Brendan Behan, considered by many as the "enfant terrible" of 20th century Irish literature, was born 103 years ago #OnThisDay

https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/brendan-behan-author-1923-1964

#IrishHistory #IrishWriters #Literature #IrishBiography #GlobalIrishNation #Mastodaoine

Seán MacBride, one of the most influential Irish figures of the 20th century was born 122 years ago #OnThisDay.

Learn more about this winner of the #NobelPeacePrize and founding member of #AmnestyInternational at the link below ⬇️

https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/otd-sean-macbride-1904-1988

#IrishHistory #IrishBiography #GlobalIrishNation #Mastodaoine

Irish actor Peggy Cummins died #OnThisDay 8 years ago at the age of 92

#Mastodaoine #OTD #IrishBiography

https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/otd-peggy-cummins---actor-1925---2017

Julia O'Faolain is part of a cohort of great 20th century Irish women #writers. She carved out her own distinct space separate from her father Seán. She passed away five years ago #OnThisDay

#HerStory #IrishBiography #IrishHistory #Author #IrishArts #IrishCulture #Mastodaoine

https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/julia-ofaolain-jun-6-1932-oct-27-2020

Muriel MacSwiney died 43 years ago #OnThisDay

One of #Ireland's great revolutionary women who paid a ferocious price for her beliefs

#GlobalIrishNation #IrishHistory #IrishBiography #HerStory #OthisDate #OTD #MastoDaoine

https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/otd-muriel-macswiney-jun-8-1892-oct-26-1982

Irish #poet Patrick Kavanagh was born #Monaghan 121 years ago #OnThisDay.

Despite his modest origins and limited access to formal education, Kavanagh was broadly acclaimed.

Video below 👇 from my recent visit to his hometown of Inniskeen

#IrishBiography #IrishHistory #MastoDaoine #IrishWriters #Poetry

#Comedian Spike Milligan was born in India 107 years ago on this day to an #Irish father and British mother

In 1960 Milligan was denied a British passport for refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance and opted to take up Irish citizenship

#Mastodaoine #IrishBiography #IrishHistory

https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/spike-milligan-comedian-1918-2002

William Butler Yeats died 76 years ago #OnThisDay at the Hôtel Idéal-Séjour, Cap-Martin, in the south of France.

Here's a reading from co-host @mnutty of one of #Yeats' greatest poems: Sailing to Byzantium

#Mastodaoine #IrishBiography #IrishHistory

Sybil Connolly - Irish fashion pioneer, was born 104 years ago

#OnThisDay
#GlobalIrishNation #IrishHistory #IrishBiography #Fashion #IrishWomen #HerStory

https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/otd-sybil-connolly-1921-1998/

John Field, creator of the #Nocturne and one of Ireland’s greatest composers passed 188 years ago in Moscow #OnThisDay

#GlobalIrishNation #IrishHistory #IrishBiography #IrishMusic #ClassicalMusic

https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/otd-john-field-1782-1837