We've almost pieced together a 16-part post for Wednesday, 23rd October 2024, one of which will be mentioning a rather well-got young Toff in Dublin, in the 18th Century who, wanting to maintain his 'Toffness' (!) decided, with his equally-well-got circle of friends, to use a business he owned for non-business-like purposes.
They had familial connections with the British military and, believing that their 'status in society' was under threat from Irish rebels, availed of those connections to pinpoint targets whom they considered to be a danger to their so-called social standing.
The well-got group then took it on themselves to 'branch out', and soon enough any 'scruff/vagabond' that they lifted off the street was taken back to the business premises and 'interrogated'...
Also from our Dublin files we'll have a few paragraphs about a still-unresolved shooting in Dublin in the 1920's during which two armed men walked into a shop and shot the shopworker dead.
Westminster-appointed 'officials' in Dublin immediately blamed the IRA for the shooting, but the owners of the shop challenged them on that claim...
And, from the 1920's as well, but not in Dublin, we'll be saying a few words about a rebel ambush on British forces which was discussed in the British Parliament in the week after it happened but, instead of inspiring those British politicians towards the notion of actually removing their troops out of harms way - ie considering a military and political withdrawal from Ireland - they were belied into believing that the 'solution' was to present the rebels with even more targets, albeit better armed ones...
That's just three of the sixteen pieces we'll be writing about on Wednesday, 23rd October 2024 - so, if'n ya don't wannabe 'Piece 17', y'all get yer ass back here then, and read about someone else's misfortune...!
Thanks for the visit, and for reading - see ya on the 23rd!
Sharon and the team.