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Tag Archives: de Valera
UNUSED ‘STEPPING STONES’.
ON THIS DATE (18TH MARCH) 99 YEARS AGO : ‘BURGERY AMBUSH’ INITIATED. “…it is very difficult to describe this as an ‘ambush’ in the strict sense of the word, as there were several smaller engagements within the main attack and, … Continue reading
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Tagged An Cumann Cabhrach, Balcombe Investments Ltd, Ballycoe, Brian Dillon, Burgery Ambush, Captain Willie Cox, Charlie Haughey, Cloncoskerine, Constable Crowley, Constable William Elton, Cork City Fianna Éireann, Cork No. 1 Brigade IRA, Cork Volunteers Band, Cumann na gCailini, Cumann na mBan, Daithe Ceannt, Danny Shinnick, Dáithí Ceannt, de Valera, Doctor Hackett, East Cork Manchester Martyrs Committee, Garranbane, George Plunkett, Irina Najda Sylam, Jack O'Mara, Jack O’Brien, Jackie Sullivan, James O'Neill, Jimmy O’Mahoney, Joe Murphy, John C. Regan, Kilgobinet, Kitty O'Callaghan, Leonid Minin, Limad Invest, Marko Milosevic, Michael McCarthy, Mick Fitzgerald, Monarud, Na Fianna Éireann, Paddy Smith TD, Pat Keating, Patrick Smith TD, Renan Airways, RIC Sergeant Hickey, Sean Fitzgerald, Sinn Féin, Slobodan Milosevic, Tarr's Bridge, Tim Fay, Tomas Aghas, Tomas Foley, Tomás MacCurtain, Victor Bout
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‘NOTICE TO VACATE’ AND ‘OPEN FIRE’ : 50-MINUTE GAP.
ON THIS DATE (26TH JUNE) 97 YEARS AGO : FREE STATE GENERAL KIDNAPPED ON THE EVE OF CIVIL WAR. On the 26th June, 1922, Leo Henderson and a group of ‘Irregulars/Dissidents’ left the then republican-occupied Four Courts (which had been … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Maguire, de Valera, Ernie O Malley, Frank Thornton, General Eoin O'Duffy, General JJ O’Connell, Guildford Four, H Montgomery Hyde, Harry Ferguson, Jeremiah Joseph JJ Ginger O'Connell, John Donaldson, John Maguire, John May, John Redmond, Leo Henderson, Maguire Seven, McGilligan's Pub Leeson Street, Michael Collins, Mr H D Hyde, Orrwear Hill Street, Patrick Conlon, Patrick Maguire, Patrick O'Neill, Patrick White, Richard Mulcahy, Sean Maguire, The National Cycling Association of Ireland, Vincent Maguire, Woolwich
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55 DAYS ON HUNGER STRIKE FOR ‘A HOST OF THE ELECTED’.
EASTER MONDAY COMMEMORATION, DUBLIN, 17TH APRIL 2017. RSF President Des Dalton, speaking at the RSF Easter Monday Commemoration (17th April 2017) in O’Connell Street, Dublin. The main RSF Easter Commemoration in Dublin this year was held on Easter Monday (17th … Continue reading
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Tagged Arbour Hill Jail, Ballycroy County Mayo, Boco from the Short Strand, Carmel McNeela, Cathal Goulding, Cian Sharkhin, Daíthí Ó Conaill., de Valera, Denise Sharkhin, Dublin Metropolitan Police, Fr O'Hare Carmelite Father Whitefriars Street Dublin, France Vichy Government, General de Gaulle, Gerry Adams, Henri Petain, IRA Director of Publicity, IRA Radio Broadcast Staff, IRA Western Command, Jack 'Seán' McNeela, Jack Plunkett, Meath IRA man Nick Doherty, Michael Traynor, Mornet the Procurator General., Mountjoy Jail, Paddy McNeela, Pierre Laval, provisional French government, Sally Sharkhin, Seán Garland, Seán MacStíofáin, Seán Russell, Special Criminal Court, St Bricins Free State military hospital in Dublin, the Land League, the Magazine Fort, the Nazi Regime, the Short Strand, the split in 1969, Tomás Mac Curtáin, Tommy Grogan, Tony Darcy
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THE ‘PRICE’ OF AN ATTACK ON THE ‘OLD BAILEY’ IN LONDON.
ON THIS DATE (8TH MARCH) 75 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
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Tagged Brian O'Higgins, British Admiral Leaves Dublin By Air, British Admiral Lord Nelson, Cork sculptor Thomas Kirk, Cumann na mBan, de Valera, Eamonn Kelly, Harry Melia, IRA Dump Arms order, Iris Magazine August 1984, Jim McCann Short Strand, Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Mary MacSwiney, Mountjoy Jail, Nelson Pillar in O'Connell street Dublin, New Scotland Yard, Norman Stanley Bowler., Old Bailey London, Operation Humpty Dumpty, Price Sisters, Sackville Street Dublin, Saor Éire, Séan Ó Brádaigh, Teresa Holland, the American Commission on Conditions in Ireland, the Army Council of the IRA, the British Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Dorset, the Munster Womens Franchise League, the Second Dáil, the suffragette movement
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MY ‘ICE BUCKET’ CHALLENGE (AND PIC)!
By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963. We saw the limitations in those others clearly enough, but we were even more aware of our own limitations, and we had not learned to trust to the dynamics of struggle … Continue reading
10TH JULY 1917 : 96 YEARS AGO ON THIS DATE…..
‘THERE WILL BE ANOTHER DAY…..’ By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963. I did not feel like cheering when I left Hogan’s office. I must wire Phil McCauley this news, before others got time to shout it at … Continue reading
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