-
Archives
- December 2025
- November 2025
- October 2025
- September 2025
- August 2025
- July 2025
- June 2025
- May 2025
- April 2025
- March 2025
- February 2025
- January 2025
- December 2024
- November 2024
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- March 2015
- January 2015
-
Meta
Tag Archives: history
Futurism: Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments
Future SocietyThe Industrialists Pot Meet Kettle Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments Who would know better? By Joe Wilkins Published Dec 17, 2025 7:00 AM EST When it comes to toppling governments from behind the … Continue reading
Exploring Ireland’s history: UCD Archives. Kathleen McConnell was requested by Eamon de Valera to join the ‘consular staff’ of his tour of America – Occtober 2nd 1919
Kathleen O’Connell was born on 5 October 1888 at Caherdaniel, Co. Kerry, one of eleven children of John O’Connell, farmer, and Mary Ann O’Connell (née O’Sullivan). Educated locally, she emigrated to America in 1904 and trained as a secretary in Chicago. … Continue reading
Invisible people: Machine(s) behind Anti-Homeless Rhetoric. Comment: Ireland. Sunday Mail concerning McVerry Trust needs major scrutiny moving beyond the PAC and possibly criminalising some of the people who were in key positions. The people who suffer are those who are homeless while greed is exercising its right to power.
It’s Not Just One Anchor: The Machine Behind Anti-Homeless Rhetoric By Erin Wisneski Cynthia Griffith Jocelyn Figueroa | December 1, 2025 | Awareness | Narrative Change Credit Image: © Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts via ZUMA Press This piece exposes the well-funded media and policy ecosystem that reframes … Continue reading
Grok 4 AI: The Rising fall-out. Sir John Maxwell. Looking for connection to Michael Comyn K.C.
See new posts This letter is from a file in the Eamon De Valera Papers (P150/512) with the title ‘British Documents Re: 1916’. The file consists of intelligence reports and despatches between Irish Command [i.e. successive Commanders-in-Chief of British Forces … Continue reading
Grok4 AI: Background reading re Michael Comyn KC. It makes it so much easier to read when you get a synopsis like below
The book The Secret Court-Martial Records of the Easter Rising (also published under the title From Behind a Closed Door: Secret Court Martial Records of the 1916 Easter Rising), authored by historian Brian Barton and first released in 2002, compiles … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged family-history, genealogy, history, ireland, politics
Leave a comment
Courage.Media: Europe’s Christian Path v Anti-Christian Present
Commentary Europe’s Christian Past Meets Europe’s Anti-Christian Present The continent of cathedrals now polices prayer 2 Dec 2025 John Mac Ghlionn View articles Christianity shaped Europe: cathedrals rose before nations, monks preserved learning when marauders burned villages, and the Church became … Continue reading
Grok 4 AI: Erskine Childers great grandson writes to Michelle Clarke, granddaughter of Michael Comyn KC 2013. Also 4 young men executed around that time.
Erskine Childers great grandson writes to Michelle Clarke, granddaughter of Michael Comyn KC 2013. Can Grok add to the content or find data recorded in newspapers? Dear Michelle Many thanks for your email. I must apologize for the rather lengthy … Continue reading
The Guardian: China rebuilds its forgotten ‘Auschwitz’ to remember Japan’s brutality. (This article is over 10 years old) but somehow we know little of Japan’s war impact on China.
China This article is more than 10 years old China rebuilds its forgotten ‘Auschwitz’ to remember Japan’s brutality This article is more than 10 years old As Beijing prepares to hold a massive military parade to mark the end of the … Continue reading
Grok 4 AI: Michael Comyn KC quote from: Mark Phelan’s 2012 PhD thesis titled Irish Responses to Fascist Italy, 1919-1932 published by the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Either way, few Senators remained on hand to hear the chastisements of Michael Comyn of Fianna Fáil, who, delving back into the annals of British and European history, and without any hint of irony, warned that ‘If parliament neglects its … Continue reading
Eoin Hickey: “Growing Up in Skryne – A Journey Through the `1950’s. Comment canisgallicus.com: I grew up first on the road to Tara Hill in the Dispensary Residence called Belper in 1963 (first living for 6 months in Belvin Hall, Tara) and then my family moved to Skryne. I knew Mrs Hickey and travelled with her to Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare long ago now.
Skryne in the 1950s See also: Skryne. Growing Up In Skryne – A journey through the nineteen-fifties By Eoin Hickey Source: http://deargrandchildren.org/family/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Growing-Up-In-Skryne-1.pdf The pictures have been titled here and can be found by accessing the above link. The Steeple at Skryne – a … Continue reading