Not that we've been absent too long (...one week, only!), but we're back, anyway, with a seven-parter on Wednesday, 1st November, 2023, when we'll be cominatya with a few paragraphs on all of the following -
1920 - over 300 British soldiers handed in their weapons in protest at how their-then comrades were running riots in Ireland. Fearing that the protest would spread, their political and military 'superiors' moved to put a stop to the 'rebellion'...
From 1955 - the fact that Westminster still maintained its grip on Irish territory and resources was raised, again, but not by those who had once vowed to bring that situation to an end...
This Irish sporting and cultural association started to turn away from its 'Irishness', and towards the greasy till, a lot earlier than most people give it credit (!) for...
From 2002 - the dangers of the 'Nuclear Family' were recognised and realised but 'the-powers-that-be' took it on themselves to stay on the path that ensured the destruction of 'the old-fashioned family unit'...
From 1920 - this lady thought she was doing a good deed but she wasn't to know that she had put this IRA Volunteer's life in greater danger by her well-meaning warning to the British soldiers that were standing beside her...
From 1998 - "...the first weapon of the grassroot's Irish republican activist.." - a 'Bible', if you like, at that time, and still required reading to this day...
Various 'sleight of hand' operations carried out in Ireland by Westminster between 1920 and 2001 were carried-out in the hope that doing so would 'convince' the world that a 'fresh start' was about to begin. But it wasn't so...
Hope you give us a shout back on Wednesday, 1st November, 2023 - 'cause if ya don't, we'll send the Boys 'round.
But, seriously, don't have us puttin' all this bleedin' time and effort in and then not even coming back to criticise us...!
Thanks for the visit, and for reading : see ye on the 1st!
Sharon and the team.
