JAMES 'Skin-the-Goat' FITZHARRIS : Invincible ......
.....a few days before British Chief Secretary in Ireland W. E. 'Buckshot' FORSTER was due to retire , an attempt was made on his life by The Invincibles ; they laid in wait for him - they were in the right place at the right time .......
But they did not get the signal to go-ahead from the man in charge ; the Invincible team dispersed , thinking that there was a good reason why they were not told to proceed. It later transpired that the order to do the job had been given , but was not passed-on in time ; Forster had a lucky escape that day .
The 2nd May , 1882 (Forster's retirement date) came and went , and the 'Buckshot' was still alive , although not now employed as the British Chief Secretary in Ireland . His replacement , Lord Frederick Cavendish , was due in Dublin on 6th May to take on the job ; the Invincible's were aware of this , and a new plan was put together.
On that day (6th May , 1882) a meeting of the Invincible's was held in Mulbeths Public House in Dublin's Lower Bridge Street (Number 12)...... (MORE LATER)
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
WEST KERRY : Patrick Lynch of Moyrisk.....
.....on the night of 4th November , 1922 , the Free Staters caughtPATRICK LYNCH in his house ; they shot at him , but missed - he pushed them aside and ran , in the darkness , to the cliffs .....
" The raiders went away . He ought to have been careful after that , but there was no one to do the work of his farm , and he came home on November 30th ,1922 , to plough his field . He was tired after it and sat down about six o'clock to enjoy his tea and an hour's rest by the fire . His brother had come in ; his wife was working at her sewing machine ; his sister was rocking the cradle : the baby , Nancy , was only a year old .
"You should go," they said ; but the place he had to sleep in was damp and cold and he was not feeling well . He delayed . When the shout came in the doorway - "Hands up!" ; the two men sprang to their feet . Patrick Lynch went forward and stood in the doorway facing his captors , his right hand held up . His wife took the revolver from his left hand . The soldier , covering the men with his rifle , backed down the yard . They followed him out . Mrs. Lynch turned , trying to hide the revolver , and went to the cupboard for Patrick's coat - he would need it , going with them - the night was cold .
She heard a shot ring out close to the door and then shot after shot , as if the firing would never stop ......" (MORE LATER)
BRITS OUT ......
[from 'The Sunday Tribune' , 13th July , 1997 , page 11]
...... Following George Washington's defeat of the British in 1776 , there was a Unionist element left in America , some of which refused to recognise the change of power and returned to England . Some migrated to the West Indies to remain under British rule and a third section remained in America and were included in the mainstream of society , even though they can still be identified as the 'White Anglo Saxon Protestants' - the W.A.S.P.'s.
The 'W.A.S.P.'s lost their sting and accepted their lot eventually : just as they will in Ireland , too.
......BRUSSEL's OUT -->
[from 'The Sunday Business Post' , 7th September , 1997 , page 6]
<-- In an interview , John Hume(ex-head of the Stoop Down Low Party and friend of BONO) stated -
-- " The resistance of some Unionists to cross-border institutions is very strange , given that both parts(sic) of Ireland are now full members of the European Union and major decisions about our future are being taken at European level with no say of any description by the people of Northern Ireland ."
NOTE TO 'W.A.S.P.'s' --- America is not in the European Union and it's a big country with plenty of room .....
Friday, September 19, 2003
JAMES 'Skin-the-goat' FITZHARRIS : Invincible......
...... in 1881 , aged 48 , James Fitzharrisjoined The Invincibles , a new Irish rebel organisation ; they marked the then British Chief Secretary in Ireland, W.E. 'Buckshot' Forster, out for assassination ......
'Buckshot' Forster was due to retire on 2nd May , 1882 ; despite having failed to assassinate him a number of times , the Invincibles were determined that he would not leave his job alive . James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris had been given the mission to 'tail' Forster and to determine a pattern of how he travelled to and from Dublin Castle , and how often he would visit the Vice-Regal Lodge in Dublin's Phoenix Park .
An attempt was made on the man's life a few days before he retired - members of the Invincibles had positioned themselves along what they believed to be the route that W. E. 'Buckshot' Forster was to take that day and found themselves in the right place at the right time ...... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY ,by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
WEST KERRY - Patrick Lynch of Moyrisk.....
.....in August , 1922 ,Free State troops landed at Cahirciveenand Patrick Lynch was on their wanted list ; they searched , but could not find him .....
" "When we get him , you'll take him up in a box" , the Free State soldiers said to his wife . She answered , with no sign of fear : "Ye have done as much to many a good man." His sister lived with them , and there was a good watch kept . Patrick Lynch slept at home on the night of November the fourth , 1922 , but his wife woke him at two o'clock and told him he ought to go . He delayed a little and before he was gone raiders were at the door .
Stairs go up from the living room to the loft , and he dashed up . His sister was above . The raiders broke in , rushed up , found him and brought him down . He was standing , half-dressed , on the stairs , his feet bare . An Officer stood , facing him , in the door . Another , leaning down from the balustrade above , with a lighted candle in one hand and a gun in the other , covering Lynch , shouted "Bang the bastard ! Bang at him , now !", and fired . But before he had fired Lynch's sister had flung herself forward and quenched the candle with her hand .
The shot missed its mark ; the gun fell to the ground ; Patrick Lynch darted out , thrusting the man in the door aside and ran , in the merciful darkness , to his familiar cliffs ......" (MORE LATER)
BOTH SIDES.....
[from 'The Sunday Tribune', 22nd June , 1997 , page 5]
..... Dublin's O'Connell Street ( or 'Sackville Street' , for my readers in Westminster) has ten close circuit TV cameras overlooking the street since last April (ie April 1997) . The cameras can rotate 360 degrees and can zoom in close enough to read street signs - also , the picture quality is not lessened by the dark .
In the next two months (ie August 1997) another thirty such cameras will come into use , covering an area from Capel Street to Amiens Street .
Yeah , but its only for 'traffic management' , right ....?
OF YOUR MOUTH -->
[from 'AP/RN' , 5th June , 1997 , page 17 , 'Opinion' column]
<-- 'It is possible to speak the language of constitutional politics without surrendering to it or compromising essential principles .' --
-- Translation = " Right , lads - any deal we make with the Staters and/or the Brits is to be described as "the leadership tweaking non-essential principles."
Hell , its worked up to now .....
...... in 1881 , aged 48 , James Fitzharrisjoined The Invincibles , a new Irish rebel organisation ; they marked the then British Chief Secretary in Ireland, W.E. 'Buckshot' Forster, out for assassination ......
'Buckshot' Forster was due to retire on 2nd May , 1882 ; despite having failed to assassinate him a number of times , the Invincibles were determined that he would not leave his job alive . James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris had been given the mission to 'tail' Forster and to determine a pattern of how he travelled to and from Dublin Castle , and how often he would visit the Vice-Regal Lodge in Dublin's Phoenix Park .
An attempt was made on the man's life a few days before he retired - members of the Invincibles had positioned themselves along what they believed to be the route that W. E. 'Buckshot' Forster was to take that day and found themselves in the right place at the right time ...... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY ,by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
WEST KERRY - Patrick Lynch of Moyrisk.....
.....in August , 1922 ,Free State troops landed at Cahirciveenand Patrick Lynch was on their wanted list ; they searched , but could not find him .....
" "When we get him , you'll take him up in a box" , the Free State soldiers said to his wife . She answered , with no sign of fear : "Ye have done as much to many a good man." His sister lived with them , and there was a good watch kept . Patrick Lynch slept at home on the night of November the fourth , 1922 , but his wife woke him at two o'clock and told him he ought to go . He delayed a little and before he was gone raiders were at the door .
Stairs go up from the living room to the loft , and he dashed up . His sister was above . The raiders broke in , rushed up , found him and brought him down . He was standing , half-dressed , on the stairs , his feet bare . An Officer stood , facing him , in the door . Another , leaning down from the balustrade above , with a lighted candle in one hand and a gun in the other , covering Lynch , shouted "Bang the bastard ! Bang at him , now !", and fired . But before he had fired Lynch's sister had flung herself forward and quenched the candle with her hand .
The shot missed its mark ; the gun fell to the ground ; Patrick Lynch darted out , thrusting the man in the door aside and ran , in the merciful darkness , to his familiar cliffs ......" (MORE LATER)
BOTH SIDES.....
[from 'The Sunday Tribune', 22nd June , 1997 , page 5]
..... Dublin's O'Connell Street ( or 'Sackville Street' , for my readers in Westminster) has ten close circuit TV cameras overlooking the street since last April (ie April 1997) . The cameras can rotate 360 degrees and can zoom in close enough to read street signs - also , the picture quality is not lessened by the dark .
In the next two months (ie August 1997) another thirty such cameras will come into use , covering an area from Capel Street to Amiens Street .
Yeah , but its only for 'traffic management' , right ....?
OF YOUR MOUTH -->
[from 'AP/RN' , 5th June , 1997 , page 17 , 'Opinion' column]
<-- 'It is possible to speak the language of constitutional politics without surrendering to it or compromising essential principles .' --
-- Translation = " Right , lads - any deal we make with the Staters and/or the Brits is to be described as "the leadership tweaking non-essential principles."
Hell , its worked up to now .....
Thursday, September 18, 2003
JAMES 'SKIN-THE-GOAT' FITZHARRIS : INVINCIBLE .
.....at twenty-five years young ,James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris joined a new Irish Republican organisation : theFenians ; the year was 1858......
He worked in the 'background' for that Movement , using his 'cab' and his intimate knowledge of Dublin streets to aid the rebels . When he was forty-eight years of age (in 1881) he joined a new organisation within weeks of it being founded - the 'Irish National Invincibles' ; this group considered itself as a select group-within-a-group , and were not as concerned with the politics of the situation as much as the Fenian's were - they were established to be the 'cutting edge' of the struggle .
They set their sights on the British Chief Secretary in Ireland , W. E. Forster (known to his own forces as "Buckshot") , who had 'made his name' in Ireland by his brutal treatment of the homeless Irish people during the 'Land War'....... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
WEST KERRY - Patrick Lynch of Moyrisk.
" After 1916 ,when Patrick Lynch was a Captain in the Volunteers , he had a hiding-place for his guns and ammunition in the cliffs , not far from his house in Moyrisk . He and his Lieutenant used to go there to clean the guns . He had to courtmartial his Lieutenant during the Black-and-Tan campaign for swaggering conduct that dishonoured the Volunteers , and reduced him to the ranks .
In 1922 ,Patrick Lynch was Commandant of the 2nd Battalion , Kerry No.3 Brigade , IRA . He had married a girl from the far side of the Glen - a girl with the clear , pointed face , dark hair , and hazel eyes , full of life , which the old bards of Munster loved . She was Captain of Cumann na mBan in the Glen . After the landing of Free State troops at Cahirciveen , in August 1922 , Patrick Lynch was in danger night and day .
He seldom slept at home , and the raiders were baffled in their search ....... "(MORE LATER).
COUNTING.....
[from'Fortnight' magazine , issue 335 , January 1995 , page 5]
..... In an article , the then 'Fortnight' Editor , Robin Wilson wrote --
--" During 1994 , Gerry Adams said the difference between himself and Michael Collins was that Mr. Collins had'nt got rid of partition " !
And fair play to you for doin' it , Gerry : you deserve a holiday . I hear Cork is nice this time of year .....
.....beef...CHICKENS -->
[more on the 'Beef Tribunal', this time from the 'HOT PRESS' Christmas/New Year Annual , 1994 , page 17]
<-- Every sitting day of the Beef Tribunal cost £31,688 punts (Euro 40,235) ; it sat for two-hundred-and-twenty-six days ! A grand total of £7,161,488 punts (Euro 9,093,214). The State spent £298,744 punts (Euro 379,326) in consultants fees to the spin doctoring firm , Carr Communications and a firm of economic consultants , John Hogan and Associates .
The four Senior Counsel employed by the State were each paid £1,890 punts (Euro 2399) PER DAY . They were also paid £1,050 punts (Euro 1,333) for working days when the Tribunal was not actually sitting ! The highest paid lawyer acting for the State , Eoin McGonigal S.C, became a Tribunal millionaire during the two years of the 'inquiry' . £80,460 punts (Euro 102,163) was spent on photocopying , £47,350 punts (Euro 60,122) spent on post and Telecom charges , and £456,860 punts (Euro 580,092) spent on stenographers fees .
.....think they should all go to Cork for their holidays .....
.....at twenty-five years young ,James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris joined a new Irish Republican organisation : theFenians ; the year was 1858......
He worked in the 'background' for that Movement , using his 'cab' and his intimate knowledge of Dublin streets to aid the rebels . When he was forty-eight years of age (in 1881) he joined a new organisation within weeks of it being founded - the 'Irish National Invincibles' ; this group considered itself as a select group-within-a-group , and were not as concerned with the politics of the situation as much as the Fenian's were - they were established to be the 'cutting edge' of the struggle .
They set their sights on the British Chief Secretary in Ireland , W. E. Forster (known to his own forces as "Buckshot") , who had 'made his name' in Ireland by his brutal treatment of the homeless Irish people during the 'Land War'....... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
WEST KERRY - Patrick Lynch of Moyrisk.
" After 1916 ,when Patrick Lynch was a Captain in the Volunteers , he had a hiding-place for his guns and ammunition in the cliffs , not far from his house in Moyrisk . He and his Lieutenant used to go there to clean the guns . He had to courtmartial his Lieutenant during the Black-and-Tan campaign for swaggering conduct that dishonoured the Volunteers , and reduced him to the ranks .
In 1922 ,Patrick Lynch was Commandant of the 2nd Battalion , Kerry No.3 Brigade , IRA . He had married a girl from the far side of the Glen - a girl with the clear , pointed face , dark hair , and hazel eyes , full of life , which the old bards of Munster loved . She was Captain of Cumann na mBan in the Glen . After the landing of Free State troops at Cahirciveen , in August 1922 , Patrick Lynch was in danger night and day .
He seldom slept at home , and the raiders were baffled in their search ....... "(MORE LATER).
COUNTING.....
