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"To us, Irishmen, young, ardent, enthusiastic, trying to grope amid the darkness for a path to higher things - no question can be of more absorbing interest than this: What has destiny in store for this ancient race of ours?" - Pádraig Pearse

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Picture of Paddy Moloney playing music at Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11. He came to New York for the funeral of Matthew O'Mahony, a fan of his band who was killed in the attacks. He performed Táimse i mo Chodladh (I Am Asleep) and Dochas (Hope) to the crowds.

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Picture of the O'Halloran (Ní Alluráin) sisters of Co. Clare, who threw cans of boiling water on RIC officers during the Irish Land War (Cogadh na Talún). They helped their two brothers and parents defend against eviction after the landlord had more than doubled the rent.

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In March 1846, during the Great Famine, landlord Mrs. Gerrard decided to evict seventy families, numbering 447 people, from her estate in Ballinlass, Co. Galway. The people had their rent money, but she wanted to put a grazing farm where their village was. The army and police 1/2

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50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising

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Joe McKelvey, from Tyrone, was executed 100 years ago today by the Free State, aged 24. McKelvey loved the GAA and the Irish language. He was forced from his job at an engineering business by loyalist intimidation. He was a successful commander of the IRA’s Belfast Brigade.

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Ronnie Drew recites the poetry of Pádraig Pearse. "I say to my people that they are holy, that they are august, despite their chains, That they are greater than those who hold them, and stronger and purer, That they have but need of courage and to call on the name of their God."

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#OnThisDay 1882, five members of the Joyce family were murdered in Mám Trasna, Co. Mayo. The ensuing prosecution of Maolra Seoighe, an innocent man, is infamous in legal history. Seoighe was executed for the murders as he could not defend himself in an English-speaking court.

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Photograph of the Kinsella brothers of Coolgreany, Co. Wexford awaiting the arrival of bailiffs and RIC constables (who came armed with rifles), to attempt evict them. 300 people were evicted in the area in 1887 for withholding rent payments until a fair price was negotiated.

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"The victors [of WW1] ... created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career - in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad - watching the people within those borders burn." - Robert Fisk, renowned journalist

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Illustrated Gaeilge from Pádraig Pearse's St. Enda's School. Pearse was a believer in teaching the Irish language in a conversational context, and through the use of illustrations.

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Seán Ó hEinirí (1915-1998) was a seanchaí (Gaelic historian and storyteller) and a locally renowned fisherman in County Mayo. He is thought to have been the last monolingual Irish speaker. Here is a clip of him talking on a documentary called ‘The Story of English’.

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Traditional Irish clothing, modelled by Gaelic League revivalists

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Ireland is the 3rd largest island in Europe and the 20th largest in the world, covering 84,421 square kilometres or 32,595 square miles. The island's current geography includes 60% grassland, 11% forest and 14% bogland. Ireland holds 8% of the entire world's blanket bogs.

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A French soldier of the First World War told a journalist of seeing the Irish Guards bayonet-charging three regiments of the German cavalry, saying they sung a strange song. "I cannot tell you what the words were, but it was something about God saving Ireland."

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The 15th-16th century gravestone of a gallóglach warrior on the Inis Eoghain peninsula, Co. Donegal. It marks the grave of Magnus Mac Orristin, a Norse-Gael. The gravestone includes a hurley, sliotar and a sword, representing his interests. Fergus Mac Allan made the stone.

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The Hunterston Brooch, produced around 700A.D. and made from silver, gold and amber, is a fine example of early medieval Irish metalworking. The brooch was found in Scotland in 1830. An Old Norse inscription names its owner as Maél Brigda, meaning "devotee of Saint Brigid".

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On New Year's Day 1578, the leading Gaelic lords of Laois and Offaly were invited to a peace meeting with the English at Mullaghmast, and attended unarmed. Upon arrival they, their wives and their children were massacred by Crown soldiers, clearing the way for further conquest.

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"Hurling is the most dangerous game ever played on this planet. The game was invented by the most sublimely energetic and warlike race the world has ever known." - Michael Cusack, founder of the GAA

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An old cartoon depicting the beauty of English women compared with a barbarous Irish woman. Such cartoons were once a common means of dehumanising Irish people for political purposes.

