Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by listening to popular Irish songs from Thin Lizzy, The Dubliners and U2. Add these to your St. Patrick's Day song playlist.
Execution of Two Irish Women in Kilmainham Jail in Ireland An Irish Nun in Prison For Kidnapping a Child The Irish War of Independence and 18 Year Old Kevin Barry The Cholera Epidemic in Ireland and the Irish Nuns as Nurses
Other famous Irish folk songs include “Danny Boy,”“The Gypsy Rover,”“Rocky Road to Dublin,” and “The Fields of Athenry” – a folk ballad about an Irishman forced to leave for Australia after stealing food to feed his starving family during the Great Irish Famine of the mid 1800s...
Such activity may also have stemmed in part from a welcoming of death by an exploited and destitute people. Today, however, wakes among Irish Americans are much more sedate and respectable and generally last only one night. The main purpose of a wake is for relatives, neighbors, and friends...
Boys’s Names: A– CD – IM – U The Story of a Name: Niamh Niamh, Oisín and Embarr Niamh of the Golden Hair was a beautiful goddess from Tír na nÓg, the land of eternal youth, who lured Oisín, son of the warrior Finn McCumhaill, away to marry her. He promised his father...
You can follow our playlist onSpotifyto listen to those top voted tracks as they are added every 2 - 3 weeks. THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:06 -W. Ed Harris"The Last Hairpin on Soller / The Mill House / Ashmolean House" from Cares of Tomorrow Can Wait 4:05 - WELCOME 6:09 -Goitse...
the country with one of the fastest growing gambling industries in Europe,we have prepared a timetable with the most significant gambling events in Irish history.In it, you can follow the process from its very beginning in the 1800s until the legalisation of the online gambling industry in ...
Edmond Malone was an Irish-born English scholar, editor, and pioneer in efforts to establish an authentic text and chronology of William Shakespeare’s works. After practicing in Ireland as a lawyer and journalist, Malone settled in London in 1777. There
(1817), of considerable power. After 1817 she wrote less. She completed her father’sMemoirs(1820) and devoted herself to the estate. She enjoyed a European reputation and exchangedcordialvisits with Scott. Her last years were saddened by the Irish famine of 1846, during which she worked for...
1821 Census of Ireland transcripts: There's been a lot of detective work going on to make sense of paper scraps and scribbled notes to reveal names and places from this pre-Famine census. The resulting release sees the names of more than 4,000 individuals enter the public realm for the fi...