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MacNeill’s bid to call off Rising fetches €30k at auction
MacNeill’s bid to call off Rising fetches €30k at auction

Almost like the event itself, it nearly didn’t happen, but a private collector has paid €30,000 for a letter in which Irish Volunteers commander Eoin MacNeill tried to call off the 1916 Rising.

Wed, 16 Apr, 2014

MacNeill’s last-minute bid to call off Easter Rising to go under the hammer

A short letter whose 11 words helped change the course of Irish history is to be sold almost 98 years after it severely curtailed the Easter Rising.

Wed, 02 Apr, 2014

A snapshot from history
A snapshot from history

Dave Kenny was amazed to discover a very rare photograph of Michael Collins in his own attic

Wed, 22 Aug, 2012

Bloody Sunday football set to fetch €12,000

A FOOTBALL thought to be from the ‘Bloody Sunday’ Croke Park game between Tipperary and Dublin in 1920 is just one of the items set to make thousands of euro at Mealy’s and Adam’s auctioneers Independence Sale.

Fri, 24 Apr, 2009

Mental health ‘must get equal status to physical well-being’

THE National Health Strategy needs to be reviewed to give the promotion of mental health equal status to that of physical health, Mental Health Ireland said yesterday.

Mon, 11 Oct, 2004

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