irish republican brotherhood

Charles M'Carthy was a colour sergeant in Her Majesty's 53rd Regiment of Foot and served across Europe and the West Indies. While stationed in County Cork he became involved with the Fenian movement. He was then stationed in Carrick-on-Suir…

Henry James O'Farrell is a name largely unknown in today's world but 150 years ago his name was trending for all the wrong reasons when he carried out an assassination attempt on a member of the Royal family. O'Farrell was born in 1833…

On Easter Monday 1916 an elderly gentleman hurriedly made his way down Sackville Street in Dublin. His destination was the General Post Office where a group of rebels had proclaimed an Irish Republic and this old man, who had spent his life…

On St. Stephen’s Day in 1867, with darkness falling on Fota Island in Cork’s inner harbour, two gunners and their families sat down to a meal of Christmas Day left-overs. Their home, the island’s Martello Tower, housed a stock of guns and…

In September 1917 Thomas Ashe was sent to Mountjoy after making a so called seditious speech. For this 'crime' Ashe ended up behind bars by the Royal Canal and denied political prisoner status. He began a hunger strike but just five days…