Tag Archives: Arthur Griffith

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 →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Arthur Griffith, Bill Quirke, Canon Magner, Dan Skelton, Dinny Lacey, Eamon Duggan, Felix Jordan, George Gavan Duffy, James Murray, John T Prout, Joseph Bergin, Kerins-O'Neill IRA Club, Martin Whyte, Michael Collins, Michael McDermott, Ned Aylward, Paddy Givern, Peg Daly, Peter Murray Irish Republican Club, Robert Barton, Stephen Dobbin, Thomas A White, Timothy Crowley, Tom Barry, Tom Heenan, Vernon Anwyl Hart | Leave a comment

THE ‘BOSS’ CROKER AND THE FREE STATE.

Posted on November 24, 2021 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (24TH NOVEMBER) 79 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF THE ‘SOLDIERS SONG’ STATER. ‘(Peadar) Kearney was born at 68 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin, in 1883 (on the 12th December) (and) often walked along Gardiner Street to the Custom … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged A H Flauley, Arthur French, Arthur Griffith, Bishop William Miller, Brendan Behan, Brian Behan, C.G. Doran, Daniel Byrne, Denis O'Donnell, Dominic Behan, Dr Oliver St John Gogarty, Edmund Bernard FitzAlan-Howard, Ellen O'Leary, James Bermingham, James Craig, James MacMahon, James Stephens, JE Tierney, JJ Walsh, John Devoy, John J. Breslin, John O'Leary, Kevin O'Shiel, Kilgobbin Cemetery, Michael Davitt, Michael Lambert, Michael Moran, Paddy Heeney, Patrick Flynn, Patrick Trahey, Peadar Kearney, Pierce Nagle, Richard Boss Croker, Richard Dawson Bates, Richard Welstead Croker, Robert Peel, Tammany Hall, Thomas Dillon, Thomas McDonagh, William Brophy, William Hickey | Leave a comment

PRESSURED TO ACCEPT THE TREATY OF SURRENDER.

Posted on March 31, 2021 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (31ST MARCH) 47 YEARS AGO : IRA POW IN ENGLISH JAIL JOINS THE HUNGER-STRIKE. Michael Gaughan (pictured), the eleventh Irish republican to die on hunger strike, was four months away from celebrating his 25th birthday. Immortalised in … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Art Ó Griobhtha, Arthur Griffith, Arthur Joseph Griffith, Brian O'Higgins, Charles Gavan Duffy, Cumann na nGaedheal, Dungannon Clubs, Eamon de Valera, Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, Edward Martyn, Independent Irish Party, Irish Brigade 1852, John Sadleir, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Derby, Mary Ellen Synon, Maud Gonne, Michael Collins, Robert Childers Barton, Séamus McManus, the National Council, The Tenant Right League, William Keogh | Leave a comment

THE BRITISH ‘EMPIRE’ IS “THE GREATEST GANGSTER ORGANISATION THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN”.

Posted on September 9, 2020 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (9TH SEPTEMBER) 98 YEARS AGO : FIRST FREE STATE INSTITUTION ASSEMBLES. An election was held in the 26-County so-called ‘Free State’ on the 16th of June, 1922, in which the Staters won 58 seats and republicans won … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged 25 Parnell Square, Arthur Griffith, Éamonn Ceannt, Brendan O'Donnell, Captain Patrick Walshe, Carrickbrack, Cloghscoltia, Colonel James K Cogan, Conradh na Gaeilge, Des Kavanagh, Douglas Hyde, Father Michael Griffin, Gaelic League, Garret Fitzgerald, IIE Clonagh, Imelda Riney, James Augustine Quirke, James Connolly, Joe Walsh, Joseph Plunkett, Lenaboy Castle, Liam Cosgrave, Liam Lynch, Liam Riney, Michael Fitzgerald, Michael Hynes, Pádraig Mac Piarais, Pádraig Pearse, Rutland Square, Seamus Quirke, Seán Mac Diarmada, Seán T Ó Ceallaigh, Seán Tobin, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke, Tom Hynes, Wesleyan Church, William Duffy | Leave a comment

“BLOODY AND BRUTAL ANARCHY IN IRELAND..”

