('16 FOR [4] 25'!)
'This funeral procession in Dublin, in the 1900's, which was organised by a republican-gamekeeper-turned-Free State-poacher, was witnessed by media from throughout the world and attended by tens of thousands of Irish men and women, some of whom were armed, some of whom were in the uniform of the rebels, and shots were fired in the graveyard.
Newspaper reports of the burial conveyed to the world the message that the Irish rebels were far from the 'spent force' that the British were insinuating...'
That's a few lines about one of the 16-part post pieces that we'll be writing about here on Wednesday, 25th September 2024 : and sure here's another two 'samplers' for ya -
'From the 1900's - this industrial storeroom in the South-East of Ireland was used by a business to warehouse the equipment it needed for day-to-day operations, including explosives. The British monitored it closely, as did the Irish rebels, but the local British Army regiment were uneasy that the munitions there could "fall into the wrong hands". So they sent some of their men in to remove any items which could be used against them, but that operation didn't go according to their plan...'
'Dublin, Ireland, early 2000's - an official report indicated that, within about a three-year time span, one-fifth of the population in the city would br foreign born, a statistic welcomed by at least one foreign journalist...'
So do please give us a shout on the 25th : we'll add a bit more text and a few pics to the above (...and a bit more detail, of course!), and throw in another thirteen bits and pieces to keep ya occupied!
Thanks for the visit, and for reading : see ya again on the 25th!
Sharon and the team.
