John O Leary

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The Burning of Cork on December 11th, 1920. Photograph courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
New ballad recalls heroism of English fire chief during Burning of Cork

The story of the Englishman who led the effort to save Cork from being burned to the ground by Crown forces 100 years ago today has been recalled in a(...)

The WB Yeats letters that are up for auction
Rare letters from teenage WB Yeats to be auctioned in London

A series of seven unpublished letters by the teenage WB Yeats will go on sale at Sotheby’s in London next week. The letters contain the first referen(...)

Nearly 90 per cent of the survey’s respondents said they believed remote working is here to stay, saying at least 30 per cent of their staff would work remotely in the future. Photograph: PA Wire
Insurance firms anxious about rising claim costs from pandemic

More than a third of insurance firms are worried about the cost of claims, particularly from Covid-19, while 60 per cent fear they will see a reducti(...)

Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith. “The ending of the Cork hunger strike, and Griffith’s role in the choreography of its conclusion, reminds us that the fight for independence was at least as much about living for Ireland as it was about killing or dying for it.”
Living for Ireland – An Irishman’s Diary on Arthur Griffith and the Cork hunger strike of November 1920

‘I am of the opinion that our countrymen in Cork Prison have sufficiently proved their devotion and fidelity, and that they should now – as they were (...)

Joe Murphy, from Pouladuff on Cork’s southside, died on October 25th, 1920 on the 76th day of his hunger strike protest.
Family proud of Irish volunteer ancestor who died on hunger strike in 1920

The family of an Irish volunteer, who died on hunger strike in Cork a century ago, have spoken of their pride at him making the ultimate sacrifice for(...)

John O’Leary, general manager and chief executive of InnaLab’s Irish operations: “This was an opportunity, and a challenge, to do something different.”
Racing into space from Blanchardstown

It sounds so outlandish that it seems ripped directly from the pages of a Hollywood screenplay. Well, two Hollywood screenplays, actually. Both Deep(...)

Hera will go alongside Nasa’s DART spacecraft, in what will be humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system called Didymos
Dublin’s InnaLabs part of space consortium to win €129.4m contract

Irish company InnaLabs is part of a consortium that has been awarded a €129.4 million contract to launch a satellite to support deep-space navigation.(...)

The woman said she had received threatening text messages from her former partner. File photograph: iStock
Man threatened to pour acid over his former partner, court hears

A woman has been granted a protection order after she told a court her former partner threatened to pour acid over her. The woman told Dublin Distri(...)

Pádraig Harrington follows the line of a shot during the British Open at Carnoustie in 2007. Photograph: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images
The Best Of Times: Harrington stares down Garcia in epic Claret Jug battle at Carnoustie

On a July Sunday in 2007, a strange thing happened, as if the gods decreed all Irish sporting eyes would be on only one thing that day. In a strange q(...)

A stamp jointly issued in 1995 by Ireland and Belgium to commemorate the Battle of Fontenoy on May 11th, 1745
Famous Fontenoy – Frank McNally on an overshadowed anniversary of the Irish Brigade’s finest hour

One of the latest non-events in this year of things not happening has been a commemoration of the 275th anniversary of the Battle of Fontenoy. The da(...)

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