Posted on August 12, 2020 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (12TH AUGUST) 66 YEARS AGO ; SCOTLAND YARD MEN IN DUBLIN. ‘Commander Len Burt, Special Branch Chief of Scotland Yard, and an Inspector Gale, also of Scotland Yard, visited Dublin on August 12th last where they met … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged AJ Blyth, Anne Maguire, Arthur Griffith, Arthur Paget, Birmingham Six, Brian O'Higgins, Carol Richardson, Cathal Brugha, Charles Burgess, Charles William St John Burgess, Chief Superintendent P Carroll, Commander Len Burt, Friedrich List, General Woodall, Guildford Four, Ho Chi Minh, Hubert Gough, Inspector Gale, Judith Theresa Ward, Judith Ward, Kevin McConnell, Maguire Seven, Nguyen Ai Quoc, Nicholas Mansergh, Pat O'Neill., Peter Beresford Ellis, Scotland Yard, Terence MacSwiney, Waterford Cricket Club | Leave a comment

“THE BULLET SLIT THE IRA MAN’S JERSEY…”

Posted on February 19, 2020 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (19TH FEBRUARY) 76 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF A REBEL POACHER-TURNED-FREE STATE MILITARY GENERAL. ‘JJ O’Connell (pictured) joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914, becoming Chief of Inspection in 1915. He travelled the country organising volunteer corps, as … Continue reading →

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CONFINING THEMSELVES TO BE FURTHER CONFINED.

Posted on January 30, 2019 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (30TH JANUARY) 138 YEARS AGO : EVE OF ‘CONSTRUCTION’ FOR MILITANT IRISH LADIES. On the 30th January 1881 – 138 years ago on this date – Charles Stewart Parnell’s sisters, Anna and Fanny, put the final touches … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Anna Parnell, Archbishop McCabe Dublin, Arthur Griffith, Bloody Sunday January 1972, Charles Stewart Parnell, Coercion/Protection of Person and Property Act 1881, Dr Lucey, Edward Martyn Sinn Féin president, Englishwoman's Review, Fanny Parnell, Irish National Land League, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Katharine Wood, Kitty O' Shea, Ladies Land League, Maude Gonne, Pat Rabbitte, Patrick Pearse, People's Protection Committee, Queen Victoria, Richard Óge Martyn, Terence McSwiney, Thomas MacDonagh, Tulira Co Galway, William Ewart Gladstone, William O' Shea | Leave a comment

“THIS IS THE FEAR OF THE IRISH PEOPLE” – MARY MacSWINEY, 1922.

Posted on January 9, 2019 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (9TH JANUARY) 97 YEARS AGO : RESIGNATIONS OVER THE TREATY OF SURRENDER. “In view of the vote that was taken here on Saturday and which I had definitely to oppose as one that was tending to subvert … Continue reading →

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CAREER POLITICIANS – ‘MURDERED EN ROUTE AND REPLACED BY CRIMINALS’.

Posted on December 5, 2018 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (5TH DECEMBER) 97 YEARS AGO : TRUCE AND TREATY AND THE PARTING OF THE WAYS. On Monday, 5th of December in 1921 – 97 years ago on this date – in Downing Street in London, the then … Continue reading →

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‘FUGITIVES’ ON THE RUN FROM BRITISH INJUSTICE.

Posted on November 28, 2018 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (28TH NOVEMBER) 98 YEARS AGO : BLACK AND TANS REMOVE THEIR MURDER VICTIMS’ BODIES TO BURN THEM. The 28th November in 1920 – 98 years ago on this date – was a Sunday, and it was on … Continue reading →

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