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#OTD in 1858 – The Irish Republican Brotherhood was co-founded by James Stephens in Dublin.

The original IRB oath, as quoted by Thomas Clarke Luby and John O’Leary, and which is among several versions in James Stephens’s own papers, ran: ‘I, AB., do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will do my utmost, at every risk, while life lasts, to make [other versions, according to Luby, establish in’] Ireland an independent Democratic Republic; that I will yield implicit…

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#OTD in Irish History | 10 November:

1580 – Second Desmond Rebellion: After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Co Kerry. 1728 – Birth of writer, poet, and physician, Oliver Goldsmith, in Co Longford. 1783 – National Volunteer convention on parliamentary reform begins at the Rotunda in Dublin. 1795 – Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, student and promoter of Mexican…

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#OTD in Irish History | 10 November:

#OTD in Irish History | 10 November:

1580 – Second Desmond Rebellion: After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Co Kerry. 1728 – Birth of writer, poet, and physician, Oliver Goldsmith, in Co Longford. 1783 – National Volunteer convention on parliamentary reform begins at the Rotunda in Dublin. 1795 – Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, student and promoter of Mexican…

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#OTD in 1858 – The Irish Republican Brotherhood was co-founded by James Stephens in Dublin.

#OTD in 1858 – The Irish Republican Brotherhood was co-founded by James Stephens in Dublin.

The original IRB oath, as quoted by Thomas Clarke Luby and John O’Leary, and which is among several versions in James Stephens’s own papers, ran: ‘I, AB., do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will do my utmost, at every risk, while life lasts, to make [other versions, according to Luby, establish in’] Ireland an independent Democratic Republic; that I will yield implicit…

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#OTD in 1825 – Birth of Young Irelander, journalist and promoter of Canadian Federation, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, in Carlingford, Co Louth.

#OTD in 1825 – Birth of Young Irelander, journalist and promoter of Canadian Federation, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, in Carlingford, Co Louth.

Thomas D’Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was a Catholic Irishman who hated British rule in Ireland, and worked for a peasant revolution to overthrow British rule and secure Irish independence. He escaped arrest and fled to the United States in 1848, where he reversed his…

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#OTD in 1822 – Birth of Fenian, Thomas Clarke Luby, in Dublin.

#OTD in 1822 – Birth of Fenian, Thomas Clarke Luby, in Dublin.

Thomas Clarke Luby was born in Dublin on 16 January 1822.  His was the son of the Reverend James Luby a Protestant clergyman and a nephew of Dr. Thomas Luby a Senior Fellow and Dean of Trinity College in Dublin.  At age 18 he graduated from Trinity and afterwards studied law at the Temple in London.  He became an early advocate of the National Irish cause and went on to become a…

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#OTD in Irish History | 10 November:

#OTD in Irish History | 10 November:

1580 – Second Desmond Rebellion: After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Co Kerry. 1728 – Birth of writer, poet, and physician, Oliver Goldsmith, in Co Longford. 1783 – National Volunteer convention on parliamentary reform begins at the Rotunda in Dublin. 1795 – Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, student and promoter of Mexican…

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#OTD in 1858 – The Irish Republican Brotherhood was co-founded by James Stephens in Dublin.

#OTD in 1858 – The Irish Republican Brotherhood was co-founded by James Stephens in Dublin.

The original IRB oath, as quoted by Thomas Clarke Luby and John O’Leary, and which is among several versions in James Stephens’s own papers, ran: ‘I, AB., do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will do my utmost, at every risk, while life lasts, to make [other versions, according to Luby, establish in’] Ireland an independent Democratic Republic; that I will yield implicit…

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