... Home Rule Part 15 of John Finlay's history of Wicklow's rejection of Home Rule in favour of a republic gives an insight into Wicklow and its environs in the period between 1916 and 1923 as seen through the eyes of the local newspapers at the time - the ...

... Minister Dick Roche. Home Rule, The book marks the point where Childers, emerging from his family's Liberal tradition of English politics, had become an Irish nationalist of the moderate Home Rule variety. His mother was Anna Barton of Annamoe, County ...

... authoritative local historians. Among those included will be Newcastle Fort 1566-1613 by Andrew O'Brien; Wicklow rejects home rule for a republic by John Finlay; Maritime Wicklow by Jim Rees; Wicklow in the emergency by James Scannell; Vikings in ...

... authorities on all aspects of Wicklow's past, and it covers many different phases including the famine, the 1798 rebellion, the home rule era, the war of independence in 1920-21, to name a few. The journal has been put together by the members of Wicklow Historial ...

... history of the Wicklow Town Commissioners by Andrew O'Brien; Whaling in Wicklow by Jimmy Cleary; part 13 of Wicklow Rejects Home Rule for a Republic by John Finlay; and William Dodd and the Wicklow Militia by Stan J. O'Reilly; amongst others. Meanwhile, financial ...

... Finlay's journal has a fascinating line up of running piece entitled 'Wicklow varied articles on local topics which Rejects Home Rule for a Republic'. should make for interesting reading The early years of Wicklow Sailthis summer. ing Club are put under the ...

... leadership and careers in medicine and law. Former past pupils include John Redmond, Leader of the Irish Party at the time of Home Rule, James Joyce, Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, U 2 manager Paul McGuinness, Michael O'Leary of Ryanair and former Taoiseach ...

... Port Trade in the Early 20th Century' by Jimmy Cleary; 'the Marian Boys' Club 1954-1964' by Leo Cullen; 'Wicklow Rejects Home Rule for a Republic' by John Finlay; and 'Looters, Liberators and Informers' by Stan J. O'Reilly, along with many others. In line ...

... GLANVILLE Staff Reporter THE LIFE of sea captain supreme, heroic and controversial character and grandfather of the Irish Home Rule politician Charles Stewart Parnell has been immortalised in print. 'Old Ironsides' tells the story of Parnell's American ...

... unveiled by the Minister for European Affairs, Dick Roche at the former Childers home in Annamoe on Sunday. Eighty years ago, Erskine Childers was betrayed and arrested at his home at Glendalough House by Free State troops. He had been carrying a Spanish automatic ...

... where we came from and the sacrifices made by those in the past, particularly Charles Stewart Parnell. His commitment to Home Rule will not be forgotten. Great credit is due to the Parnell Society for remembering that.' He also mused on the meaning of ...

... British army for different reason at the time, many joined up as true Irish nationalists believing that Ireland would get home rule after the war' he said. 'These people or their families could not talk about their involvement in the war, they were a forgotten ...