Rebuilding Lives in Northern Ireland
Posted in Historical Facts on Dec 18th, 2013
Dec 18, 1688- the exiled King James returned to Ireland in an effort to recapture the throne from Wm. of Orange. As some of James’ troops approached the city of Derry the protestant Apprentice Boys shut the gates against them. Towns all over Ireland were abandoned in the face of James’ army. He arrived in Derry […]
Posted in Historical Facts on Dec 15th, 2013
Dec 15, 1750- James MacNaghten, a gambler and criminal was hanged in Strabane jail for his part in the murder of Mary Anne Knox. The rope broke on the first attempt, but ignoring the offers from the crowd to help him escape, he tells the hangman to go ahead because he doesn’t want to be […]
Posted in Historical Facts on Nov 23rd, 2013
Nov 23, 1867- Michael Larkin, Wm. Allen and Michael Davis are hanged in Manchester for the death of a policeman in an attempt to rescue prisoners.
Posted in Historical Facts on Nov 19th, 2013
Nov 19, 1798 – Wolfe Tone commits suicide in his jail cell rather than be hanged as a traitor.
Posted in Historical Facts on Nov 15th, 2013
Nov 15, 1985 – Garrett Fitzgerald and Margaret Thatcher signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing greater cooperation regarding the north of Ireland.
Posted in Historical Facts on Nov 3rd, 2013
Nov 3, 1798 – Wolfe Tone is captured on a French vessel in Lough Swilley.
Posted in Historical Facts on Nov 1st, 2013
Nov. 1 1918 – IRA member Kevin Barry, 18 yrs., is hanged in Dublin by British.
Posted in Historical Facts on Oct 7th, 2013
Oct 7, 1843- Daniel O’Connell’s ‘monster repeal meeting’ was prohibited and subsequently cancelled.
Posted in Historical Facts on Oct 5th, 2013
Oct 5, 1968- The Civil Rights Association march in Derry. The Apprentice Boys applied for a march on the same day and permission was granted but the Civil Rights march was banned. The RUC attacked the Civil Rights marchers and this was the beginning of the ‘Troubles’.
Posted in Historical Facts on Sep 22nd, 2013
September 1845 was the beginning of “The Great Hunger”, a disaster which lasted until 1850. The population of Ireland went from 8 million to 4 million in those years due to effects of starvation and emigration. Starving men were put to work on ‘roads leading to nowhere’ or ‘meal roads’ as they were sometimes called. […]
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