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DUBLIN, 1913 : 146-DAY STRIKE BEGINS.

Posted on August 26, 2020 by 11sixtynine

ON THIS DATE (26TH AUGUST) 107 YEARS AGO : A 146-DAY LOCKOUT BEGINS IN DUBLIN. On the 26th August, 1913 – 107 years ago on this date – at about 9.40am, drivers and conductors on Dublin trams stepped-out of their … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged 1913 Lockout, Arthur Guinness, B-Specials, Barry Connell, Gerry Connell, Gregory Ashe, James Connolly, Jim Larkin, John Lucy, Justice McKechnie, Lieut Col OBE, The Royal Ulster Rifles, Thomas Kettle, Thomas Patrick Ashe, Tom Kettle, William Martin Murphy. | Leave a comment

IRISH HERO DEFENDED IN COURT BY A TOUT.

Posted on March 4, 2020 by 11sixtynine

BORN ON THIS DATE (4TH MARCH) THE SAME DATE THAT HE DIED, AND NAMED AFTER AN IRISH HERO WHO WAS BORN ON THAT SAME DATE 120 YEARS BEFORE HIM! Emmet Dalton (pictured, on the right, with Michael Collins), Irish rebel-turned-Free … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Ann Devlin, Ben Doyle, Castle Hill Convicts, Colonel Tempelhoff, Corbet's Hotel, Daniel O' Connell, Denis Lambert Redmond, Dr Walter Mapelli, Edward Kearney, Edward Lewis, Elizabeth Mason, Emmet Dalton, Ernest Blythe, Felix Rourke, Grace Gifford Plunkett, Henry Howley, Irina Najda Sylam, James John Begg, John Hayes, John Keenan, John Killeen, John McCann, John McIntoch, John Redmond, Joseph Plunkett, Leonard McNally, Leonid Minin, Limad Energy, Limad Invest Ltd, Lord Chancellor Fitzgibbon, M Tierney UCD, Major George Johnson, Malachy Delany, Maxwell Roche, Michael Collins, Michael Dwyer, Michael Kelly, Nicholas Tyrrell, Owen Kirwin, Parramatta, Patrick M. Geoghegan, Phillip Cunningham, Reverend Mr Lewis, Robert Emmet, Sarah Curran, Séan Ó Brádaigh, The Sydney Gazette newspaper, Thomas Addis Emmet, Thomas Keenan, Thomas Moore, Thomas Russell, Tom Kettle, UCD Literacy and Historical Society, William Johnston | Leave a comment

BRITISH ARMY MAJOR BREAKS TRUCE, TAKES TWO IRISH NEGOTIATORS HOSTAGE.

Posted on March 4, 2015 by 11sixtynine

THE PRICE OF PEACE…… Last month, 28 women who protested peacefully in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, against US President Ronald Reagan’s visit to Ireland received £1000 each arising from their action for wrongful arrest. Gene Kerrigan recalls the weekend when … Continue reading →

Posted in History/Politics. | Tagged Colonel Tempelhoff, Corbet's Hotel 105 Capel Street Dublin, Denis Lambert Redmond, Edward Kearney, Edward Lewis, Elizabeth Mason, Emmet Dalton, Felix Rourke, Grace Plunkett, Henry Howley, James Byrne, John Begg, John Hayes, John Keenan, John Killeen, John McCann, John McIntoch, John Redmond, Joseph Plunkett, Leonard McNally, Lord Chancellor Fitzgibbon, Major George Johnston New South Wales Corps, Malachy Delany, Marshalsea Lane, Maxwell Roche, Michael Dwyer, Michael Kelly, Mitchel McLaughlin Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, monthly raffle., Nicholas Tyrrell, Owen Kirwin, Patrick M. Geoghegan, Phillip Cunningham Castle Hill NSW Rising 1804, Reverend Mr Lewis, Robert Emmet, Samuel Whyte, Sarah Curran, Séan Ó Brádaigh, The Sydney Gazette newspaper, Thomas Addis Emmet, Thomas Keenan, Thomas Moore, Thomas Russell, Tom Kettle | Leave a comment

“IT SHOULD BE EMPHASISED THAT THE DESTRUCTION OF HOUSES, PUBLIC UTILITIES, TRANSPORT AND LIVES…..ARE ACCEPTED AND INTENDED AIMS OF OUR BOMBING POLICY…”

Posted on September 10, 2014 by 11sixtynine

By Peadar O’Donnell ; first published in January 1963. The British struck back by the ‘economic war’, but the Fenian countryside saw this as an aspect of the anti-imperialists’ struggle and bore its burden – they saw Fianna Fáil safely … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Tom Kettle

DUBLIN, 1913 : 146-DAY STRIKE BEGINS.

IRISH HERO DEFENDED IN COURT BY A TOUT.

BRITISH ARMY MAJOR BREAKS TRUCE, TAKES TWO IRISH NEGOTIATORS HOSTAGE.

“IT SHOULD BE EMPHASISED THAT THE DESTRUCTION OF HOUSES, PUBLIC UTILITIES, TRANSPORT AND LIVES…..ARE ACCEPTED AND INTENDED AIMS OF OUR BOMBING POLICY…”

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