An Irish Diary on the St Patrick’s Day riots in 19th-century Toronto
As the fastest growing city in Upper Canada, as it was known until 1841, Toronto saw many Irish arrive on its shores. By the ...
Gnomes of Donegal - Frank McNally on William Allingham’s peculiar brand of Irishness
And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a ...
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The Diary of Rosamond Jacob: Witness to the Aftermath of the Rising
The rising on Easter Monday passed unnoticed by the Waterford activist, Rosamond Jacob. Her diary entry for 24 April reads: ‘Wet day, nothing doing’. The following morning news of events in ...