Irish baby names are popular throughout the world, and it isn't that surprising. While the entire island of Ireland may only have a population of around 6.4 million (according to the 2011 census),1 up to 70 million people believe they are of Irish descent.2 While most people in ...
Mickey is an Irish boy name that means little enthusiastic and has energy and enthusiasm. It is also an English boy name of Hebrew origin, meaning who resembles God, or by God. It was popularized in America in the 1900s as a nickname for the famous cartoon mouse created by Walt Disney....
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer". As Lord Byron's named literary executor, along with John Murray, Moore was responsible for burn...
the O'Sullivans first withstood a siege at Dunboy Castle, and then, led by Donal O'Sullivan Beare (1560-1618), the family and their followers began an incredibly hazardous march of 200 miles
Jonathan names twelve (12) slaves, the “Negro” men,Lot, IsaacandRoger, womenMereahandPhillis, a boy,Daniel, “girls”Peg, Kate, Mercy,Luceand Phillis’s two children,CofeandMeriah. Notably, Jonathan directs that his slave,Mereah, be freed upon his death, allowed to live in his house...
After discovering Kitten in women’s clothes, Ma Braden violently scrubs her clean and whacks her with a brush until Kitten says, “I’m a boy, not a girl”. The public/house space facilitates Ma Braden’s close monitoring of Kitten thereafter.As a young writer in secondary school, ...
You clogged the feet of my boyhood And I believed that my stumble Had the poise and stride of Apollo And his voice my thick tongued mumble. You told me the plough was immortal! O green-life conquering plough! The mandril stained, your coulter blunted In the smooth lea-field of my brow...
Jonathan names twelve (12) slaves, the “Negro” men, Lot, Isaac and Roger, women Mereah and Phillis, a boy, Daniel,“girls” Peg, Kate, Mercy, Luce and Phillis’s two children, Cofe and Meriah. Notably, Jonathan directs that his slave, Mereah, be freed upon his death, allowed to...
Party(IPP) in 1891, nationalists take heart fromDouglas Hyde‘s 1892 speech, entitled “The Necessity for De-anglicising Ireland.” Moran builds upon this thesis and provides a wider ideology for enthusiasts, particularly after the re-unification of most of the nationalist parties from 1900. ...
I don’t know if either boy was ever found. So the story of boys going missing wasn’t unknown, nor was a happy or tragic ending to the story necessarily confirmed in the press. Nor was it just boys who were reported missing from Belfast in 1969-70, obviously, with girls being ...