Rebuilding Lives in Northern Ireland
Posted in Interesting Fact on Apr 17th, 2018
U.S. Army Nurse Corps 2nd Lt Pamela D. Donovan, a native of Ireland is just one of a number of native Irish who gave their lives while serving with U.S. Military forces in Vietnam. A resident of Brighton, MA, (her family moved to the U.S. when she was a teenager) she became a U.S. citizen […]
Posted in Interesting Fact on Mar 26th, 2018
In 1855, nearly 17 percent of the New York City police department’s officers were Irish born. By 1900, five out of six NYPD officers were of Irish descent. Irish-Americans still made up 42 percent of the New York police force in 1960.
Posted in Interesting Fact on Feb 21st, 2017
A study done at Univ. College of Dublin has discovered that the Travelling Community dates back further than previously thought. They found that instead of originating at time of the Great Hunger, they actually split genetically from the settled population 360 years previously. Travellers make up 0.6% (30,000) of the population in the Republic. Genetic […]
Posted in Interesting Fact on Feb 17th, 2017
Charles J. Kickham, 1828-1882: Tipperary born writer and political activist. He is best remembered for his nationalist writings, especially the novel ‘Kocknagow’ (1873). An active member of the Tenant League and a regular contributor to ‘the Nation, he later joined the Fenians and promoted their aims and methods in his writings. His other writings included […]
Posted in Interesting Fact on Sep 30th, 2016
As a schoolboy in London, Yeats longed for his native Sligo and as an adult he often returned there. He describes Sligo in his Reveries over Childhood and Youth and Sligo’s lake-studded landscape haunts his poetry. His gravestone in Drumcliff carries an epitaph he wrote himself, “Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman […]
Posted in Interesting Fact on Sep 27th, 2016
James Joyce was born in Dublin but spent most of his adult life in Europe. He used Dublin as the setting for all of his major works including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. Joyce claimed that if Dublin were ever destroyed, it could be recreated from the pages […]
Posted in Interesting Fact on Sep 21st, 2016
Johnathan Swift was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College. He spent five years in England but returned to Dublin in 1694 after failure of his political career. After his return to Ireland, he began a life in the church, becoming the dean of St. Patrick’s in 1713. Swift also was a prolific commentator. […]
Posted in Interesting Fact on Jul 5th, 2016
Leamaneh Castle/Leim an Eich (The Stallion’s Leap), Co. Clare-Built in the late 1400’s and expanded in the 1640’s. It is located 12 miles north of Ennis. It was the home of Maire ‘Rua’ (Red Mary) McMahon-O’Brien and her husband Conor O’Brien. Red (flaming red hair) Mary is considered to be the last of the great […]
Posted in Interesting Fact on Jun 21st, 2016
James Joyce (1882-1941) Poet, novelist and playwright, James Joyce first published a series of short stories, “Dubliners” (1914), and then achieved success with “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (1916). His masterpiece, “Ulysses” (1922) was written using the “stream of consciousness” technique. It baffled readers and revolutionized 20th Century fiction.
Posted in Interesting Fact on Jun 17th, 2016
Co. Antrim forms the northwest of Ireland where a channel only 13 miles wide separates Torr Head from the Scottish coast. Lough Neagh, the largest lake in Ireland, and the fertile valley of the River Bann occupy the western part of Co. Antrim.
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