Monthly Archives: May 2016

‘INKGATE’, PART TWO…

PROSE AND CONS. By prisoners from E1 Landing, Portlaoise Prison, 1999. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS : Grateful thanks to the following for their help, support, assistance and encouragement, and all those who helped with the typing and word processing over the past few … Continue reading

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“LADY, YOU’LL BE LUCKY IF YOU GET YOUR LIFE…”

…THE LADY WAS JUST LOOKING FOR HER COAT! Dublin’s tiger heard in Portlaoise…an 11-day ‘gap’ in a chain of custody…’transformers’ in Long Kesh… “the right (to obtain the republican objective) is inalienable and non-judicable and must never be put in … Continue reading

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WATER PRINCES AND A LACK OF CONVICTIONS.

CABHAIR ANNUAL TESTIMONIAL DINNER AND REPUBLICAN REUNION 2016. Going back to at least the early 1970’s, the Republican Movement, and supportive and affiliated organisations, have come together each year to choose a handful of individuals who are deemed suitable emissaries … Continue reading

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NOT HAVING THE BALLS FOR A GAME OF BILLIARDS.

NOT HAVING THE BALLS FOR A GAME OF BILLIARDS. Cabhair to celebrate the lives of these six Irish republicans…pocket billiards in the presence of their ‘majesty’…those who ‘honour’ a struggle against injustice and in the same breath insist that you … Continue reading

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‘SIXTEEN DEAD MEN’ BY W.B. YEATS – 1916 LEADERS EXECUTED BY THE BRITISH.

SIXTEEN DEAD MEN. O but we talked at large before The sixteen men were shot, But who can talk of give and take, What should be and what not While those dead men are loitering there To stir the boiling … Continue reading

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BRITISH GOVERNMENT MEMO RE IRA PRISONERS…

BRITISH GOVERNMENT MEMO RE IRA PRISONERS… ..marked ‘Confidential’ and released, internally, in the late 1970’s, this memo confirms that a television camera crew can have permission to film inside Long Kesh prison to record the ‘Dirty Protest’ and to interview … Continue reading

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