The Great Famine in Ireland is known by several names, The Great Famine, An Gorta Mor, The Great Hunger and The Potato Famine. Over 1 million people lost their lives through this tragic period in Irish History. It was a devastating event that has come to symbolize one of the darkest periods in the history […]
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The 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment New York – Guardians of Irish Heritage in The United States. The name The 69th Infantry Regiment, or the “Fighting 69th” embodies the melding of Irish-American Culture, the precious preservation of heritage, the limitless abilities of immigrants and the preservation of a long and distinguished connection between Ireland and
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The term BlackIrish refers to people of Irish descent with various dark features such as Black hair, dark eyeballs, and tanned skin. Although most people in the modern-day Republic of Ireland can barely notice the difference among Caucasian Irish people based on their appearance, most foreigners especially Americans have a perception of how the Irish people look:
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All along the East coast, you will find spectacular examples of Norman Castles that are still to this day imposing and frightening structures.
As the Normans and the Irish mixed, they both adapted and started to adopt parts of each other’s cultural differences.
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He is commonly known as Strongbow and were this name comes from is up for debate but is assumed that somewhere in translation from French to Latin it was a mistake in the pronouncing of Striguil over which he was also a lord, and is now modern-day Chepstow. It is very unlikely that he was called Strongbow at the point of the invasion of Ireland
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