Kelly McLaughlin

Hope During the Pandemic

October 28, 2020 by helpdesk1 Leave a Comment

From March to June of 2020 there were many days when it was difficult to have hope that things were going to get better. For many of us we listened to daily news briefings from the President, the Governor, and local elected officials. During those news briefings you hoped to hear good news and that the number of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 were decreasing. Around the … [Read more...] about Hope During the Pandemic

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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