On 9 February 1912 the Belfast News-letter reported that ‘yesterday the Right Honourable Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, paid his much discussed visit to Belfast, and, in company with Mr Redmond and Mr Devlin, addressed a Home Rule meeting in the Celtic Park grounds under the presidency of Lord Pirrie K.P. Without … Read more
The erection of a national memorial to servicemen from Ireland who were killed in the Great War was being proposed almost as soon as the war was over; in 1919 a trust fund was established for this purpose. There were various suggestions as to what form a war memorial would take (such as a physical … Read more
The Headford Ambush was organized by the Kerry No. 2 Brigade Flying Column who, while billeted in the vicinity of Headford on 21 March 1921, learned that a detachment of British troops were due to return by train from Kenmare to Tralee later that day, and decided to ambush them. The attack was led by … Read more
The republican trade unionist and ITGWU organiser P.T. Daly alleged that the low wages paid to the female employees at Jacob’s factory were ‘the cause of driving many of them onto the streets as prostitutes’. The Dublin Metropolitan Police estimated in 1901 that while female prostitution was decreasing there were still an estimated 1,677 women … Read more