CURRENT ISSUE:  OCTOBER 2023

On This Day in Irish History: July

by Terrence J. Kenneally 1 July 1690 –  The Battle of the Boyne was fought between William of Orange, with an army of 36,000 men, and deposed James II, whose […]

On This Day in Irish History

On This Day in Irish History 1 February 1177 – With a small contingent of knights and footmen, Norman knight John de Courcy invaded Eastern Ulster, seizing the town of […]

On This Day in Irish History: August

On This Day in Irish History 2 August 1649 – Royalist forces were defeated outside Dublin by the English Parliamentary Army in The Battle of Rathmines, paving the way for […]

On This Day in Irish History: June

On This Day in Irish History 7 June, 1899 – Birth in Dublin of Elizabeth Bowen, novelist and short-story writer, best known for her novel The Last September. 8 June […]

ON THIS DAY in IRISH HISTORY

ON THIS DAY in IRISH HISTORY APRIL 5 April 1855 – The Dublin-Belfast railway is completed with building of the Boyne viaduct at Drogheda. 5 April 1962 – Guinness formally […]