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Forum: Members Journal 03-08-2024, 06:11 PM
Replies: 155
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Posted By Trollheart
While most of the history of the Great Famine is...

While most of the history of the Great Famine is steeped in tears, tragedy, pain and anger, death and disease, despair and emigration, and a burning need for justice - or if that wasn’t possible,...
Forum: Members Journal 03-01-2024, 11:35 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
Oh yeah, I've written a lot about it here. I...

Oh yeah, I've written a lot about it here. I think I spent originally like about a month researching and writing all I could about it. The Great Famine is a huge turning point in Irish history, and...
Forum: Members Journal 03-01-2024, 10:28 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
There's an old Irish saying (not really, it's a...

There's an old Irish saying (not really, it's a joke but we should adopt it): "Important" in Ireland means "what's yer hurry? There's time for another pint!" and as for "urgent", see under...
Forum: Members Journal 02-22-2023, 10:29 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
So much for the man at the top; we’ll see soon...

So much for the man at the top; we’ll see soon enough what, if anything, he did to help stave off the Famine. For now though, let’s return to people who did at least seem to have some sort of...
Forum: Members Journal 02-22-2023, 10:15 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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Winter is coming: the Year Without a Summer

In 1816, one single year after the Corn Laws had been...
Forum: Members Journal 02-22-2023, 09:49 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
Six months and more later, it's time to step back...

Six months and more later, it's time to step back a little in history again. Sure, we will of course come to the scandal of the Magdalene Laundries in time, but right now I want to look at an event...
Forum: Members Journal 06-06-2022, 08:24 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
Article 21.—The paupers of the several classes...

Article 21.—The paupers of the several classes shall be kept employed according to their capacity and ability ; but no pauper shall work on his own account, or on account of any party other than the...
Forum: Members Journal 06-06-2022, 08:05 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
https://i.redd.it/nmz6nbda2oh11.png Speak for...

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Speak for Yourself: The Decline of the Irish Language

Countries tend to pride themselves on their national heritage, and this is inextricably linked to their...
Forum: Members Journal 05-29-2022, 10:37 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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Train a-comin’ - The Iron Horse Arrives in Ireland

As Catholics began to get...
Forum: Members Journal 05-21-2022, 07:44 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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Ulster Says No (again): The Repealer Repulsed

Surely O’Connell should have expected nothing less than a hostile reception once he...
Forum: Members Journal 05-14-2022, 12:18 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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Lord George Gordon (1751 - 1793)

Even now, over two hundred years later, the jury...
Forum: Members Journal 04-12-2022, 07:23 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
The Rights of (Catholic Irish) Man: Moves Towards...

The Rights of (Catholic Irish) Man: Moves Towards Acceptance and Recognition

We’ve heard how much of an underclass Irish Catholics had become from the time Henry VIII established the Church of...
Forum: Members Journal 03-17-2022, 07:49 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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Back we go to Robert Emmet then. Unlike some of his contemporaries a few years earlier, he is said not to have relied upon...
Forum: Members Journal 03-17-2022, 03:44 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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Chapter XI: Under the English Heel II:
Rising and Falling: Emancipation, Starvation and Emigration

Just a quick note,...
Forum: Members Journal 09-06-2021, 06:47 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
Nice. Whoever said we Irish were a nation of...

Nice. Whoever said we Irish were a nation of drunks? ;)
Where is that, exactly?
Forum: Members Journal 07-12-2021, 03:02 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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Epilogue: One nation, indivisible, under an English God - The Act of Union

The rising...
Forum: Members Journal 07-12-2021, 02:58 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
Father Michael Murphy (1767 - 1798) So far...

Father Michael Murphy (1767 - 1798)

So far as I can make out, he was no relation to the previous Father John Murphy (although he had a brother named John) - Murphy has always been a very common...
Forum: Members Journal 07-12-2021, 02:44 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
Before I close out what has turned out to be a...

Before I close out what has turned out to be a much longer article than expected, there is one further aspect of the 1798 rising I want to investigate. I think it may very well be a unique one....
Forum: Members Journal 07-04-2021, 05:03 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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And over the border…

Although Ulster’s fighting capabilities had been hobbled, even decapitated by Lake’s marauding forces prior...
Forum: Members Journal 06-25-2021, 06:55 PM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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Éirí Amach! The 1798 Irish Rebellion: Rise up fellow Irishmen!

We’ve seen, mostly through the stories of the lives of the men and...
Forum: Members Journal 06-19-2021, 09:06 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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Ulster Rises First: Sectarian Slaughter and the Dragooning of Ulster

While the British leadership in Dublin...
Forum: Members Journal 06-19-2021, 09:02 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
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Thomas Palliser Russell (1767 - 1803)
(Yep, here we go again: born in the same year as McCracken, though he outlived him by a few...
Forum: Members Journal 06-19-2021, 05:24 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
Are you ready, Lord Edward? Uh-huh. Thomas? Yeah!...

Are you ready, Lord Edward? Uh-huh. Thomas? Yeah! Oliver? Okay.

Well all right, fellas.... LET'S GO!!!!

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The Irish...
Forum: Members Journal 06-19-2021, 05:04 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
Hey thanks guys! Just doin' what I love, and if...

Hey thanks guys! Just doin' what I love, and if others love it too, then so much the better. Dianne, I have stories if you're interested. They're all of the fantasy/horror/sci-fi theme, one or two...
Forum: Members Journal 06-18-2021, 03:24 AM
Replies: 155
Views: 9,199
Posted By Trollheart
https://www.nam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/s...

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