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1365 – Lionel returns to England, leaving Ormond as his deputy. 1671 – An English Navigation Act prohibits direct importation of sugar, tobacco and other produce from the colonies to Ireland; act expires in 1681 but is renewed in 1685 and extended in 1696. 1717 – John Marshall, a successful attorney and father of Robert Marshall, a future MP for Clonmel and an executor of Hester Vanhomrigh…

CSX 1989 Santa Train Dungannon, VA

Sodalite cabochon Sodalite is a deep colored crystal named  for its sodium content. Often confused with lapis lazuli because of its blue intense, rich color, earliest known stories demonstrate that it was used by ancient Bolivian and Peruvian traders as early as 2,500 B.C. Despite being discovered by Europeans in 1811 at the Ilimaussaq in Greenland, sodalite only became popular in 1891 when it…

The Irish Uprising of 1641 was a long-term result of the “plantation” policy of Tudor and Stuart monarchs under which Ireland was aggressively colonised by Protestant settlers from England and Scotland. From the mid-16th century, Irish landowners were dispossessed to make way for the settlers and a vicious cycle developed whereby rebellion against the English government was followed by further…