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A banshee (/ ˈ b æ n ʃ iː / BAN-shee; Modern Irish bean sí, from Old Irish: ben síde [bʲen ˈʃiːðʲe], "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman") is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, [1] usually by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening.
At a rural Northern Irish fairground, a Provisional IRA volunteer named Fergus and a unit of other IRA members, led by Peter Maguire, kidnap a Black British soldier named Jody after a female member of their unit, Jude, lures Jody to a secluded area by promising sex. The unit intends to hold Jody until an imprisoned IRA member is released, and ...
Karen Buckley was born in 1991 and grew up on a farm in Mourneabbey, Cork, Republic of Ireland with parents John and Marian Buckley and her three older brothers. Karen had a normal upbringing as a teenager, she attended St. Mary's Secondary School in Mallow, County Cork and played Gaelic football for Mourneabbey. [5]
An Irish soldier from Londonderry has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for raping a fellow member of the Irish Defence Forces in a Dublin hotel. Kielan Mooney, 30, of Bloomfield Park, Derry ...
A riot occurred in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, on August 4, 1862.It involved a group of White Americans, largely consisting of Irish Americans, targeting a group of about 20 African American workers at a tobacco factory on Sedgwick Street.
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Her death gave rise to widespread public grief, as well as outrage over violence against women, and tens of thousands of people attended vigils in her memory. The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, and other Irish government ministers attended her funeral in Mountbolus, County Offaly, on 18 January.