irishfamilydetectiveMar 3, 2023EMMET DALTON: Soldier, Volunteer & Movie ProducerEmmet Dalton, soldier, volunteer and film producer was at Kilworth Camp, Cork, when news broke of an uprising in Dublin. Dalton and many...
irishfamilydetectiveJul 23, 2021CORK CITY AND WATSON'S GATES: A Phoenix Ascending‘If Andrew Carnegie were alive today, he would smile with pleasure on the earnestness of the efforts of philanthropists like Bill Gates,...
irishfamilydetectiveApr 22, 2021 THE DUFFIN BROTHERSOn this day 100 years ago, brothers Patrick and Daniel Duffin were ‘slain at Belfast for Ireland – 23rd April, 1921.’
irishfamilydetectiveFeb 27, 2021 A CORK BAND OF BROTHERSThey fought together during the War of Independence, and six years after the truce, the former comrades of 1st Cork Brigade were once...
irishfamilydetectiveDec 14, 2020RAISING HOLY HELL: The Murder of Canon Thomas Magner, Dunmanway, 1920The roads of Ireland are dotted with memorials commemorating those killed during Ireland’s revolutionary period 1916 – 1923. On the...