Irish Miscellany ... how the rebels of 1798—the “croppies” because of their short, cropped hair—moved swiftly in rebellion: “The pockets of ...