[from'Fortnight' magazine , issue 335 , January 1995 , page 5]
..... In an article , the then 'Fortnight' Editor , Robin Wilson wrote --
--" During 1994 , Gerry Adams said the difference between himself and Michael Collins was that Mr. Collins had'nt got rid of partition " !
And fair play to you for doin' it , Gerry : you deserve a holiday . I hear Cork is nice this time of year .....
.....beef...CHICKENS -->
[more on the 'Beef Tribunal', this time from the 'HOT PRESS' Christmas/New Year Annual , 1994 , page 17]
<-- Every sitting day of the Beef Tribunal cost £31,688 punts (Euro 40,235) ; it sat for two-hundred-and-twenty-six days ! A grand total of £7,161,488 punts (Euro 9,093,214). The State spent £298,744 punts (Euro 379,326) in consultants fees to the spin doctoring firm , Carr Communications and a firm of economic consultants , John Hogan and Associates .
The four Senior Counsel employed by the State were each paid £1,890 punts (Euro 2399) PER DAY . They were also paid £1,050 punts (Euro 1,333) for working days when the Tribunal was not actually sitting ! The highest paid lawyer acting for the State , Eoin McGonigal S.C, became a Tribunal millionaire during the two years of the 'inquiry' . £80,460 punts (Euro 102,163) was spent on photocopying , £47,350 punts (Euro 60,122) spent on post and Telecom charges , and £456,860 punts (Euro 580,092) spent on stenographers fees .
.....think they should all go to Cork for their holidays .....
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
JAMES 'SKIN THE GOAT' FITZHARRIS : INVINCIBLE.
6th May , 1882 ; a date remembered by Irish Republicans as the date of the 'Phoenix Park Assassinations', when two top British Government Officials in Ireland - Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke were put to death by Irish rebels .
A man who played a vital part in that operation was Dublin jarvey (horse-drawn cab) operator James Fitzharris - 'Skin-the-Goat' , as he was known , due to the fact that he always draped a length of goat-skin over his shoulders while working .
James Fitzharris was born at Irishtown in Dublin , in 1833 ; when he was twenty-five years young he joined a new Irish Republican organisation , The Fenians ....... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924.
KILLARNEY.....
......on the run in an area he did not know , Tadhg Coffey called to a house and asked what town he was near . He then asked the girl if she knew the way to Jack Moynihans house......
"This is Jack Moynihan's house," she answered , and came down and opened the door and brought him in . It was on the same morning that nine prisoners were blown up at Ballyseedy Cross . There were nineteen prisoners put to death that week , in Kerry , within six days .
Sugrue , the tailor , was buried on the same day as John Kevins . He told some friends in Killarney what he had learned in the barrack . He must have been overheard . On his return to the barrack a Free State Officer shot him dead . "
[END].
RITCHIE RICH.....
[figures taken from'The Phoenix Magazine' March 1997 , Volume 15, No.5 , page 13]
..... Ritchie Ryan , a well-known career politician in this State at the time , was one of the better-known toads in Leinster House who constantly advised people that "money was tight , can't do this , can't do that etc etc " - the poor mouth , all the time . He never mentioned that he himself was in receipt of four pensions at the time !
He was on a pension of £13,400 punts (Euro 17,014) for his 'service' as Leinster House Finance Minister (1973-1977) , a pension of £19,088(Euro24,236) from Leinster House for his time spent there as a waffling 'deputy' (1959-1981) , a pension of £7,808 punts(Euro9,914) from the European Parliament for climbing butter-mountains or somesuch during the years 1977-1986 , and pension number four , worth £32,000 punts (Euro40,631) from the European Court of Auditors , probably for counting the butter-mountains !
And here's the twist , folks --- there's one-hundred-and-sixty-six clones of 'Red' Ritchie Ryan in Leinster House waiting for you to pay for them to stay in the style they're accustomed too .
Keep voting for them, won't ya?
6th May , 1882 ; a date remembered by Irish Republicans as the date of the 'Phoenix Park Assassinations', when two top British Government Officials in Ireland - Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke were put to death by Irish rebels .
A man who played a vital part in that operation was Dublin jarvey (horse-drawn cab) operator James Fitzharris - 'Skin-the-Goat' , as he was known , due to the fact that he always draped a length of goat-skin over his shoulders while working .
James Fitzharris was born at Irishtown in Dublin , in 1833 ; when he was twenty-five years young he joined a new Irish Republican organisation , The Fenians ....... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924.
KILLARNEY.....
......on the run in an area he did not know , Tadhg Coffey called to a house and asked what town he was near . He then asked the girl if she knew the way to Jack Moynihans house......
"This is Jack Moynihan's house," she answered , and came down and opened the door and brought him in . It was on the same morning that nine prisoners were blown up at Ballyseedy Cross . There were nineteen prisoners put to death that week , in Kerry , within six days .
Sugrue , the tailor , was buried on the same day as John Kevins . He told some friends in Killarney what he had learned in the barrack . He must have been overheard . On his return to the barrack a Free State Officer shot him dead . "
[END].
RITCHIE RICH.....
[figures taken from'The Phoenix Magazine' March 1997 , Volume 15, No.5 , page 13]
..... Ritchie Ryan , a well-known career politician in this State at the time , was one of the better-known toads in Leinster House who constantly advised people that "money was tight , can't do this , can't do that etc etc " - the poor mouth , all the time . He never mentioned that he himself was in receipt of four pensions at the time !
He was on a pension of £13,400 punts (Euro 17,014) for his 'service' as Leinster House Finance Minister (1973-1977) , a pension of £19,088(Euro24,236) from Leinster House for his time spent there as a waffling 'deputy' (1959-1981) , a pension of £7,808 punts(Euro9,914) from the European Parliament for climbing butter-mountains or somesuch during the years 1977-1986 , and pension number four , worth £32,000 punts (Euro40,631) from the European Court of Auditors , probably for counting the butter-mountains !
And here's the twist , folks --- there's one-hundred-and-sixty-six clones of 'Red' Ritchie Ryan in Leinster House waiting for you to pay for them to stay in the style they're accustomed too .
Keep voting for them, won't ya?
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
FR. LUKE WADDING , AUTHOR AND IRISH REPUBLICAN......
......with their Civil War coming under control , the English re-organised and changed tactics in relation to their "Irish problem" ; they sent Oliver Cromwell over ......
Fr. Luke Wadding despaired; he buried himself in literature and wrote and published a history of the Franciscan Order , in eight volumes . Altogether , he published thirty-six books before he died , in Rome , on 18th November , 1657 , aged sixty-nine .
The man is all but forgotten now , even among some so-called 'scholars' ; Fr. Luke Wadding turned his back on the comfortable lifestyle that could have been his had he 'toed the line' in Ireland . He stood up for what he believed to be just , and deserves to be better remembered for doing so .
[END].
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
......having survived the Free State trap ,Tadhg Coffeywas now on the run , being chased through the woods . He was in strange territory , but kept going .....
" All the time he had been clutching something in his hand - his rosary beads . All the time one prayer had been beating in his mind ; to get to Jack Moynihan . With Jack Moynihan he'd be safe . But he did not know the house or the way to it or to which side of Killarney he had come .
He saw a white house beyond in the fields . The risk would have to be taken , sooner or later . He thought he would go to it and ask the way . It was very quiet ; there was no sound of firing now . The people in the house were asleep ; nobody answered his knock . He saw the yard-brush against the wall and flung it against an upper window . Presently a girl looked out .
"What place is this?" , he asked . "Tis Kilcummin" ,she said . " About what part of Kilcummin is it ?" "About the middle." He felt distracted , not knowing which way to turn . He thought he would risk the question , and asked : " Can you tell me the way to Moynihan's ?" (MORE LATER.)
TOPSEY......
[from'RTE' radio programme 'Morning Ireland', 12th September , 1995 - a Tuesday , I believe- 8.26am]
" He will defend the Union. He will defend democracy " . --
-- Pronsias De Rossa (aka Frank Ross) , congratulating David Trimble on his then election as UUP leader .
Frank was locked up for Irish Republican activity by the State at one stage in his 'career' : He was a member of Sinn Fein , then 'Official' Sinn Fein (the 'Stickies') , then Democratic Left , then 'New Agenda' , and is now President of the Free State Labour Party . His 'comrades' in that Party sent him away to Brussels , probably afraid , or hoping, that he would jump ship again .
......TURVEY -->
[from'AP/RN',8th June , 1995 , page 4]
<-- One of the richest men in Britain , Charles Windsor (him to be one of the 'Royal' corgi-watchers)earned £500,000 last year (ie 1994) in European Union 'set-aside' payments , because of his farming interests !
So THAT's why this State is a member of the E U -- so we can keep the British 'Royal Family' in the style they were reared in .....
......with their Civil War coming under control , the English re-organised and changed tactics in relation to their "Irish problem" ; they sent Oliver Cromwell over ......
Fr. Luke Wadding despaired; he buried himself in literature and wrote and published a history of the Franciscan Order , in eight volumes . Altogether , he published thirty-six books before he died , in Rome , on 18th November , 1657 , aged sixty-nine .
The man is all but forgotten now , even among some so-called 'scholars' ; Fr. Luke Wadding turned his back on the comfortable lifestyle that could have been his had he 'toed the line' in Ireland . He stood up for what he believed to be just , and deserves to be better remembered for doing so .
[END].
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
......having survived the Free State trap ,Tadhg Coffeywas now on the run , being chased through the woods . He was in strange territory , but kept going .....
" All the time he had been clutching something in his hand - his rosary beads . All the time one prayer had been beating in his mind ; to get to Jack Moynihan . With Jack Moynihan he'd be safe . But he did not know the house or the way to it or to which side of Killarney he had come .
He saw a white house beyond in the fields . The risk would have to be taken , sooner or later . He thought he would go to it and ask the way . It was very quiet ; there was no sound of firing now . The people in the house were asleep ; nobody answered his knock . He saw the yard-brush against the wall and flung it against an upper window . Presently a girl looked out .
"What place is this?" , he asked . "Tis Kilcummin" ,she said . " About what part of Kilcummin is it ?" "About the middle." He felt distracted , not knowing which way to turn . He thought he would risk the question , and asked : " Can you tell me the way to Moynihan's ?" (MORE LATER.)
TOPSEY......
[from'RTE' radio programme 'Morning Ireland', 12th September , 1995 - a Tuesday , I believe- 8.26am]
" He will defend the Union. He will defend democracy " . --
-- Pronsias De Rossa (aka Frank Ross) , congratulating David Trimble on his then election as UUP leader .
Frank was locked up for Irish Republican activity by the State at one stage in his 'career' : He was a member of Sinn Fein , then 'Official' Sinn Fein (the 'Stickies') , then Democratic Left , then 'New Agenda' , and is now President of the Free State Labour Party . His 'comrades' in that Party sent him away to Brussels , probably afraid , or hoping, that he would jump ship again .
......TURVEY -->
[from'AP/RN',8th June , 1995 , page 4]
<-- One of the richest men in Britain , Charles Windsor (him to be one of the 'Royal' corgi-watchers)earned £500,000 last year (ie 1994) in European Union 'set-aside' payments , because of his farming interests !
So THAT's why this State is a member of the E U -- so we can keep the British 'Royal Family' in the style they were reared in .....
Monday, September 15, 2003
FR. LUKE WADDING , AUTHOR AND IRISH REPUBLICAN .....
.....watching developments in Ireland with great interest ,Fr.Luke Wadding knew that if the Irish Chiefs Rory O'More and Phelim O'Neill were successful in taking their land back from the English , they would not stop at that .....
That instinct was shared by another Irish Chieftain , Owen Roe O'Neill, who was serving with Spain in the Netherlands , and he organised for supplies and money to be sent to Ireland to help in the fight against the English . In July , 1642 , O'Neill arrived back in Ireland with his men to join the campaign .
Fr. Luke Wadding was doing his best as well - he raised money and arms in Rome and arranged transport for same to Ireland . He used his clerical connections and influence to ensure that the Papal Nuncio Rinuccini was sent on a 'fact-finding' mission to Ireland ; included in the Nuncio's baggage was more money and arms for the Irish !
With England divided between itself due to it's Civil War , the Irish held out for a number of years until the English re-organised and changed tactics : they sent Oliver Cromwell over , and the slaughter and massacre of the population was now their objective ..... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
.....the Free State soldiers set-off the explosives buried in the stones that the IRA prisoners were standing beside ; Tadhg Coffey and Jeremiah Donoghue were still alive following the blast - they crawled round a bend in the road , but were seen by the Free State soldiers .....
" Machine-gun fire was splintering the wall beside them . Coffey crawled on , dragging his helpless leg . His clothes were torn by bullets ; the earth splashed into his face . Jeremiah was hit and lay still , dead . Tadhg Coffey crawled on . Suddenly he found himself able to stand . A high park gate was before him ; he sprang at it like a cat and swung himself over it . He was in a wood .
He must have been sighted by a second group of the enemy , for bullets were spitting round him still ; twigs and branches , torn from the trees , were crashing round him . A grenade burst in front of him , seeming to set the wood on fire . He did not know the country he was in . He did not know whether he was going north , south , east , or west . He ran until his heart was bursting and his eyes were blind ; when he paused , he seemed to be out of the range of the guns ." (MORE LATER).
GREEN AND.....
[from 'AP/RN' ,5th October , 1995 , pages 10 and 11]
.....The Tynagh Mine in County Galway operated for fifteen years and generated a 'tailings pond' covering over one-hundred and sixty acres of land ! Eight tonnes of sodium cyanide were used every week in the extraction of silver , and every day workers collected dead birds , including swans and ducks , from open cyanide ponds and dumped them .
Details NOT to be found in a 'Bord Failte' brochure ....
.....PLEASANT LAND -->
[from 'SAOIRSE' , September , 1995 , page 6]
<-- In 1988 , it was proved that emissions from the incinerator that burned the waste of the company 'Merck , Sharpe and Dohme' caused the deaths or deformation of two-hundred of farmer John Hanrahan's cattle in Tipperary .
SILLY POLITICIANS ! - they should have organised for someone to dump the cattle remains in a local 'tailings pond' ....
