Rebuilding Lives in Northern Ireland
Posted in Historical Facts on Sep 20th, 2014
Sept 8, 1798- English General Cornwallis defeated the French General Humbert who surrendered after the battle. Irish were given no quarters and over 500 men were slaughtered.
Posted in Historical Facts on Sep 19th, 2014
September 1845- the first signs of potato blight were seen in Ireland.
Posted in Historical Facts on Sep 18th, 2014
September 1649 Oliver Cromwell lays siege to Drogheda, slaughtering thousands of unarmed men, women and children, some locked in a church and set on fire.
Posted in Historical Facts on Aug 21st, 2014
The 10th Irish Division of the Royal Iniskillen Fusillers was formed on Aug 21, 1914 after the outbreak of World War I. It included battalions from various provinces of Ireland and fought at Gallipoli and Palestine
Posted in Historical Facts on Jul 31st, 2014
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an Irish born labor organizer in the early 1900’s who eventually became chairman of the Communist Party in the US.
Posted in Historical Facts on Jul 29th, 2014
Co Cork was the biggest center of trade for butter in Ireland. To ensure the butter would get from the farms to the Butter Exchange in Cork city, butter roads were built in the 1740’s that provided a speedy route to the market where it was then shipped to America and Australia.
Posted in Historical Facts on Jul 28th, 2014
July 28, 1914-Erskine Childers sailed his yacht the ‘Asgard’ into Howth harbor with 900 German rifles and 129,000 rounds of ammunition in anticipation of a ‘Rising’.
Posted in Historical Facts on Jul 4th, 2014
July 4, 1776- the first cannon shot at the British after the signing of the Declaration of Independence was under the command of Irish-born Capt. Daniel Neil in Elizabethtown, NJ.
Posted in Historical Facts on Jul 3rd, 2014
A proclamation passed on July 3, 1605 forced all Catholics to attend services at the established church and all Catholic priests were forced to leave Ireland.
Posted in Historical Facts on Jul 3rd, 2014
Sinn Fein party was banned by British on July 3, 1918.
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