Monthly Archives: April 2022

ON THIS DATE (27TH APRIL) 93 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF AN IRA MAN WHO DARED AND SUFFERED – AUSTIN STACK. Austin Stack (pictured) was born on the 7th December, 1879, in Ballymullen, Tralee, County Kerry and, at 29 years … Continue reading →

COMIN’ AT YA…! Republican Ireland had lost one of her best soldiers, but we hold him safe in Glasnevin Cemetery, in Dublin ; in late 1923, he bravely took part in his 5th hunger-strike in 6 years…// From 1954 – … Continue reading →

ON THIS DATE (20TH APRIL) 99 YEARS AGO – NEW IRA CHIEF-OF-STAFF ELECTED. UNFORTUNATELY. Frank Aiken (Francis Thomas Aiken, pictured) was born on the 13th February, 1898, at Carrickbracken, in Camlough, County Armagh, and was active in Irish republicanism from … Continue reading →

A ‘LICENSED’ EASTER AND A MIS-MATCHED COLLAGE. Two examples of political ignorance, as practised by those who apparently consider themselves to be ‘republicans’ but, judging by that with which they hope to cash-in with this Easter time, are actually ‘nationalist’-minded … Continue reading →

ON THIS DATE (6TH APRIL) 101 YEARS AGO : TWO VOLUNTEERS MURDERED BY ‘ROGUE’ RIC MEN. The RIC and the Black and Tans (pictured), representatives of ‘British justice’ in Ireland in the 1920’s who, incidentally, are still here, albeit with … Continue reading →