-Aug 299 min readThe brothers O'Kelly: Writers, Poets, Editors & NationalistsGalway-born brothers, Séumas and Michael O’Kelly, were both editors of the Leinster Leader during Ireland’s revolutionary period. ...
-Aug 295 min readSix of the Best: Six Naas brothers who went to warIn May 1916 the British War Office confirmed that Private Patrick Preston (29), 2nd Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who had been...
-Aug 293 min readKildare and the 1916 RisingOn Easter Monday 1916, sixteen hundred men, women and children went out to fight for an independent Ireland. The battle raged in Dublin...
-Aug 293 min readFrank Burke and the 1916 RisingFrank Burke was born in Carbury, Co. Kildare, in 1895. In September 1909 he was sent as a boarder to St. Enda’s College, which had been...