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stairnaheireann · 28 days

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#OTD in 1914 – Cumann na mBan, Irish women’s Republican movement, was founded.

Ní saoirse go saoirse na mban. Over 100 women gathered in Dublin to discuss the role of women in the lead-up to revolution. The meeting, at Wynn’s Hotel, was presided over by Agnes O’Farrelly. The first provisional committee of Cumann na mBan included Agnes MacNeill, Nancy O’Rahilly, Mary Colum, Jenny Wyse Power, Louise Gavan Duffy and Elizabeth Bloxham. They adopted a constitution which stated…

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littlelonghairedoutlawllho · 3 years

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@wheel-of-fish tagged me to share my TBR pile so this is just a preliminary look at it. Most of these books I have, a couple of them I’m borrowing in the very near future, and one or two I will track down if it takes me all year to do so.

Forgotten Lord Mayor: Donal Óg O’Callaghan 1920-1924 -- Aodh Quinlivan (I’m most of the way through this one and enjoying it immensely)

The Revolutionist: A Play in Five Acts -- Terence MacSwiney

Despite Fools’ Laughter: Poems by Terence MacSwiney -- ed. B.G. MacCarthy

Tomas MacCurtain: Soldier and Patriot -- Florence O’Donoghue

Muriel MacSwiney: Letters to Angela Clifford -- Muriel MacSwiney & Angela Clifford

Wounds: A Memoir of War & Love -- Fergal Keane

A Coward If I Return, A Hero If I Fall: Irishmen in World War I -- Neil Richardson

The Winter Soldier -- Daniel Mason

Grace -- Paul Lynch

Death and Nightingales -- Eugene McCabe

Time Present and Time Past -- Deirdre Madden

How Death Becomes Life -- Joshua Mezrich

The Secret History -- Donna Tartt

The Battle of the Four Courts -- Michael Fewer

The Táin -- trans. Thomas Kinsella

A Ghost in the Throat -- Doireann ní Ghríofa

Love Between Men in English Literature -- Paul Hammond

Terrible Queer Creatures: Homosexuality in Irish History -- Brian Lacey

the long way to a small angry planet -- Becky Chambers

Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War -- Christine E. Hallett

The Binding -- Bridget Collins

Selected Poems 1968-2014 -- Paul Muldoon

Graveyard Clay -- Máirtín Ó Cadhain (trans. Liam Mc Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson)

Traolach Mac Suibhne -- Diarmaid Ó Briain (this one’s completely in Irish so it’s going to be a Translation Adventure)

Remember...it’s for Ireland: A Portrait of Tomás MacCurtain -- Fionnuala MacCurtain

On Another Man’s Wound -- Ernie O’Malley

The Singing Flame -- Ernie O’Malley

Raids and Rallies -- Ernie O’Malley

Old Ireland in Colour -- John Breslin & Sarah-Ann Buckley

Guerilla Days in Ireland -- Tom Barry

Honestly I don’t know who to tag so tagging @madamefaust @notaghost3 and anyone else who wants to do it

#there are only 8 novels here #am i surprised?#i wish i was #books

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corkcitylibraries · 5 years

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It Seems Like Nothing Changes

Paul Cussen

March 1919

The ‘German Plot’ internees are released.

Terence MacSwiney is released on humanitarian grounds to support Muriel through a severe attack of influenza.

Ireland’s first diplomatic mission is set up at the Grand Hotel in Paris where Sean T Ó Ceallaigh and George Gavan Duffy try to get recognition for the Irish Republic before the Paris peace conference. Their mission is expensive and frustrating as the cost of living and working in Paris mounts and the press turn a deaf ear to the Irish. Ó Ceallaigh, exasperated, writes to Cathal Brugha looking for:

a few thousand pounds—don’t be too greatly shocked by the light way I speak of it for the purpose of smoothing a passage to the presence of great men here and of securing the ear of the press. You can get nothing whatsoever done otherwise.

