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Libraries Around the World: Dungiven, Northern Ireland
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Libraries Around the World: Dungiven, Northern Ireland
Dungiven Library
#OTD in 1981 – After 71 days on hunger strike, Kevin Lynch dies at Long Kesh prison.
Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. The eighth republican to join the hunger-strike for political status, on 23rd May, following the death of Patsy O’Hara, was twenty-five-year-old fellow INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch from the small, North Derry town of Dungiven who had been imprisoned since his arrest in 1976. Image | Mural to Kevin Lynch in Dún Geimhin/Dungiven, Do Derry | Extramural…
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Finvola | The Gem of the Roe
Finvola | The Gem of the Roe
Local legend mourns the 17th century story of Finvola, the young and beautiful daughter of Dermot, the Chieftan of the O’Cahans, who fell in love with Angus McDonnell of the McDonnell Clan from the western isles of Scotland. Dermot consented to the marriage on the condition that on his daughter’s death, she would be brought back to Dungiven for burial. Tragically, Finvola died young, soon after…
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#OTD in 1956 – Birth of Kevin Lynch, an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry.
#OTD in 1956 – Birth of Kevin Lynch, an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry.
Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. Kevin Lynch was a republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry. The Dungiven Hurling team was renamed Kevin Lynch’s Hurling Club in his honour after his death. Lynch’s older brother, Frank, was an amateur boxer and he also participated in the sport as well as Gaelic football and…
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Finvola | The Gem of the Roe
Finvola | The Gem of the Roe
Local legend mourns the 17th century story of Finvola, the young and beautiful daughter of Dermot, the Chieftan of the O’Cahans, who fell in love with Angus McDonnell of the McDonnell Clan from the western isles of Scotland. Dermot consented to the marriage on the condition that on his daughter’s death, she would be brought back to Dungiven for burial. Tragically, Finvola died young, soon after…
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#OTD in 1981 – After 71 days on hunger strike, Kevin Lynch dies at Long Kesh prison.
#OTD in 1981 – After 71 days on hunger strike, Kevin Lynch dies at Long Kesh prison.
Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. The eighth republican to join the hunger-strike for political status, on 23rd May, following the death of Patsy O’Hara, was twenty-five-year-old fellow INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch from the small, North Derry town of Dungiven who had been imprisoned since his arrest in 1976. Image | Mural to Kevin Lynch in Dún Geimhin/Dungiven, Do Derry | Extramural…
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#OTD in 1956 – Birth of Kevin Lynch, an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry.
#OTD in 1956 – Birth of Kevin Lynch, an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry.
Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. Kevin Lynch was a republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry. The Dungiven Hurling team was renamed Kevin Lynch’s Hurling Club in his honour after his death. Lynch’s older brother, Frank, was an amateur boxer and he also participated in the sport as well as Gaelic football and…
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#OTD in 1848 – John Mitchel publishes first United Irishmen.
#OTD in 1848 – John Mitchel publishes first United Irishmen.
John Mitchel was one of the great propagandists of his day, although the causes he espoused often placed him on the wrong side, he was loved and loathed in equal measure. He was one of the few Irishmen to have incurred the wrath of the British government and of the Federal administration of the USA. John Mitchel was born near Dungiven, Co Derry on 3 November 1815. The son of a Presbyterian…
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