On Easter Monday, April 24th, 1916, as Pádraig Pearse, Commander of the Irish Rebels, prepared to read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic from the steps of the GPO, battalions of Irish Volunteers were occupying strategic positions throughout the city […]
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Patrick Joseph Roe was one of the youngest Volunteers attached to The Irish Volunteers C. Company, 3rd Battalion, Dublin Brigade, who played a part in the Battle of Mount Street Bridge. Roe started a Fenian Group in Inchicore in 1912 […]
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A significant event in the Rising was Patrick Pearse reading aloud the Proclamation of the Irish Republic outside the GPO on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916. It is a symbol which proclaims independence, justifies rebellion and offers a vision of […]
Read more →Since 2009 the Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society have made it their mission to preserve the history of the Dublin Docks and honor the men and women that worked inside the dock gates and in the surrounding dockland industries. They […]
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The 1916 Rising was the most devastating conflict in Ireland’s history, and it would be several years before Dublin would recover from the damage caused. Robin Mandal has an extensive knowledge of the steps that were taken to repair the […]
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2016 is a very big year for Ireland, being the centenary celebrations of the 1916 Rising. Now there is an opportunity for people to gain more extensive knowledge of this vital event in Irish history. On Thursday 10 March, Professor […]
Read more →I went to pay my respects at Larry Skinner’s funeral today in Ringsend Church.
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On Monday January 18th 2016 my mum died. She was 89 years old. She had been in St. Vincent’s Hospital since July 7th 2015. My mum was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 6th of November 1926. In 1936 my […]
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In the Christmas issue of NewsFour, in Jimmy Purdy’s article on page 24, the football team pictured was incorrectly named as Markievicz Celtic. It was, in fact, the Hillview United team pictured and named in the caption. Printed again is […]
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My reason for writing this story concerns all the talk about Jamie Vardy in the English Premier League scoring eleven consecutive goals, and so equalling Ruud van Nistlerooy’s twelve year old Premier League record; or has he? I want to […]
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