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What Social Distancing Meant During the Famine

March 27, 2020 by Leave a Comment

By Niall O'Dowd, PublisherSocial distancing during the famine was leaving your home and hearth and catching the boat to America.The hovel you left behind had a dirt floor and was often shared with animals. Dysentery, cholera, malnutrition was rife. Ventilators were the holes in the roof to let the smoke from the tiny fire escape. Once there was nothing to cook the fire went out … [Read more...] about What Social Distancing Meant During the Famine

Ireland at War: Photos from the Sean Sexton Collection

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
February / March 2017

February 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment

These rare photos from the Sean Sexton Collection chronicle the years of terror following the Rising when the Irish were caught up in the War of Independence and the Civil War.You can read all you want of Irish history, but photographs give us a window to the past that words can’t. For the centenary of the Easter Rising, London’s Photographer’s Gallery put together an ambitious … [Read more...] about Ireland at War: Photos from the Sean Sexton Collection

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June 4, 1820

On June 4, 1820, Henry Grattan, outstanding orator and dominant figure in the Irish parliament, died. Grattan entered the Irish Parliament in December 1775. He was the leader of the Patriot movement that won legislative independence for Ireland in 1782. Later he headed opposition to the union of England and Ireland. Grattan spent the last 15 years of his life on the British House of Commons after being elected in 1805.

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