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Field of Dreams

By Phil Hanrahan, Contributor
Photos by Mary June Hanrahan
October / November 2001

October 1, 2001 by </a> By Phil Hanrahan, Contributor<br/></a> Photos by Mary June Hanrahan<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2001-archive/october-november-2001/">October / November 2001</a> Leave a Comment

How one Man's dream became a reality. It all began with a castle. In 1987, a husband and wife from the nearby town of Ballyvaughan purchased a 16th-century tower house. Newtown Castle, along with a neighboring country house and a 17th-century coach house lately used to shelter cows. ℘℘℘ Yes, these were fixer-uppers. The slate-roofed residence Newtown House was showing … [Read more...] about Field of Dreams

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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