Tag: History
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The Rebellion of 1641
Part 1 The final English victory over the ‘Native Irish’ in Ulster during the “Nine Years War” (1594 – 1603) gave the English crown control of the entire island for the first time in over five centuries. Sadly, for Ireland and its people the victory also signalled the final collapse of the old “Gaelic Order”. […]
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The Knocker Up
A Belfast Alarm Call As a Doctor I have reason to visit the sick in their homes and several years ago, while paying a professional visit at the house of a small tradesman in the town of Belfast, I made the acquaintance of an interesting old woman, who had been employed by the tradesman to […]
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Pat Donnelly’s Encounter
Pat Donnelly was returning home one night, at about twelve o’clock, in his jaunting car with one side up, for he was carrying no passengers. It was a clear moonlit night, the horse was tired, and Pat smoked his pipe as he relaxed, and he allowed the tired horse to walk slowly along the road. […]
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Famine Song
Old Skibbereen By Patrick Carpenter ; Air: ‘The Wearing of the Green’ A Young American and his Irish Father “O! father, dear, I’ve often heard you speak of Erin’s Isle – Its scenes how bright and beautiful, how “rich and rare” they smile; You say it is a lovely land in which a Prince might […]
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