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Origin of the Irish National Anthem - Composed by Peadar Ó Cearnaigh (Kearney) and Patrick Heaney

An Account of the death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 1798

*The* Irish Shamrock

National Monuments - Thomas Davis

On Irish Women - Professor Brendan Kennelly (extract from editorial - 'Ireland's Women. Writings Past and Present')

The Nation Newspaper

Baltimore Raid, 1631 Pirates & Slave trade!!

Brehon Laws

Transportation of Irish, 1650's (Carlow, Clare, Cork, Kildare, Kilkenny, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford)

Cooke's Memoirs of Youghal, 1749. 1552-1664 period

History of the Little Green, St. Michan's Parish - Dublin Prison See also for info on Hartstronge/Hartstong & Standish names Limerick

Memorandums made in Ireland in the Summer of 1852 - extracts from (Book) (Dublin, Carlow, Wicklow)

Some 17th Century Funeral Entries of Waterford Families

Vagabonds & Sturdy Beggars. Prisoners, food etc. 18th C.

Emigration

The Emigrant's Friend

Newspapers

King's County Chronicle 1845 (published Offaly (King's Co.)

 

Land

Irish Alliance and Tenant Right League - introduction

The League with Ulster - Tenant Right league formation, unison of North and South

Brehon Laws relating to Land

 

Natural History

Bog Bursts: could your ancestors have died in a bog-burst, where did they happen, what were they like? What did the people think? How much damage was caused? How much land involved? (Limerick/Cork, Galway, Tipperary, Longford, Offaly (King's CO.) Sligo, Londonderry/Derry, Roscommon)

Disappearance of the Fox from Co. Antrim

Potato & Bog Butter 1856

*The* Irish Shamrock

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People

Thomas D'Arcy Magee - Louth man

Robert Emmet (Dublin) - Thomas Moore (Dublin) - Arthur Gerald Geoghegan (Dublin)

Thomas Osborne Davis (Cork) - Denny Lane (Cork)

Charles Gavan Duffy - Monaghan

Patrick O'Donoghue - Carlow man

William B. McBurney - Down

Speranza : Lady Wilde (aka Miss Jane Francesca Elgee)

Members, Kildare Archaeological Society, 1895 (Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow ; Australia, Great Britain & U.S.A.

Speeches:

Robert Emmet's Speech from the Dock

Our National Language - Thomas Osborne Davis

Address to Dublin Historical Society - Thomas Davis

To Women - Countess Markievich

Our National Language - Thomas Davis

William Orr (Co. Antrim) : Speech from the Dock

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Life/Places:

Early Life in Co. Monaghan - Charles Gavan Duffy

An Rí (The King) An Example of Traditional Social Organisation

Waterford Lazar or Leper House, 1661

History of the Little Green, St. Michan's Parish - Dublin Prison See also for info on Hartstronge/Hartstong & Standish names Limerick

Memorandums made in Ireland in the Summer of 1852 - extracts from

Dubin Assembly Rolls 1716, 1717, 1718, 1740, 1741, 1742

Longford : Historical Notes of County Longford, 1886. Granard

 

Military

Cumber Yeomanry 1797

Private memorandum Book of Captain George Gafney, of Kilkenny, an Officer in the Army of James II.

Munster Volunteer Registry, 1782

 

 

 

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