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Henry Grattan led the Irish Patriots in their quest for full legislative independence from England.

The Irishman Napper Tandy is hardly remembered now, but was once considered so dangerous by the English that they risked a global war with France just to arrest him.

Oliver Plunkett fought hard to restore the Catholic Church after the Confederate War, but the enemies he made would later testify against him during the Popish Plot.

After the Irish rebellion of 1798, the British Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger assigned two of his best men to bring Ireland into union with Great Britain.

King Charles I grew up in a very religious home. His father, King James, had conservative ideas about the divine right of Kings. Charles I called it his "Personal Rule".

The first national legislation in the world to penalize cruelty to animals received Royal Assent July 22, 1822 in England.

Ireland's economic woes may be all the more intense because Ireland's young working people have known only prosperity. You can help them, and enjoy yourself as well.