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‘THE BRITISH WERE RIGHT TO SHOOT THE 1916 LEADERS’ – FIANNA FÁIL ‘TD’.
ON THIS DATE (20TH JUNE) 169 YEARS AGO : TROUBLED IRISH REPUBLICAN POET DIES. ‘My Dark Rosaleen‘ ; a poem about the authors feelings for his country and its tradition of resistance in arms to those that would seek to … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Kenny, Charles Gavan Duffy, Cissie Cunningham, Clann na Gael, Commandant Katie O'Connor, Con Ryan Fianna Fáil Chairman Tipperary, Countess Markievicz, Country Grand Master Denis Watson, Dr Noel Browne, Glasnevin Cemetery Dublin, James Clarence Mangan, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Jerome James Collins journalist, John Devoy, John Kenny Clann na Gael, Kathleen McLaughlin, Kathleen McSweeney, Kathleen Walsh, Long Kesh, LVF leader Billy Wright, Maura Lyons, My Dark Rosaleen, Portadown District Lodge Orange Order, Rita McSweeney, Terrae Filius, the British Legion Hall in Portadown, The Felon newspaper, The man in the Cloak, Thomas Devin Reilly, Vaccus, William Carroll
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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
“THE REBEL DROPPED TO THE GROUND LIKE AN EMPTY SACK…” – SHERWOOD FORESTERS, 1916, DUBLIN.
REPUBLICAN PRISONERS : PICKET IN REMEMBRANCE, STATEMENT IN SUPPORT. HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATION, Dublin, Saturday May 6th 2017, GPO Dublin, 12 noon to 2pm : Between the years 1917 and 1981, 22 Irish men died on hunger strike in the fight … Continue reading
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Tagged 'And the Gates Flew Open the Burning of Long Kesh', 'Frank Cahill Resource Centre', 22 Irish Hunger-Strikers, An Claidheamh Solais, An Gorta Mór, Bás don Béarla, Black and Tans, Bloody Sunday 1913, Brigade Adjutant Michael J O' Brien, Brigadier-General William Henry Muir Lowe, British Brigadier-General Lowe, British Major De Courcy Wheeler, British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, Bunscoil an tSléibhe Dhuibh, Cameron Report RUC B-Specials, Cathal Brugha, Chatham Prison, Cian Sharkhin Portlaoise Prison, Clann na Gael, Cloughjordan in Tipperary, Dr Brian P Murphy, First Dáil Éireann, Francis Ledwidge poet, Gabriel Mackle., General Maxwell, Glandore, Glenstal Abbey, Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life, GPO Dublin, Grace Gifford, has been met with widespread euphoria, Henri Le Caron British spy, Hurst Park, IRA Comdt General Tom Maguire, IRA Volunteer Padraig Feeney, IRB, Irish Republican Brotherhood, Isle of Wight, James Connolly, Jean McCann, Jim McCann, John Daly, John Redmond, Joseph Plunkett, Kathleen Daly, Kilmainham Gaol, lack of qualification to speak..." - Dr. Brian P. Murphy of Glenstal Abbey, leinster house, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Taylor, Long Kesh, Margaret Thatcher, Mary the mad Maenad, Michael Davitt, Muriel Gifford, Ned Daly, New York, North King Street area of Dublin, Padraig Pearse, Patrick Pearse and the Lost Republican Ideal, Phil Mac Giolla Bháin, Portland Prison, Rockwell College in Cashel Tipperary, Seán Maguire IRA, South Mayo Brigade of the Irish Republican Army, St Colman's College Fermoy, St Kieran's College in Kilkenny, St. Enda's College in Dublin, Stormont, the 'Irish Citizens Army', the 2nd Battalion of the Dublin Brigade IRA, the 2nd Dáil Éireann, the Continuity Army Council IRA, the Fenians, the Gaelic American newspaper, the Gaelic League, the Irish Review, the Irish Theatre Hardwicke Street, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, the Provisional Army Council Irish Republican Army, the South Staffordshire Regiment, the Stonebreakers' Yard in Kilmainham Jail, The Sword of Light, the Treaty of Surrender, the Tuam Martyrs, the Ulster Militia, the Westland Helicopter Affair, Thomas J Clarke, Thomas MacDonagh, Tourmakeady, United Irishmen, Whitehead and Gallagher
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BRITISH MILITARY MAKE AND DISTRIBUTE .45mm ‘SATURDAY-NIGHT-SPECIALS’ FOR USE IN ‘TERRORISM’.
GPO (DUBLIN) PICKET IN SUPPORT OF REPUBLICAN POW GABRIEL MACKLE. This statement was issued almost one year ago by the POW Department of Republican Sinn Féin – ‘POW assaulted in Maghaberry : on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, Republican Sinn Féin … Continue reading
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Tagged Ballyconneely Galway, Bill Attley WUI ITGWU SIPTU slush fund, Cian Sharkhin Portlaoise Prison, Easter Monday RSF Dublin 2017, Gabriel Mackle RSF Cabhair, IRA Cathal Goulding Gusty Spence B-Specials, Long Kesh, the Sunningdale Agreement of 1973, the Vichy administration France, thonging, UWC Strike., Waterford Martin McGuinness Irish republican monument defaced vandalised, wooster rooster Portlaoise prison
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‘WE EXPLODED THE FABLE THAT IRELAND CANNOT SUCCESSFULLY FIGHT ENGLAND…’
ON THIS DATE (1ST FEBRUARY) 139 YEARS AGO : 1916 SIGNATORY BORN. On the 1st February 1878 – 139 years ago on this date – a child, Thomas, was born in Cloughjordan in Tipperary, into a household which would consist … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Crowe, An Gorta Mór, Bloody Sunday 1913, Boer War, Brideog, Brideswell Common, British Plunder and Irish Blunder, Cloughjordan in Tipperary, Connacht Rangers, Eamon DeValera, George Moore, Grace Gifford, Harry Melia Portlaoise Prison, Irish Review, Irish Volunteers, James Connolly, John Redmond, Joseph and Mary (Louise Parker) MacDonagh, Joseph Plunkett, Kilmainham Gaol, Long Kesh, Lord Cornwallis, Maurice Moore, Moorehall Mayo, Mr. Ormsby, Muriel Gifford, Patrick Pearse, Peadar O'Donnell, poet Francis Ledwidge, Rockwell College in Cashel, Sean W T Cosgrave, Senator Colonel Maurice Moore, St Enda's Ranelagh, St Kieran's College in Kilkenny, St. Brigid's Well in Clondalkin Dublin, Tús Nua, the 2nd Battalion of the IRA Dublin Brigade, the First Dáil, the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Irish Theatre on Hardwicke Street, The Irish Volunteers, the Labour Party, The Morning Post newspaper, the poet of the blackbirds, the Workers Party, There will be Another Day, Thomas MacDonagh, United Irishmen 1798, W.B. Yeats, William Francis Caldbeck Esq
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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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Tagged Ancient Order of Hibernians, Apollo House, Beckham, Bernadette Devlin, Cole, Daniel O'Connell., European Cup, George Best, Giggs, Harry Melia, James Plunkett, James Plunkett Strumpet City, Jim McCann, Joe Devlin, Keane, Liam O'Flaherty, Long Kesh, Man United, Mr JR Clynes, Paddy Devlin, Premiership, Renaldo, Sir Robert Peel, Solskaer, Tús Nua, the 'Frank Cahill Resource Centre', the Council of Unemployed, The Irish News newspaper, the National League of the North, the Rotunda, United Irish League UIL, Upper Springfield Development Trust, Workers Party, Yorke
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