On this day 17 March in Irish History

17 March 1858: James Stephens founded The Irish Republican Brotherhood in Dublin. On the same day in New York City John O’Mahony founded the Fenians.



17 March 1943: Eamon de Valera made his famous speech on ‘comely maidens…’ He also attended a Ceili held in the Great hall in Dublin Castle that same night. Mr De Valera and members of the Cabinet joined in the dancing.

Thanks for that Brandubh

All I can offer is this

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cactus flower wrote:

Thanks for that Brandubh

All I can offer is this

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Cheers!

Working on my 'On this Day' list this morning. Started doing this up last year when I was out of work for a couple of months and had time on my hands.

Hopefully I will be able to work it up into a daily shot and if anyone want's to run with it and start a thread rolling all the better.

I wonder if it could have its own sub section within the History Forum?

IMHO we cannot understand what Ireland is today if we don't have a least some grasp of what has gone before we came along.

Will a sub forum simply called 'On This Day' do?

On this day it is Trappatoni's birthday. Apparently he has been told there is a big parade in honour of his appointment today in Dublin.

AuditorGeneral wrote:

Will a sub forum simply called 'On This Day' do?

That will do fine thanks.