Easter Monday, April 24, 1916 On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a group of Irish nationalists proclaimed the establishment of the Irish Republic and, along with some 1,600 followers, staged a rebellion against the British government in Ireland. They didn’t have much of a chance of pulling it off…
Four years previous to the Easter Rising (I will be writing about this in an upcoming post) many of the people in Ulster signed the Ulster Covenant and the Ulster Declaration. The men signed the Ulster Covenant and the women placed their signatures under a more simply worded Ulster Declaration. Signatures basically…
About St. Patrick Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), the most commonly recognized of the patron saints of Ireland, and is celebrated on 17th of March. It is celebrated by both Catholics and…
Looming impressively on either side of a bridge that serves as a rail overpass which leads to Crab Park on Vancouver’s waterfront next to the Port of Vancouver, sit 2 granite Chinese lions, engineered with special lighting from below to highlight their after-dark appearance.These lions were a gift from the…
