IRA OPERATIVES WITHIN THE FSA IN THE 1920's...
This IRA ASU in Leinster, in the 1920's, had a number of serving Free State Army soldiers working with it and, when the split over the Treaty of Surrender took place, the Unit stayed true to its roots and the IRA/FSA soldiers stayed as they were : working for the Cause from within the enemy camp...
That's one of about seventeen pieces we'll be posting about on Wednesday, 19th November 2025, and it's in relation to men who joined the Free State Army - but their hearts weren't in it.
They made contact with the rebels, and it was decided that they should remain within the belly of the beast, and work for the struggle from there...
A lecture delivered in a republican education class 36 years ago questioned the narratives surrounding the death in prison of a republican activist which three political institutions - Leinster House, Stormont and Westminster - continue to present as something other than it could have been, and possibly was...
1920's, Westminster - during a verbal exchange in which 'the Irish situation' was discussed, the dynamics of the fighting rebels and their ability to, apparently (!), indoctrinate a certain form of mechanical transportation raised a few heckles among the learned friends (!) present...!
...and we'd bleedin' love it if our own learned friends (!) could give us a look-see on the 19th for a few more paragraphs on the above three pieces, and a few words on about fourteen other bits and pieces!
Thanks for the visit, and for reading - appreciated.
Sharon and the team.
(...and we'll appreciate it all the more if ya call back on Wednesday, 19th November, 2025 - ya know ya wanna!)
BURIED AT NIGHT, UNKNOWN LOCATION, UNMARKED GRAVE - FOR ALMOST 100 YEARS...
A shocking piece, from the 1920's in Munster, about an IRA Volunteer who was killed on active service, but circumstances at the time dictated that he would be buried by the IRA, with no marker or any other indication of who he was or how he died.
And there the poor man remained, for almost one-hundred years...
That's one of the pieces we'll be writing about on Wednesday, 22nd October 2025.
It'll be a six-part post, comprising about seventeen separate pieces, mostly from the 1920's, including...
...1920's, Westminster - behind-the-scene transcripts and quotes from British political and military figures in relation to the proposed establishment of a paramilitary grouping which was 'to aid the military powers in Ireland' but to do so at a distance - all knowledge of the gang was disavowed, even though it was financed by the British, 'under the counter'...
..and -
..in London, in the 1900's, a high-ranking political/military figure in Westminster wanted it put on the record (on their filing system 'Hansard') that, in Ireland, in a period of less than one year, more than 120 political meetings had been banned, almost two dozen newspapers had been suppressed, over one dozen businesses had been totally wrecked and closed down and almost one dozen other businesses had been either fire damaged or partially torched...
...wanna know more?
Course ya do!
Well, then - don't just give this partial promo piece a quick read over and then forget all about us : give us a shout and a rekkie on Wednesday, 22nd October 2025, and we'll tell ya the rest of the above pieces, and about fourteen others!
Thanks for the visit, and for reading - appreciated, seriously - but we'll take that back on the 22nd, if'n yer a no-show...!
Sharon and the team.
