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“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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TO CONTINUE DESPITE CYNICISM AND SLAVE-MINDEDNESS.

Posted on January 22, 2020 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (22ND JANUARY) 97 YEARS AGO : THREE REPUBLICAN PRISONERS EXECUTED BY THE FREE STATERS. Three Anti-Treaty IRA Volunteers (‘Irregulars’, as the Staters called them), who had been captured by Free State forces on the 7th January, 1923, … Continue reading →

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‘NOTICE TO VACATE’ AND ‘OPEN FIRE’ : 50-MINUTE GAP.

Posted on June 26, 2019 by 11sixtynine

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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Tag Archives: General Eoin O’Duffy

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

TO CONTINUE DESPITE CYNICISM AND SLAVE-MINDEDNESS.

‘NOTICE TO VACATE’ AND ‘OPEN FIRE’ : 50-MINUTE GAP.

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