Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s no requirement to stick to the details of the original story
Tag: Ireland
The assassination of Sir Henry Wilson Ireland’s Sarajevo?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Regardless of the British reaction to Wilson’s death, the Irish civil war was likely to happen
Canada’s Fenian years featured some interesting personalities
Reading Time: 4 minutes A plotter, a spy with an overactive libido and a three-time attempted invader all called themselves Fenians
Fenians used Canada as an Irish revolutionary pawn
Reading Time: 4 minutes There were five failed armed Fenian incursions into Canada between 1866 and 1871
Catholic Ireland’s conflicted interest in the monarchy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dublin cinemas planned to screen the Queen’s coronation but opted not to after receiving threats
Irish lead the way in the push to decolonize
Reading Time: 3 minutes Language and culture played a big role in helping the Irish survive and fueled their cultural renaissance
Maureen O’Hara, Ireland’s Queen of Technicolor
Reading Time: 4 minutes O’Hara made more than 50 films including the perennial Christmas favourite Miracle on 34th Street
Saint Patrick and the art of public relations
Reading Time: 3 minutes Separating fact from fiction can be difficult, but St. Patrick definitely won the war for popular historical memory
The past isn’t a script set down in stone
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vandalizing public spaces under the delusion that such acts make yesterday a better today is sad-sack politics that fosters democratic weakness
The power life of a medieval heiress
Reading Time: 4 minutes The combination of Isabel de Clare’s inherited wealth and William Marshal’s earned status made for a fortuitous pairing