.....watching developments in Ireland with great interest ,Fr.Luke Wadding knew that if the Irish Chiefs Rory O'More and Phelim O'Neill were successful in taking their land back from the English , they would not stop at that .....
That instinct was shared by another Irish Chieftain , Owen Roe O'Neill, who was serving with Spain in the Netherlands , and he organised for supplies and money to be sent to Ireland to help in the fight against the English . In July , 1642 , O'Neill arrived back in Ireland with his men to join the campaign .
Fr. Luke Wadding was doing his best as well - he raised money and arms in Rome and arranged transport for same to Ireland . He used his clerical connections and influence to ensure that the Papal Nuncio Rinuccini was sent on a 'fact-finding' mission to Ireland ; included in the Nuncio's baggage was more money and arms for the Irish !
With England divided between itself due to it's Civil War , the Irish held out for a number of years until the English re-organised and changed tactics : they sent Oliver Cromwell over , and the slaughter and massacre of the population was now their objective ..... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
.....the Free State soldiers set-off the explosives buried in the stones that the IRA prisoners were standing beside ; Tadhg Coffey and Jeremiah Donoghue were still alive following the blast - they crawled round a bend in the road , but were seen by the Free State soldiers .....
" Machine-gun fire was splintering the wall beside them . Coffey crawled on , dragging his helpless leg . His clothes were torn by bullets ; the earth splashed into his face . Jeremiah was hit and lay still , dead . Tadhg Coffey crawled on . Suddenly he found himself able to stand . A high park gate was before him ; he sprang at it like a cat and swung himself over it . He was in a wood .
He must have been sighted by a second group of the enemy , for bullets were spitting round him still ; twigs and branches , torn from the trees , were crashing round him . A grenade burst in front of him , seeming to set the wood on fire . He did not know the country he was in . He did not know whether he was going north , south , east , or west . He ran until his heart was bursting and his eyes were blind ; when he paused , he seemed to be out of the range of the guns ." (MORE LATER).
GREEN AND.....
[from 'AP/RN' ,5th October , 1995 , pages 10 and 11]
.....The Tynagh Mine in County Galway operated for fifteen years and generated a 'tailings pond' covering over one-hundred and sixty acres of land ! Eight tonnes of sodium cyanide were used every week in the extraction of silver , and every day workers collected dead birds , including swans and ducks , from open cyanide ponds and dumped them .
Details NOT to be found in a 'Bord Failte' brochure ....
.....PLEASANT LAND -->
[from 'SAOIRSE' , September , 1995 , page 6]
<-- In 1988 , it was proved that emissions from the incinerator that burned the waste of the company 'Merck , Sharpe and Dohme' caused the deaths or deformation of two-hundred of farmer John Hanrahan's cattle in Tipperary .
SILLY POLITICIANS ! - they should have organised for someone to dump the cattle remains in a local 'tailings pond' ....
Sunday, September 14, 2003
FR. LUKE WADDING , AUTHOR AND IRISH REPUBLICAN......
.....at fourteen years young , and with both of his parents dead , Luke Wadding bid farewell to his 13 brothers and sisters and made his way to the Irish College in Lisbon , Portugal , and later entered the Franciscan Order .....
When he was thirty years of age he went to Rome , where he was to stay for the rest of his life . At age thirty-seven (in 1625) he helped establish the Irish Franciscan College of Saint Isidore and , two years later , he founded the Ludouision College for Irish Clergy .
His heart was in Ireland and he wrote home to friends on a weekly basis , enquiring about the political situation , which he was deeply interested in . He was aware that Irish Chiefs Rory O'More and Phelim O'Neill had joined forces to take back the land that the English had confiscated from them -- this was in October 1641 , just as the Civil War was starting in England , between King Charles and the English Parliament .
If O'More and O'Neill were successful in driving the English from the lands that the English had confiscated , Fr. Luke Wadding knew they would not stop at that ......(More later).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , By Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
.....on Wednesday , 7th March , 1923 , the five IRA prisoners were taken from their cells and marched across the fields ; one of the prisoners , Tadhg Coffey, looked over at his friend Stephen Buckley--what he saw filled him with horror .....
" Buckley was bent double , like an old man ; his clothes were crusted with blood - one half of his face was cut and torn . Tim Murphy was there too . They were brought to the Countess's Bridge and halted there . There was a low barricade of stones across the road . They were ordered to move the stones and throw them inside the fence . They saw a Free State soldier at the far side of the fence bending down . They saw the rest of the soldiers draw the bolts of their guns .
The prisoners ran to the barricade and jumped over it : they thought they were to be shot while they were moving the stones . There was a moments pause . Some of the Officers began whispering together and arranging something with the man at the fence . Then , suddenly , the soldiers scattered and ran and threw themselves down under cover . " My God , lads, this is a trap !", Coffey cried , and he bent down to look for a wire . A stone was flung . It must have been a signal . Instantly the explosions came .
When Coffey looked up he could see Tim Murphy and Dan Donoghue and Stephen Buckley , covered with blood , moaning and moving feebly on the ground . They were not dead , but bomb after bomb was flung among them and shots were fired . He tried to rise , but his left knee was helpless , and he fell . Jeremiah Donoghue was beside him , unhurt . They crawled on hands and knees and got round a bend in the road . They were seen ......"(MORE LATER).
THANKS.......
.......to 'Brian , Derry'for his note in the 'Guestbook' regarding the article on Dr. William Walsh , the Republican Archbishop of Dublin : Brian tells me that a Bishop McHugh of Derry described the proposals contained in the 1920 'Government of Ireland Act' (which proposed the partition of Ireland) as intended for the " permanent partition and plundering of Ireland and the enslavement of her people in the interests of Great Britain ."
Keep them coming , folks -- especially those comments and addendum's like the above one . The other type ... well , what the hell ; if you were'nt spending your time cursing me from a height sure you'd be up to all types of mischief .
Like out selling the latest edition of 'NAZI NEWS' or somesuch ....
.......AND NO THANKS -->
[from 'AP/RN', 1st August , 1996 , page 8]
<-- In Castlereagh Council on 25th July , 1996 - a Thursday , if memory serves - Unionist Councillor Cecil Moore stated -
--" Catholics should be kept in their ghettos because that is all they are good for ."
....and no doubt Cecil will do a door-to-door delivery in each ghetto with the 'NAZI NEWS' !
.....at fourteen years young , and with both of his parents dead , Luke Wadding bid farewell to his 13 brothers and sisters and made his way to the Irish College in Lisbon , Portugal , and later entered the Franciscan Order .....
When he was thirty years of age he went to Rome , where he was to stay for the rest of his life . At age thirty-seven (in 1625) he helped establish the Irish Franciscan College of Saint Isidore and , two years later , he founded the Ludouision College for Irish Clergy .
His heart was in Ireland and he wrote home to friends on a weekly basis , enquiring about the political situation , which he was deeply interested in . He was aware that Irish Chiefs Rory O'More and Phelim O'Neill had joined forces to take back the land that the English had confiscated from them -- this was in October 1641 , just as the Civil War was starting in England , between King Charles and the English Parliament .
If O'More and O'Neill were successful in driving the English from the lands that the English had confiscated , Fr. Luke Wadding knew they would not stop at that ......(More later).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , By Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
.....on Wednesday , 7th March , 1923 , the five IRA prisoners were taken from their cells and marched across the fields ; one of the prisoners , Tadhg Coffey, looked over at his friend Stephen Buckley--what he saw filled him with horror .....
" Buckley was bent double , like an old man ; his clothes were crusted with blood - one half of his face was cut and torn . Tim Murphy was there too . They were brought to the Countess's Bridge and halted there . There was a low barricade of stones across the road . They were ordered to move the stones and throw them inside the fence . They saw a Free State soldier at the far side of the fence bending down . They saw the rest of the soldiers draw the bolts of their guns .
The prisoners ran to the barricade and jumped over it : they thought they were to be shot while they were moving the stones . There was a moments pause . Some of the Officers began whispering together and arranging something with the man at the fence . Then , suddenly , the soldiers scattered and ran and threw themselves down under cover . " My God , lads, this is a trap !", Coffey cried , and he bent down to look for a wire . A stone was flung . It must have been a signal . Instantly the explosions came .
When Coffey looked up he could see Tim Murphy and Dan Donoghue and Stephen Buckley , covered with blood , moaning and moving feebly on the ground . They were not dead , but bomb after bomb was flung among them and shots were fired . He tried to rise , but his left knee was helpless , and he fell . Jeremiah Donoghue was beside him , unhurt . They crawled on hands and knees and got round a bend in the road . They were seen ......"(MORE LATER).
THANKS.......
.......to 'Brian , Derry'for his note in the 'Guestbook' regarding the article on Dr. William Walsh , the Republican Archbishop of Dublin : Brian tells me that a Bishop McHugh of Derry described the proposals contained in the 1920 'Government of Ireland Act' (which proposed the partition of Ireland) as intended for the " permanent partition and plundering of Ireland and the enslavement of her people in the interests of Great Britain ."
Keep them coming , folks -- especially those comments and addendum's like the above one . The other type ... well , what the hell ; if you were'nt spending your time cursing me from a height sure you'd be up to all types of mischief .
Like out selling the latest edition of 'NAZI NEWS' or somesuch ....
.......AND NO THANKS -->
[from 'AP/RN', 1st August , 1996 , page 8]
<-- In Castlereagh Council on 25th July , 1996 - a Thursday , if memory serves - Unionist Councillor Cecil Moore stated -
--" Catholics should be kept in their ghettos because that is all they are good for ."
....and no doubt Cecil will do a door-to-door delivery in each ghetto with the 'NAZI NEWS' !
Saturday, September 13, 2003
FR. LUKE WADDING , AUTHOR AND IRISH REPUBLICAN .
A child born in Waterford in October 1588 grew up to become head of the Irish Franciscans in Rome , a position he used to draw attention to English mis-rule in Ireland .
The parents of Luke Wadding , Walter and Anastasia , had fourteen children in all , but noticed in Luke a propensity for study ; they helped him as best they could , but both parents were dead by the time Luke was in his early teens . At fourteen years young , Luke Wadding made his way to the Irish College in Lisbon , Portugal , and later entered the Franciscan Order . (MORE LATER....)
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
.....a tailor in the Free State barracks , a Mr. Sugrue , would sometimes manage to smuggle a bottle of stout into the cells for the Republican prisoners , but was afraid to do more than that for them .....
" Oh lads ," the tailor said to the IRA prisoners on Sunday, "tis a bad story . I heard them picking a firing party tonight ." The next day he was beaming : " You're reprieved," he said to them . They knew what that meant ; they were hostages . When the next Republican military operation took place they would be shot . It was on the Wednesday , the seventh of March (1923) that they were wakened suddenly .
A soldier , mad with rage , was trying to break into their cell , swearing he would kill them . He was removed but a Free State Officer , almost equally excited , shouted to them to come out . They were scarcely given time to dress . "You'll do as you are," he said . It was not yet light . Outside they found six Free State Officers and a crowd of soldiers . Five prisoners were marched along the road in single file and over the fields . It was neither dark nor light in the fields ; there was a fine bright moon . Coffey looked at Stephen Buckley , and what he saw filled him with a horror that the thought of death could never bring ..... " (MORE LATER.....).
FOREIGN......
[from'The Sunday Business Post',5th March , 1995 , page 40]
..... On 'Prime Time Live', 'ABC's current affairs programme last week (ie March 1995) their chief correspondent Chris Wallace explained why Free State Passports are so popular with rich Americans --
--" Say 'Mr. Rich' has a net worth of one billion dollars . If he dies a U S citizen , roughly 550 million dollars goes to the U S government . But if he changes his citizenship to a tax haven , the entire one billion dollars can go to his heirs . The first step , becoming a foreign citizen , is easy . Favourite new homes include Ireland , Switzerland and especially the Caribbean ."
.....step forward the leeches we have in Leinster House , who spotted an opportunity for a nixer and let it be known that , if the price was right , any wealthy business person could be an overnight 'Irish Citizen'.
......FRIENDS -->
[from'The Sunday Times',26th February , 1995 , section 3 , page 4]
<-- Eoghan Harris , Fine Gael's comedy expert on earth , described himself "as someone who greatly admires the heroic history of the Northern planters ." !
Now that's funny .....
A child born in Waterford in October 1588 grew up to become head of the Irish Franciscans in Rome , a position he used to draw attention to English mis-rule in Ireland .
The parents of Luke Wadding , Walter and Anastasia , had fourteen children in all , but noticed in Luke a propensity for study ; they helped him as best they could , but both parents were dead by the time Luke was in his early teens . At fourteen years young , Luke Wadding made his way to the Irish College in Lisbon , Portugal , and later entered the Franciscan Order . (MORE LATER....)
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
.....a tailor in the Free State barracks , a Mr. Sugrue , would sometimes manage to smuggle a bottle of stout into the cells for the Republican prisoners , but was afraid to do more than that for them .....
" Oh lads ," the tailor said to the IRA prisoners on Sunday, "tis a bad story . I heard them picking a firing party tonight ." The next day he was beaming : " You're reprieved," he said to them . They knew what that meant ; they were hostages . When the next Republican military operation took place they would be shot . It was on the Wednesday , the seventh of March (1923) that they were wakened suddenly .
A soldier , mad with rage , was trying to break into their cell , swearing he would kill them . He was removed but a Free State Officer , almost equally excited , shouted to them to come out . They were scarcely given time to dress . "You'll do as you are," he said . It was not yet light . Outside they found six Free State Officers and a crowd of soldiers . Five prisoners were marched along the road in single file and over the fields . It was neither dark nor light in the fields ; there was a fine bright moon . Coffey looked at Stephen Buckley , and what he saw filled him with a horror that the thought of death could never bring ..... " (MORE LATER.....).
FOREIGN......
[from'The Sunday Business Post',5th March , 1995 , page 40]
..... On 'Prime Time Live', 'ABC's current affairs programme last week (ie March 1995) their chief correspondent Chris Wallace explained why Free State Passports are so popular with rich Americans --
--" Say 'Mr. Rich' has a net worth of one billion dollars . If he dies a U S citizen , roughly 550 million dollars goes to the U S government . But if he changes his citizenship to a tax haven , the entire one billion dollars can go to his heirs . The first step , becoming a foreign citizen , is easy . Favourite new homes include Ireland , Switzerland and especially the Caribbean ."
