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Jailbreak and Say Nothing: Albert Price and the Daring 1943 IRA Escape from Derry Jail
While watching the drama series Say Nothing on TV, Albert Price, the father of the Price sisters, Dolours and Marian, mentioned that he had escaped from prison in the 1940s. Read more...
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. Read more...
Six of the Best: Six Naas Brothers Who Went to War
In May 1916 the British War Office confirmed that Private Patrick Preston, 2nd Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, had been killed in action. His widow had six brothers serving in the British army. Read more...
Kildare and the 1916 Rising
On Easter Monday 1916, sixteen hundred men, women and children went out to fight for an independent Ireland. Twenty-four Kildare men and women took part in the Rising. Read more...
Frank Burke and the 1916 Rising
Frank Burke was born in Carbury, Co. Kildare, in 1895, and was a boarder at Pearse's St. Enda's College before fighting in the GPO in 1916. Read more...
The 100 Kilo Case book cover
Writing the 100 Kilo Case
In the very early 1970s, as a very young teenager, I sneaked a book from my father’s pile. That book was The Godfather, and from that moment I was hooked... Read more...