‘At the request of the Easter Week Memorial Committee, a number of persons who participated in the Easter Week Rising, 1916 . . . undertook the task of preparing an authentic list . . . of those . . . who served in this post during the Rising. This task . . . was a … Read more
In his account of St Enda’s, of which he was a pupil and where he came to know Pearse intimately, Desmond Ryan said simply: ‘It is hardly within my province to deal with the story of St Ita’s College. That is a work for other hands’, and recorded little more of its existence than the … Read more
TG: Tell us a bit about your background. BM: I was typically London Irish. My father, John, came from a farming family with land at Tarelton and Inchigeelagh, Co. Cork. He graduated as a doctor at University College Cork in 1928 and came to England to practise. My mother, Kathleen O’Brien, was born in London … Read more
The de Valera papers, and a significant collection of those of his private secretary, Kathleen O’Connell, fit seamlessly into an existing collections profile within the UCD Archives that includes the papers of Frank Aiken, Seán MacEntee, Dr James Ryan and Seán and Maurice Moynihan, the last two serving at various times as private secretaries to … Read more
Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, a group of Irish separatists took the decision to launch a rebellion before the war ended, and early in 1915 an unofficial military committee of the Irish Republican Brotherhood began to draw up plans. The military forces to be used were the Irish Volunteers, but the … Read more