@irishfamilydetective.ieDied #Onthisday 1969 Louise Gavan Duffy, educator, suffragist & nationalist who founded Scoil Bhríde, Ireland’s first Gaelscoil for girls. She was at the GPO during the #EasterRising & recalls that time in this interview from @RTEArchives rte.ie/archives/201...
@irishfamilydetective.ieMise Éire premiered at the #Cork Film Festival #Onthisday 1959. The 1st feature-length film in Irish, it depicts events in Ireland leading up to, during, & immediately after the 1916 #EasterRising, using unrivalled archive with music by Seán O Riada share.google/5Wy1sAZOwulH...
@liamomaraiv.bsky.social#ThomasAshe, a veteran of the #EasterRising against the British, was killed in #MountjoyPrison in 1917 on #ThisDayInHistory. His boots and bed had been confiscated, and he was on #HungerStrike to demand #PrisonerOfWar status. He died of complications from barbaric #ForceFeeding.
@irishfamilydetective.ieBorn #OnThisDay 1881 in #Galway Éamonn Ceannt executed for his part in the #EasterRising aged 34 - this is him with his family c.1912 Back: William, Richard, Michael, Éamonn, Áine Brennan Front: James, Elizabeth Cummins, James Snr, Nell & Jack Casey #IrishRevolution