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An old Irish proverb warning against overthinking things: "Ní dhéanfaidh smaoineamh an treabhadh duit. You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind."

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Luke Kelly, one of Ireland's most popular folk musicians, was born 81 years ago today

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Every country has its own version of celebrating militarism, whether it offends other countries or elements of its own citizenry or not - these are emotions that many national anthems invoke - but Ireland appears to be the only that gets chastised like bold children for doing so.

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The Ireland women's team apologise for singing a song referencing the IRA following their world cup qualification win against Scotland last night.

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100 years ago today in Ireland, Eileen Quinn, a young mother of three toddlers (aged 24), was shot on her doorstep by the RIC in Galway. Quinn was seven months pregnant and was holding her nine-month old child in her arms. She was hit in the groin and died eight hours later.

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"Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country's most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation." - George Washington #July4th

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"Watched the Galway salmon run Like silver dancing darting in the sun Living on your western shore Saw summer sunsets, asked for more I stood by your Atlantic sea And sang a song for Ireland"

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Elizabeth "Lily" Mernin was one of Michael Collins' most important intelligence agents from 1919 to 1922. She worked as a typist in Dublin Castle, and typed reports for Collins on British intelligence agents. She identified the homes of the entire Cairo Gang in 1920.

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#OnThisDay 1773, Art Ó Laoghaire was murdered by magistrate and landlord Abraham Morris and a group of soldiers. Ó Laoghaire had been a Captain in the Hungarian Hussars, and brought home a fine horse, deemed too valuable for a Catholic to be allowed to own. He refused to sell 1/7

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100 years ago this week, the Irish Free State carried out its first official executions of IRA prisoners: James Fisher (18), Peter Cassidy (21), Richard Twohig (19) and John Gaffney (19) were shot. The State would execute more IRA men than the British in the War of Independence.

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'Due to the large force of soldiers and police the only resistance to the evictions were the sounds of men cursing, children screaming with fright, and distressing cries and screams of the women as they clung to the door posts ...' 3/3

The heartless evictions from the Gerrard estate, 1846

Friday March 13 1846 turned out to be a very unlucky day for the 447 tenants on the Gerrard estate in the townland of Ballinlass, near Mount Bellew Co Galway. Shortly after dawn the sheriff, accomp...

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destroyed their homes, and evicted them fully when they slept in the ruins. They were not allowed to seek hospitality with their neighbours. There was widespread outrage, but the evictions went ahead. The Roscommon Journal called it the "awful extermination of tenantry". 2/3

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The face of a lion: Carving depicting Ruairí Ó Conchúir, the last High King of Ireland before the Norman's arrival, at Cong Abbey. Ruairí funded a number of new buildings at the site and spent the final years of his life here, where he died on December the 2nd 1198, aged 82.

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Caricature of an English landlord begging an Irish tenant for rent in the aftermath of the No Rent Manifesto, which was issued 140 years ago today. The Land League demanded fair rent, fixity of tenure, free sale and funds to allow tenants to purchase their rented property.

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Samhain, one of the four traditional seasonal festivals of the Irish, has been celebrated since before written history, and heavily influenced the modern celebrations of Halloween. Cattle herds would be brought in from summer pastures, bonfires would be lit and the dead would...

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An Ulster unionist postcard from 1912, entitled 'Ulster's Prayer - Don't Let Go!' It gives an intriguing insight into the creator's perceptions of the provinces of Ireland.

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102 years today, Tom Barry’s 3rd West Cork Brigade, many of whom had never had target practice, killed 17 British Auxiliaries in the Kilmichael Ambush. The victory shifted British opinion, as most were stunned that the guerrillas could eliminate a group of British officers.

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Depiction of Hugh 'The Great' O'Neill outwitting Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (the clip is from The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, 1939). Essex had set out to crush O'Neill with 16,000 soldiers in 1599, but failed and ultimately return to England in shame.

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#OnThisDay 1922, the Irish Free State carried out its first official executions of IRA prisoners: James Fisher (18), Peter Cassidy (21), Richard Twohig (19) and John Gaffney (19) were shot. The State went on to execute more IRA men than the British in the War of Independence.

