John Ruddy was allegedly murdered or died of cholera in the US in 1832, at the age of eighteen. He had been one of 57 young men from counties Donegal, Tyrone and Derry who had been employed in 1832 by Philip Duffy, an Irish-American contractor, to lay railroad tracks in Pennsylvania for the Philadelphia … Read more
A friend of mine got a text the other day—‘The wicked witch is dead’. It wasn’t until she tuned in to the news that evening that she realised that this wasn’t a cryptic reference to the Wizard of Oz but to the death (the result of a stroke) of an 87-year-old woman who had suffered … Read more
May 3 1933 The Constitution (Removal of Oath) Act removed the oath of allegiance to the British Crown from the Constitution of the Irish Free State. 5 1953 Robert Lloyd Praeger (87), botanist, best remembered for The way that I went (1939), an account of his travels around Ireland, died. 8 1913 Sigerson Clifford, writer … Read more