24 August 2017: Dublin launch of new edition of Seán Ó Lúing’s Thomas Ashe biography, National Library of Ireland, Dublin 2

On Thursday 24 August 2017 Mercier Press and the National Library of Ireland hosted the Dublin launch of a new edition of Sean Ó Lúing’s I die in a good cause: Thomas Ashe: A biography. A teacher by profession, Ashe was a prominent activist in most of the major nationalist organisations of the pre-independence period, including…

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4 August 2017: History Ireland ‘Hedge School’: ‘Thomas Ashe: martyr, musician, sportsman and Gaeilgeóir’, Lispole, Co. Kerry

On Friday 4 August 2017 a History Ireland ‘Hedge School’ debate took place in Lispole, Co. Kerry, entitled ‘Thomas Ashe: martyr, musician, sportsman and Gaeilgeóir’. A teacher by profession, Ashe was a prominent activist in most of the major nationalist organisations of the pre-independence period, including the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican…

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