Within months of the British having 'outlawed' the 32-County Dáil Éireann, local councils in Ireland had decided to ignore the British directive and were reporting, and supporting, our own political administration in our own country. This, obviously, led to tensions...
We're in 'Marching Season' in the Occupied Six Counties and, in 1955, a British trade union tabled a motion regarding "..the flaunting and parading of flags and emblems", stating quite clearly that to do so in areas where the 'Orange Order' and other loyalist paramilitary groupings were operating was "the devices and tactics of reactionary bigots.."
This man, who committed a mortal sin before he was even born (!), involved himself in the struggle for Irish freedom and died, still a revolutionary force to be reckoned with, in the 1860's, but is not remembered as much or as often as he deserves to be...
So dodgy have been the State-instigated 'Tribunals of Inquiry' (into political/criminal occurrences in this Free State) that the 'Powers-That-Be' took it on themselves to severely limit one such 'Tribunal' least it breech the constitutional rights of a dead man...!
This Irish rebel, who took the fight to the British in Ireland in the 1920's, was over 100 years old when he died and left a political legacy behind him that still reverberates to this day...
We'll have the above and, I'm told, one other piece, ready for ya on Wednesday, 5th July 2023 so, like yerselves, I'm gonna have to wait until then to find out how exactly you can 'commit a mortal sin' before you are even born...?!
See ya on the 5th - thanks for the visit!
Sharon and the team.
