‘A planet of light and heat’: Samuel Neilson and the Northern Star

ON THE HILL OF TARA, CO. MEATH, NEXT TO THE LIA FÁIL, IS A MONUMENT COMMEMORATING THE REBELLION OF 1798. SOME 3,000 MILES AWAY, IN A CEMETERY IN POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK, IS ANOTHER MONUMENT, MARKING THE GRAVE OF A MAN WHO DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO THE VISION OF A FREE AND UNIFIED IRELAND. By Joshua ... Read more

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