1921 - the British took rebel fighters as hostages and announced they were going to execute them, so the IRA investigated their capture and discovered that two local 'toffs' had involved themselves in that capture.
The two wannabe aristocrats were paid a visit by the rebels, taken into custody and those holding the rebel fighters were contacted...
..and that's just one of the twenty-six pieces we'll be posting about on Wednesday, 4th February, 2026 : it's one example out of many in our history that show how expendable Irish people were, and are, to Westminster ; the two touts in question were trying to curry favour - ingratiate themselves with the British political and military establishments in Ireland - through their obsequious behaviour, but it didn't work out like that for them.
1920 - these Irish brothers were known to be 'loud shapers', a bit 'mouthy', in their locality, and at least one of them had British Army connections, which he maintained.
That man was writing cheques that his body couldn't cash, and one night a foreclosure order (!) was issued...
Ex-British Army/RIC etc 'servicemen/women' were generally left in peace by the rebels in their area (although an eye was kept on them) providing they kept their distance from the foreign military and from the IRA.
But sometimes that grace was misinterpreted as 'weakness'...
1919 - this British MP was so annoyed (!) with the political representatives of the Republican Movement that he thumbed through the 'rule book' - the British one - and loudly called for a political measure, a rap on the knuckles, if you like, that hadn't been used in over eight decades, to be resurrected and used against those political reps.
Even his own colleagues looked over their glasses at him!
And, as stated, that's just three of the twenty-six pieces we'll be posting here on Wednesday, 4th February 2026.
So don't have us looking over OUR bleedin' glasses at YOU on the 4th, after we notice yer absence...!
Thanks for the visit, and for reading - appreciated!
Sharon and the team.
(...and we'll hopefully see ya again, on the 4th.)
