TY History Fact Corner
Compiled by:
- Alex Whelan
- Brandon Campbell
- Matthew Wade
- Bartosz Chodorowski
- Peter Kelly
- Harley Prendergast
Did you know?
- The ‘CBS’ in our school name stands for ‘Christian Brother’s School.’ The Christian Brothers were established by Edmund Rice in the early 19th century to provide education for Catholic boys who had been denied an education by the Penal Laws.
- There is evidence of our imperial past all around us. The Richmond Hospital was built by the British. It’s unusual architecture comes from the fact that the building was originally designed to be built in India which, like Ireland, was a British Colony.
- The street on which our school is located is named after the Duke of Brunswick, who was a member of the British Royal family. Brunswick is a place in Germany.
- What used to be South Brunswick street is now called Pearse Street. It was renamed in honour of the executed 1916 leader.
- Stoneybatter began as ‘Oxmantown’, which means the ‘place of the Vikings.’ The word literally translates as the ‘stoney road.’
- 1922 was a really important year in Irish History because, in 1922, Ireland became the Irish Free State after the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed. The treaty caused a civil war between those who supported it and those who didn’t. People that were pro-treaty won the war.
- There is a street near Arbour Hill called ‘Sitric Road’. Sitric was a Hiberno-Scandinavian Viking leader who ruled Dublin and then Viking Northumbria in the early 10th century. He reigned over Dublin for 6 years from 921 to 927. His reign ended as Sitric died in 927.
- The Niemba ambush took place on 8 November 1960, when an Irish UN peacekeeping patrol in Congo-Léopoldville was ambushed. This was the first time the Irish Army was embroiled in battle since the 1922-23 Irish Civil War. 9 Irish soldiers were killed in this incident and they are commemorated in Arbour Hill Church and the UN Memorial garden.
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