Category: Ita’s World

Prior to the Easter Rising Dublin was deeply divided by class, religion and politics. Two years previously the Dublin Lock-out (26 August 1913 to early February 1914) had brought industrial conflict to the city’s streets after which it was wracked by tension because of its involvement in the Great War. Dublin’s large unionist minority were aghast at the Rising, while many members of the nationalist middle-class were also terrified of what had been unleashed. Some of the poorest citizens…

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The story of the O’Neills is a long and illustrious one. Perhaps the most appropriate pertaining to the family is that of a quotation by a fourteenth century poet who said ‘to compare any clan with that of the O’Neills one may as well contend with the ocean’. Many other lines and poems have been written in their honour.  Different branches of the Clan emigrated and spread throughout Europe. A branch of O’Neill dynasty has been in Portugal since…

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