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Monthly Archives: March 2023
“I MISS THE SOFT CLASP OF YOUR HAND AND YOUR BREATH WARM ON MY CHEEK…”
The British forces had a list of 450 people to be rounded-up, but managed to grab only 342 of them, all from the nationalist community, only two of whom were republican activists. No loyalists were ‘arrested’. Over the next four days, 24 people were killed in rioting and gun battles across the Six Counties and about 7,000 people had to flee from their homes… Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Elliman, Brian Faulkner, Christy Keenan, Danny Mullan, Dr Kathleen Cecilia Moira Woods, Edmund Compton, Ewart Biggs, Peter Jay, Peter Rogers, Richard Sykes, Ronnie Burroughs, Seamus Storey, Terrence 'Cleaky' Clarke, Thomas Fox, Thomas Kane, Tom Maguire
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THIS MAN SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ‘HORSING AROUND…’!
ON WEDNESDAY, 22ND MARCH 2023, WE’LL BE…. …with a six-parter, including a piece on an explanation issued by the IRA over forty years ago as to why it had carried out a particular operation abroad in which a British “decorated … Continue reading
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TROUBLED BY ‘CHANGELINGS’ IN IRELAND.
ON THIS DATE (15TH MARCH) 171 YEARS AGO : IRELAND WITNESSES THE BIRTH OF ‘THE RISING OF THE MOON’. On the 9th March, 1907, a play entitled ‘The Rising of the Moon’, by Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory (‘Lady Gregory’, pictured) … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Sinclair, Bridget Boland, Bridget Cleary, Constable McGloin, Denis O'Brien, Edmund John Millington Synge, Eoin O'Duffy, ESAT, George Bernard Shaw, Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory, JA O'Rourke, Jack Yeats, JM Kerrigan, John Gilmartin, John Quinn, Mary Catherine Gunning Colum, Mary Catherine Gunning Maguire, Mary Colum, Mary Kennedy, Mary Sheridan, Michael Cleary, Patrick Cassidy, Richard Mulcahy, Rosemary Nelson, Sean O'Casey, Telenor, Tobias Gibbons, WG Fay, Wilfrid Blunt, William A Sandys, William Butler Yeats, William Henry Gregory
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BRITISH ADMIRAL LEAVES DUBLIN BY AIR…!
ON THIS DATE (8TH MARCH) 81 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF AN UNYIELDING OPPONENT OF THE FREE STATE. On March 27th, 1872, a baby girl was born in London, was moved to County Cork and reared and educated there, at … Continue reading
THE SPOILERS OF OUR LAND.
All through those bitter years when he saw old friends and comrades turning away from him because he was too honourable to bow the knee to political expediency he remained true to the old cause and preached the old doctrine. Continue reading
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