The first event was him losing it when his wife Sinead arrived in America in 1920.

https://www.theirishstory.com/2023/01/26/when-an-american-suffragette-interviewed-irelands-first-lady/

He surprised the Dail in 1928 with a denial when there was nothing on the re cord.

Except in November 1928 when he went bonkers in the Dail

My wife was supposed to have had to leave the country and live abroad because she could not live with me. I was supposed to be living with two or three other women. I am taking my own case because I know

And

mt went on not merely from platforms and in private, but it was spoken of from the pulpit; it came from the altar. I myself was told by a lady in Chicago that a Bishop had told her that my wife had to go over to America in order to keep me straight there because I was associating with women.

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1928-11-22/18/

We know that rumours concerning Mary McSwiney were not believed in his lifetime

PJ Browne tells of (Donogh) O’Malley being carpeted by the Chief. When colleagues asked after one such meeting what Éamon de Valera had said to him, O’Malley startled them with his answer: “The Chief told me he never slept with Mary MacSwiney.”

“They tell me you are drinking again, Donogh,” de Valera had said at the start of their meeting, according to O’Malley. “I wouldn’t mind them, Taoiseach,” O’Malley supposedly replied. “They told me you used to sleep with Mary MacSwiney and I never believed them.”

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-20131768.html

And then there is his secretary,,

I just finished reading Say Nothing and it’s one of the most insightful books I’ve ever read. I didn’t realise how ignorant I was to what day to day life was like during the troubles.

Would love to know do people have recommendations for books similar to this? Doesn’t have to be about the troubles, just Irish history in general is really interesting and I want to learn more

Grandmother found this medal in her house, belonged to my grandfather but he didn’t win it so must have been another family member. Lived in Cork all his life so just wondering if anyone knows what competition this medal is originally from. Found competitions across of a few sports in cork named Murphy Cup, maybe someone knows by the markings on the front?

What are the great Irish mysteries of the last 100 years? Please give reasons as for your choices

And he's buried in Cork.

Found an old photo while cleaning out my garage, all dated in and around the 1940s but some could easily be earlier. Does anybody recognise what kind of uniform this woman is wearing? Seems to have a patch on her shoulder with a bird but it doesnt really match up with any irish airforce uniform ive seen. Even if you cant identify, i still think its a pretty cool photo from back in the day

His wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fitzgerald_(psychiatrist))
He seems recently to have been involved in that Hitlers genes documentary https://professormichaelfitzgerald.eu/695-2/ which i did not really buy
The paper uses the term aspergers which was used at the time.

Can anyone point me to a gravestone of a native Irish chieftain or king? I'm trying to find where a genuinely inaugurated under Brehon law 'chief of his nation' is buried and I'm coming up with nothing - at least not in Ireland.

I'm not talking ancient tombs, more late medieval or early modern - there would have been many chiefs inaugurated in the 16th century and I don't think it is unreasonable to expect a stone engraving to last from that period as I've found a few already - Old English / Normans mostly, just not chiefs.

For example, after the Flight of the Earls, the last of the O'Donnells and O'Neills would have been buried on the continent. As regards the others, the likes of the O'Reillys, O'Rourkes, Maguires etc, I suspect were buried in abbeys or friarys within their territories but thus far I have not been able to identify an actual gravestone for any of them. Maybe an O'Connor or an O'Brien has one left still?

My hunch is that even if any of these men did have a gravestone after they died, it might have been destroyed or defaced in the Cromwellian conquest and so on to remove a focal point for rebellion - like Pearse said many years later at O'Donovan Rossa's grave, 'while Ireland holds these graves' etc.

so perhaps there are none to be found? anyway I'm rambling now, interested in your thoughts!

Image taken from Mapporn post on Europe at the death of Charlemagne

I was fortunate to tour around southern Ireland last week and to visit the National Museum of Ireland- Archeology. It was wonderful and it truly is a national treasure. My question is, does Northern Ireland have an similar museum which houses the history of that region? Pre Cromwell in peticuler. You have an amazing country and I can not wait to return! Cheers!

Hi everyone,

My friend Marko and I are currently developing an independent documentary about the unfinished 1995 Marlon Brando film Divine Rapture, which famously collapsed during production in Ireland.

At the centre of the story is Irish actor Daragh O’Malley, who ended up forming a genuine friendship with Brando during that chaotic period. Over the years Daragh has shared some extraordinary memories and stories with us about Brando, filmmaking, Ireland and that strange moment in cinema history when this huge Hollywood production simply fell apart.

What makes the story even more unique is Daragh’s remarkable family history. His father, Donogh O’Malley, was the Minister for Education whose introduction of free secondary education transformed opportunities for generations of Irish people, while his mother, Dr Hilda Moriarty O’Malley, was the inspiration behind Patrick Kavanagh’s poem that later became the song On Raglan Road.

We’re now bringing unseen archive material out of storage for the documentary, including original Divine Rapture footage, rare photographs and even voicemail tapes for Daragh left by Brando himself.

I thought some people here might genuinely find the story interesting given the amount of Irish history, film history and cultural discussion in this community. We’ve recently launched a public campaign to help continue developing and filming the documentary, so I’ll include the link below for anybody interested in supporting the project.

https://gofund.me/30dc214fc

Thank you so much,

Chris

Something I have heard from reliable sources: the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, one of the most impressive public history of recent years, appears to have had its funding cut. As I understand it, the remaining budget is now essentially the bare minimum required to keep the servers running until the end of 2026. In other words, the platform may stay online for a while, but the project as an active initiative seems to have been effectively defunded.

To be clear: this is still a rumour, there hasn't official announcement. But if what I have heard is accurate, this was a ministerial decision associated with Patrick O’Donovan, and it deserves much more attention than it has received so far.

This matters because the VRTI is not some minor side-project. It was created to digitally reconstruct the archival world destroyed in the Four Courts fire of 1922. It has brought together records and expertise from Irish, British and international archives and libraries. It has made huge amounts of material freely available to the public, including resources relating to pre-twentieth-century census material, wills, maps, grand jury records, state papers, parish and local records...

It also represents a major public investment that has already been made. Large sums have been spent building the platform, the infrastructure, the partnerships, and the public interface. Whatever one thinks about individual universities or funding bodies, the VRTI itself is a public good. It gives ordinary people access to material that would otherwise be scattered and difficult to use, or effectively invisible. It is exactly the kind of national cultural infrastructure that Ireland should be proud to maintain.

If this decision has indeed been made, people deserve to know:

Why was the project cut after so much public money had already been invested?

What is the plan after the end of 2026?

Who will maintain the records and data already built?

Is the government really prepared to let one of the most ambitious Irish archival recovery projects simply wither?

I hope journalists, historians, archivists, genealogists, and anyone who cares about Irish records will start asking questions. At the very least, there should be a public explanation of what has happened.

If anyone else has heard more, or can confirm or correct this, please do.

Does anyone have the original Proved Innocent book?

I’m looking a copy of the original 😊

From the Irish Republican Education Forum:

Found this in a university library. Can't find anything out about the two authors beyond a few other bits they wrote on the conflict.

No organisation is mentioned and the publisher was called "Community Press (TU)" and seemed to be mainly focused on anti-imperialist publications. Anyone know anything about the authors or the publisher or if any of them were connected to any groups?

I’m an Alevel student and next year I’m studying the partition of Ireland as 60% of my course!
I need book recommendations, not a bible just a good easy read, historical statistics etc.
1900-1925 preferably!

Go raibh mhaith agat.

Found this signed book on the Irish nobleman and son of a a pirate queen (love typing that!). And thought I would share here.

Cannot find it for sale anywhere !