by Paul Gorry | Dec 8, 2021 | 1916, Easter Rising, Family History, Genealogy, Kildare, Merrion Press, Rootsireland.ie, Seven Signatories, War of Independence |
The signing, a century ago this week, of the Anglo-Irish Treaty echoed the signing of another document five years earlier. The Proclamation of the Irish Republic was signed by seven men in Easter Week 1916. It was, in a sense, an ancestor of the Anglo-Irish Treaty....
by Paul Gorry | Dec 6, 2016 | 1916, Books, Easter Rising, Family History, Genealogy, Merrion Press, Rootsireland.ie, Seven Signatories |
I’m feeling quite happy today because my new book Seven Signatories: Tracing the Family Histories of the Men Who Signed the Proclamation is hot off the press. It concerns the ancestry of the leaders of the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916. Originally it was an...