Admiral Sims returns to the United States on board the Mauretania and Rear-Admiral H.S. Knapp succeeds him in command of Naval Forces in Europe.

The ‘Battle of Bow Street’ breaks out when around two thousand foreign soldiers and sailors clash with local police in London. Thirty servicemen are arrested and seven American soldiers and sailors are handed over to Military Police and Shore Patrol as well as four Canadian servicemen later charged with incitement to riot. Six other injured servicemen are kept under guard in hospital before a later appearance in court.

The Journal of a Disappointed Man by Bruce Frederick Cummings, writing as W.N.P. Barbellion, is published. It is a personal account of multiple sclerosis, unique philosophy and personal resignation, described by its author as "a study in the nude". It is published by Chatto & Windus though it was originally optioned by Collins who eventually rejected the book because they feared its "lack of morals" would damage their reputation. The preface to the first edition is written by H.G. Wells.

The Thrill Book, a pulp magazine tending towards speculative fiction, is published by Street & Smith with a plan to publish twice a month.

In the Division II final Knockavilla lose 0-0 to Millstreet 0-2. Kinsale win Division III of the county hurling championship, beating Doneraile by 4-1 to 2-1.

1 March

The Cork Examiner reports on the findings at a conference held at the Institute of Hygiene in London the previous day at which nose and throat specialist Sir St. Clair Thomson said that “influenza was undoubtedly “Splashed!” upon us by coughing and sneezing – even by laughing”. In the Irish Times report on the conference, Thomson advised that “a person who coughed without putting up his hand or sneezed without using a handkerchief should be prosecuted for indecency”. All speakers at the conference “emphasised the importance of good food and fresh air”.

The beginning of the Samil Movement when 33 racial representatives meeting at Taehwagwan, Seoul announce that Korea will no longer be under Japanese rule.

2 March

Sergeant Leslie Glynn dies at North Fever Hospital (B.1892, USA)

First congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin.

4 March

Gunner Tom Barry arrives home from Egypt

4-5 March

The Kinmel Park mutiny takes place in Wales. 15,000 Canadian troops are stationed there awaiting repatriation after the Great War.

The mutineers were our own men, stuck in the mud of North Wales, waiting impatiently to get back to Canada – four months after the end of the war. The 15,000 Canadian troops that concentrated at Kinmel didn't know about the strikes that held up the fuelling ships and which had caused food shortages. The men were on half rations, there was no coal for the stove in the cold grey huts, and they hadn't been paid for over a month. Forty-two had slept in a hut meant for thirty, so they each took turns sleeping on the floor, with one blanket each. - Noel Barbour Gallant Protestors, 1975

6 March

Pierce McCan, member of the First Dáil representing Tipperary East dies in Gloucester Jail having been arrested under the ‘German Plot’ and held for ten months without charge or trial (b. 1882, Ballyanne Desmesne, Wexford)

7 March

Acting CSM Arthur Vincent dies at the Central Military Hospital (b. 1887, Northumberland)

10 March

Matthew Hogan, a fifteen year old from Tipperary, is kidnapped by police and moved to an unknown destination.

11 March

Sergeant Michael O’Riordan dies of influenza (b. 1888, Douglas)

12 March

Private William Smith dies of an accidental gunshot wound to the head at Ballyvonaire Military Camp (b. 1892, Sunderland)

13 March

Stoker 1st class William Whitmill dies of TB (b. 1892, London)

Private Laurence O’Sullivan dies of influenza at Cork Central Military Hospital (b. 1887)

16 March

Robert Barton, Sinn Féin TD for West Wicklow, escapes from his cell in Mountjoy Gaol, leaving behind a note:

I am about to make an escape from your hospitality. If I escape, well and good, if not I am prepared to suffer the consequences... I hope that we may shortly turn your prison to a useful national purpose.

17 March

Nat King Cole is born in Montgomery, Alabama (d. 1965)

Dutch steel workers strike for an eight hour day and minimum wages.

