Irish Struggle for Freedom : Landmark Events Ireland was inhabited by Celts from about the sixth century B.C. English invasions began in the twelfth century under Henry II, although the whole of Ireland was not conquered until the time of the Tudors. Revolts against English rule had led to English and Scottish families being settled...
Irish Republican Brotherhood : American and Canada The word Fenian is derived from the old Irish ‘féne’ the name of an ancient Irish people. Fenians were members of the most important nineteenth century covert revolutionary nationalist organisation the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). It derived some of its inspiration from the United Irishmen of the 1790s....
Highwaymen in Ireland and Beyond : Myth, Folklore and Legend A wealth of historical and other literature abounds about the life and daring exploits of highwaymen through the earlier centuries who are immortalised as gentlemen, brigands, robbers. They rode on horseback across hills and valleys, or hid in thick heath and woodland, with the protection...
John Hume: Nobel Peace Laureate by Ita Marguet Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 1998, John Hume (born 18 January 1937) said … ‘I want to see Ireland as an example to men and women everywhere of what can be achieved by living for ideals, rather than fighting for them, and by...