.....step forward the leeches we have in Leinster House , who spotted an opportunity for a nixer and let it be known that , if the price was right , any wealthy business person could be an overnight 'Irish Citizen'.
......FRIENDS -->
[from'The Sunday Times',26th February , 1995 , section 3 , page 4]
<-- Eoghan Harris , Fine Gael's comedy expert on earth , described himself "as someone who greatly admires the heroic history of the Northern planters ." !
Now that's funny .....
Friday, September 12, 2003
DR. WILLIAM WALSH , ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN AND IRISH REPUBLICAN .....
.....at seventy-nine years of age ,Archbishop William Walsh assisted in the formation of the'Irish White Cross' organisation , which looked after the dependents of Irish Republican prisoners .....
On 9th April , 1921 , at eighty years of age , Archbishop Dr. William Walsh died in Dublin , much to the relief of the British , who despised him . Had he lived , there is little doubt , if any , but that he would have supported those who rejected the 'Treaty of Surrender' (6th December , 1921) . He was opposed to British rule in Ireland , and would almost certainly have been against the British surrogates (ie the Free Staters) that they left "in charge" .
People of the calibre of William Walsh are badly missed from the Catholic Church of today ; those that would be prepared to say " NO " to the easy , comfortable and affluent lifestyle offered them by the establishment and stand up for that which they know to be moral . There are an awful lot of well-dressed , well-fed people walking around with heavy hearts ....
(END).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
.....the three IRA Volunteers had a 'dug-out' in Rathdrinagh and were sleeping there on March the third , 1923 .....
" The 'dug-out' must have been betrayed , for the Free State soldiers came straight to the spot and tore down the stones . They found two rifles with the three men . There were hundreds of soldiers surrounding the place , searching the hills . A boy named Shea , who was in the field , was arrested too . He saw Stephen Buckley beaten until he could not straighten his back . They were taken to Killarney together . "Up the Republic !" ,Stephen shouted as the lorry went in to the barrack gate .
People living in the market place heard terrible screams from the barrack during the evening . They thought the prisoners were being killed . Father Finbarr was leaving the barrack after hearing confessions that night and a soldier , when no one was watching , opened the door of a dark room and let him look in . Four prisoners were lying there , too weak to speak or move . He gave them conditional absolution - it was all he could do . There was a little Free State Army tailor working in the barrack : Sugrue was his name . He was greatly troubled about the prisoners , but dared not do much for them .
He would look round the door into the room where Coffey and Donoghue were , and put down , quickly , a bottle of stout . "For God's sake , hide it ," , he would say , terrified , "or I'll be plugged with yourselves !" " MORE LATER.
GOD'S WORD.......
[from'The Irish Times',8th June , 1995 - a Thursday , if memory serves - page 13]
....... " As an English churchman , I am aware of just how much we English need to ask forgiveness for our often brutal domination and crass insensitivity in the eight-hundred years of history of our relationship with Ireland . "
--Archbishop Carey , the then most senior-ranking member of the British establishment after the 'Royal' family , quoted on 19th November - a Friday , I believe - 1994 , in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin .
It may be a step in the right direction but , as well as the fact that the Brits did'nt heed the man , his use of the word "relationship" is hardly correct : try " dealing's " if you want to be diplomatic , Sir , or " interference " if you want to be honest .
.....at seventy-nine years of age ,Archbishop William Walsh assisted in the formation of the'Irish White Cross' organisation , which looked after the dependents of Irish Republican prisoners .....
On 9th April , 1921 , at eighty years of age , Archbishop Dr. William Walsh died in Dublin , much to the relief of the British , who despised him . Had he lived , there is little doubt , if any , but that he would have supported those who rejected the 'Treaty of Surrender' (6th December , 1921) . He was opposed to British rule in Ireland , and would almost certainly have been against the British surrogates (ie the Free Staters) that they left "in charge" .
People of the calibre of William Walsh are badly missed from the Catholic Church of today ; those that would be prepared to say " NO " to the easy , comfortable and affluent lifestyle offered them by the establishment and stand up for that which they know to be moral . There are an awful lot of well-dressed , well-fed people walking around with heavy hearts ....
(END).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
.....the three IRA Volunteers had a 'dug-out' in Rathdrinagh and were sleeping there on March the third , 1923 .....
" The 'dug-out' must have been betrayed , for the Free State soldiers came straight to the spot and tore down the stones . They found two rifles with the three men . There were hundreds of soldiers surrounding the place , searching the hills . A boy named Shea , who was in the field , was arrested too . He saw Stephen Buckley beaten until he could not straighten his back . They were taken to Killarney together . "Up the Republic !" ,Stephen shouted as the lorry went in to the barrack gate .
People living in the market place heard terrible screams from the barrack during the evening . They thought the prisoners were being killed . Father Finbarr was leaving the barrack after hearing confessions that night and a soldier , when no one was watching , opened the door of a dark room and let him look in . Four prisoners were lying there , too weak to speak or move . He gave them conditional absolution - it was all he could do . There was a little Free State Army tailor working in the barrack : Sugrue was his name . He was greatly troubled about the prisoners , but dared not do much for them .
He would look round the door into the room where Coffey and Donoghue were , and put down , quickly , a bottle of stout . "For God's sake , hide it ," , he would say , terrified , "or I'll be plugged with yourselves !" " MORE LATER.
GOD'S WORD.......
[from'The Irish Times',8th June , 1995 - a Thursday , if memory serves - page 13]
....... " As an English churchman , I am aware of just how much we English need to ask forgiveness for our often brutal domination and crass insensitivity in the eight-hundred years of history of our relationship with Ireland . "
--Archbishop Carey , the then most senior-ranking member of the British establishment after the 'Royal' family , quoted on 19th November - a Friday , I believe - 1994 , in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin .
It may be a step in the right direction but , as well as the fact that the Brits did'nt heed the man , his use of the word "relationship" is hardly correct : try " dealing's " if you want to be diplomatic , Sir , or " interference " if you want to be honest .
Thursday, September 11, 2003
DR. WILLIAM WALSH , ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN AND IRISH REPUBLICAN ......
.....in May , 1919 , five men were on their way to a reception in Dublin's Mansion House when they were stopped by armed British troops ; the men , two Americans , two Irish Bishops and the then President of the Irish Republic , Eamon de Valera , were forced away from the area .....
In a statement issued to the media in relation to the incident , Archbishop Walsh condemned the British for their actions that day , and held the episode up "as the kind of government under which we are living in Ireland "; the statement went worldwide and , due to the fact that two U S citizens were accosted on an Irish street by armed British troops , caused great embarrassment to Westminster .
In 1920 , Archbishop Walsh was strident in his opposition to the then imminent so-called 'Government of Ireland Act' , which proposed the partition of Ireland , and actively campaigned against it - he was by this stage seventy-nine years of age and , although the body was weak , the mind was still sharp .
His last act was to assist in the establishment of the 'Irish White Cross' organisation with Cardinal Logue and Dr. Gilmartin , the Archbishop of Tuam ; the then Dail Eireann (32-County body) Minister for Finance (and IRA Director of Intelligence) Michael Collins worked closely with the organisation , which looked after the dependents of Irish Republican prisoners (a duty now being carried out by the CABHAIR organisation.) MORE LATER.
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924.
KILLARNEY.....
.....both of the IRA prisoners ,Tadgh Coffey and Jeremiah Donoghue were offered a commission in the Free State Army ; both men rejected the offer ......
" The Free State Officer got up , shouted a coarse insult , and went out , banging the door . Coffey wrote a letter to his people . Jeremiah was feeling too lonely to write . " I don't feel like it now ; I'll write later on ," he said . On Saturday night they met three prisoners who had been taken during the day in a dug-out ; they had been beaten , and were to be beaten again . They were Stephen Buckley of Rathdrinagh , Dan Donoghue of Lacca and Tim Murphy of Rathbrean . "You two and Dan and myself will be shot ," , Stephen said to them ; "but Tim's all right - he was not carrying arms."
Stephen Buckley was a man the people had a great love for in his own place . " Father Stephen " , he used to be called , laughingly , after what he did when Jim Daly was executed in Tralee . Father Brosnan refused to pray for Jim's soul in Kilcummen Chapel . At the end of the mass , when the people were leaving , Stephen Buckley rose and called to them to stay and , standing below the alter rails , he asked their prayers for the repose of James Daly's soul . He had brought no less than sixty recruits to join the Pioneer Temperance League , it was said . A friend asked the Volunteers in Milleen " Are you going to the mission ?" "No need" was the laughing answer . " Father Stephen is holding a mission for us here !"
"It is because he was good ," Father Dominic wrote , afterwards , to his mother , "that he was chosen to die ." They had a dug-out in Rathdrinagh - a small hollow cavity in the wide stone wall of a bohereen . The three were sleeping there on March the third . " (MORE LATER).
FACT......
[from 'The Sunday Business Post' , May 19th , 1996 , page 10]
......According to Mary Ellen Synon , journalist and ex-member of the British House of Commons --
--"Facts come and go , opinions need never vary."
Good on ya , girl - never let the truth get in the way of a good quote !
......AND FICTION -->
[from 'Hot Press' magazine , 16th October , 1996 , page 24]
<-- In an interview , Gerry Adams stated --
--" And all I know is that the Irish political establishment , for all the criticism I would have of it , on other issues , have a good , emotional sense about the North and they genuinely want to see Irish unity restored ."
HAR ! , HAR !, HAR ! . OH STOP IT , GERRY : between yourself and Mary Ellen , I'm dying here ....
.....in May , 1919 , five men were on their way to a reception in Dublin's Mansion House when they were stopped by armed British troops ; the men , two Americans , two Irish Bishops and the then President of the Irish Republic , Eamon de Valera , were forced away from the area .....
In a statement issued to the media in relation to the incident , Archbishop Walsh condemned the British for their actions that day , and held the episode up "as the kind of government under which we are living in Ireland "; the statement went worldwide and , due to the fact that two U S citizens were accosted on an Irish street by armed British troops , caused great embarrassment to Westminster .
In 1920 , Archbishop Walsh was strident in his opposition to the then imminent so-called 'Government of Ireland Act' , which proposed the partition of Ireland , and actively campaigned against it - he was by this stage seventy-nine years of age and , although the body was weak , the mind was still sharp .
His last act was to assist in the establishment of the 'Irish White Cross' organisation with Cardinal Logue and Dr. Gilmartin , the Archbishop of Tuam ; the then Dail Eireann (32-County body) Minister for Finance (and IRA Director of Intelligence) Michael Collins worked closely with the organisation , which looked after the dependents of Irish Republican prisoners (a duty now being carried out by the CABHAIR organisation.) MORE LATER.
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924.
KILLARNEY.....
.....both of the IRA prisoners ,Tadgh Coffey and Jeremiah Donoghue were offered a commission in the Free State Army ; both men rejected the offer ......
" The Free State Officer got up , shouted a coarse insult , and went out , banging the door . Coffey wrote a letter to his people . Jeremiah was feeling too lonely to write . " I don't feel like it now ; I'll write later on ," he said . On Saturday night they met three prisoners who had been taken during the day in a dug-out ; they had been beaten , and were to be beaten again . They were Stephen Buckley of Rathdrinagh , Dan Donoghue of Lacca and Tim Murphy of Rathbrean . "You two and Dan and myself will be shot ," , Stephen said to them ; "but Tim's all right - he was not carrying arms."
Stephen Buckley was a man the people had a great love for in his own place . " Father Stephen " , he used to be called , laughingly , after what he did when Jim Daly was executed in Tralee . Father Brosnan refused to pray for Jim's soul in Kilcummen Chapel . At the end of the mass , when the people were leaving , Stephen Buckley rose and called to them to stay and , standing below the alter rails , he asked their prayers for the repose of James Daly's soul . He had brought no less than sixty recruits to join the Pioneer Temperance League , it was said . A friend asked the Volunteers in Milleen " Are you going to the mission ?" "No need" was the laughing answer . " Father Stephen is holding a mission for us here !"
"It is because he was good ," Father Dominic wrote , afterwards , to his mother , "that he was chosen to die ." They had a dug-out in Rathdrinagh - a small hollow cavity in the wide stone wall of a bohereen . The three were sleeping there on March the third . " (MORE LATER).
FACT......
[from 'The Sunday Business Post' , May 19th , 1996 , page 10]
......According to Mary Ellen Synon , journalist and ex-member of the British House of Commons --
--"Facts come and go , opinions need never vary."
Good on ya , girl - never let the truth get in the way of a good quote !
......AND FICTION -->
[from 'Hot Press' magazine , 16th October , 1996 , page 24]
<-- In an interview , Gerry Adams stated --
--" And all I know is that the Irish political establishment , for all the criticism I would have of it , on other issues , have a good , emotional sense about the North and they genuinely want to see Irish unity restored ."
HAR ! , HAR !, HAR ! . OH STOP IT , GERRY : between yourself and Mary Ellen , I'm dying here ....
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
DR. WILLIAM WALSH , ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN AND IRISH REPUBLICAN ....
.....in May , 1917 ,Archbishop William Walshvoiced his support for a candidate in the Longford North by-election ; that candidate was Joe McGuinness , an IRA prisoner in an English jail . He won the election .....
He was to continue being a thorn in the side of the British ; in April 1918 , Archbishop Walsh led the hierarchical campaign against the British desire to impose conscription in Ireland and was instrumental in ensuring that the 'Maynooth Conference' , at which the issue of conscription was discussed , passed a motion declaring that forced conscription "was an oppressive and inhuman law ."
In May , 1919 , two members of the American organisation 'Friends of Irish Freedom' were in Ireland on a fact-finding tour and a reception was organised for them in Dublin's Mansion House ; the then President of the Irish Republic , Eamon de Valera , and two Bishops , accompanied both Americans to the reception , but the five men were stopped in the street by armed British troops and forced away from the area ...... MORE LATER
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , BY DOROTHY MACARDLE - FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
......IRA prisoner Tadhg Coffey was led into a room with four Free State Officers in it ; he was questioned regarding his IRA unit and the whereabouts of its arm's dump , but said nothing . A loaded rifle was then put to his head .....