Commander Petr A. Solodukhin's brigade overwhelm the French and White Russian troops garrisoned at Bolshie Ozerki.

18 March

The analytic philosopher Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe is born in Limerick (d. 2001)

Seán Moylan is arrested for a seditious speech in Cullen.

19 March

Alfred Person (46) is shot dead at his home 146 Richmond Road, Dublin. The father of a British Army staff sergeant he is thought to have been shot while attempting to prevent raiders from taking guns from his collection.

20 March

IRA volunteers raid Collinstown airfield outside Dublin. They capture 75 rifles and approximately 5,000 rounds of ammunition.

22 March

The Cork Branch of the Irish Women’s Association (founded by the Countess Bandon in December 1915) closes its depot, 37 Grand Parade, at its final meeting.

23 March

The 6th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment and troops from the American 339th Infantry Regiment attack Bolshie Ozerki losing 75 men.

Mussolini founds the Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista) in Milan.

People march in Brisbane in the second demonstration against the War Precautions Act (legislation based on the British Defence of the Realm Act). Contrary to assurances made to the police red flags of various sizes are unfurled by the marchers and their numbers swell to over 1,000.

24 March

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, is born in Yonkers, New York.

A crowd of up to 8,000 march in Brisbane protesting against the Red Flag marchers. Fighting lasts for two hours and 100 men receive bayonet wounds while between 14 and 19 police officers are injured. Sadly 3 police horses are shot, one of which later dies, while 19 of the injured protestors (ex-servicemen) are evacuated by ambulance.

28 March

Two paintings by E.E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists.

29 March

Piaras Beaslaí, Pat Fleming and eighteen other republican prisoners escape over the wall of Mountjoy using a rope ladder.

Resident Magistrate, John Milling is shot dead in Westport, County Mayo reportedly because he sent volunteers to prison for unlawful assembly and drilling. The retired RIC District Inspector is 46.

30 March

Two RIC constables, Constable Hayes and Constable Creed, while patrolling at the Cork and Muskerry Terminus on the Western Road, bid good morning to a man walking along the middle of the road. When the man does not reply, they proceed to stop and question him. The man produces a revolver and Constable Hayes is shot through the hip (an injury from which he makes a full recovery). The man escapes in the direction of Hanover Street.

31 March

The Red Army launch attacks against the Allied and White Russian forces in the Battle of Bolshie Ozerki. Both sides suffer heavily from exposure despite sunny days. Nighttime temperatures fall to -20°C.

#History to Blame #Irish History #World History #Cork City Libraries

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stairnaheireann · 6 months

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#OTD in 1920 – Newspaper cutting from the ‘Daily Graphic’. The caption accompanying the photograph reads: ‘Mrs Muriel MacSwiney, widow of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence McSwiney, leaving Brixton Prison for the last time before her husband’s death.

Muriel MacSwiney leaves Brixton Prison ‘Daily Graphic’ 26 October 1920 Newspaper cutting 30 cm x 26 cm Newspaper cutting from the ‘Daily Graphic’. The caption accompanying the photograph reads: ‘Mrs Muriel MacSwiney, widow of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, leaving Brixton Prison for the last time before her husband’s death, which occurred yesterday, the 75th day of his hunger strike.…

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#Capuchin Archives #Daily Graphic #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish War of Independence #Lord Mayor of Cork #Muriel MacSwiney #Sinn Fein #Terence MacSwiney

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stairnaheireann · 6 months

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#OTD in 1896 – Birth of Kathleen Barry at 8 Fleet Street, in Dublin.

Kathleen Barry Moloney was the eldest of seven children. Her parents Thomas and Mary (née Dowling) and her aunt Judith ran a prosperous dairy that included an eighty-six acre holding at Tombeagh, Hacketstown, Co Carlow and a retail outlet below the family home in Fleet Street. When Thomas Barry died in 1908 the Barry family found themselves split between their homes in Dublin and at Tombeagh. The…