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Harp gifted by W.B. Yeats to Maud Gonne, and later gifted by herself to Síle MacCurtain, daughter of Tomás MacCurtain, the murdered Lord Mayor of Cork.

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Red Hugh O'Donnell died #OnThisDay 1602 in Valladolid, Spain, aged 29. He was there to arrange Spanish military aid for Ireland in its hour of greatest resistance to Tudor England's conquest. "Pitiable, indeed, was the state of the Gaels of Ireland after the death of O'Donnell."

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DNA study on Icelanders from 2000 in the American Journal of Human Genetics: "The study showed that between 20 and 25 per cent of Icelandic founding males had Gaelic ancestry. The mitocondrial work showed that about half of Iceland's founding females were of Gaelic ancestry."

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Michael P. Murphy was born in 1976 to Irish American parents Maureen and Daniel Murphy. A Navy Seal officer, he was granted a Medal of Honour after being shot 14 times by the Taliban while retrieving a satellite phone during battle in 2005. He continued fighting until he died.

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Artwork made by republican prisoners in Long Kesh internment camp

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"I have just done one of the hardest tasks I have ever had to do. I have had to condemn to death one of the finest characters I have ever come across. There must be something very wrong in the state of things that makes a man like that a rebel." Major-General Blackader on Pearse

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Ireland has lost one of its greatest musicians. His expertise on the tin whistle and the uilleann pipes can be viewed in this clip. Rest in peace Paddy Moloney - you have represented this nation in all parts of the globe, and will never be forgotten.

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Maximilian Karl Lamoral O’Donnell von Tyrconnell was an Austrian nobleman descended from the O'Donnell dynasty of Ireland. He was made famous in 1853 by rescuing the life of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria during an assassination attempt, striking the assassin with his sabre.

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Kerryman Maurice Ó Sé was the last survivor of the Battle of Waterloo. After returning home, he would be forced to emigrate during Black 47, the worst of the Famine years. Four of his children died on the way to Canada. He lived to be 97 and died in 1892, lauded a hero in Canada.

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O'Connell Street, Dublin (1970)

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102 years ago today, American-born IRA prisoner Joseph Murphy died on hunger strike in Cork, aged 25. A member of the Irish Volunteers since 1917, he had gone 76 days without food. His death was overshadowed by that of Terence MacSwiney the same day.

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Liam Óg O'Flynn performing 'The Fox Chase' on the uilleann pipes

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#OnThisDay 1575, over 600 Scottish and Irish Gaels were massacred on Rathlin Island by an English force under Francis Drake and John Norreys. Around 200 were surrendered soldiers. The rest were old men, women, children and the infirm, who were sent to the island for safety.

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John Kelly Sr. was one of ten children born to Irish parents in Philadelphia. Kelly was a triple Olympic gold medallist, and one of America's greatest rowers. He became a millionaire through his bricklaying company. His daughter was Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco.

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"If the Irish people do not control Irish industries, transport, money, and the soil of the country, then foreign or domestic capitalists will. And whoever controls the wealth of a country and the processes by which wealth is attained, controls also its government."

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The 'Kóryos' was an ancient Proto-Indo-European rite of passage for young men that continued into medieval times in Ireland through the Fianna. Young men would be sent 'wolfing' into rival communities, where they would live by hunting, stealing and causing chaos. THREAD

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“I am asked to surrender the title of Irishman and accept the title of West Briton. It is the first time in our country that a body of representative Irishmen has ever suggested that the sovereignty of this nation should be signed away.” - Harry Boland TD on the Treaty

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#OnThisDay 1920, 100 years ago, Black and Tans entered the town of Kilkee (Cill Caoidhe), Co. Clare. They looted shops and homes, assaulted locals and burned major buildings. Another fact about Kilkee: It was also visited, in 1962, by Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara.

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THREAD on the life of Muircheartach Ó Briain, High King of Ireland and great-grandson of Brian Ború, who extended his power over the whole of Ireland and expanded Irish power abroad through alliances with the King of Norway and nobles in England, Wales and Scotland.

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Pat O'Callaghan is one of Ireland's greatest ever athletes. After graduating the Royal College of Surgeons at just 20, making him the youngest doctor in Ireland, he won two Olympic gold medals in the hammer throw, and was the first athlete to have the Irish anthem played.

