Irish Legacy
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Sharing the Irish landscape and its people’s history and culture.
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"To us, Irishmen, young, ardent, enthusiastic, trying to grope amid the darkness for a path to higher things - no question can be of more absorbing interest than this: What has destiny in store for this ancient race of ours?" - Pádraig Pearse
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Kelly himself was Captain of the Bloody 10th regiment in Ohio in the American Civil War. Lost a part of his jaw and three teeth in a battle, and still didn't retire. He was one of the Irish rebels freed from prison in the lead-up to the execution of the Manchester Martyrs.
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RT @legacy_irish: An old Irish proverb warning against overthinking things: "Ní dhéanfaidh smaoineamh an treabhadh duit. You’ll never plou…
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"The Republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free." - Liam Mellows
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RT @ConorMcDonough4: In 1619 an Irish Dominican friar, having spent 18 months in a Dublin prison, made his way to Madrid and presented to P…
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RT @turbarius: An argument could be made that Ireland had the geographic advantage in the contest for hegemony of the isles, in that the is…
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'Then Conchubar, subtlest of all men, Ranking his Druids round him ten by ten, Spake thus: Cú Chulainn will dwell there and brood For three days in dreadful quietude Then arise, and raving slay us all. Chant in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea.'
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RT @legacy_irish: Mise Éire: Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra Mór mo ghlóir: Mé a rug Cú Chulainn cróga. Mór mo phian: Bithnaimhde do mo…
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The first mention of whiskey in Irish history was after a chieftain died from drinking too much of it at a Christmas feast:
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Pádraig Pearse spoke at the graveside of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa #OnThisDay 1915: "They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have 1/4
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"I have just done one of the hardest tasks I have ever had to do. I have had to condemn to death one of the finest characters I have ever come across. There must be something very wrong in the state of things that makes a man like that a rebel." Major-General Blackader on Pearse
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Ronnie Drew recites the poetry of Pádraig Pearse. "I say to my people that they are holy, that they are august, despite their chains, That they are greater than those who hold them, and stronger and purer, That they have but need of courage and to call on the name of their God."
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