Here's the "Erin go Bragh" meaning and where the common St. Patrick's Day saying came from. Hint: It's rooted in rebellion.

He named the area Vinegar Hill after the last battle of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, hoping to lure recently arrived Irish shipwrights who lived across the East River in Manhattan. A few Irish bought ...

From standing at Belfast harbour aged 88 handing out abolitionist leaflets to Irish emigrants ... who was executed in 1798 for his part in the United-Irishmen led Rebellion, and Mary Ann walked ...

He was born in the north of Ireland in 1798, emigrated to this country in ... He was heartily loyal during the present rebellion, and rejected with scorn an offer in writing from JEFF.

A former director of the Glucksman library in University of Limerick, Professor John Lancaster, writes of George Cunningham's ...