Tag Archives: Terence MacSwiney

“…WE RETURN A VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER AGAINST THE PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND..”

Posted on August 17, 2022 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (17TH AUGUST) 53 YEARS AGO : BRITISH PRESS RELEASE RE “DISTURBANCES” EXPOSES WESTMINSTER MINDSET. ‘Speech by the Prime Minister, Major The Rt. Hon. J.D. Chichester-Clark, D.L., M.P., At a Press Conference in Stormont Castle To-Day, Sunday, 17th … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Billy Stone, Cathal Brugha, Cecil Fitzgerald, Dan Hogan, Domhnall O Cathain, Fearghal McGarry, Ho Chi Minh, Irene Andrews, James McCole, Joe Sweeney, John O'Mara, John White, Napper Tandy, Nguyen Ai Quoc, Peter Beresford Ellis, SDLP Senator Paddy Wilson, Terence MacSwiney, William Corbet | Leave a comment

“BLOODY AND BRUTAL ANARCHY IN IRELAND..”

Posted on August 12, 2020 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (12TH AUGUST) 66 YEARS AGO ; SCOTLAND YARD MEN IN DUBLIN. ‘Commander Len Burt, Special Branch Chief of Scotland Yard, and an Inspector Gale, also of Scotland Yard, visited Dublin on August 12th last where they met … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged AJ Blyth, Anne Maguire, Arthur Griffith, Arthur Paget, Birmingham Six, Brian O'Higgins, Carol Richardson, Cathal Brugha, Charles Burgess, Charles William St John Burgess, Chief Superintendent P Carroll, Commander Len Burt, Friedrich List, General Woodall, Guildford Four, Ho Chi Minh, Hubert Gough, Inspector Gale, Judith Theresa Ward, Judith Ward, Kevin McConnell, Maguire Seven, Nguyen Ai Quoc, Nicholas Mansergh, Pat O'Neill., Peter Beresford Ellis, Scotland Yard, Terence MacSwiney, Waterford Cricket Club | Leave a comment

“BURY ME IN FERMOY, WITH FITZGERALD”.

Posted on April 10, 2019 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (10TH APRIL) 96 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF IRA GENERAL, LIAM LYNCH. ‘Liam Lynch was born in Barnagurraha, Co Limerick. He joined the Irish Volunteers after witnessing the arrests of the Kent family by British forces after … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Cork City Fianna Éireann, Cork No. 1 Brigade IRA, Cork Volunteers Band, Cumann Brian Dillon, Cumann Daithe Ceannt, Cumann Joe Murphy, Cumann Mick Fitzgerald, Cumann na gCailini, Cumann na mBan, Cumann Tomas Aghas, Cumann Tomas MacCurtain, Dr Raymond Dalton, East Cork Manchester Martyrs Committee, George William Russell AE, IRA Volunteer Captain Willie Cox, John Mitchel, Metropolitan School of Art Dublin, Michael McCarthy Sinn Féin, Miss Kitty O'Callaghan Cumann na mBan, Patrick Cosgrave, Seán O Callaghan, Terence MacSwiney, Tomas Foley Sinn Féin, William Butler Yeats | Leave a comment

AGRARIAN AGITATION AND EVICTED TENANTS – IRELAND 19TH CENTURY.

Posted on January 23, 2019 by 11sixtynine

“WE ASK FOR NO MERCY AND WE WILL MAKE NO COMPROMISE” – TERENCE MacSWINEY. An edited version of this speech was published in ‘The United Irishman’ newspaper in October 1954. This is the speech in full ; on the 13th … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Alexander Cosby, Arthur Guinness, Baron Sydney, Bloody Sunday Derry 1972, Cork Savings Bank, Dr Noel Browne, Dudley Cosby, Edward Guinness., Francis Cosby, Lord Iveagh, Michael Davitt, Pat Rabbitte, Report of the Steering Group on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Garda Síochana, Rev Dr Lucey Bishop of Cork, Ruairí Óg Ó Mórdha, T. C. Harrington, Terence MacSwiney, the Post Office Savings Bank, the United Irish League, UVF, Walter Titley, William O'Brien | Leave a comment

“THIS IS THE FEAR OF THE IRISH PEOPLE” – MARY MacSWINEY, 1922.

Posted on January 9, 2019 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (9TH JANUARY) 97 YEARS AGO : RESIGNATIONS OVER THE TREATY OF SURRENDER. “In view of the vote that was taken here on Saturday and which I had definitely to oppose as one that was tending to subvert … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged 1921 Treaty of Surrender, Albina Broderick, Arthur Griffith, Austin Stack., Ballimeoona, Castlecove, Cumann na mBan, Eamon de Valera, Eamonn Duggan, Eamonn S Ó Dugáin, Erskine Childers, George Gavan Duffy, Gobnait Ni Bruadar, Irish National Invincibles., Irish Republican Brotherhood, Kathleen Clarke, Margaret Pearse, Mary MacSwiney, Michael Collins, Pat Rabbitte, Riobárd Bartún, Robert Barton, Seoirse Ghabháin Uí Dhubhthaigh, Terence MacSwiney, the Irish Democratic Association, the Repeal Association, The Young Irelanders, Thomas Clarke Luby | Leave a comment

THE UNJUST EXERCISE OF POWER AND PRIVILEGE BY LANDLORDS – IRELAND, 1879.

