A FILM highlighting the extraordinary life of Mary Jane O’Donovan Rossa, wife of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, will be screened in West Cork next month for the first time at this year’s Fastnet Film Festival.‘Rebel Wife’ features on Thursday, May 23rd, as part of the festiv
1950: A huge crowd gathered on Sunday July 2nd, 1950, when President Sean T O’Kelly unveiled the statue of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa in Skibbereen.READERS: If you want to share your memories, send us old photos, film or video and pictures of memorabilia that may be of wider in
When Irish exiles needed a refuge, they swarmed to New York and established a hotbed of anti-British sentiment and activity that fed the flames of Irish freedom. The Great Famine in the 1840s forced millions of Irish out of Ireland, initially flooding the big cities of the east coast of America, especially New York and
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