The brothers O'Kelly: Writers, Poets, Editors & Nationalists
Galway-born brothers, Séumas and Michael O’Kelly, were both editors of the Leinster Leader during Ireland’s revolutionary period. ...
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Six of the Best: Six Naas brothers who went to war
In May 1916 the British War Office confirmed that Private Patrick Preston (29), 2nd Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who had been...
Kildare and the 1916 Rising
On Easter Monday 1916, sixteen hundred men, women and children went out to fight for an independent Ireland. The battle raged in Dublin...
Frank Burke and the 1916 Rising
Frank 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...
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