Mary Ann McCracken – feminist, abolitionist, social reformer. “I hope the present era will produce some women of sufficient talent to inspire the rest with a genuine love of Liberty and a just sense of its value… for where it is understood ...
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On this day in 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labour, the maximum penalty for the conviction of “gross indecency” with other men. The Irish author, playwright and poet was persecuted for his homosexuality, which at the ...
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The Irish Land Question – James Connolly, Workers’ Republic, 1898. For very many years we have seen the London Parliament sending forth Land Act after Land Act, each and every one of them heralded by a declaration that it embodied ...
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