Monthly Archives: January 2018

“THIS MURDER WAS OFFICIALLY DIRECTED BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT..”

ON THIS DATE (31ST JANUARY) 98 YEARS AGO : FIRST IRISH REPUBLICAN LORD MAYOR ELECTED. Tomás MacCurtain (pictured), was born on the 20th March 1884, and was murdered by British agents on the 20th March 1920, at 36 years of … Continue reading

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LONG KESH – HURLEY STICKS FOR SPORT, ONLY…

ON THIS DATE (24TH JANUARY) 156 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF A REBEL WHO FOUGHT FOR IRELAND AND GAVE SERVICE TO FRANCE. ‘Republished here is Some Notes of an Irish Exile of 1798: Being the Chapters from the Memoirs of … Continue reading

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1972 – IRA ESCAPE PLAN ‘SEALED’.

ON THIS DATE (17TH JANUARY) 46 YEARS AGO – P.O.W. SWIM (WITH A DIFFERENCE!). 46 years ago on this date (17th January 1972), seven IRA prisoners escaped from an ‘escape proof’ British prison ship, which was anchored in Irish waters … Continue reading

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A CALL FROM THE MARTYR’S GRAVE.

ON THIS DATE (10TH JANUARY) 37 YEARS AGO – SERIOUSLY ILL FEMALE REPUBLICAN POW “RELEASED ON LICENCE”. In October 1980, protesting POW’s in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh began a hunger strike for political status ; on the 1st December, … Continue reading

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“IN THE STREET SCUFFLE, A GUN SHOT WAS FIRED…”

ON THIS DATE (3RD JANUARY) 78 YEARS AGO : FREE STATE AGENTS TAKE PHYSICAL REVENGE ON SON OF REPUBLICAN LORD MAYOR. In Cork, in 1920, Irish republican Tomás MacCurtain was elected as ‘Lord Mayor’ of the city, just one of … Continue reading

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