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A MODEST PROPOSAL TO FEED POOR CHILDREN TO THE RICH…

A green-hearted loyalist comments on ‘Irish fighters in every clime in every Cause but their own…’, and a modest proposal to feed poor children to the rich..! Continue reading

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A 20TH CENTURY ‘APOLLO’.

ON THIS DATE (18TH JANUARY) 186 YEARS AGO : WESTMINSTER SLAPS DOWN ONE OF ITS IRISH ‘PET REBELS’. Daniel O’Connell (‘The Liberator’, pictured, left) never claimed to be an Irish republican despite involving himself in an issue which, then as … Continue reading

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