UL History Society

13/08/2024

✨Heritage Week Event✨
Date: August 17 & 18
Time: 12pm - 12:45pm

Come and join the friary guides for an interesting FREE tour around the oldest building in the town of Ennis. Hear about the site of the origins of the town of Ennis and view the wealth of 15th c sculptures. Take a turn around the cloister walk. View the magnificent five lancet east window and the barrel vaulted sacristy ceiling. Read the interesting memorial and grave slabs and perhaps locate your family name. An informative tour around this beautiful historic building - once a Franciscan friary, then a courthouse and finally a Church of Ireland parish church, today an OPW Heritage site.

✨ Ennis Friary will be FREE for the FIRST WEEKEND of Heritage Week!
We are open from 10:00 with last admission at 5:15pm August 17 &18 ✨

Visit Clare Clare County Council Clare Museum OPW - Office of Public Works Heritage Ireland Hotel Woodstock Old Ground Hotel Temple Gate Hotel Treacys West County Auburn Lodge Dromoland Castle Hotel & Country Club The Inn at Dromoland Queens Venue Ashford Court Boutique Hotel Killaloe Hotel & Spa Hotel Doolin Ireland Heritage Week Armada Spanish Point Falls Hotel & Spa Shannon Archaeological & Historical Society Quin Heritage Group Sixmilebridge Historical Society Quilty Action GROUP Clare Roots Society Thomond Archaeological Society Mount Ievers Court, Co. Clare Labasheeda History & Heritage Clare Association Dublin UL History Society Ennis Tidy Towns Disability Federation of Ireland Clare Libraries

10/03/2024

in 1883 – Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, writer under the pseudonym ‘An Seabhac’ and promoter of the Irish language is born in Di**le, Co Kerry.

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha was born in the Gaeltacht near Di**le in Co Kerry in 1883. Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha went on to become an organiser for Conradh na Gaeilge, cycling all over the countryside to set up branches and promote the Irish language. As a writer, he took the pen-name ‘An Seabhac’, the Hawk, writing books including ’An Baile Seo ‘Gainne’ (1913) and ‘Jimín Mháire Thaidhg’ (1921), both of which drew on his Di**le youth and were later published in one volume as ‘Seoda an tSeabhaic’(1974).

An Seabhac was a prominent and influential figure of early 20th century Irish culture, a key populariser of the Irish Revival. He was an author, storyteller, folklorist, activist and politician.

The nickname is thought to be a consequence of his years as a travelling teacher, when he adopted it as a pseudonym for the writing of his most famous book Jimín Mháire Thaidhg. This book, known in its English translation as Jimeen is a fictionalised account of life growing up in the country, which follows the tribulations and misadventures of a young boy who can’t stay out of trouble.

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10/03/2024

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19145415.mairi-mhor-nan-oran-celebrating-one-greatest-gaelic-poets/

LAST week I said I would be writing about the early years of the Union after 1707 and telling the untold story – never mentioned by the Unionists…

04/03/2024

in 1778 Robert Emmet was born.

Emmet would be known for the rebellion that he staged in 1803 against British rule in Ireland – a rebellion that was very quickly stubbed out and that resulted in Emmet’s ex*****on and the arrests of many of his co-conspirators.

Robert Emmet attended Trinity College at the age of 15, displaying a talent at public speaking and the intention of becoming a barrister. Robert Emmet was a member of the United Irishmen as was his brother, Thomas Addis Emmet.

In October 1802 Robert Emmet made plans for a rebellion to take place. The rebellion itself, which look place in July of 1803, was a disaster, resulting in the arrests of nationalists figures, including Emmet. He was tried and charged with treason, and it was at his trial that he gave his famous ‘speech from the dock’, in which he proclaimed that he would only accept for his epitaph to be written, “when Ireland takes her place among the nations of the Earth”. Robert’s speech was regarded as so well-spoken, and so passionate, that it is still used as an example of fine public speaking centuries after his death.

Emmet was executed on September 20th 1803 in front of St Catherine’s Church on Thomas Street. Originally, the method of ex*****on was that he be hanged, drawn and quartered, but ultimately he was simply hanged, and then beheaded after death. His remains were originally buried in Bully’s Acre Cemetery, on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, but were removed not long after his death and buried elsewhere. Robert Emmet was a great inspiration to Patrick Pearse in particular, and to the other leaders of the 1916 Rising.

03/03/2024

Our next day out. Really looking forward to it. Our passion drives us constantly onwards.

2pm start at the "Peace Park" in Askeaton. We look forward to welcoming you there.

Capt. Conchobhar Ó Súilleabháin
En Garde
Respect, Honour, Educate

28/02/2024

24/01/2024

17/01/2024

Lots to see and do in Co Louth this St Brigid’s Bank Holiday weekend starting on the 26th January… see visitlouth.ie

15/12/2023

Mark your diary!!!

Tune in on December 21st at 8:40 UTC for the return of the LIVE STREAM of the winter solstice from Newgrange!

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