One poem in the American Irish Historical Society's collections shows how the failed 1916 Easter Rising began to be ...

Alert to the energies of small words and large dogs, this wry tale by the republican revolutionary is free from ‘Irish shams’ The Night Hunt In the morning, in the dark, When the stars began to blunt, ...

Just over a year after political activist and revolutionary leader Thomas MacDonagh was executed by the British for his role in the Easter Rising, his wife, Muriel MacDonagh, tragically died, leaving ...

Thomas MacDonagh was born 1 February 1878 in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, to parents who were both National School teachers. MacDonagh was educated at Rockwell College, Cashel, where he would later ...

Long before the McDonagh brothers Martin and John, of recent film and theatrical fame, there were the MacDonaghs John and Thomas, who dabbled in a similar line of work. Thomas MacDonagh is now and ...

Thomas MacDonagh was an Irish writer and patriot who was executed by the British after the failed 1916 rebellion in Dublin. He was born in County Tipperary in 1876, became a schoolteacher, and ...

A commemorative plaque is to be considered for South Strand Skerries for Muriel MacDonagh, who died in 1917, wife of leading Irish Republican Thomas MacDonagh. Former Mayor of Fingal, Cllr Seana ...

The biscuit making firm of W. & R. Jacob's were one the largest employers in the Dublin of 1916, and their factory was seized on Easter Monday by perhaps 100 members of the 2nd Battalion of the Dublin ...

A chara, – Well done to Frank McNally (An Irishman’s Diary, February 10th) in describing my grand-uncles, Thomas and John MacDonagh, cultural forerunners of current filmmakers Martin and John McDonagh ...

To start off our 2026 series of Arts and Culture events in the Thomas MacDonagh Museum, we are delighted to welcome ...