Sunday, 29 December 2013 20:56
Tom Crean (Kerry): Irish Heritage Hall of Fame Inductee
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Tom Crean - Internationally Renowned Artic Explorer Tom Crean from the shorelines of west Co. Kerry, lived his young life close to the raging Atlantic Ocean and in his boyhood envisaged riding over the deep seas of the world. The family lived at Anascaul, near Dingle, and life for…
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Sunday, 29 December 2013 20:48
Thomas Clarke (Tyrone): Irish Heritage Hall Of Fame Inductee
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Thomas Clarke - Irish Patriot & Signatory Of 1916 Irish Proclamation The Clarke family from Co. Tyrone, were exiled for some years in the Isle of Wight and it was a consequence of this that the patriotic Irishman was born there. However the exile for the family was of short…
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Sunday, 29 December 2013 20:40
Thomas Kent (Cork): Irish Heritage Hall Of Fame Inductee
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Thomas Kent - Corkman Outnumbered At Family Home in Shoot Out Thomas Kent of Castlelyons, Co.Cork, was the only volunteer executed outside of Dublin in the aftermath of the historic 1916 Easter Rising and he did not take part in the Dublin rebellion. Due to certain high ranking…
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Sunday, 29 December 2013 20:33
Lady Augusta Gregory (Galway): Irish Heritage Hall of Fame Inductee
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Famous Daughter Of Ireland: Author Category: Lady Augusta Gregory - Privileged Background But Greatly Admired By Irish People Lady Augusta Gregory had an Anglo-Irish landlord ancestry with a family estate consisting of 6,000 acres of land at Roxborough, Co. Galway. She was accustomed to life among the Galway gentry…
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Sunday, 29 December 2013 20:25
W.B. Yeats (Dublin): Irish Heritage Hall of Fame Inductee
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Famous Son Of Ireland: Author Category: William Butler Yeats - One Of Ireland's Most Revered Authors A literary giant who strode through the 19th and 20th centuries became a Famous Son of Ireland whose historic writings are part of Irish folklore. William Butler Yeats, born in Dublin in 1865,…
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Sunday, 29 December 2013 20:10
Patricia Lynch (Cork): Irish Heritage Hall of Fame Inductee
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Famous Daughter Of Ireland: Author Category: Patricia Lynch - Autor Of Children's Books World Renowned The name of Patricia Lynch features prominently in the Cork Hall Of Fame for native writers who gained international recognition as an author of renown. Patricia’s genius was directed to mainly composing childrens…
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Sunday, 29 December 2013 20:01
Kevin Barry (Dublin): Irish Heritage Hall Of Fame Inductee
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Kevin Barry - Fought For Irish Liberty and Hanged At Eighteen By English Crown Kevin Barry is a patriotic famous son of Ireland who paid the ultimate sacrifice with his life at a time in Irish political life, when the country was at war with England, but also on the brink…
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Sunday, 29 December 2013 19:37
James Joyce (Dublin): Irish Heritage Hall of Fame Inductee
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Famous Son Of Ireland: Author Category: James Joyce - Lived In Poverty For Many Years James Joyce was born on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten surviving children. He was educated by Jesuits at Clogowes Wood College and at Belvedere College before going on to University College, where…
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Sunday, 29 December 2013 18:25
Edna O'Brien (Clare): Irish Heritage Hall of Fame Inductee
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Famous Daughter Of Ireland: Author Category: Edna O'Brien - Clare Author Outlawed By Irish Censors A novelist and short story writer, the famous Clarewoman has been exiled in England for many decades and often became controversial for her outspoken views of religious Ireland in the mid 20th century. She…
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Friday, 13 December 2013 18:07
Robert Emmet (Dublin): Irish Heritage Hall Of Fame Inductee
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Robert Emmet 18th Century Patriot - Remembered In Song & Verse As sentence of death was about to be proclaimed, Robert Emmet stood up in the dock and stated ‘When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be…
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Thursday, 12 December 2013 22:33
Pádraig Pearse (Dublin): Irish Heritage Hall Of Fame Inductee
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Pádraig Pearse - One Of Ireland's Most Famous Patriots & Leader Of The 1916 Easter Rising Padraig Pearse was a patriotic soldier who laid down his life for his country and he held academic qualifications as a Teacher, Lawyer and Writer. He attended the Christian Brothers School and the Royal University,…
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Sunday, 08 December 2013 20:18
Nano Nage - Famous Cork Founder Of Presentation Order
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Nano Nagle - Cork woman Established Ursulines Convents Nano Nagle, a spiritual missionary hailed from the beautiful Blackwater vales that stream around north Cork right down to the eastern shorelines. Born at Ballygriffin, Killavullen, between Mallow and Fermoy in 1718, Nano’s life began at a time when England ruled Ireland…
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Sunday, 08 December 2013 20:06
Michael Collins (Cork): Irish Heritage Hall Of Fame Inductee
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Michael Collins - World Famous Freedom Fighter In Ireland’s eight hundred years of occupation by British rule, Michael Collins was the Irish freedom fighter who probably gained most respect from the invading troops and their commanding officers. His fearsome reputation and his explicit intelligence gathering, brought havoc on British plans…
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Saturday, 07 December 2013 22:25
Roger Casement (Dublin): Irish Heritage Hall Of Fame Inductee
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Roger Casement - Dubliner Who Gave His Life For Irish Freedom An unlikely Irish patriot with a staunch Protestant tradition on his father’s side, Roger David Casement was orphaned at age thirteen when his father died and his mother also died when he was just nine. Raised by his father’s…
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