Elizabeth O’Farrell, a Fearless Nurse, Risks her Life to Deliver Pádraig Pearse’s Terms of Surrender to the British Forces
An Irish nurse and member of Cumann na mBan, Elizabeth O’Farrell performed nursing and courier duties, delivering dispatches and ammunition to rebels over the days of the Easter Rising. She further risked her life to deliver Pádraig Pearse’s terms of surrender to the British forces on Friday, April 28, and stood with him when he surrendered to General Lowe later that day. ℘℘℘ It may have ...
Ellis Island Immigration Station Opens
In December, 1891 seventeen-year-old Annie Moore of County Cork, climbed aboard the USS Nevada, along with her two younger brothers, in Queensland, Ireland (now known as Cobh). On January 1, 1892 they disembarked to join their parents in New York, the first of seven hundred new immigrants to enter the United States through Ellis Island, formerly considered part of New York but declared by a judge, ...
The Execution of the Molly Maguire’s Begins
It was the largest mass execution of any group by the US federal government in history. Between 1877 and 1879 20 Irishmen known as the Molly Maguires, a labor movement working and organizing in the Pennsylvania coal fields were executed. Among them was John Kehoe King of the Mollies who was pardoned fully 101 years later. What took place back then, according to historian Harold Aurand, ...
Handel’s ‘Messiah’ is First Performed in Dublin, Ireland
Without question, one of the most famous pieces of music ever written or performed is Handel’s Messiah. Note that the title of this work is not ‘The Messiah’, but simply Messiah. Above you will see one of the more flattering portraits of Handel. Handel was a German born in Halle in 1685. When he was old enough, because he wanted to compose opera, he moved to ...
