Robert Emmet Commemorations 2023
As of writing, there are three Robert Emmet commemorations planned in the Virginia/D.C. area:
Irish-American Unity Conference is hosting at the D.C. Emmet Statue...
Legacy of the Good Friday Agreement
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) was signed 25 years ago today, successfully bringing an end to much of the political violence of The Troubles,...
Belfast Set to Celebrate Bastille Day
Bastille Day celebrations in Belfast in 1791 and 1792 showed the Irish support for liberty, equality, and fraternity. It proved to be an important...
Waking Tour: New York and the Irish Language
On Saturday November 18th, the Brooklyn Gaelic League / Cumann Chaitlin agus Thomais Ui Chleirigh will host a walking tour on the history...
NIFC Fenian Commemoration 2023
The National Irish Freedom Committee / Cumann na Saoirse Náisiúnta will host the 2023 Annual Fenian Republican Commemoration at the Fenian Monument in Calvary...
Sean Tallon GAA Tournament 2023
Sean Tallon, a son of Irish immigrants, grew up in St. Barnabas Parish in Woodlawn/Yonkers, and graduated from Iona College in 1996. Sean was...
Clarke Lecture in Brooklyn
On Tuesday, April 25, at 8pm, at American Legion McFadden Brothers Post (290 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn) the Brooklyn Gaelic League will host a...
The Men Behind The Wire
This week marks 50 years since the introduction of internment in the Six Counties.
Internment is imprisonment without trial. The goal of “Operation Demetrius” as...
Mother Jones and the Cause of Labor
Mary Harris was born on May 1, 1837 in Inchigeelagh, County Cork, to tenant farmer Richard Harris and his wife Ellen Cotter.
The Harris family...
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After two and a half years of guerrilla warfare, on July 11, 1921, a truce was declared between...
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Robert Emmet Commemorations 2023
As of writing, there are three Robert Emmet commemorations planned in the Virginia/D.C. area:
Irish-American Unity Conference is hosting at the D.C. Emmet Statue...
Paine & The United Irishmen
Early Life
Thomas Paine was born on February 9, 1737 in Thetford, England. The son of a corset-maker, he worked as an excise officer in...
