In the early 1920's...
..this republican-gamekeeper-turned-Free State-poacher, by then a career politician, stopped just short of describing the men and women of 1916 as criminals, even though he had soldiered alongside the same men and women in the (on-going) struggle for a 32-County Ireland...
That's one of the twenty-or-so pieces we'll be putting pen to paper about on this blog on Wednesday, 30th October 2024.
The man mentioned above left a particularly dirty and bloody thumbprint in Irish history and sullied his family surname to the extent that even so-called 'neutral observers' find it hard to defend his 'official' (ie State) actions.
These are two more 'teaser pieces' that we'll be putting skin on the bone of on the 30th -
..a second IRA attack on Free State paramilitary operatives in their own headquarters didn't go as planned : not only were Volunteers captured, but too much damage was done to the building...
..at one of the weekly meetings held by the IRA leadership to discuss 'the state of play', the fact that family members of enemy combatants were pressuring their loved ones to resign their positions for safety reasons was noted, and it was agreed that the 'sins-of-the-father' rule would still apply to those family members...
So...
..even if ya have other plans on that date, add us in - cancel/postpone whatever it is that ya havta, but get yer butt back here then.
Or else...!!
Thanks for the visit, and for reading - see ya on Wednesday, 30th October 2024!
Sharon and the team.