" One of the Officers sprang up in fury then . There was a heavy iron poker in the grate . The man picked it up , made a lunge at Coffey and struck him with it across the back . The blow felled him . Kicking and beating began then , with pauses for the questions to be repeated . The prisoner became unconscious at last . The next night Coffey and Donoghue were charged , on Wilson's evidence , with being in possession of arms . They were sentenced to execution and put in the "condemned cell" .
What served as the 'condemned cell' was a small , dark cellar . The walls were moist and the blankets , the only thing in the cell , were soaking . They were left there until the following day when , in view of the priest's visit , they were brought up to a bright room with a fire . Father Finbarr visited them to hear their last confession . He was kind . Another priest came in and jeered at them . "How much nearer are you to the Republic now ! De Valera has run off to America and left you to get the punishment , and now the rope's round your necks !" , he said .
" I know one thing only : I took an oath to the Republic and I'll keep it ", Jeremiah replied . An Officer came in and sat down with them and offered them cigarettes . "You were in the Republican Police," he said to Coffey . "Little pay you got and little thanks . Were'nt you a fool ?" . He told them that commissions were offered to both of them if they would join the Free State Army . "We'll have nothing to do with your Army," they said . (MORE LATER).
DIVIDE......
[from 'The Irish News' , 22nd November , 1995 - a Wednesday , I believe- page 8]
......After the 'Williamite Wars' , the British divided Irish land up in the following way : 2,367,175 acres to soldiers who had served in the wars , 497,001 acres to forty-nine Officers , 707,321 acres to adventurers who had lent money to help fund the war , 477,873 acres to provisors to whom land had been promised , 257,518 acres to the Duke of Ormond and a Colonel Butler , 168,436 acres to the Duke of York and 31,526 acres to Protestant Bishops .
After the war , William also 'confiscated' a further one-and-a-half million acres and distributed them among the aristocratic plunderers who followed him , including eight 'Lords' , a doctor , a Colonel Hamilton , a Mr. Keilie and a Sir T. Pendergast . TIME UP , GENTLEMEN - YOU HAVE BEEN 'FREELOADING' FOR LONG ENOUGH .....
......AND CONQUER -->
[from 'The Evening News' , 5th June , 1996 - also a Wednesday , if memory serves - page 27]
--> Archives released under the 30-year rule show that Winston Churchill , the then British Prime Minister, wanted to cover Ireland in poison gas should the Germans invade during World War Two !
And he probably wanted to do it anyway ....
.....in May , 1917 ,Archbishop William Walshvoiced his support for a candidate in the Longford North by-election ; that candidate was Joe McGuinness , an IRA prisoner in an English jail . He won the election .....
He was to continue being a thorn in the side of the British ; in April 1918 , Archbishop Walsh led the hierarchical campaign against the British desire to impose conscription in Ireland and was instrumental in ensuring that the 'Maynooth Conference' , at which the issue of conscription was discussed , passed a motion declaring that forced conscription "was an oppressive and inhuman law ."
In May , 1919 , two members of the American organisation 'Friends of Irish Freedom' were in Ireland on a fact-finding tour and a reception was organised for them in Dublin's Mansion House ; the then President of the Irish Republic , Eamon de Valera , and two Bishops , accompanied both Americans to the reception , but the five men were stopped in the street by armed British troops and forced away from the area ...... MORE LATER
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , BY DOROTHY MACARDLE - FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
......IRA prisoner Tadhg Coffey was led into a room with four Free State Officers in it ; he was questioned regarding his IRA unit and the whereabouts of its arm's dump , but said nothing . A loaded rifle was then put to his head .....
" One of the Officers sprang up in fury then . There was a heavy iron poker in the grate . The man picked it up , made a lunge at Coffey and struck him with it across the back . The blow felled him . Kicking and beating began then , with pauses for the questions to be repeated . The prisoner became unconscious at last . The next night Coffey and Donoghue were charged , on Wilson's evidence , with being in possession of arms . They were sentenced to execution and put in the "condemned cell" .
What served as the 'condemned cell' was a small , dark cellar . The walls were moist and the blankets , the only thing in the cell , were soaking . They were left there until the following day when , in view of the priest's visit , they were brought up to a bright room with a fire . Father Finbarr visited them to hear their last confession . He was kind . Another priest came in and jeered at them . "How much nearer are you to the Republic now ! De Valera has run off to America and left you to get the punishment , and now the rope's round your necks !" , he said .
" I know one thing only : I took an oath to the Republic and I'll keep it ", Jeremiah replied . An Officer came in and sat down with them and offered them cigarettes . "You were in the Republican Police," he said to Coffey . "Little pay you got and little thanks . Were'nt you a fool ?" . He told them that commissions were offered to both of them if they would join the Free State Army . "We'll have nothing to do with your Army," they said . (MORE LATER).
DIVIDE......
[from 'The Irish News' , 22nd November , 1995 - a Wednesday , I believe- page 8]
......After the 'Williamite Wars' , the British divided Irish land up in the following way : 2,367,175 acres to soldiers who had served in the wars , 497,001 acres to forty-nine Officers , 707,321 acres to adventurers who had lent money to help fund the war , 477,873 acres to provisors to whom land had been promised , 257,518 acres to the Duke of Ormond and a Colonel Butler , 168,436 acres to the Duke of York and 31,526 acres to Protestant Bishops .
After the war , William also 'confiscated' a further one-and-a-half million acres and distributed them among the aristocratic plunderers who followed him , including eight 'Lords' , a doctor , a Colonel Hamilton , a Mr. Keilie and a Sir T. Pendergast . TIME UP , GENTLEMEN - YOU HAVE BEEN 'FREELOADING' FOR LONG ENOUGH .....
......AND CONQUER -->
[from 'The Evening News' , 5th June , 1996 - also a Wednesday , if memory serves - page 27]
--> Archives released under the 30-year rule show that Winston Churchill , the then British Prime Minister, wanted to cover Ireland in poison gas should the Germans invade during World War Two !
And he probably wanted to do it anyway ....
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
DR. WILLIAM WALSH , ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN AND IRISH REPUBLICAN ......
.....the appointment of WILLIAM WALSH as Archbishop of Dublin in 1885 was objected to by the British , but they were ignored . He soon proved to be a thorn in their side .....
He was a vocal supporter of the 'Land League' and refrained from using the pulpit to condemn those that were on the 'hit-list' handed down from Westminster. Indeed , another Archbishop , Thomas Croke of Cashel , in County Tipperary (the first patron of the GAA) backed Archbishop Walsh in his support for the 'Plan of Campaign' during the renewed 'Land War' (1886).
His was practically a lone voice after the 1916 Rising , in supporting the rebels , and he was not shy in criticising the British regime in Ireland . In May , 1917 , he used the fact that he was a well-known (or "notorious" , as the British would have it)cleric to obtain publicity for Irish Republican prisoner Joe McGuinness (who was incarcerated in Lewes Jail , in England , at the time); Joe was being run as a candidate in a by-election in Longford North , and Archbishop Walsh issued a statement to the media before the election in which he condemned British intractability and warned people that the Brits were seriously considering partioning the country .
Joe McGuinness won the election ! (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
.....two young IRA Volunteers , and close friends , Jeremiah Donoghue and Tadhg Coffey , were captured in the Barleymount area by Free State troops on the 22nd of February , 1923 .....
" When the troops burst into the house , Donoghue was resting at the fire and Coffey was cleaning his gun . Wilson , who was in command , rushed at Coffey , shouting abuse , and began to kick and beat him violently ; his mother screamed , and Wilson struck her a blow that flung her across the floor . The soldiers rushed about the cottage smashing the crockery on the dresser , smashing the pictures in the room , spilling the milk and flour over the floor .
Coffey and Donoghue were put against a wall outside and threatened with instant death unless they would tell where the rest of their column and the dump of arms were to be found . The kicking and beating which followed their refusal was so brutal that one of the Free State soldiers began to cry out in distress , "God , God, aren't they prisoners ?" Donoghue was defiant . "I don't care if you skin me : 'tis for the Republic," he said . The Great Southern Hotel in Killarney was the barrack .
It was there they had murdered Bertie Murphy . It was there the prisoners were brought . The same night Coffey was summoned to a room where four officers were sitting by the fire . The questioning began again . "Very well," Wilson said , when Coffey refused to answer . "You'll get a few days more to be singing 'Another martyr for old Ireland' ." Lieutenant Mack became excited . "I'll blow your brains out," he shouted , lifting his rifle , "unless you tell." Bertie Murphy had been killed there for less , but the lifted rifle evoked no reply "..... (MORE LATER).
PRESIDENTS AND PIRATES......
.....U S President Andrew Jackson's parents were born in Donegal and emigrated to the USA . As a boy , his mother , an Irish Republican , told young Andrew of the horrors the British committed on the Irish people , and she told him of how the Irish fought back . During the American Revolution , Jackson was taken prisoner by the British , who soon discovered that he had Irish roots . A British Officer ordered Jackson to shine boots and , when Jackson refused , the enraged Officer unsheated his sword and slashed young Jackson across the face , leaving a scar he would carry to his grave .
Throughout his life , Andrew Jackson despised the British . The U S again fought the British , from 1812-1814, and the war was fought to a standstill . A treaty was signed in England but it took thirty days to get word across the sea to America and the war waged on . The famous pirate , Jean Lafitte , an admirer of Jackson , got word to him that the war was over , but Jackson decided to ignore this until he got an official order ! His army , supported by Lafitte's pirates , were prepared to meet the Brits in battle , in New Orleans and , under a fog in the bayou , the British attacked ; the Americans , under Jackson , destroyed them .
The Brits lost over two-thousand soldiers and the Americans lost eight ! Later , when asked why the battle was fought after the war was over , Jackson claimed he had no official word that that was the position !
Way to go , Andy - the Brits 'waive the rules' when it suits them ....
.....the appointment of WILLIAM WALSH as Archbishop of Dublin in 1885 was objected to by the British , but they were ignored . He soon proved to be a thorn in their side .....
He was a vocal supporter of the 'Land League' and refrained from using the pulpit to condemn those that were on the 'hit-list' handed down from Westminster. Indeed , another Archbishop , Thomas Croke of Cashel , in County Tipperary (the first patron of the GAA) backed Archbishop Walsh in his support for the 'Plan of Campaign' during the renewed 'Land War' (1886).
His was practically a lone voice after the 1916 Rising , in supporting the rebels , and he was not shy in criticising the British regime in Ireland . In May , 1917 , he used the fact that he was a well-known (or "notorious" , as the British would have it)cleric to obtain publicity for Irish Republican prisoner Joe McGuinness (who was incarcerated in Lewes Jail , in England , at the time); Joe was being run as a candidate in a by-election in Longford North , and Archbishop Walsh issued a statement to the media before the election in which he condemned British intractability and warned people that the Brits were seriously considering partioning the country .
Joe McGuinness won the election ! (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
KILLARNEY.....
.....two young IRA Volunteers , and close friends , Jeremiah Donoghue and Tadhg Coffey , were captured in the Barleymount area by Free State troops on the 22nd of February , 1923 .....
" When the troops burst into the house , Donoghue was resting at the fire and Coffey was cleaning his gun . Wilson , who was in command , rushed at Coffey , shouting abuse , and began to kick and beat him violently ; his mother screamed , and Wilson struck her a blow that flung her across the floor . The soldiers rushed about the cottage smashing the crockery on the dresser , smashing the pictures in the room , spilling the milk and flour over the floor .
Coffey and Donoghue were put against a wall outside and threatened with instant death unless they would tell where the rest of their column and the dump of arms were to be found . The kicking and beating which followed their refusal was so brutal that one of the Free State soldiers began to cry out in distress , "God , God, aren't they prisoners ?" Donoghue was defiant . "I don't care if you skin me : 'tis for the Republic," he said . The Great Southern Hotel in Killarney was the barrack .
It was there they had murdered Bertie Murphy . It was there the prisoners were brought . The same night Coffey was summoned to a room where four officers were sitting by the fire . The questioning began again . "Very well," Wilson said , when Coffey refused to answer . "You'll get a few days more to be singing 'Another martyr for old Ireland' ." Lieutenant Mack became excited . "I'll blow your brains out," he shouted , lifting his rifle , "unless you tell." Bertie Murphy had been killed there for less , but the lifted rifle evoked no reply "..... (MORE LATER).
PRESIDENTS AND PIRATES......
.....U S President Andrew Jackson's parents were born in Donegal and emigrated to the USA . As a boy , his mother , an Irish Republican , told young Andrew of the horrors the British committed on the Irish people , and she told him of how the Irish fought back . During the American Revolution , Jackson was taken prisoner by the British , who soon discovered that he had Irish roots . A British Officer ordered Jackson to shine boots and , when Jackson refused , the enraged Officer unsheated his sword and slashed young Jackson across the face , leaving a scar he would carry to his grave .
Throughout his life , Andrew Jackson despised the British . The U S again fought the British , from 1812-1814, and the war was fought to a standstill . A treaty was signed in England but it took thirty days to get word across the sea to America and the war waged on . The famous pirate , Jean Lafitte , an admirer of Jackson , got word to him that the war was over , but Jackson decided to ignore this until he got an official order ! His army , supported by Lafitte's pirates , were prepared to meet the Brits in battle , in New Orleans and , under a fog in the bayou , the British attacked ; the Americans , under Jackson , destroyed them .
The Brits lost over two-thousand soldiers and the Americans lost eight ! Later , when asked why the battle was fought after the war was over , Jackson claimed he had no official word that that was the position !
Way to go , Andy - the Brits 'waive the rules' when it suits them ....
Monday, September 08, 2003
DR. WILLIAM WALSH , ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN AND IRISH REPUBLICAN .....
.....the Brits were wary of the newly-elected President of Maynooth College , William Walsh,as he had refused to jump at their command in the past .....
