Tag Archives: Garret Fitzgerald

CMG, OBE, MI6…KIA.

ON THIS DATE (21ST JULY) 45 YEARS AGO : WILLING EMPIRE PAWN ASSASSINATED IN DUBLIN. Christopher Thomas Ewart-Biggs (pictured), a British career diplomat and a ‘CMG’, an ‘OBE’, and an M16 ‘Senior Foreign Office Liaison Officer’, was appointed by Westminster … Continue reading

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

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

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A BRITISH -INSPIRED ‘SAFETY ACT’ IN IRELAND.

ON THIS DATE (27TH SEPTEMBER) 95 YEARS AGO : MORE REPRESSIVE LEGISLATION IMPOSED. Irish Free State soldiers, left, were given ever more of a free reign to impose the dictat of their paymasters in Leinster House in 1927, with the … Continue reading

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‘FOOLS WITH POWER CORRUPT POWER’.

ON THIS DATE (26TH JULY) 103 YEARS AGO : HOWTH GUNS AND A BRITISH MASSACRE ON THE DUBLIN QUAYS. ‘A nationalist depiction of the shootings at Bachelor’s Walk, in which British troops killed three civilians…’ (from here.) In the early … Continue reading

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THE ENGLISH CONCEPT OF ‘DOING THE HONOURABLE THING’.

PROSE AND CONS. By prisoners from E1 Landing, Portlaoise Prison, 1999. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS : Grateful thanks to the following for their help, support, assistance and encouragement, and all those who helped with the typing and word processing over the past few … Continue reading

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‘PANIC’ : A TRADITION AND ELEMENT IN THE IRISH CONFLICT.

ON THIS DATE (5TH JULY) 77 YEARS AGO : THOMAS ÓG MacCURTAIN’S LAST DAY ON EARTH… In Cork, in 1920, Irish republican Tomás MacCurtain was elected as ‘Lord Mayor’ of the city, just one of the many changes that resulted … Continue reading

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THE TOBACCO TINS WERE FLYING INTO CAGE 11 LONG KESH.

ON THIS DATE (21ST JUNE) 44 YEARS AGO : “FASCIST MURDER SQUAD” STRIKE AGAIN. “The Belfast Brigade denied any involvement in the murder of the young protestant whose body was found in the Lower Falls area. They say that it … Continue reading

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