How Polio Shaped My Life

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Patrick Cockburn aged seven, in a wheelchair after catching polio in 1956 in Ireland. I was unlucky in catching polio. It was in Cork, Ireland in 1956 during one of the last polio epidemics […]

Remembering Tom Clarke

The Irish Revolutionary was executed in Kilmainham Gaol on this day in 1916. Clarke was born at Hurst Castle, on March 11th 1858., Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, England, opposite the Isle of Wight, to Irish parents, Mary […]

Remembering Bobby Sands

irishrevolutionaries The Irish Revolutionary died on hunger strike in Long Kesh on this day in 1981. Robert Gerard Sands was born on March 4th 1954 to John and Rosaleen Sands in Abbots Cross, Newtownabbey, County […]