Monthly Archives: March 2008

A FEW WORDS AND A FEW PHOTOGRAPHS : HEALTH PROTEST MARCH / RSF BALLAD SESSION , DUBLIN , MARCH 29 , 2008. Some of the RSF members and supporters who took part in the ‘Health Protest March’ . Despite heavy … Continue reading →

RSF PLACARD FOR SATURDAY MARCH 29 , 2008 . HEALTH PROTEST MARCH / RSF BALLAD SESSION. ‘ORGANISERS of a rally for better healthcare being held in Dublin this weekend will be disappointed if at least 70,000 people do not turn … Continue reading →

Ernie O’Malley, pictured during his arrest in Dublin Castle in 1921 . He was using the alias ‘Bernard Stewart’ . ERNIE O’MALLEY : SOLDIER OF OGLAIGH na hEIREANN ……. Following the recent publication of O’Malley’s third book ‘Raids And Rallies’, … Continue reading →

IRISH REPUBLICANISM AND FOLKLORE : EASTER MONDAY , MARCH 24 , 2008 , AT THE GPO IN DUBLIN . Before the Republican Sinn Fein Easter Monday Commemoration at the GPO in Dublin got underway today , RSF members present , … Continue reading →

The card on the RSF Wreath which was laid at the Republican Plot at Arbor Hill Cemetery in Dublin today , Easter Sunday , March 23 , 2008 . Before travelling to Deansgrange Cemetery for the republican commemoration, a few … Continue reading →

“RIC Head Constable Peter Burke and his brother, Sgt Michael Burke are attacked by the IRA in public house (Mrs Smith’s three miles outside Balbriggan, Co. Dublin) . In retaliation, the Auxiliaries carry out reprisals in Balbriggan killing two suspected … Continue reading →

EASTER COMMEMORATIONS , DUBLIN , 2008. ” The people were tired of the RIC and their overbearing , strutting tyranny . The ‘Law’ and the ‘Force’ . Yes , and the Crowbar and the Battering Ram . The Torch and … Continue reading →

ERNIE O’MALLEY : SOLDIER OF OGLAIGH na hEIREANN ……. Following the recent publication of O’Malley’s third book ‘Raids And Rallies’, on the Tan War years 1920-1921 , Frances-Mary Blake , who edited the book and his earlier works , writes … Continue reading →

A ‘NEW’ VOICE REHASHES AN OLD STORY… Tony Blair’s one-time sidekick , Jonathan Powell, is apparently claiming that Westminster practically ‘wrote the script’ for the so-called ‘peace process’ regarding the Six Occupied Counties in the north-east of this isle. Nothing … Continue reading →

“Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? That is Heaven’s part, our part To murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come On … Continue reading →