Limerickflowers

Michael Cusack would recall how both Pat Nally and himself while walking through the Phoenix Park in Dublin seeing only a handful of people playing sports in the park so depressed them, that they agreed it was time to "make an effort to preserve the physical strength of our race." Nally organised a National Athletics Sports meeting in County Mayo in September 1879 which was a success, with Cusack organising a similar event in Dublin the following April.

The Fenians 1867, James Stephens, Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt The period in Ireland between 1867-1891

Thomas Francis Meagher was born in Waterford in 1823. He joined the abortive Tipperary uprising with Smith O’Brien in 1848. He was captured and sentenced to hang, but was reprieved and sentenced to life in the penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land. He helped to plan the escape, to New York of John Mitchel. He practiced as a lawyer in the United States courts. In the American Civil War, he was commissioned a Brigadier-General of Volunteers in the New York 69th Union Army.

The Young Ireland Leaders 1846-1848 The Period during the famine of 1845-49 when Young Irelanders yearned for freedom

I have reviewed and added an original song, written and performed by yours truly, to this episode. The song is entitled Tyrone and Tyrconnell.

Hugh O’Neill and Red Hugh O’Donnell take on the might of England in 1590’s During these wars, the Norman Earls, were at the head and to the fore of every rebellion. The English complained and said they were worse than the Irish rebels and were constantly stirring up trouble.