Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher

FROM 1955 – ‘ENGLAND NEVER HAD ‘GOODWILL’ TOWARDS IRELAND…’

Posted on May 3, 2023 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (3RD MAY) 107 YEARS AGO : THREE REPUBLICAN DISSIDENTS EXECUTED BY THE BRITISH. Pictured – Pádraig Pearse, Thomas J Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh. On the 29th April 1916, a republican ‘surrender document’ was circulated between the combatants, … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Brigadier-General Lowe, Brigadier-General William Henry Muir Lowe, British Major De Courcy Wheeler, Cathal Brugha, Christina Feeney, Dr Brian P Murphy, Enda Kenny, Herbert Asquith, Ivan Doherty, James Connolly, John Daly, Kathleen Daly, Leon Brittan, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Taylor, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Heseltine, Michael J. O'Brien, Mr Justice Barr, Ned Daly, Pádraig Pearse, Seán Maguire, Thomas J Clarke, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Maguire, Volunteer Padraig Feeney | Leave a comment

THE SPOILERS OF OUR LAND.

Posted on March 1, 2023 by 11sixtynine

All through those bitter years when he saw old friends and comrades turning away from him because he was too honourable to bow the knee to political expediency he remained true to the old cause and preached the old doctrine. Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Bobby Sands, Domhnall Mac Suibhne, Edwina Currie, Enda Kenny, Jane Elgee, Jane Francesca Agnes, Jim McDaid, Lady Wilde, Margaret Thatcher, Oscar Wilde, Roger Casement, Speranza, William Jefferson Clinton | Leave a comment

THE LAWYER, THE ‘LORD’, AND AN IRA OPERATION.

Posted on December 4, 2019 by 11sixtynine

43 YEARS UNDER WATER ON THE 25TH DECEMBER 2019… A scene from the 2010 Cabhair Christmas Swim (pictured) – the year of the ‘Big Freeze’. As a Cabhair rep said at the time – “If we can continue to hold … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Alfred Carney, Aylesbury prison, British General Lowe, CABHAIR Christmas Swim., Carlisle Circus Belfast, Cumann na mBan, Elizabeth O’Farrell, Ernest Carney, Helena Moloney, Irish Citizens Army, James Connolly, Julia Grenan, Julia Grennan, Kilmainham Gaol, Kilmainham Jail, Lord Hailsham, Louie Carney, Mabel Carney, Manus Nunan, Margaret Thatcher, Maud Carney, Milltown Cemetery Belfast, Nell Ryan, Padraig Pearse, Richmond Barracks, Sarah Carney, St Enda's, the Guardian newspaper, Winifred Carney., Wynn's Hotel Dublin | Leave a comment

‘WE ARE FOR EVERY TENANT TO BECOME OWNER OF HIS/HER HOLDING BY PAYING A FAIR RENT’

Posted on May 29, 2019 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (29TH MAY) 297 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF A LEINSTER HOUSE MAN! ‘Kildare House’, pictured, left (now known as ‘Leinster House’, and used as an administrative building by Free State political regimes), was built between 1745 and … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged 'Sir' William Wilde, 19th Earl of Kildare, 1st Duke of Leinster, 1st Earl of Offaly, 1st Marquess of Kildare, 20th Earl of Kildare, 6th Baron Offaly, Bishop Sweetman Ferns, Cahir Healy, Constance Lloyd, Doctor James Caulfield, Father Murphy Boolavogue, James Fitzgerald, Jane Francesca Agnes, John Murphy, King George III, Lady Mary Fitzgerald, Lady Wilde., Magdalen College Oxford England, Margaret Thatcher, Newdigate Prize for Poetrty, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Patrick Cosgrave, President Eisenhower., RA Butler, Richard Austen Butler, Robert Fitzgerald, the 3rd Earl of Inchiquin, Tiny Rowland, Viscount Leinster of Taplow and Lord Justice of Ireland, William O'Brien, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

‘THE IRISH FIGHT BRAVELY EVERYWHERE EXCEPT IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY’.

Posted on May 22, 2019 by 11sixtynine

EXCLUSIVE !! WE NAME THE LOSERS IN THE 24TH MAY 2019 COUNCIL AND EUROPEAN ELECTIONS… ..YOU! There are thousands of candidates that would like you to vote for them on the 24th of this month (May, 2019) to ensure that … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged American poet Robert Lowell, Brian Dillon Rathcooney Cemetery, Cork City Manchester Martyrs Commemoration Committee, General James Shields., International Observer Mace Trophy, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Doheny, Michael McCarthy, National Student Debating Trophy, Peterhouse College Cambridge, Professor Anthony Clare, Seamus Farrell, Seamus MacManus, Sir Edward Grey, St Finbarr's Cemetery, St Joseph's Cemetery, Ted Heath, the Republican Plot, Thomas Ashe Memorial Hall, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

A BRITISH -INSPIRED ‘SAFETY ACT’ IN IRELAND.

Posted on September 27, 2017 by 11sixtynine

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 →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Dorothy Wetherburn, Garret Fitzgerald, Margaret Thatcher, Ned Maguire Long Kesh prison, Oliver Cromwell Carlingford Ireland., Padraig Flynn, the Court of Justice, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Single European Act | Leave a comment

“THE REBEL DROPPED TO THE GROUND LIKE AN EMPTY SACK…” – SHERWOOD FORESTERS, 1916, DUBLIN.

Posted on May 3, 2017 by 11sixtynine

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 →

Posted in History/Politics. | 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 | Leave a comment

A NON-SLEEPING EGG CURRIE SPEAKS…

Posted on March 1, 2017 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (1ST MARCH) 20 YEARS AGO : A NON-SLEEPING EGG CURRIE SPEAKS… “We didn’t sleep..” – the reply given by Tory politician Edwina Currie to a ‘Twitter’ user who stated she had slept with John Major. In the … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Anne Jephson Mallow County Cork, BBC Radio 4, Captain Roger Casement 3rd Dragoon Guards British Army, Eamonn Kelly, Edwina Currie Irish accountant, Glasnevin Cemetery Dublin, Harry Melia, Jane Elgee, Jane Francesca Agnes, John Major, Lady Wilde., Lurgan workhouse, M O'Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Roger Casement, Sir Edward Carson, Speranza, the Gaelic League, The Old Bailey in London | Leave a comment

THATCHER RETURNS TO DOWNING STREET. BUT NOT BY BUS…..!

Posted on August 20, 2014 by 11sixtynine

By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963. Once, scurrying through back streets , and foolishly on an unlighted bicycle, I all but bumped into a civic guard. His hand came down on the handlebars and he said sharply … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Ballygawley bus bombing 1988., Cathal Brugha 1919 Oath of Allegiance, Margaret Thatcher, Pathologist Dr. Alan Watson | Leave a comment

HISTORY REVISED , FIANNA FÁIL AND PROVISIONAL SINN FÉIN STYLE.

Posted on April 17, 2013 by 11sixtynine

‘THERE WILL BE ANOTHER DAY…..’ By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963. Two car-loads of police came to Pat Harkin’s door and Pat – tough , courageous man though he was – would as soon they had given … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Alex Maskey., Augusto Pinochet, death, Irish history, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Plunkett O' Boyle, Oliver Cromwell, revisionists | Leave a comment

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