Tag Archives: Bobby Sands

THE SPOILERS OF OUR LAND.

Posted on March 1, 2023 by 11sixtynine

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 →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Bobby Sands, Domhnall Mac Suibhne, Edwina Currie, Enda Kenny, Jane Elgee, Jane Francesca Agnes, Jim McDaid, Lady Wilde, Margaret Thatcher, Oscar Wilde, Roger Casement, Speranza, William Jefferson Clinton | Leave a comment

THE RESTRICTED VIEWPOINT OF THE LEINSTER HOUSE POLITICIAN.

Posted on September 14, 2022 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (14TH SEPTEMBER) 102 YEARS AGO – 3 REPUBLICAN VOLUNTEERS KILLED IN AMBUSH. In late August/early September 1920, the RIC and their colleagues in the British Army vacated their barracks in the town of Ballinlough, in County Roscommon, … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Bobby Sands, Brigadier Seamus Devins, Edward Moane, Gabriel Corbett, James Connolly Jnr, Joe McDonnell, John White, Michael Glavey, Michael Keane, Michael Kilroy, Pat Glynn, Robert Bradford, Seamus Finucane, Seamus Martin, Stuart McCartney | Leave a comment

PREPARING TO MEET BRITISH FORCE WITH IRISH FORCE.

Posted on May 26, 2021 by 11sixtynine

AN APOLOGY TO OLIVER HOYLE, WILLIAM BURKE AND CHRISTOPHER BYRNE. When Ireland called forth her true sons of the heather, O’Boyle was the foremost to answer the call, The sons of the Rosses he banded together, To drive the oppressor … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Bette Davis, Bobby Sands, Christopher Byrne, Francis Hughes, George Brent, George Patrick Nolan, JJ Ginger O'Connell, John Harman, Lloyd George, Mary Ellen Synon, Michael Barrett, Michael Collins, Oliver Hoyle, Robert Emmet, Thomas Bookey, William Burke | Leave a comment

FROM A TORY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE.

Posted on May 5, 2021 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (5TH MAY) 40 YEARS AGO : BOBBY SANDS DIES ON HUNGER STRIKE IN LONG KESH PRISON. The 1981 hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during this on-going struggle by Irish republican prisoners ; a … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Alfred Webb, Berkeley Cox, Bobby Sands, Charles Ffrench, Charles Stewart Parnell, Dáithí Ó Conaill, Edward Daly, ER King Harman, Erskine Hamilton Childers, George Bryan, Home Government Association, Home Rule League, Home Rule Party, Isaac Butt, John Barry, John MacBride, John McBride, John O Blunden, John O Connor Power, Joseph Biggar, Joseph Plunkett, Laurence Waldron, Maude Gonne, Padraig Pearse, Philip Callan, Rev P Lavelle, Robert Butt, Seán Mac Giolla Bhríde, Tenant League, Thomas J Clarke, Thomas MacDonagh, William Shaw, Willie Pearse, WJ O Neill Daunt | Leave a comment

‘PEACE’ BASED ON SURRENDER.

Posted on July 8, 2020 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (8TH JULY) 39 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF OUR 17TH HUNGER-STRIKER. ‘The fourth IRA Volunteer to join the (1981) hunger-strike for political status was Joe McDonnell, a thirty-year-old married man with two children, from the Lenadoon housing … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Ann Joy McCracken, Belfast Charitable Society, Bernadette McDonnell, Bobby Sands, Committee of the Ladies Industrial School for the Relief of Irish Destitution, Dr Richard R Madden, Eileen McDonnell, Eileen Straney, Elizabeth Fry, Gabriel Corbet., Goretti McDonnell, Henry Joy McCracken, Joe McDonnell, John McCracken, Maria Bodel, Mary Anne McCracken, Rev T Lynham Cairns, Reverend Robert Bradford, Robert McDonnell, Rose Ann McCracken, Seamus Finucane, Seamus Martin, Sean Lavery, Society of United Irishmen, Thomas Russell | Leave a comment

THE BOURGEOIS CONSENSUS AND OUR OCCUPIED SIX COUNTIES.

Posted on August 23, 2017 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (23RD AUGUST) 219 YEARS AGO : FRENCH BATTLECRY ON IRISH SOIL. “UNION, LIBERTY, THE IRISH REPUBLIC!” – the words and ideals proclaimed in Ballina, County Mayo, on the 23rd August 1798 – 219 years ago on this … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged André Daniel Savary, Babbling Brook, Ben McHugh, Bishop Stock, Bobby Sands, Bundoran/Ballyshannon H-Block Committee, Charles Haughey, Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party, Fianna Fáil., General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert, General Jean Sarrazin, General Lake, Glover Rooney, James Crossan, Lord Cornwallis, Michael O'Higgins, Padraig Flynn Mayo, Patrick Walsh United Irishman, Peter Brook, Seán Reilly, Stanley Moffat., Thomas McCarron | Leave a comment

IRELAND, 1941 – “DRAFT RIOTS…THIS IS A GRAVE SITUATION..”

