Tag Archives: Jonathan Swift

“WHENEVER YOU FIND YOURSELF ON THE SIDE OF THE MAJORITY IT IS TIME TO PAUSE AND REFLECT.”

Posted on November 30, 2022 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (30TH NOVEMBER) 122 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF THE IRISH ‘GALLEY SLAVE / GOLDEN CHAINS’ AUTHOR : OSCAR WILDE. On the 16th October, 1854, a boy was born to a middle-class family who lived at Westland Row, … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Abigail Swift, Anne McHardy, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Dan Curley, Denis O'Brien, ESAT, Frederick Cavendish, George Denman, Godwin Swift, James Carey, James Fitzharris, James Power, Jane Elgee, Jane Francesca Agnes, Jane Lampton, Joe Brady, John Mallon, John Marshall, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Michael Fagan, Michael Kavanagh, Nicholas Harman, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Paddy Power Bookmaker, Peter Carey, Robert Farrell, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Stewart Kenny, Thomas Caffrey, Thomas F Burke, Tim Kelly, William Wilde, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

A MODEST PROPOSAL TO FEED POOR CHILDREN TO THE RICH…

Posted on October 19, 2022 by 11sixtynine

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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NERVOUS TENSION, IMPENDING COMBAT, SIGHTS LINED UP…

Posted on June 2, 2021 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (2ND JUNE) 100 YEARS AGO : IRA VICTORY AT CARROWKENNEDY (CEATHRÚ CHINNÉIDE), COUNTY MAYO. ‘It was late afternoon of a warm day (on Thursday, 2nd June 1921) in Carrowkennedy, County Mayo. Irish Volunteer Jimmy O’Flaherty heard the … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Jimmy O'Flaherty, Jonathan Swift, Michael Kilroy, Sydney Elliott | Leave a comment

CAREER POLITICIANS – ‘MURDERED EN ROUTE AND REPLACED BY CRIMINALS’.

Posted on December 5, 2018 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (5TH DECEMBER) 97 YEARS AGO : TRUCE AND TREATY AND THE PARTING OF THE WAYS. On Monday, 5th of December in 1921 – 97 years ago on this date – in Downing Street in London, the then … Continue reading →

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SKYSCRAPERS IN LISBURN AND THE GERMANS!

Posted on November 30, 2016 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (30TH NOVEMBER) 133 YEARS AGO : ‘INVINCIBLE’ COURT CASE BEGINS AT THE OLD BAILEY, LONDON. Pat O’Donnell (pictured, left) was a member of the ‘The Invincibles’ (‘Irish National Invincibles’), a 19th-century organisation which opposed, in arms, British … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Jonathan Swift

“WHENEVER YOU FIND YOURSELF ON THE SIDE OF THE MAJORITY IT IS TIME TO PAUSE AND REFLECT.”

A MODEST PROPOSAL TO FEED POOR CHILDREN TO THE RICH…

NERVOUS TENSION, IMPENDING COMBAT, SIGHTS LINED UP…

CAREER POLITICIANS – ‘MURDERED EN ROUTE AND REPLACED BY CRIMINALS’.

SKYSCRAPERS IN LISBURN AND THE GERMANS!

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