Most of the Catholic Church hierarchy would be more 'obliging' to Westminster ; being loath to 'bite the hand that feeds' ; an easy decision as , for the most part , the recipient would be of the same mind-set as the establishment .
At forty-four years young , William Walsh was appointed Archbishop of Dublin ; however , due to his refusal to condemn the Fenian Movement as had his predecessors , the British objected to his appointment , but were ignored . Indeed , one of his predecessors in particular , a Cardinal Paul Cullen (Archbishop of Dublin between 1852 and 1878) was said to be all but sleeping with the British Queen , such was his devotion to the British 'Royals' and the system they lorded over !
Much to the dismay of the British and to those within the Catholic hierarchy , Archbishop William Walsh did not disappoint the policy-makers in Westminster ......MORE LATER
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924
KILLARNEY
" On the Countess's Bridge , in Killarney , there is an iron cross with a painted inscription -
" In memory of Jer Donoghue , Stephen Buckley , Daniel Donoghue and Tim Murphy , IRA , killed on this spot on March 7 , 1923. RIP."
Jeremiah Donoghue was a young , upright , keen-looking lad whose whole heart was in Ireland's fight . The enemy , whoever he was , should be defied outright , in the open ; you should stand in his path and challenge him - that was his idea of strategy . He was for every daring enterprise , reckless of danger , impatient of counting the cost .
His comrades laughed at his wild honesty , but loved him for it . Tadhg Coffey was his close friend . Both had been out against the Black-and-Tans ; both were out in the Killarney area in the winter of 1922 . They were captured in Coffey's home , in Barleymount , on the 22nd of February , 1923 ....." MORE LATER
COWBOY......
[from 'The Irish News' ,15th of May , 1996 , page 7 - a Wednesday , if memory serves ....]
...... " I do not care if I never see a united Ireland ; nor do many of my fellow countrymen ."
--- so said Free State Senator Shane Ross , while addressing the 'North Down Conservative Association' , in Bangor , on Tuesday , 14th May 1996 .
When in Rome , Shane - 'cept our Shane says things like thatALLthe time : would'nt ya think he'd just ride off into the sunset of his British Empire .....
......AND COWGIRL -->
[from 'The Sunday Tribune' magazine , 19th May , 1996 , page 33]
<-- " I like some bony bits in personalities , some prickly bits , something you can argue with , because its only that way you get a solution . Diplomacy will not necessarily get you a solution ."
--- so said Margaret Thatcher , ex-British Prime Minister , and 'diplomat' of the 'Belgrano' !
Garret Fitzgerald would also agree with you , Maggie - remember 1985 : " OUT, OUT, OUT. "But it was'nt Fitzer saying that to the Brits ; it was Thatcher telling the Fine Gael leader which of his "aspirations" (ie 'crumbs') he could'nt have .....
.....the Brits were wary of the newly-elected President of Maynooth College , William Walsh,as he had refused to jump at their command in the past .....
Most of the Catholic Church hierarchy would be more 'obliging' to Westminster ; being loath to 'bite the hand that feeds' ; an easy decision as , for the most part , the recipient would be of the same mind-set as the establishment .
At forty-four years young , William Walsh was appointed Archbishop of Dublin ; however , due to his refusal to condemn the Fenian Movement as had his predecessors , the British objected to his appointment , but were ignored . Indeed , one of his predecessors in particular , a Cardinal Paul Cullen (Archbishop of Dublin between 1852 and 1878) was said to be all but sleeping with the British Queen , such was his devotion to the British 'Royals' and the system they lorded over !
Much to the dismay of the British and to those within the Catholic hierarchy , Archbishop William Walsh did not disappoint the policy-makers in Westminster ......MORE LATER
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924
KILLARNEY
" On the Countess's Bridge , in Killarney , there is an iron cross with a painted inscription -
" In memory of Jer Donoghue , Stephen Buckley , Daniel Donoghue and Tim Murphy , IRA , killed on this spot on March 7 , 1923. RIP."
Jeremiah Donoghue was a young , upright , keen-looking lad whose whole heart was in Ireland's fight . The enemy , whoever he was , should be defied outright , in the open ; you should stand in his path and challenge him - that was his idea of strategy . He was for every daring enterprise , reckless of danger , impatient of counting the cost .
His comrades laughed at his wild honesty , but loved him for it . Tadhg Coffey was his close friend . Both had been out against the Black-and-Tans ; both were out in the Killarney area in the winter of 1922 . They were captured in Coffey's home , in Barleymount , on the 22nd of February , 1923 ....." MORE LATER
COWBOY......
[from 'The Irish News' ,15th of May , 1996 , page 7 - a Wednesday , if memory serves ....]
...... " I do not care if I never see a united Ireland ; nor do many of my fellow countrymen ."
--- so said Free State Senator Shane Ross , while addressing the 'North Down Conservative Association' , in Bangor , on Tuesday , 14th May 1996 .
When in Rome , Shane - 'cept our Shane says things like thatALLthe time : would'nt ya think he'd just ride off into the sunset of his British Empire .....
......AND COWGIRL -->
[from 'The Sunday Tribune' magazine , 19th May , 1996 , page 33]
<-- " I like some bony bits in personalities , some prickly bits , something you can argue with , because its only that way you get a solution . Diplomacy will not necessarily get you a solution ."
--- so said Margaret Thatcher , ex-British Prime Minister , and 'diplomat' of the 'Belgrano' !
Garret Fitzgerald would also agree with you , Maggie - remember 1985 : " OUT, OUT, OUT. "But it was'nt Fitzer saying that to the Brits ; it was Thatcher telling the Fine Gael leader which of his "aspirations" (ie 'crumbs') he could'nt have .....
Sunday, September 07, 2003
DR. WILLIAM WALSH , ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN - AND IRISH REPUBLICAN .
To be "condemned from the pulpit" is practically a weekly occurrence for Irish Republicans on this island . That has always been the case throughout the 800-plus years of the struggle for Irish freedom , and is something that Irish Republicans have come to expect , from the Catholic hierarchy especially , but not confined to that particular religious grouping .
Personally , when myself and my (present !) wife were making arrangements to get married ("Its never that long ago , sweetheart , is it ...?") , we postponed the happy event (!) for one week as , in doing so , the priest who was 'booked' for the wedding would be on his holidays ; that priest , now dead , was Fr. Michael Clery , a man who was so anti-Republican as to be almost pro-British ! To my regret I never told him why we did'nt want to be associated with him , not that it would have made any difference to his attitude .
Anyway - the priest who 'did the job' on us turned out to have a different type of 'sickness' ; his name is Fr Walsh , and he's in the news now because of that 'sickness' .... out of the frying pan etc !
William Walsh was born in Dublin in 1841 , and studied in Maynooth College ; as a student he was exemplarily , and soon rose up the 'ranks' to become President of Maynooth College . The Brits were wary of Walsh , as he was not one for jumping at their command ...... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS .....
....the nine IRA prisoners were tied together , in a circle , around the land-mine ; the Free State soldiers moved away from them - the prisoners knew what was about to happen . Then the shock came , blinding , deafening and overwhelming .....
" For Stephen Fuller it was followed by a silence in which he knew that he was alive . Then sounds came to him - cries and low moans , then the sounds of rifle fire and exploding bombs . Then silence again : the work was done . He turned over ; he was not hurt : he was lying under a ditch in the wood . His clothes were scorched and torn to shreds ; cords with burnt and broken ends were knotted on both his wrists .
The explosion that killed the two men to whom he was bound had severed the cords and thrown him , uninjured , into the ditch . The Free State soldiers had no means of counting their victims . They went back to their breakfast , and Stephen Fuller crawled away to safety over the fields . The Military thought him dead ; his name was on one of the nine coffins which they sent out . There was madness among the people of Tralee . What prisoners were in those coffins ? No one could tell . The people opened them in the streets .
The frenzy that followed was terrible ; the women seemed demented ; Free State soldiers were stoned ; the funerals of those Republicans kindled a fire through Kerry that it would be difficult to subdue . The Free State Government issued a new regulation to their Kerry command -
" Prisoners who die while in military custody in the Kerry command shall be interred by the troops in the area in which the death has taken place. "
It was published in the Dublin press on the twenty-first of March (1923).
END
NEPOTISM GONE MAD .....
[from 'AP/RN' , December 1986]
.....President Desmond Hoyte of Guyana elected himself as Prime Minister , a move which everyone expected . But then he appointed himself as Chairperson of the Cabinet - again , most people in the country were not surprised , as he was simply ensuring that his power-base would be secured .
However , even his own cronies deserted him when he took the following positions -
Minister of Defence , Minister of National Security , Minister of National Services , Minister of Public Services , Minister of Regional Development , Minister of American-Indian Affairs , Director of Elections , Director of Industry , Director of Mining , Director of Foreign Affairs , Chairperson of the Water Board , Minister of State for Prisons , Chief Fire Officer , Chief Registrar for Births , Deaths and Marriages , and Controller of Licences !!
....no idea what the man got up to in his spare time !
To be "condemned from the pulpit" is practically a weekly occurrence for Irish Republicans on this island . That has always been the case throughout the 800-plus years of the struggle for Irish freedom , and is something that Irish Republicans have come to expect , from the Catholic hierarchy especially , but not confined to that particular religious grouping .
Personally , when myself and my (present !) wife were making arrangements to get married ("Its never that long ago , sweetheart , is it ...?") , we postponed the happy event (!) for one week as , in doing so , the priest who was 'booked' for the wedding would be on his holidays ; that priest , now dead , was Fr. Michael Clery , a man who was so anti-Republican as to be almost pro-British ! To my regret I never told him why we did'nt want to be associated with him , not that it would have made any difference to his attitude .
Anyway - the priest who 'did the job' on us turned out to have a different type of 'sickness' ; his name is Fr Walsh , and he's in the news now because of that 'sickness' .... out of the frying pan etc !
William Walsh was born in Dublin in 1841 , and studied in Maynooth College ; as a student he was exemplarily , and soon rose up the 'ranks' to become President of Maynooth College . The Brits were wary of Walsh , as he was not one for jumping at their command ...... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS .....
....the nine IRA prisoners were tied together , in a circle , around the land-mine ; the Free State soldiers moved away from them - the prisoners knew what was about to happen . Then the shock came , blinding , deafening and overwhelming .....
" For Stephen Fuller it was followed by a silence in which he knew that he was alive . Then sounds came to him - cries and low moans , then the sounds of rifle fire and exploding bombs . Then silence again : the work was done . He turned over ; he was not hurt : he was lying under a ditch in the wood . His clothes were scorched and torn to shreds ; cords with burnt and broken ends were knotted on both his wrists .
The explosion that killed the two men to whom he was bound had severed the cords and thrown him , uninjured , into the ditch . The Free State soldiers had no means of counting their victims . They went back to their breakfast , and Stephen Fuller crawled away to safety over the fields . The Military thought him dead ; his name was on one of the nine coffins which they sent out . There was madness among the people of Tralee . What prisoners were in those coffins ? No one could tell . The people opened them in the streets .
The frenzy that followed was terrible ; the women seemed demented ; Free State soldiers were stoned ; the funerals of those Republicans kindled a fire through Kerry that it would be difficult to subdue . The Free State Government issued a new regulation to their Kerry command -
" Prisoners who die while in military custody in the Kerry command shall be interred by the troops in the area in which the death has taken place. "
It was published in the Dublin press on the twenty-first of March (1923).
END
NEPOTISM GONE MAD .....
[from 'AP/RN' , December 1986]
.....President Desmond Hoyte of Guyana elected himself as Prime Minister , a move which everyone expected . But then he appointed himself as Chairperson of the Cabinet - again , most people in the country were not surprised , as he was simply ensuring that his power-base would be secured .
However , even his own cronies deserted him when he took the following positions -
Minister of Defence , Minister of National Security , Minister of National Services , Minister of Public Services , Minister of Regional Development , Minister of American-Indian Affairs , Director of Elections , Director of Industry , Director of Mining , Director of Foreign Affairs , Chairperson of the Water Board , Minister of State for Prisons , Chief Fire Officer , Chief Registrar for Births , Deaths and Marriages , and Controller of Licences !!
....no idea what the man got up to in his spare time !
Saturday, September 06, 2003
MOLLY O'REILLY , GPO , 1916 ......
....when the 1921 split took place , over Michael Collins' support for the 'Treaty of Surrender' , Molly O'Reilly rejected the Free Staters and carried-on with her work for the Republican Movement ....
She was arrested in March 1923 and released on 23rd November that same year (along with about fifty other female Republican prisoners) after a sixteen-day hunger strike . Molly O'Reilly never compromised her principles in relation to her Republican beliefs ; she could have joined Michael Collins as an Officer in his Free State Intelligence Department - she had over ten years of sensitive information in her head (ie safe houses , contacts , meeting-places etc) but had no respect for those who had by then , armed by the British , turned on their former comrades .
She chose the hard road and stayed with the Republican cause . She died a 'Brits Out' Republican on 4th October , 1950 , age fifty . Molly O'Reilly is on that long list of Irish Republican activists that deserve to be remembered better than they are .....
[END]
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published i 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS ....
....the nine IRA prisoners , all bruised and battered from the beatings they got from their Free State captors , were put into a lorry , which was heavily escorted , and driven along the Castleisland Road .....
" They were being taken , they were told , to remove barricades . They did not believe that - sick men with useless hands and arms . One of the soldiers handed each of them a cigarette . "The last smoke you'll have ," he said . The lorry pulled up near the corner of the Killorglin Road , beside Ballyseedy Wood . They saw a log lying across the road . They were made to get out of the lorry and stand in a close circle around the log .
The soldiers had strong ropes and electric cord . Each prisoner's hands were tied behind him , then his arms were tied above the elbow to those of the man on either side of him . Their feet were bound together above the ankles and their legs were bound together above the knees . Then a strong rope was passed round the nine and the soldiers moved away . The prisoners had their backs to the log and the mine , which was beside it ; they could see the movement of the soldiers and knew what would happen next .
They gripped one another's hands , those who could , and prayed for God's mercy upon their souls . The shock came , blinding , deafening , overwhelming ..... " (MORE LATER)>
MORE REAGANISMS .......