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Greater Ireland, or White Men's Land, was a land believed in Norse lore to be close to Vinland, and known to themselves as "Írland hit mikla". Some tales record that certain peoples the Vikings encountered in North America had "skin as white as snow" and carried European weapons.

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I asked artificial intelligence art to depict: (1) Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone on horseback (2) Brian Ború, High King of Ireland entering Limerick City

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Imagining a happier 17th century Ireland in which the Irish-Spanish alliance succeeded at Kinsale and established a stable State with a restored free trade and exchange of learning with Europe.

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Futuristic Crannóg

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The Fall of Troy was a popular story in medieval Ireland. Known as Togal Troí, it is found in three manuscripts, including the Book of Leinster. Not only was it translated into Irish, but greatly expanded upon, particularly around speeches and descriptions of armies. 1/7

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In 1005, Brian Ború's advisor Maelsuthain Ó Cearbhail recorded that the king visited the Church of Armagh, placed 22 ounces of gold upon the altar and declared it the religious capital of Ireland. He recorded Brian as Imperator Scotorum - Emperor of the Gaels.

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100 years ago today, American-born IRA prisoner Joseph Murphy died on hunger strike in Cork, aged 25. A member of the Irish Volunteers since 1917, he had gone 76 days without food. His death was overshadowed by that of Terence MacSwiney the same day.

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101 years ago today in Ireland, Eileen Quinn, a young mother of three toddlers (aged 24), was shot on her doorstep by the RIC in Galway. Quinn was seven months pregnant and was holding her nine-month old child in her arms. She was hit in the groin and died eight hours later.

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Interesting photograph from the Ulster Unionist Convention of 1892. One sign reads 'God Save The Queen'. The other says 'Erin Go Bragh', meaning 'Ireland until eternity', or simply 'Ireland Forever'.

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Oswald, King of Northumbria spent his youth in exile in the Irish kingdom of Dál Riada of Scotland, where he learned the Irish language and converted to Christianity. Before his vital victory against the Welsh at Heavenfield, he claimed that Irish Saint Colmcille appeared to him.

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190 years ago today, a battle took place in Carrickshock, Co. Kilkenny as a large crowd of local Catholic tenant farmers confronted 38 RIC Constables who were enforcing tithe payments to the Church of Ireland. 14 constables were killed, 11 more injured, while three locals died.

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#OnThisDay 1616, Aodh Mór Ó Néill/Hugh The Great O'Neill died in exile in Rome. He had led an alliance of Irish leaders in resistance to the Tudor Conquest during the Nine Years War, almost bankrupting the Elizabethan monarchy. O'Neill remains one of Ireland's greatest leaders.

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#OnThisDay 1575, over 600 Scottish and Irish Gaels were massacred on Rathlin Island by an English force under Francis Drake and John Norreys. Around 200 were surrendered soldiers. The rest were old men, women, children and the infirm, who were sent to the island for safety.

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Wrestling has been a competitive sport in Ireland for thousands of years, and was extremely common until present times. It features in the story of Cú Chulainn, who was known to be a great wrestler and hurler. Ireland even has its own native form of wrestling - brollaidheacht.

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"If there are men who believe that the path to redemption for mankind is through universalism, cosmopolitanism or any other ism than nationalism, I am not of their company. I am concerned with the interests of my own people." - Arthur Griffith, founder of Sinn Féin, died OTD 1922

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A commemorative cross for the Irish soldiers killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the decisive moments in the American Civil War. At the foot of the cross is an Irish wolfhound.

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God Save Ireland

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#OnThisDay 1580, Fiach Mac Aodha Ó Broin and his men routed a large English force under Lord Deputy Arthur Grey which had entered Gleann Molúra in the Wicklow Mountains in an attempt to get the Irish on open ground and defeat them. Ó Broin's scouts spotted the approaching 1/4

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381 years ago today, the Rebellion of 1641 began. A plan to seize Dublin Castle was unveiled too early, but Irish rebels rose in Ulster and soon took most of the province. Soon, dispossessed Irish natives around the country began attacking foreign settlers, killing thousands.

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'They tortured your children, they destroyed your green banner They tried to exterminate you long long ago But the Irish, they found, were like wild creeping flowers The faster you pluck them, it’s the quicker they grow. I love you a chuisle, my own native land.'

