1. Who Is The Murder Of King Tut
King Tut: Pharaoh from dynasty 18 in the New Kingdom. His reign about nine years just. He was the son of Amenhotep III and Tiye, meanwhile, some scholars said that ...
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2. Oliver Cromwell In Ireland
Oliver Cromwell led a Parliamentary invasion of Ireland in 1649, the parliament had disposed of Charles I and abolished the monarchy, it now wished to turn its attentions upon the ...
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3. Biography Of Daniel Oconnell
Daniel O’Connell was born in 1775 near Caherciveen in County Kerry. Under the patronage of a wealthy uncle he studied in France and was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn in 1794, ...
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4. A Delve Into Dublins Past
Dublin was officially established in 988, however the earliest known reference to the city was by the Greek cartographer Ptolemy writing in the second century. He referred to a settlement ...
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5. Jacobite Wars In Ireland
After King James II was deposed he fled to France, King Louis XIV of France granted him money and troops to aid him in regaining his throne. On 12 March ...
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6. Michael Davitt And The Land League In Ireland
Michael Davitt was born in Straide, County Mayo in 1846 at the height of the Great Famine. He was the second of five children born to peasant parents. When Michael ...
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7. The Life And Time Of Napper Tandy
James Napper Tandy was born in 1740, the son of a Dublin Protestant ironmonger. He attended a Quaker boarding school in Co. Kildare, studying alongside Edmund Burke. He began his ...
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8. The Implementation Of Poynings Law In Ireland
The Lancastrian Tudor, Henry VII succeeded to the English throne in 1485 after the Battle of Bosworth. Henry was determined to bring order to England after almost a century of ...
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9. Irish Mythology A History Of The Tain Bo Cuailnge
Tain Bo Cuailnge meaning the Cattle Raid of Cooley is a legendary epic from early Irish literature. The Táin Bó Cuailnge represents the oldest vernacular tale of Western Europe, predating ...
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10. The Blueshirts In Ireland
The Army Comrades Association was established in Ireland in February 1932. Following the fashion of the private armies on the continent of the period they adopted a uniform from which ...
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11. Theobold Wolfe Tone
Theobold Wolfe Tone, born in Dublin, the son of a Protestant coach-builder, studied law at Trinity College Dublin and qualified as a barrister from King’s Inns at the age of ...
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12. History Of Guinness
In 1752 Arthur Guinness was left £100 in the will of Archbishop Price. In 1755 he went into the brewery business in Leixlip, Co. Kildare. The construction of the Grand ...
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13. King Henry Ii And The Norman Invasion Of Ireland
King Henry II of England landed in Waterford in October in 1171 with a powerful force of well-equipped knights, archers and foot soldiers. This was reacting to his fears of ...
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14. King Henry Ii And The Consolidation Of The Norman Conquest Of Ireland
The Normans implemented the first centralised administration system in Ireland. King John I constructed Dublin Castle and an active government was established. Coinage was introduced as was a jury system ...
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15. The Decline Of Norman Influence In Ireland
The Norman conquest of Ireland began to lose momentum in the middle of the thirteenth century. This was due to a number of contributing factors which included their sparse population ...
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