Hearing my paternal great-grandfather was part of the Irish Republican Brotherhood before leaving for America in the 1920s? I latched onto the adventure of that, conceiving of him as a heroic ...

He was a prominent nationalist and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood for whom he went to the United States in 1896. He then went to South Africa where he fought against the British in the ...

Patrick Rankin was born in Newry in 1889. A painter by trade, he became a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in 1907 "after two years on the waiting list." We all slept the sleep of ...