The funeral of Easter Rising hero Thomas Ashe took place #OnThisDay in 1917. He died due to forced feeding while on hunger strike. He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

This day 59 years ago – 30 September 1959 – the first feature-length Irish language film, Mise Éire, premiered as the closing film of the Cork Film Festival.

In attendance at the screening was Seán MacEntee, the then-Tánaiste.

Its noscript was taken from a poem by Patrick Pearse.

100 years ago the RMS Leinster was torpedoed off Dublin Bay by a German U-boat, an attack that was Ireland's worst maritime disaster

569 killed - men, women & children - civilians & soldiers from Ireland, Wales & England
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The Irish brigade led by John MacBride, flying a flag sent by Maud Gonne for those fighting the British Empire during the Second Boer War which he kept. Before his execution following the Easter Rising, some of John MacBride's last words were 'mind the flag'.

'There can be no peace between the right and wrong, between the truth and falsehood, between justice and oppression, between freedom and tyranny. Between them it is eternal war until the wrong is righted, until the true thing is established, until freedom is won.' - P.H. Pearse

John MacBride who led Irish volunteers in the Second Boer War to "strike a blow at England’s power abroad when we could not, unfortunately, do so at home.” pictured with part of a British cannon captured at the Battle of Colenso. He was executed for his role in the Easter Rising.

Irish Citizen Army with its plans for an independent self governing Irish state sends a message to London and across Europe that they serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland alone.
Éirí Amach

'The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland..'

..the presence, in any one generation of Irishmen, of even a respectable minority, ready to die to affirm that truth, makes that Government for ever a usurpation and a crime against human progress.'

For World Mental Health Day that was just a few days ago: the Welsh phrase "dod yn ôl at fy nghoed" - meaning "to return to a balanced state of mind" - translates literally as "to return to my trees". In other words, to find one's root.

This day 17 years ago – 14 October 2001 – state funerals were given to the Forgotten Ten – ten rebels hanged in the 1920s, including Kevin Barry.

Barry, an 18-year-old student when he was executed, had taken part in an ambush in which a 15-year-old British soldier was shot dead.