Archive for January, 2017

Arbour Hill Prison and Graves

Dalymount Park and Great War

Outside Left Book Launch

Under One Roof – Plaque to Newspaper Editor and Labour Leader

A commemorative historic plaque will be unveiled  this weekend at the birthplace of former newspaper editor Douglas Gageby  [he edited the Evening Press and later The Irish Times] and the former residence of trade union leader Jim Larkin [founder of the ITGWU, now Siptu] , in Ranelagh, Dublin 6. Participants will include Jim Larkin’s grand-daughter, […]

   THE FORGOTTEN HEROINES OF THE RISING by Joe Duffy (author of Children of the Rising)   ” History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived , but , if faced with courage need not be lived again “ MAYA ANGELOU Thankfully none of the 77 members of Cumann na mBan that have rightly featured […]