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Lucy Bhreatnach
Lucy Breatnach (8 October 1924 – 1 October 2007) was a Basque-Irish language activist, and co-founder of the first gaelscoil in Ireland, Scoil Lorcáin. Life Lucy Breatnach was born Maria de la Piedad Lucila Hellman de Menchaca on 8 October 1924 in Algorta, Bizkaia, in the Basque Country. Her parents were Lucila de Menchaca Dilis and Franz Heinrich Hellman, a German businessman. She had two brothers. The family fled Spain during the civil war, but returned later. She met Deasún Breatnach in Madrid, and they married on 31 July 1947, after which she was known as Lucy Bhreatnach. Her interest in politics and languages inspired her husband to deepen his commitment to the Irish language and heritage. Their first child was born in Spain. All their children, 5 sons and a daughter, were raised speaking both Spanish and Irish. In 1949, the family moved to Dublin, where they were part of a group which established the first gaelscoil, Irish language school, Scoil Lorcáin in Blackrock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deasún Breatnach
Deasún Breatnach (2 December 1921 – 3 October 2007) was an Irish journalist, author and activist. He wrote Irish poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and translations. Early life Deasún Breatnach was born in Rathmines, Dublin, probably in Belgrave Square, on 2 December 1921. He was christened Francis Xavier Desmond Walsh, and was known as "Des". His parents were Gertrude (née Andrews) and Kevin Walsh, a solicitor. He was the eldest child, with two brothers and one sister. His paternal grandfather was also a solicitor and supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell, James J. Walsh, who represented two of the Invincibles found guilty of assassinating Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke. His father was a supporter of John Redmond, and served with the British army during World War I in France. Breatnach adopted the Irish form of his name as a young man, Deasún Breatnach. He attended Belvedere College, Dublin, until the death of his father in 1934, after which his mother could n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flann O'Brien
Brian O'Nolan ( ga, Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), better known by his pen name Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. His English language novels, such as ''At Swim-Two-Birds'' and ''The Third Policeman'', were written under the O’Brien pen name. His many satirical columns in ''The Irish Times'' and an Irish language novel ''An Béal Bocht'' were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen. O'Brien's novels have attracted a wide following for their unconventional humour and modernist metafiction. As a novelist, O'Brien was influenced by James Joyce. He was nonetheless sceptical of the "cult" of Joyce, saying "I declare to God if I hear that name Joyce one more time I will surely froth at the gob." Biography Family and early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Births
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Irish Republican Socialist Party
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Amnesty International Ireland
Amnesty International Ireland (commonly known as Amnesty and AI) is the Irish branch of the international non-governmental organisation focused on human rights, Amnesty International. One of its founding members was German Abwehr agent Helmut Clissmann. The current Executive Director is Colm O'Gorman. Campaigns Amnesty operate a number of campaigns focusing on human rights issues. Abortion rights The ''She is not a criminal'' campaign opposes the Republic of Ireland's abortion law, as according to Amnesty, "Ireland’s Constitution and abortion legislation result in violations of the fundamental human rights of women and girls. Ireland has one of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws. Women and girls cannot legally have an abortion in Ireland unless there is a risk to their life. And even where that is the case, access is difficult." The campaign was prompted in part due to criticism of Ireland's abortion laws by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Friday Agreement
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA), or Belfast Agreement ( ga, Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or ; Ulster-Scots: or ), is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April 1998 that ended most of the violence of The Troubles, a political conflict in Northern Ireland that had prevailed since the late 1960s. It was a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. It is made up of the Multi-Party Agreement between most of Northern Ireland's political parties, and the BritishIrish Agreement between the British and Irish governments. Northern Ireland's present devolved system of government is based on the agreement. Issues relating to sovereignty, governance, discrimination, military and paramilitary groups, justice and policing were central to the agreement. It restored self-government to Northern Ireland on the basis of "power sharing" and it included acceptance of the principle of consent, commitment to civil and political rights, cultural parity of esteem, police r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Behan
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan) ( ; ga, Breandán Ó Beacháin; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican activist who wrote in both English and Irish. He was named by Irish Central as one of the greatest Irish writers of all time. An Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army, Behan was born in Dublin into a staunchly republican family becoming a member of the IRA's youth organization Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. There was also a strong emphasis on Irish history and culture in his home, which meant he was steeped in literature and patriotic ballads from an early age. At age 16, Behan joined the IRA, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and imprisonment in Ireland. During this time, he took it upon himself to study and he became a fluent speaker of the Irish language. Subsequently released from prison as pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucilita Bhreatnach
Lucilita Bhreatnach is an Irish republican politician and member of Sinn Féin. Political career Growing up in Dublin, Bhreatnach joined Sinn Féin at the age of sixteen. She was chair and secretary of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann local group ''Dúchas''. As a teenager she co-organised Irish language youth groups ''Ógras'' where she grew up and taught Irish and was a member of Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League) the Women's Section of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. She was subsequently active in the Anti H-Block campaign, becoming the Chair of the National Stop the Strip-Searching Campaign. She is the daughter of the journalist, the late Deasún Breatnach and Lucy Bhreatnach member of Amnesty International and Irish Council of Civil Liberties. She worked for the Sinn Féin newspaper An Phoblacht in 1982, then on the International Department in the party's Foreign Affairs Bureau. In a part-time job she co organised a Unio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackrock Town Hall, Library And Technical Institute
Blackrock Town Hall, Library and Technical Institute ( ga, Halla an Bhaile, Leabharlann agus Institiúid Theicniúil An Charraig Dhubh), is a municipal complex in Main Road, Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland. The complex consists of a series of buildings formerly known individually as Blackrock Town Hall, Blackrock Library and Blackrock Technical Institute, but now accommodates the Blackrock Further Education Institute as well as an enlarged public library. History After significant population growth, largely associated with its development as a residential suburb of Dublin, the township of Blackrock appointed town commissioners in 1863. The town commissioners decided to erect a town hall at an early stage: the site they selected was on the north side of Main Street. The building was designed in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £3,500 and was completed in 1865. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto Main Street. The central ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