[from 'AP/RN' , December , 1986]
....... At a media briefing in 1986 , the then U S President , Ronald Reagan , called the reporters "sons of bitches" ; when those present objected , one of Ronnie's 'spin doctors' , a Mr Larry Speakes , attempted to placate them by claiming that the President had actually said - "It's sunny and your rich" !
In early April 1986 , Reagan said (in relation to invading Nicaragua) - " You are looking at an individual that is the last one in the world that would ever want to put American troops into Latin America . We'd lose all our friends if we did anything of that kind . And anyway , we have'nt been asked ." !
On the bombs dropped on the French Embassy in Libya , he said - "Fortunately , no real harm was done . And besides , its not as if we hit the embassy of a friendly country . More people were disappointed over here than we hurt over there ." !
At a press conference in Chicago on 12th August , 1986 , he said - " We know there are some sound people in the ANC , but you do have an element there with its own agenda ." (WHAT'S THAT , Mr. President ? You mean there are people in the ANC who DON'T follow an American agenda ? ")
During the 1986 Congressional elections , Reagan said - " You know , America used to wear a 'kick me' sign around its neck . Today every nickle and dime dictator around the world knows that if he tangles with the U S of A , he will have to pay the price ." ! (Can't ya just picture it : High Noon , and the 'good guy' steps out on to the dusty street . He looks the 'bad guy' in the eye , and says - " Ah've come fer ma boyyy...." )
AND FINALLY --> <-- still on the Reagan connection (ie 'space') : Dr. Spock , the child psychologist , said that Ronald Reagan "was one of the greatest frauds of all time ."
Dr. Spock , at that time , was'nt to know about Clinton and Baby Bush ; Reagan has some serious competition .....
....when the 1921 split took place , over Michael Collins' support for the 'Treaty of Surrender' , Molly O'Reilly rejected the Free Staters and carried-on with her work for the Republican Movement ....
She was arrested in March 1923 and released on 23rd November that same year (along with about fifty other female Republican prisoners) after a sixteen-day hunger strike . Molly O'Reilly never compromised her principles in relation to her Republican beliefs ; she could have joined Michael Collins as an Officer in his Free State Intelligence Department - she had over ten years of sensitive information in her head (ie safe houses , contacts , meeting-places etc) but had no respect for those who had by then , armed by the British , turned on their former comrades .
She chose the hard road and stayed with the Republican cause . She died a 'Brits Out' Republican on 4th October , 1950 , age fifty . Molly O'Reilly is on that long list of Irish Republican activists that deserve to be remembered better than they are .....
[END]
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published i 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS ....
....the nine IRA prisoners , all bruised and battered from the beatings they got from their Free State captors , were put into a lorry , which was heavily escorted , and driven along the Castleisland Road .....
" They were being taken , they were told , to remove barricades . They did not believe that - sick men with useless hands and arms . One of the soldiers handed each of them a cigarette . "The last smoke you'll have ," he said . The lorry pulled up near the corner of the Killorglin Road , beside Ballyseedy Wood . They saw a log lying across the road . They were made to get out of the lorry and stand in a close circle around the log .
The soldiers had strong ropes and electric cord . Each prisoner's hands were tied behind him , then his arms were tied above the elbow to those of the man on either side of him . Their feet were bound together above the ankles and their legs were bound together above the knees . Then a strong rope was passed round the nine and the soldiers moved away . The prisoners had their backs to the log and the mine , which was beside it ; they could see the movement of the soldiers and knew what would happen next .
They gripped one another's hands , those who could , and prayed for God's mercy upon their souls . The shock came , blinding , deafening , overwhelming ..... " (MORE LATER)>
MORE REAGANISMS .......
[from 'AP/RN' , December , 1986]
....... At a media briefing in 1986 , the then U S President , Ronald Reagan , called the reporters "sons of bitches" ; when those present objected , one of Ronnie's 'spin doctors' , a Mr Larry Speakes , attempted to placate them by claiming that the President had actually said - "It's sunny and your rich" !
In early April 1986 , Reagan said (in relation to invading Nicaragua) - " You are looking at an individual that is the last one in the world that would ever want to put American troops into Latin America . We'd lose all our friends if we did anything of that kind . And anyway , we have'nt been asked ." !
On the bombs dropped on the French Embassy in Libya , he said - "Fortunately , no real harm was done . And besides , its not as if we hit the embassy of a friendly country . More people were disappointed over here than we hurt over there ." !
At a press conference in Chicago on 12th August , 1986 , he said - " We know there are some sound people in the ANC , but you do have an element there with its own agenda ." (WHAT'S THAT , Mr. President ? You mean there are people in the ANC who DON'T follow an American agenda ? ")
During the 1986 Congressional elections , Reagan said - " You know , America used to wear a 'kick me' sign around its neck . Today every nickle and dime dictator around the world knows that if he tangles with the U S of A , he will have to pay the price ." ! (Can't ya just picture it : High Noon , and the 'good guy' steps out on to the dusty street . He looks the 'bad guy' in the eye , and says - " Ah've come fer ma boyyy...." )
AND FINALLY --> <-- still on the Reagan connection (ie 'space') : Dr. Spock , the child psychologist , said that Ronald Reagan "was one of the greatest frauds of all time ."
Dr. Spock , at that time , was'nt to know about Clinton and Baby Bush ; Reagan has some serious competition .....
Friday, September 05, 2003
MOLLY O'REILLY , GPO , 1916 ......
...in Dublin's GPO with James Connolly on Easter Monday , 1916 , Molly O'Reilly asked to be put to work as a 'dispatch carrier' for the rebels .....
She left Ireland after the Easter Rising and lived in Yorkshire , in England , where she studied nursing , but came home in 1919 and , as a member of Cumann na nBan , spent the next three years fighting the Black-and-Tans ; her job was to place 'on-the-run' IRA Volunteers in safe-houses and to provide a means of contact between them and the IRA leadership .
By this time , Molly O'Reilly had secured a job in the 'United Services Club' on Dublin's Stephens Green - a 'drinking club/safe haven' for British soldiers ! It was through 'loose talk' at the club that Molly picked up useful information , which she passed on to Michael Collins , the then IRA Director of Intelligence . However , unlike Collins , Molly O'Reilly opposed the Treaty of Surrender (December 1921) and carried-on with her work for Irish Republicans . (MORE LATER)>
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS ....
.... John Shanahan was taken by his Free State captors into a dark cell with nine coffins in it ; they pointed out his own coffin to him and questioned him again regarding the names of his comrades on the outside . He stayed silent . He was marched back to his own cell and locked in ....
" The prisoners were given some kind of trial in the Workhouse on March the third , but no sentence was told . They were kept there for three days more . Shanahan's back had grown weak since the beating in Ballymullen , and before March the sixth , he collapsed . His illness saved him when his comrades were taken out .
Very early on Wednesday , while it was still dark , Stephen Fuller was called out of his cell . He was taken to the guardroom . George Shea and Timothy Twomey were with him and they found six more prisoners there . An officer was shouting at Patrick Buckley , accusing him of having deserted from the RIC , raging against him for giving over a barrack to Michael Brennan before the Truce . It was true : he had done it - he was to get his punishment now .
The prisoners looked ill ; one had a broken arm ; all were scarred and bruised and suffering - James Welsh had a bandage on his broken wrist . The Free State soldiers searched them in the guardroom and took their cigarettes . They were put into a lorry with a heavy escort and driven along the Castleisland Road ....... (MORE LATER)>
DO AS I SAY ......
[from 'The Evening Press' newspaper , 29th December , 1986 , page 6 : a Monday , I believe...]
......" How do you think I feel when I told the American people that I did'nt know about the diversion of funds from the Iranian arms sale to the Contras and they don't believe me ? It disappoints me . It hurts ."
-- Ronnie Reagan , the then U S President .
CUT ! CUT ! NO, no no , Ronnie ; sheesh ! Come ON , Ronnie - you're an actor , for Christ sake - say it like ya MEAN it . OK ? RIGHT , places everyone ... and ACTION .....!
When Ronnie was Governor of California , he followed the advice of other staffers and fired several top aides suspected of being gay ! This was despite the fact that he himself had worked with those people for some time without thinking that they were gay .
This happened in his first year in Office as Governor and , four years later (after his re-election to a second term) it emerged that the by then millionaire Governor , who had argued for years that "taxes should hurt" , had managed , through various shelters and loopholes , to escape paying any state income-taxes himself for the previous year !
So - if you're a non-gay , non tax-paying hypocrite ... why , ya'll fit right in !
.....AND NOT AS I DO -->
[from 'Hot Press' magazine , 14th May , 1997 , page 7]
<-- " You can accuse me of being a hypocrite , but hypocrisy is a component of politics . Sometimes , hypocrisy is important to ensure that things are achieved ."
--Colm Keaveny , Free State Labour Party .
Yeah , right , Colm : by the way , are you gay ? Have you paid all your taxes ? Ever wanted to be Governor of California ..... ?
...in Dublin's GPO with James Connolly on Easter Monday , 1916 , Molly O'Reilly asked to be put to work as a 'dispatch carrier' for the rebels .....
She left Ireland after the Easter Rising and lived in Yorkshire , in England , where she studied nursing , but came home in 1919 and , as a member of Cumann na nBan , spent the next three years fighting the Black-and-Tans ; her job was to place 'on-the-run' IRA Volunteers in safe-houses and to provide a means of contact between them and the IRA leadership .
By this time , Molly O'Reilly had secured a job in the 'United Services Club' on Dublin's Stephens Green - a 'drinking club/safe haven' for British soldiers ! It was through 'loose talk' at the club that Molly picked up useful information , which she passed on to Michael Collins , the then IRA Director of Intelligence . However , unlike Collins , Molly O'Reilly opposed the Treaty of Surrender (December 1921) and carried-on with her work for Irish Republicans . (MORE LATER)>
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS ....
.... John Shanahan was taken by his Free State captors into a dark cell with nine coffins in it ; they pointed out his own coffin to him and questioned him again regarding the names of his comrades on the outside . He stayed silent . He was marched back to his own cell and locked in ....
" The prisoners were given some kind of trial in the Workhouse on March the third , but no sentence was told . They were kept there for three days more . Shanahan's back had grown weak since the beating in Ballymullen , and before March the sixth , he collapsed . His illness saved him when his comrades were taken out .
Very early on Wednesday , while it was still dark , Stephen Fuller was called out of his cell . He was taken to the guardroom . George Shea and Timothy Twomey were with him and they found six more prisoners there . An officer was shouting at Patrick Buckley , accusing him of having deserted from the RIC , raging against him for giving over a barrack to Michael Brennan before the Truce . It was true : he had done it - he was to get his punishment now .
The prisoners looked ill ; one had a broken arm ; all were scarred and bruised and suffering - James Welsh had a bandage on his broken wrist . The Free State soldiers searched them in the guardroom and took their cigarettes . They were put into a lorry with a heavy escort and driven along the Castleisland Road ....... (MORE LATER)>
DO AS I SAY ......
[from 'The Evening Press' newspaper , 29th December , 1986 , page 6 : a Monday , I believe...]
......" How do you think I feel when I told the American people that I did'nt know about the diversion of funds from the Iranian arms sale to the Contras and they don't believe me ? It disappoints me . It hurts ."
-- Ronnie Reagan , the then U S President .
CUT ! CUT ! NO, no no , Ronnie ; sheesh ! Come ON , Ronnie - you're an actor , for Christ sake - say it like ya MEAN it . OK ? RIGHT , places everyone ... and ACTION .....!
When Ronnie was Governor of California , he followed the advice of other staffers and fired several top aides suspected of being gay ! This was despite the fact that he himself had worked with those people for some time without thinking that they were gay .
This happened in his first year in Office as Governor and , four years later (after his re-election to a second term) it emerged that the by then millionaire Governor , who had argued for years that "taxes should hurt" , had managed , through various shelters and loopholes , to escape paying any state income-taxes himself for the previous year !
So - if you're a non-gay , non tax-paying hypocrite ... why , ya'll fit right in !
.....AND NOT AS I DO -->
[from 'Hot Press' magazine , 14th May , 1997 , page 7]
<-- " You can accuse me of being a hypocrite , but hypocrisy is a component of politics . Sometimes , hypocrisy is important to ensure that things are achieved ."
--Colm Keaveny , Free State Labour Party .
Yeah , right , Colm : by the way , are you gay ? Have you paid all your taxes ? Ever wanted to be Governor of California ..... ?
Thursday, September 04, 2003
MOLLY O'REILLY - GPO , 1916 ......
.....only thirteen years young at the time of the 'Great Lock Out' , Molly O'Reilly , who lived in Dublin's Gardiner Street and was no stranger to poverty herself , was determined to help those fighting for change .....
Between August 1913 and February 1914 , Molly assisted Clann na nGaedheal in Liberty Hall and elsewhere , in running soup kitchens for the striking workers and their families . When she was about fourteen years young , Molly O'Reilly joined the 'Irish Citizen Army' ; in July that year (1914) , Molly's house in Gardiner Street was one of the venues used as an arms dump to store the weapon's landed by 'The Asgard' at Howth , in Dublin .
When the 'Irish Citizen Army' took over the GPO in Dublin city centre on Easter Monday , 23rd April , 1916 , Molly O'Reilly was present ; for the next week she worked as a 'dispatch carrier' for James Connolly - it was a position she herself wanted , and she was proved right in her assumption that a sixteen year-old girl would do the job better than a grown man . (MORE LATER)>
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS ....
.... George Shea , Tim Twomey , John Shanahan and Stephen Fuller were captured on the twenty-first of February in a dug-out .....
" They were taken , to be interrogated , to Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee . 'Interrogation' by (David) Neligan in Ballymullen Barracks was an ordeal under which reason might give way . The prisoner , in the usual practice , was first blind-folded , then his arms were tied to his sides , and 'interrogation' began . This time a hammer was used . The prisoners were taken in separately . When John Shanahan came out his head was covered with blood and his spine was injured , but he was still able to walk .
