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Move to Restore Quiet Man Cottage

By June Beck, Editor of Maureen O'Hara Magazine
February / March 2012

January 26, 2012 by </a> By June Beck, Editor of Maureen O'Hara Magazine<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2012-archive/february-march-2012/">February / March 2012</a> 25 Comments

Locals and fans from around the world are rallying on the Facebook social network to renew the dream of seeing “The Quiet Man Cottage” restored to its former cinematic glory as it appeared in the 1951 movie The Quiet Man. Today, the structure is barely recognizable as it lies in shambles. For Paddy McCormick, from Belfast, this dream began in 1998. As an ardent fan of the … [Read more...] about Move to Restore Quiet Man Cottage

September 25, 1917

Thomas Ashe, member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, died from a hunger strike on this day in 1917. Ashe, who was born in Co. Kerry, took part in the Easter Uprising of 1916 as a commander of the Fingal Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. On May 8, 1916, both Ashe and De Valera were court martialled by the British and sentenced to death. He was released but then charged with sedition and returned to prison in August of 1917. There, he began a hunger strike in protest that he be treated with a prisoner of war status.

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