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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 →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Arthur Griffith, Ballineanig, Bertie Ahern, Bill Clinton, Bob McCarthy, Charles Matthews, Dan O'Sullivan, Dick McKee, Dorothy Macardle, Earnan De Blagdh, Eoin MacNeill, Ernest Blyth, Ernie O'Malley, Frank Thornton, Frongoch internment camp, General Eoin O'Duffy, Gerry Adams, Ginger O Connell, Harry Ferguson, Herbert Richard Roper, Hillsborough Treaty, Jeremiah Joseph JJ Ginger O'Connell, JJ O Connell, John Daly, John Hume, John Major, Joseph Plunkett, Leo Henderson, LIAM MELLOWS, Lough Attorick, Mary Lou McDonald, McGilligan's Pub Leeson Street, Michael Collins, Morgan, Niall O Dowd, Oscar Traynor, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Percy Dawson, Piet De Pauw., Poolagoond, Portobello Barracks, Richard Mulcahy, Seán Hegarty, Sunningdale Agreement, T Kennedy, the Abbey Theatre, the Gaelic League, The Tragedies Of Kerry, Thomas O'Sullivan, Tim Pat Coogan, Tony Blair, Topographical Society, Walker, Wandsworth Prison, Williams | Leave a comment

A COUNTRY PLAYING AGAINST ITSELF…

Posted on April 26, 2017 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (26TH APRIL) 272 YEARS AGO : ‘LORD’ KILLED BY A DRAGO(O)N’S ‘STING’. ‘Positive and overbearing, Changeful still and still adhering, Spiteful, peevish, rude, untoward, Fierce in tongue, in heart a coward. Judgement weak and passion strong, Always … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged 10 Downing Street London, 19-year-old James Joseph Coade Rathmines Road, 3rd Viscount Allen, Adjutant Morgan, Alderman James Kelly, Alderman Thomas Kelly, Bobby Sands, Captain Bowen Colthurst, Cathal Goulding IRA, Che Guevara T-Shirts, Cian Sharkhin, Countess Markievicz, Eustace Street Dublin, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, General Governor of Ireland, Gerry Adams, Henry Lemass, Herbert Henry Asquith, Ivor Churchill Baron Wimborne, James Connolly, John Allen, Joseph Plunkett, Kingstown Harbour Dun Laoighaire, Lieutenant Colonel McCammond, Lieutenant Gibbon, Lieutenant Kettle, Lieutenant Tooley, Lieutenant Wilson, Lieutenant Wylie, Lord Cheylesmore, Lord Lieutenant-General, Major Sir Francis Vane, Martial Law, Martin McGuinness, MP for Carysfort, Mrs Culhane, Mrs Kettle, Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington, Patrick McIntyre, Phil Mac Giolla Bháin, Portobello Barracks, Right Hon HH Asquith KC MP, Sergeant Claxton, the 176th and 178th Infantry Brigades of the 59th North Midland Division of the British Army, the 1916 Easter Rising, the Boer War, the Eye-Opener, the Labour newspaper Searchlight, the Royal Irish Rifles, Third Cavalry Brigade Athlone, Thomas Dickson, Thomas MacDonagh | Leave a comment

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