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All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.

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Irish Volunteers marching in 1914

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Much being made of the "long relationship between Ireland and the British monarchy" this week, despite it being one of plantations, theft and tyranny. Barely anything said about our connections with the Spanish, who aided our cause and accepted Irish exiles into their service.

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Valladolid rememora el funeral del héroe irlandés Red Hugh O’Donnell con una recreación histórica con motivo del 420 aniversario de su fallecimiento #redhughodonnellmemorial ☘️

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#OTD 1738, harpist Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin died. One of the greatest of his era, many consider him to be Ireland’s national composer. He was blinded by smallpox aged 18, educated and given patronage by the Mac Diarmada Ruadh family, and travelled the country on his horse.

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174 years ago today, GAA founder Michael Cusack was born into an Irish-speaking household in Co. Clare. "It is only by such an arrangement that pure Irish athletics will be revived, and that the incomparable strength and physique of our race will be preserved."

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Extract detailing how Owen Roe O'Neill furiously reacted to his Ulster officers refusing to defend Leinster from the English Parliamentarians in 1647. "... reminding them that they were sworn soldiers of Ireland, and that all Irishmen deserved protection from the common enemy."

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Giorria sléibhe, or mountain hare, is also called the Irish hare. This is due to its unique characteristics in Ireland, where it does not grow a white winter coat and is far more widespread, living well beyond just the mountains. They have been in Ireland for 30,000 years.

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“A Connemara Girl”, perhaps the most famous painting of Augustus Nicholas Burke (1870s). The painting depicts a young girl wearing traditional local clothing in the west of Ireland.

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The Wool Act of 1699 was a piece of English legislation designed to destroy the Irish wool industry, one of Ireland’s oldest and most successful industries, after English weavers lobbied for it to be suppressed due to its better sales. The Act banned the export of Irish wool.

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A 1926 Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cartoon depicting Saint Patrick being driven from the shores of America by Klansmen. Along with him are snakes labelled with other things associated with Irish Catholics: ‘Rome in Polictics; Anti-Prohibition; Superstition’.

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The Kerry Bog Pony is a native Irish breed which has likely existed since at least the 1600s, with ancestral links to other ancient Irish breeds. The pony is known for its endurance, strength, resistance to many diseases and ability to traverse boggy, rough environments.

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The grave of IRA Volunteer and Fianna Fáil TD Dan Breen. "Any man that comes into my house or my country to try to take it over by force, I'm going to kill him and I'll use any and every means to do it. And I'm not one bit sorry for it, to any man or God."

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"It is a fallacy to believe that a Republic of any kind can be won through the shackled Free State. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The Free State is British created and serves British imperialist interests." - Liam Mellows TD, executed 99 years ago today

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I would very much like to see a film with this aesthetic style made about Irish exile soldiers in the service of various European empires in the 17th century. The potential for instant classics is huge.

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One of the best modern depictions of a duel and is in a Spanish film called Alatriste starring Viggo Mortensen. All around a very historically authentic film of 17th century Spain.

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Cloch an Fhir Mhóir (Stone of the Big Man) is a standing stone in County Louth which stands three metres tall and supposedly marks the grave of an ancient warrior. In Irish legend, the wounded Cú Chulainn tied himself to this stone in his final battle so that he may die standing.

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O'Mahony became Colonel of the Fighting 69th in the Civil War, which recruited Fenians. He was checked into a lunatic asylum after translating Seathrún Céitinn's 175,000 word ‘Foras Feasa ar Éirinn’, compiled in the 1630s, which gathered the knowledge of Ireland. Warrior-scholar.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

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‘Far and away the first patriot of the Irish race’. A keen student of ancient Irish history, John O'Mahony (b. #OTD 1815) named his republican movement founded in the US the 'Fenian Brotherhood' after the mythical Celtic warriors of the Fianna. #DIBLives

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Irish Legacy

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Poster from the 200th anniversary of the 1798 Rebellion.

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Peadar Kearney was the writer of Ireland's national anthem. A house painter by trade, he was active in the Gaelic League, Volunteers and IRA. "We're children of a fighting race, That never yet has known disgrace, And as we march, the foe to face, We'll chant a soldier's song."

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