đ´ Making plans for the weekend? đ
We'd be delighted to welcome you to Cloughjordan tomorrow and Sunday afternoon, where you can also pick up a copy of the newly published biography of Joseph MacDonagh.
#tipperary #Cloughjordan #TourismIreland #IrishHistory #1916 #VisitTipperary
THOMAS MACDONAGH WAS EXECUTED 110 years ago today. Of this Tipperary man, it was said that "they all died well, but MacDonagh died like a prince," and this was likely due to the grace with which he possessed in the moments before he would die and his name would be etched so prominently into the historical record of Ireland. #EasterRising #irishheritage #irishhistory #thomasmacdonagh #cloughjordan #tipperary #irishrevolutionaries #museumlife
On this day, 110 years ago, the Easter Rising ended, and Thomas MacDonagh found himself reluctantly surrendering the Jacob's garrison of the Volunteers to the British army, who had, by the Rising's end, stationed an imposing 20,000 troops in Dublin city in order to put down the rebellion. #EasterRising #irishheritage #irishhistory #thomasmacdonagh #cloughjordan #tipperary #irishrevolutionaries #museumlife
Thomas MacDonagh, joined by his younger brother John, would, on this day 110 years ago, lead the men of the 2nd Battalion of the Irish Volunteers who had answered his call to arms, alongside members of Cumann na mBan and Na Fianna Ăireann, as well as Major John McBride, from St. Stephenâs Green to Jacobâs Biscuit Factory, the fortress like building which offered MacDonagh and his men a panoramic view of Dublin city throughout what would become the Easter Rising of 1916. #EasterRising #irishheritage #irishhistory #thomasmacdonagh #cloughjordan #tipperary #irishrevolutionaries #museumlife
The familial impact of the tragedy which the Irish revolutionary period wrought on the MacDonagh family can be summarised briefly by what is contained within the 1926 census return for Donagh and Barbara MacDonagh, Thomas and Muriel's children. Living as boarders in the home of a teacher named Esther Dowling, the full tragedy of the execution of Thomas in 1916, and Murielâs 1917 death was borne out in a simple but lamentable statement which read âboth parents deadâ in regards to Donagh and Barbaraâs status in the new state.
#1926Census #thomasmacdonagh #museumlife #cloughjordan #IrishHeritage #tipperary #irishhistory
THE QUALITY OF MACDONAGH as a representative of the burgeoning Irish Republic was perfectly exemplified 110 years ago, in his role as the intermediary between his academic colleague at UCD, Eoin MacNeill, the Chief of Staff of the Volunteers at the time, and the military council of the IRB (onto which he had only just been co-opted in early April, 1916) who were seeking MacNeillâs support for what they planned to be a military strike against the British during Easter Week. #EasterRising #irishheritage #irishhistory #thomasmacdonagh #cloughjordan #tipperary #irishrevolutionaries #museumlife
WHILE A COMMANDANT IN THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS, and a key player in the military planning of the 1916 strike for Irish freedom, MacDonagh was active throughout April 1916 in both the recruitment and galvanising of the Irish Volunteers.
https://nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CSO-JD-2-244.pdf. #EasterRising #irishheritage #irishhistory #thomasmacdonagh #cloughjordan #tipperary #irishrevolutionaries
IN EARLY APRIL, 1916, THOMAS MACDONAGH became the seventh and final member of the military council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, who were then finalising plans for the insurgency which would become known as The Easter Rising.
#EasterRising #thomasmacdonagh #irishhistory #irishheritage #museumlife
ON THIS DAY IN 1878, Thomas MacDonagh, famed poet and revolutionary, was born to Joseph MacDonagh and Mary Parker, at their home in Cloughjordan, county Tipperary. #irishheritage #irishpoet #irishhistory #thomasmacdonagh #cloughjordan #tipperary #irishrevolutionaries
Join contemporary composer Dr. Alastair White @airfromnewplanets as he begins the ambitious task of adapting James Joyceâs Finnegans Wake for the musical stage.
This week-long open residency, curated by the writer Gemma A. Williams @gemmacurates , invites audiences to see opera in the making and witness how literature, theatre, fashion and music can intersect and redesign one another.
The open studio offers an opportunity to engage directly with this creative process and experience opera not as a finished product â but as a living, evolving form.
This inaugural event will lead to a series of works over the next decade and more: culminating in a festival 100 years after the bookâs publication in 1939.
đ Mon. November 17th, â° launch 1pm, ticketed, Open Studio: â° 10am-4pm daily until 23rd, Talk: Fri. Nov. 21st, â° 7pm
đThomas MacDonagh Museum, Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary
đś Free
DCCI Irish Design Week programme is now live in the link in bio.
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#IrishDesignWeek2025 #IDW2025 #FinnegansWake
A huge thanks is due to the wonderful volunteers who gave their time and energy to ensure the success of the #ThomasMacDonaghHedgeSchool - all of these people worked quietly in the background and deserve a special mentionâŚ
Greg Whelan, Brenda Ainsworth, Denis Powell (sound engineer), Rose Kearney, BrĂd nĂ Chumhaill, Lily Hodgins, Sheila McCarthy, Sarah Clerihan, Mac Sizeland and Darragh Johnson
