Monthly Archives: December 2021

“HIS BODY BORE THE MARK OF THREE SEVERE BAYONET TRUSTS…”

Posted on December 22, 2021 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (22ND DECEMBER) 139 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF AN UNREPENTANT IRISH REBEL. Joe Clarke (pictured [Seosamh Ó Clérigh]) was born in Rush, County Dublin, on the 22nd December 1882 – 139 years ago on this date – … Continue reading →

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BODY OF FREE STATE ARMY ‘MP’ KILLED BY FREE STATE CAPTAIN FOUND.

Posted on December 15, 2021 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (15TH DECEMBER) 101 YEARS AGO : ‘INSANE’ ADRIC MEMBER SHOOTS TWO PEOPLE DEAD. An elderly priest in Dunmanway, in Cork – 73-year-old Canon Magner, had no time for the British and was a vocal and well-known Irish … Continue reading →

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THE ‘SIC’ ; FREE STATE BANDITS, IN NAME AND NATURE.

Posted on December 8, 2021 by 11sixtynine

FREE STATE EXECUTIONS OF 8TH DECEMBER 1922 REMEMBERED. The 8th December 2021 is the 99th anniversary of the executions, by the Leinster House political administration, of four imprisoned Irish republican soldiers – Richard Barrett (Ballineen, County Cork), Rory O’Connor (Monkstown, … Continue reading →

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THE REVOLUTIONARY ‘IRISH DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION’.

Posted on December 1, 2021 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (1ST DECEMBER) 147 YEARS AGO : ICA CHIEF-OF-STAFF BORN IN DUBLIN. ‘Commandant Michael Mallin, Chief of Staff of the Irish Citizen Army, was one of the executed. He was court-martialled on the 5th of May 1916, found … Continue reading →

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