Did You Know? 32 million or 9.9% The number and percentage of U.S. residents who claimed Irish ancestry in 2018. – 32 million Source: 2014-2018 American Community Survey 123,950 The number of foreign-born U.S. residents who reported Ireland as their birthplace in 2018. – 123,950 Source: 2014-2018 American Community Survey 470,277 The number of people living in […]
The U.S. Congress proclaimed March as Irish-American Heritage Month in 1991, and the president issues a proclamation commemorating the occasion each year. Originally a religious holiday to honor St. Patrick, who introduced Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century, St. Patrick’s Day has evolved into a celebration of all things Irish. The world’s first St. […]
Christmas Eve 1601,The Battle Of Kinsale. The Irish Gaelic Chieftans Hugh O’Neill (Tír Eoghain) & Hugh Roe O’Donnell (Tír Chonaill) had been fighting the English since 1593 which became known as the nine years war. O’Neill had persuaded the Spanish King Phillip II and later King Phillip III to help the Irish cause, in June […]
Robert Erskine Childers (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922) Robert Erskine Childers, best known as Erskine Childers, was born in London on 25 June 1870. Childers’ parents died when he was just a boy. He was sent to Glendalough , County Wicklow with his four siblings, to be brought up by his mother’s […]
By late 1920, Michael Collin’s squad had been very successful in taking out the G division of Dublin Castle. In response to this, the British set up a new spy network of intelligence officers most of whom had served in Egypt & Palestine during WW1, so they became known as the ‘Cairo Gang’. Fearing the […]