Posted on May 24, 2017 by 11sixtynine

“IT IS MY DUTY TO TELL YOU WHAT I BELIEVE SHOULD BE DONE..” “Because I believe these things I will always stick to them, but I do not want to force any other person to believe as I do. Let … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged 'King' George V, 'Lord' Halifax, 'MAGILL' magazine, abstentionist, Alex Crowe, Arbour Hill, Óglach na Rosann, Bill Carroll, Blackrock College in Dublin, Board of Works, Bobby Sands, British Army General 'Sir' Nevil Macready, Catherine Coll, Churchill, Cian Sharkhin Portlaoise Prison, Commandant Neil 'Plunkett' O'Boyle, conscription in Ireland, Countess Markievicz, Dave McDonald, draft riots, Eamonn de Valera, Easter Rising of 1916, Felix Mc Corley, Fianna Fáil., Finner Camp Donegal, General Smuts, Gerry Boland, Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, Glenmalure, Home Rule Parliament' at Stormont, IRA Chief of Staff Frank Aiken, IRA green booked, IRA man Tom Heavey, Jean McCann, Jim McCann, Juan Vivion DeValera, Knocknadruce County Wicklow, Leac Eineach Burtonport County Donegal, leinster house, Lloyd George, Londonderry(sic) and Lough Swilly Railway Company, Michael Collins, Michelle Boyle, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures, Mr David Gray, Newbridge Barracks, Paddy Rankin IRA, Pádraig O' Baoighill, Pádraig Quinn IRA, Peterhead Prison, Phil Mac Giolla Bháin, Richard Mulcahy IRA Chief of Staff, Rita Kelly, Rosie Kelly, Séan Quinn IRA, Seán Lemass, Stormont, Tallaght, Tús Nua, the 'Frank Cahill Resource Centre', the 'New Mains' Colliery, the 'Treaty of Surrender' 1921, the British 1920 'Government of Ireland Act, the Church in Hollywood, the Dublin No 2 Brigade IRA 3rd Battalion, the Gaelic League, The Garda Special Branch, the IRA's 2nd Battalion Scottish Brigade B Company, the IRA's Fourth Northern Division, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Kosbies, the River Liffey, Thomas MacDonagh of the Dublin Brigade | Leave a comment

A COUNTRY PLAYING AGAINST ITSELF…

Posted on April 26, 2017 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (26TH APRIL) 272 YEARS AGO : ‘LORD’ KILLED BY A DRAGO(O)N’S ‘STING’. ‘Positive and overbearing, Changeful still and still adhering, Spiteful, peevish, rude, untoward, Fierce in tongue, in heart a coward. Judgement weak and passion strong, Always … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged 10 Downing Street London, 19-year-old James Joseph Coade Rathmines Road, 3rd Viscount Allen, Adjutant Morgan, Alderman James Kelly, Alderman Thomas Kelly, Bobby Sands, Captain Bowen Colthurst, Cathal Goulding IRA, Che Guevara T-Shirts, Cian Sharkhin, Countess Markievicz, Eustace Street Dublin, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, General Governor of Ireland, Gerry Adams, Henry Lemass, Herbert Henry Asquith, Ivor Churchill Baron Wimborne, James Connolly, John Allen, Joseph Plunkett, Kingstown Harbour Dun Laoighaire, Lieutenant Colonel McCammond, Lieutenant Gibbon, Lieutenant Kettle, Lieutenant Tooley, Lieutenant Wilson, Lieutenant Wylie, Lord Cheylesmore, Lord Lieutenant-General, Major Sir Francis Vane, Martial Law, Martin McGuinness, MP for Carysfort, Mrs Culhane, Mrs Kettle, Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington, Patrick McIntyre, Phil Mac Giolla Bháin, Portobello Barracks, Right Hon HH Asquith KC MP, Sergeant Claxton, the 176th and 178th Infantry Brigades of the 59th North Midland Division of the British Army, the 1916 Easter Rising, the Boer War, the Eye-Opener, the Labour newspaper Searchlight, the Royal Irish Rifles, Third Cavalry Brigade Athlone, Thomas Dickson, Thomas MacDonagh | Leave a comment

IRISH HUNGER-STRIKERS COMMEMORATED IN DUBLIN ON SATURDAY 4TH MAY 2013.

Posted on May 6, 2013 by 11sixtynine

HUNGER-STRIKERS COMMEMORATION , DUBLIN 4TH MAY 2013 : BRIEF REPORT AND A FEW PICS. Cait Trainor delivering the main oration at the Hunger-Strikers Commemoration in Dublin , on Saturday 4th May 2013. From approximately 1.30pm to 3.30pm on Saturday 4th … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged 1981, Bobby Sands, female hunger-strikers 1923. | Leave a comment

IRISH ‘CNN’ JOURNALIST (!) INVENTS ANOTHER STORY.

Posted on May 1, 2013 by 11sixtynine

‘THERE WILL BE ANOTHER DAY…..’ By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963. I was out of my depth for a short period after the arrest of Black James Duirnin , James Doran , Biddy Doherty and others : … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged 22 Irish Hunger-Strikers, Balbriggan Garda station, Banksters, Bobby Sands, Britain born, Enda Kenny, Fine Gael., food in skips., Gay Mitchell, Ivor Callely, missing Garda money, Paul Williams | Leave a comment

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