Monthly Archives: September 2014

HOW THE VOTE WAS LOST IN ‘NORTH BRITAIN’.

Posted on September 24, 2014 by 11sixtynine

PASSPORTS FOR INVESTMENT…. Jim Higgins, Fine Gael spokesman on Justice and former government Chief Whip, presented the clearest exposition so far of the passports for investment scheme in his speech to the Dáil (sic) on September 11, 1997. From ‘Magill’ … Continue reading →

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BRITISH ‘QUEEN’ PAID A KING’S RANSOM BY HARD-PRESSED TAXPAYERS!

Posted on September 17, 2014 by 11sixtynine

PASSPORTS FOR INVESTMENT. Jim Higgins, Fine Gael spokesman on Justice and former government Chief Whip, presented the clearest exposition so far of the passports for investment scheme in his speech to the Dáil (sic) on September 11, 1997. From ‘Magill’ … Continue reading →

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“IT SHOULD BE EMPHASISED THAT THE DESTRUCTION OF HOUSES, PUBLIC UTILITIES, TRANSPORT AND LIVES…..ARE ACCEPTED AND INTENDED AIMS OF OUR BOMBING POLICY…”

Posted on September 10, 2014 by 11sixtynine

By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963. The British struck back by the ‘economic war’, but the Fenian countryside saw this as an aspect of the anti-imperialists’ struggle and bore its burden – they saw Fianna Fáil safely … Continue reading →

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MY ‘ICE BUCKET’ CHALLENGE (AND PIC)!

Posted on September 3, 2014 by 11sixtynine

By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963. We saw the limitations in those others clearly enough, but we were even more aware of our own limitations, and we had not learned to trust to the dynamics of struggle … Continue reading →

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