Monthly Archives: October 2023

OVER 300 BRITISH SOLDIERS HANDED IN THEIR WEAPONS IN PROTEST…

Posted on October 29, 2023 by 11sixtynine

Not that we’ve been absent too long (…one week, only!), but we’re back, anyway, with a seven-parter on Wednesday, 1st November, 2023, when we’ll be cominatya with a few paragraphs on all of the following – 1920 – over 300 … Continue reading →

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POLITICIANS AND THEIR GO-TO STANDBY – THE ‘PARTITION PROBLEM’.

Posted on October 25, 2023 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (25TH OCTOBER) 106 YEARS AGO : SINN FÉIN ADOPTS A REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION. “The Constitution of this new movement which you have adopted is one which it may be well to lay stress on. It says that this … Continue reading →

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FROM 1998 – “IS LEABHRÁN É SEO GO BHFUIL LEIS AN CROÍ AGUS TNÚTH NA SAOIRSE…”

Posted on October 22, 2023 by 11sixtynine

About five years after he swore allegiance, again, to the Irish Republic, this man – not for the first time in the course of this on-going struggle – didn’t only turn his back on that struggle but carved out a … Continue reading →

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AN ‘INSIDE JOB’ IN COUNTY CLARE IN 1920.

Posted on October 18, 2023 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (18TH OCTOBER) 232 YEARS AGO – ‘REFORM DEMANDED FOR ALL’. On the 18th October 1791 – 232 years ago on this date – a group of socially-minded Protestants, Anglicans and Presbyterians held their first public meeting in … Continue reading →

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DOING LESS WRONG BY DOING RIGHT…

Posted on October 14, 2023 by 11sixtynine

GETTING READY… ..FOR A NINE-PARTER ON THE 18TH! The British presence in Ireland gets its strength from the weakness of the Irish, by seducing, subduing and/or executing those they deem to be strong enough to stand up to them : … Continue reading →

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