Posted on December 19, 2018 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (19TH DECEMBER) 141 YEARS AGO : ‘FATHER OF THE IRISH LAND LEAGUE’ RELEASED FROM A BRITISH PRISON AFTER SEVEN YEARS INCARCERATION. On Wednesday, 19th December 1877 – 141 years ago on this date – Michael Davitt (pictured), … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Andrew Kettle, Austin Stack., Banna Strand, CABHAIR Christmas Swim., Carmelite Friary Clarendon Street Dublin, Charles Kickham, Charles Stewart Parnell, Charlie McCreevy, Dartmoor Prison Princetown Devon England, Dáil Éireann, Eamon de Valera, Elphis Hospital Dublin, Irish Republican Prisoner's Aid Committee San Francisco, John Devoy, Martin Davitt, Michael Davitt, Michael Lowry, O'Donovan Rossa, Pat Rabbitte, RIC District Inspector Kearney, Roger Casement, Russell Lowell, Sabina Davitt, Strangeways Prison Manchester, Terence MacSwiney, the Mater Hospital Dublin., the National Land League of Mayo, Thomas Brennan, Thomas Patrick Ashe | Leave a comment

A CALL FROM THE MARTYR’S GRAVE.

Posted on January 10, 2018 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (10TH JANUARY) 37 YEARS AGO – SERIOUSLY ILL FEMALE REPUBLICAN POW “RELEASED ON LICENCE”. In October 1980, protesting POW’s in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh began a hunger strike for political status ; on the 1st December, … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Alice French, Humphrey Atkins., Lord Chief Justice MacDermott, Mairead Farrell, Mairead Nugent, Mary Doyle, Pauline McLaughlin, Terence MacSwiney, Women of Imperialism group | Leave a comment

UNWILLINGLY CEDING A MEASURE OF FREEDOM.

Posted on October 25, 2017 by 11sixtynine

BRUSSELS / EU AND ITS ‘SERVANTS’ RIPPING US OFF. ‘All Members of the European Parliament (MEP’s) receive an *extra* €4,342 a month that goes straight to their bank account of choice…the money is supposed to pay for a regional office … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged 1st Cork Brigade of the IRA, Brixton Prison, Elverys Corner in O'Connell Street Dublin, EU Commissioner Gunther Oettinger, Fine Gael Regina Doherty, H Company 2nd Battalion of the Cork No1 Brigade of the IRA, Ho Chi Minh, Joseph Murphy, Máire MacSwiney, Muriel MacSwiney, Nguyen Ai Quoc, Peter Beresford Ellis, Philip Clarke IRA, Southwark Cathedral in London, Terence MacSwiney, the Austin Stack Cumann Sinn Féin, the Carlton Hotel in London, the Omagh Raid IRA, The United Irishman newspaper, Tomas O Dubhghaill | Leave a comment

FROM THE HALF’PENNY BRIDGE IN DUBLIN TO AUSTRALIA AND BEYOND…

Posted on October 21, 2015 by 11sixtynine

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 →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Albert Reynolds, An Gorta Mór, Andrew Kettle, Anna Parnell, Archbishop McCabe of Dublin, Bertie Ahern, Boycott, Butchers Apron, Charles Stewart Parnell, Coercion Act, Dartmoor Prison, David Andrews, Dick Spring, Edentubber Martyrs, Fair rent, Fanny Parnell, Fionnuala O'Connor, Fixity of Tenure, Frank Driver, Freedom of Sale, Gerry Adams, International POW Day of Action, IRB, Irish National Land League 1879, James Daly, John Blake Dillon, John Devoy, Joseph Murphy, Kevin Barry, Ladies Land League, Máire Drumm, Michael Davitt, Michael Watters, Mickey Larkin, Mitchel McLaughlin President of the NI Assembly Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Mitchel McLaughlin., Protection of Person and Property Act, Terence MacSwiney, the Half'penny Bridge in Dublin, Thomas Brennan, UDA, Ulster Democratic Party, Volunteer George Keegan County Wexford, Volunteer Oliver Craven Newry, Volunteer Paddy Parle County Wexford, Volunteer Paul Smith Bessbrook County Armagh, William Ewart Gladstone | Leave a comment

VOTE ‘NO’ ON SATURDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2012.

Posted on October 24, 2012 by 11sixtynine

ON SATURDAY 27TH OCTOBER 2012….. …..assemble at the Spire in O’Connell Street , Dublin , at 1pm to show solidarity with imprisoned Irish republicans and in opposition to internment. All genuine republicans welcome – bring POW banners , posters and … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Joseph Murphy, Michael Fitzgerald, RSF 108Ú Ard Fheis 2012., Terence MacSwiney, Vote 'NO' on November 10th | Leave a comment

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