Harold Saunders Blackham (Irish: Aodh Sandrach de Blácam; 16 December 1891–16 January 1951) was an English-born Irish author journalist, and editor. He...
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as Cumann na mBan's president. She served as President of the St Vincent de Paul Society (1937–1975), and also the Political Prisoners Committee until...
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Non-Intervention Committee in February 1937. In late 1936 de Valera's publicist Aodh de Blácam wrote "For God and Spain; the Truth about the Spanish War"...
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wife of John Redmond Thomas Bennett Charles Bewley Joseph Biggar MP Aodh de Blácam (né Harold Blackham) Roger Casement Lillie Connolly, widow of James...
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1991), p. 13. Aodh de Blácam, 'The Best Novels for Everyman', The Irish Monthly Vol. 67, No. 787 (Jan. 1939), p. 62. Aodh de Blácam, 'The Valley near...
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to the state's Catholic-inflected nationalism. Aodh de Blácam, a close Fianna Fáil partisan of Éamon de Valera, insisted that Tone's "attachment to his...
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rest of his life. MacBride first studied at the Jesuit Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, and remained in Paris until his father's execution by the British...
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thinkers in various countries, like Heinz Guderian in Germany and Charles de Gaulle in France, who realised that technology and motorisation were changing...
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Poblachta Leader Seán MacBride Elected representatives Non-elected members Aodh de Blácam Paudge Brennan W.J. Brennan-Whitmore Ruairí Brugha Conor Byrne Seán...
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young urban voters and republicans. Many had become alienated from Éamon de Valera's Fianna Fáil, the main republican party in Ireland, which in the view...
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held against her). She would not receive her pension until 1938, after Eamon De Valera and Fianna Fáil came to power and forced the state to be more amicable...
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millennial hymn was translated into English by Irish author and journalist Aodh de Blácam. It was declared the official hymn of the holy year of 1950. In a show...
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Poblachta Leader Seán MacBride Elected representatives Non-elected members Aodh de Blácam Paudge Brennan W.J. Brennan-Whitmore Ruairí Brugha Conor Byrne Seán...
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people, their treasures and their history. by Aodh de Blacam ("Roddy the Rover") with a foreword by Eamon de Valera. Dublin, M. H. Gill and son, ltd, 1938...
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Poblachta Leader Seán MacBride Elected representatives Non-elected members Aodh de Blácam Paudge Brennan W.J. Brennan-Whitmore Ruairí Brugha Conor Byrne Seán...
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Poblachta Leader Seán MacBride Elected representatives Non-elected members Aodh de Blácam Paudge Brennan W.J. Brennan-Whitmore Ruairí Brugha Conor Byrne Seán...
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South Australian magazine from 1841 to 1842. In 1932 Blackham's cousin Aodh de Blácam published a collection of his poems called Bard of Clanrye (Talbot press...
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Poblachta Leader Seán MacBride Elected representatives Non-elected members Aodh de Blácam Paudge Brennan W.J. Brennan-Whitmore Ruairí Brugha Conor Byrne Seán...
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Robert J. Blackham (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France))
(1817–1900) titled The Bard of Clanrye which was published by Robert's nephew Aodh de Blácam. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 he wrote a first-aid...
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government the new party would introduce financial reforms and break the de facto parity between Irish pound and the Sterling. In the 1960s he joined...
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control over Irish society. Some names associated with the group included John de Courcy Ireland, RN Tweedy and Frank Edwards. The Vanguard's blazen communistic...
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During the Easter Rising of 1916 he was the commander of C Company of Éamon de Valera's command in Boland's Mill. He was Vice-Commandant of the 3rd Battalion...
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Poblachta Leader Seán MacBride Elected representatives Non-elected members Aodh de Blácam Paudge Brennan W.J. Brennan-Whitmore Ruairí Brugha Conor Byrne Seán...
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Poblachta Leader Seán MacBride Elected representatives Non-elected members Aodh de Blácam Paudge Brennan W.J. Brennan-Whitmore Ruairí Brugha Conor Byrne Seán...
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Roddy Connolly 12.3 3,767 3,802 3,912 4,818 6,879 Clann na Poblachta Aodh De Blacam 4.4 1,348 1,356 1,886 Clann na Poblachta George Owens 2.7 814 818...
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Kevin Barry in 1970 Alice Curtayne on "The Art of the Microphone" 1936 Aodh De Blácam 1935 Frank Duff 1956-57 Gabriel Fallon on the Abbey, 1937 Desmond Fennell...
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During her spare time she would offer work at her father's office as his de facto secretary and thus was familiar with the ins and outs of his job. Tragedy...
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whole cabinet for the situation and said that "The Republic of which Mr. de Valera was President is dead." Disillusioned, he quit politics for the next...
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minister despite opposition, and was widely read in Ulster and beyond. Aodh de Blácam referenced the book as evidence that there was little difference between...
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Poblachta Leader Seán MacBride Elected representatives Non-elected members Aodh de Blácam Paudge Brennan W.J. Brennan-Whitmore Ruairí Brugha Conor Byrne Seán...
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