Monthly Archives: March 2022

IRISH REPUBLICANISM : EBBS AND FLOWS.

Posted on March 30, 2022 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (30TH MARCH) 142 YEARS AGO : IRA ‘GAMEKEEPER-TURNED-FREE STATE POACHER’ BORN. Seán Hales (pictured),a brigadier in the Free State Army and a Cumann na nGaedhal member of the Leinster House administration, was shot in Dublin on December … Continue reading →

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GETTIN’ IT TOGETHER FOR YA…

Posted on March 27, 2022 by 11sixtynine

WORKING OUR WAY TO YA FOR WEDNESDAY, 30TH MARCH 2022… These two brothers fought on the same side to ‘break the connection with England’ then fought against each other, politically, in Leinster House…// From the early 19th Century – the … Continue reading →

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“A PROSPERIOUS IRELAND WOULD ENDANGER BRITISH COMMERCE”.

Posted on March 23, 2022 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (23RD MARCH) 176 YEARS AGO : BRITISH HOUSE OF ‘LORDS’ MEMBER ACKNOWLEDGES THEIR ‘DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT IN IRELAND’. On the 23rd March, 1846 – 176 years ago on this date – a member of the British House of … Continue reading →

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DEATH OF A “LIFELONG IRISH SUBVERSIVE”.

Posted on March 16, 2022 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (16TH MARCH) 115 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF A “LIFELONG IRISH SUBVERSIVE”. ‘John O’Leary was a lifelong subversive, whose participation in extra-parliamentary attempts to achieve Irish statehood date back at least to 1848 when, at the age … Continue reading →

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RIC “RAN OUT OF AMMUNITION” OR ‘RAN FOR THE HILLS’?

Posted on March 9, 2022 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (9TH MARCH) 68 YEARS AGO : IRISH REPUBLICAN ICON BORN. Bobby Sands (pictured, left) – born on this date (9th March) 68 years ago (1954). Bobby Sands was born on the 9th March 1954 – 68 years … Continue reading →

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THE DOMINATION OF THE INVADER.

Posted on March 2, 2022 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (2ND MARCH) 108 YEARS AGO : PEARSE IN NEW YORK DELIVERS EMMET COMMEMORATION SPEECH. On the 2nd March 1914 – 108 years ago on this date – Patrick Henry Pearse, 37 years of age, delivered the following … Continue reading →

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