The hammer failed . The prisoners were taken out to be shot , and shots were fired round their heads . They were then sentenced , for their obdurate silence , to be executed at midnight and were then locked in their cells . At midnight , Stephen Fuller heard his comrades being taken out , one by one , and heard shots fired in the yard . The guards came for him and took him down to a dark cell . He saw nine coffins there with the lids closed . "Three of those have their men," they told him , "and this is yours," and they stopped to unscrew the lid .
For half-an-hour more they were questioning him , he wishing only for a sharp end . Then they locked him into his cell again . " (MORE LATER)>
RUBBISH # 1 .......
[from AP/RN , 5th August , 1999 , page 13]
..... The internationally authoritative 'Rachels Hazardous Waste News' pointed out that a one-pound lump of garbage has a surface area of about 44 square inches , the size of a large post-card . However , if you burn it , the surface area of the same one-pound lump increases to 9,900 square yards --- about the size of two football pitches !
.......RUBBISH # 2 -->
[from 'Ireland on Sunday' , 13th February , 2000 , page 31]
<-- " The Good Friday Agreement is the democratic wish of ninty-five per cent of the population in the Irish Republic and seventy-two per cent in the North ."
--- Niall O'Dowd ,newspaper publisher and Provo 'point-man cum door-opener' in America .
Yeah , well ...trouble is , Niall , in "the Irish Republic" , 43.97 per cent of those entitled to vote did'nt bother doing so and , of those that did vote , 5.6 per cent voted 'NO' . How does that leave 95 per cent to vote 'YES' ?
And , in "the North" -- well ... 19 per cent of those entitled to vote did'nt bother doing so and , of those that did vote , 28.88 per cent voted 'NO' . How does that leave 72 per cent to vote 'YES' ?
And what else are you wrong about , Niall .... ?
.....only thirteen years young at the time of the 'Great Lock Out' , Molly O'Reilly , who lived in Dublin's Gardiner Street and was no stranger to poverty herself , was determined to help those fighting for change .....
Between August 1913 and February 1914 , Molly assisted Clann na nGaedheal in Liberty Hall and elsewhere , in running soup kitchens for the striking workers and their families . When she was about fourteen years young , Molly O'Reilly joined the 'Irish Citizen Army' ; in July that year (1914) , Molly's house in Gardiner Street was one of the venues used as an arms dump to store the weapon's landed by 'The Asgard' at Howth , in Dublin .
When the 'Irish Citizen Army' took over the GPO in Dublin city centre on Easter Monday , 23rd April , 1916 , Molly O'Reilly was present ; for the next week she worked as a 'dispatch carrier' for James Connolly - it was a position she herself wanted , and she was proved right in her assumption that a sixteen year-old girl would do the job better than a grown man . (MORE LATER)>
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS ....
.... George Shea , Tim Twomey , John Shanahan and Stephen Fuller were captured on the twenty-first of February in a dug-out .....
" They were taken , to be interrogated , to Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee . 'Interrogation' by (David) Neligan in Ballymullen Barracks was an ordeal under which reason might give way . The prisoner , in the usual practice , was first blind-folded , then his arms were tied to his sides , and 'interrogation' began . This time a hammer was used . The prisoners were taken in separately . When John Shanahan came out his head was covered with blood and his spine was injured , but he was still able to walk .
The hammer failed . The prisoners were taken out to be shot , and shots were fired round their heads . They were then sentenced , for their obdurate silence , to be executed at midnight and were then locked in their cells . At midnight , Stephen Fuller heard his comrades being taken out , one by one , and heard shots fired in the yard . The guards came for him and took him down to a dark cell . He saw nine coffins there with the lids closed . "Three of those have their men," they told him , "and this is yours," and they stopped to unscrew the lid .
For half-an-hour more they were questioning him , he wishing only for a sharp end . Then they locked him into his cell again . " (MORE LATER)>
RUBBISH # 1 .......
[from AP/RN , 5th August , 1999 , page 13]
..... The internationally authoritative 'Rachels Hazardous Waste News' pointed out that a one-pound lump of garbage has a surface area of about 44 square inches , the size of a large post-card . However , if you burn it , the surface area of the same one-pound lump increases to 9,900 square yards --- about the size of two football pitches !
.......RUBBISH # 2 -->
[from 'Ireland on Sunday' , 13th February , 2000 , page 31]
<-- " The Good Friday Agreement is the democratic wish of ninty-five per cent of the population in the Irish Republic and seventy-two per cent in the North ."
--- Niall O'Dowd ,newspaper publisher and Provo 'point-man cum door-opener' in America .
Yeah , well ...trouble is , Niall , in "the Irish Republic" , 43.97 per cent of those entitled to vote did'nt bother doing so and , of those that did vote , 5.6 per cent voted 'NO' . How does that leave 95 per cent to vote 'YES' ?
And , in "the North" -- well ... 19 per cent of those entitled to vote did'nt bother doing so and , of those that did vote , 28.88 per cent voted 'NO' . How does that leave 72 per cent to vote 'YES' ?
And what else are you wrong about , Niall .... ?
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
MOLLY O'REILLY , GPO , 1916 .
At about eleven years young , Molly O'Reilly joined the then two year-old Irish Republican girl scout organisation , 'Clann na nGaedheal' , which had been formed , in 1909 , by May and Liz Kelly .
Barely in her teenage years during the 'Great Lock Out' of 1913 , Molly was deeply upset by the so-called 'living conditions' that the workers and their families endured - a number of families in one room , in crumbling tenements , disease and starvation rampant , with the men and women not guaranteed work , even on a day-to-day basis .
Molly herself lived in similar conditions in Gardiner Street , Dublin city centre and , despite her young age , was determined to help those fighting for change ...... (MORE LATER)>
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS .....
.....John Daly was beaten by the Staters in Tralee Jail - when they were finished , his spine was injured beyond recovery .......
" Michael Connell was only twenty-two years old , but since the Conscription menace he had been a Volunteer . He was taken in the middle of February at a dance ; he was unarmed , and his mother had no fear for him . She saw him looking out of the prison window on Tuesday evening .
"I'll write tomorrow ," he called . She would not believe that he was one of the victims until a girl who had seen the bodies told her there was a "black curly boy" ; she went up and looked then , and knew her son .
James Walsh was well known to be in danger , being a leader and a man with great influence among the people . George Shea , Tim Twomey , John Shanahan and Stephen Fuller were captured on the twenty-first of February in a dug-out . " (MORE LATER)>
SWEET ......
[from 'The Sunday Business Post' , 24th March , 1996 , page 2]
...... For twenty years , the CIA spent more than the equivalent of £12 million Free State punts on six psychics who used to sit in Washington "visualising" Soviet weapon control rooms , Moscow offices , Fidel Castro , Colonel Gadaffi and Daniel Ortega . The pyschics were paid to relay their dreams and visions to CIA Chiefs !
What a dream job ! No , seriously - silly Americans : they should have just established a 'Decommissioning Body' like the Brits did . Hell , it worked for them !
......DREAMS -->
[from 'Hot Press' magazine , 12th June , 1996 , pages 41 and 42]
<-- In an interview , the then Labour Leinster House member for County Clare , Dr. Moosajee Bhamjee , stated that Leinster House "is very boring and very childish at times ." He predicted that his party would have "twenty-five or twenty-six" seats after the 1997 Free State general election , and added -
- "I hope I will be among them . I deserve to be elected again because I think I've done a bit . I'd be disappointed if I was'nt elected again ."
Poor Moosajee was disappointed ; he was last reported walking away from the count centre singing the 'Bay City Rollers' tune "Bye bye Bhamjee , Bhamjee bye bye'eee ....."
At about eleven years young , Molly O'Reilly joined the then two year-old Irish Republican girl scout organisation , 'Clann na nGaedheal' , which had been formed , in 1909 , by May and Liz Kelly .
Barely in her teenage years during the 'Great Lock Out' of 1913 , Molly was deeply upset by the so-called 'living conditions' that the workers and their families endured - a number of families in one room , in crumbling tenements , disease and starvation rampant , with the men and women not guaranteed work , even on a day-to-day basis .
Molly herself lived in similar conditions in Gardiner Street , Dublin city centre and , despite her young age , was determined to help those fighting for change ...... (MORE LATER)>
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS .....
.....John Daly was beaten by the Staters in Tralee Jail - when they were finished , his spine was injured beyond recovery .......
" Michael Connell was only twenty-two years old , but since the Conscription menace he had been a Volunteer . He was taken in the middle of February at a dance ; he was unarmed , and his mother had no fear for him . She saw him looking out of the prison window on Tuesday evening .
"I'll write tomorrow ," he called . She would not believe that he was one of the victims until a girl who had seen the bodies told her there was a "black curly boy" ; she went up and looked then , and knew her son .
James Walsh was well known to be in danger , being a leader and a man with great influence among the people . George Shea , Tim Twomey , John Shanahan and Stephen Fuller were captured on the twenty-first of February in a dug-out . " (MORE LATER)>
SWEET ......
[from 'The Sunday Business Post' , 24th March , 1996 , page 2]
...... For twenty years , the CIA spent more than the equivalent of £12 million Free State punts on six psychics who used to sit in Washington "visualising" Soviet weapon control rooms , Moscow offices , Fidel Castro , Colonel Gadaffi and Daniel Ortega . The pyschics were paid to relay their dreams and visions to CIA Chiefs !
What a dream job ! No , seriously - silly Americans : they should have just established a 'Decommissioning Body' like the Brits did . Hell , it worked for them !
......DREAMS -->
[from 'Hot Press' magazine , 12th June , 1996 , pages 41 and 42]
<-- In an interview , the then Labour Leinster House member for County Clare , Dr. Moosajee Bhamjee , stated that Leinster House "is very boring and very childish at times ." He predicted that his party would have "twenty-five or twenty-six" seats after the 1997 Free State general election , and added -
- "I hope I will be among them . I deserve to be elected again because I think I've done a bit . I'd be disappointed if I was'nt elected again ."
Poor Moosajee was disappointed ; he was last reported walking away from the count centre singing the 'Bay City Rollers' tune "Bye bye Bhamjee , Bhamjee bye bye'eee ....."
Tuesday, September 02, 2003
TIM COUGHLAN -- IRA VOLUNTEER 1906-1928 ; SHOT DEAD BY IRA INFORMER OR FREE STATE AGENTS ...... ?
.....the records of the Free State police differed with the account given by the informer Sean Harling , his neighbours heard gun-shots that Harling said were never fired , and blood was found in a location which , according to Harling , had nothing to do with the shooting .....
The car in which Sean Harling got a lift home on that evening in January was a police car - he was reluctant to admit that fact , and also 'forgot' to tell the 'Tribunal' that his brother-in-law , Thomas Redican , was present when the shooting took place . Again , the 'Tribunal' was not interested - why ?
The fact that Tim Coughlan was an active IRA member meant that he was a 'marked man' as far as the Staters were concerned - had he been shot dead during an operation it would perhaps have been at least more acceptable , or understandable , to all concerned . However , it seems that he was 'bushwhacked' , and the State actively encouraged a 'cover-up' of the full facts involved .
They learned well from their British pay-masters ......
[END]
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS .....
......eight IRA prisoners at Ballyseedy , four at Killarney , five at Cahirciveen ; the Free Staters were executing Republican prisoners in reprisal for the IRA mine at Knocknagoshel , which killed five Staters - two Captains , two Privates and a Lieutenant .....
" Every precaution against disclosure was taken by the murderers ; every preparation was made to make Ireland believe a lie ; yet every detail of those three massacres "by most miraculous organ" has been revealed . Nine prisoners were taken from Tralee to be killed at Ballyseedy , and nine coffins were sent out from the jail , but only eight men had been killed .
Their names were John Daly , George Shea , Timothy Twomey , Patrick Hartnett , James Connell , John O'Connor , Patrick Buckley , and James Walsh .
Patrick Buckley , who had five children , was thought by some of his friends to be safe in jail - he had done so much for Michael Brennan in Limerick in the trouble with the Black-and-Tans . There were others who knew that his action then would be little protection to him now . John Daly was captured on the 4th of February . He had been in the Republican Army for seven years or more , and was known to the enemy .
They beat him until his spine was injured beyond recovery , in Tralee Jail ." (MORE LATER)>
SIX OF ONE ......
[from 'The Irish News' newspaper , 12th June , 1996]
...... "(I admire 'The Observer' newspaper because) it does a better job of widening the mainland people's knowledge of the complexities of the situation (in the North) " --
-- Martin McGuinness ; can you spot the mistake ? YES ! - that's it : Marty referred to 'the North' when he really meant "the Province" !
......HALF DOZEN OF THE OTHER -->
[from 'The Sunday Business Post' newspaper , 24th March , 1996 , page 26]
<-- " He's not a republican , he's not a nationalist , but he is Taoiseach of this country " --
--Provo spokesperson Rita O'Hare describing the then Fine Gael leader John Bruton . Two outta three , Rita : the 26-county state is not a "country" . At least not to Republicans .... and NO , Rita - it's not a 'province' either !
.....the records of the Free State police differed with the account given by the informer Sean Harling , his neighbours heard gun-shots that Harling said were never fired , and blood was found in a location which , according to Harling , had nothing to do with the shooting .....
The car in which Sean Harling got a lift home on that evening in January was a police car - he was reluctant to admit that fact , and also 'forgot' to tell the 'Tribunal' that his brother-in-law , Thomas Redican , was present when the shooting took place . Again , the 'Tribunal' was not interested - why ?
The fact that Tim Coughlan was an active IRA member meant that he was a 'marked man' as far as the Staters were concerned - had he been shot dead during an operation it would perhaps have been at least more acceptable , or understandable , to all concerned . However , it seems that he was 'bushwhacked' , and the State actively encouraged a 'cover-up' of the full facts involved .
They learned well from their British pay-masters ......
[END]
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS .....
......eight IRA prisoners at Ballyseedy , four at Killarney , five at Cahirciveen ; the Free Staters were executing Republican prisoners in reprisal for the IRA mine at Knocknagoshel , which killed five Staters - two Captains , two Privates and a Lieutenant .....
" Every precaution against disclosure was taken by the murderers ; every preparation was made to make Ireland believe a lie ; yet every detail of those three massacres "by most miraculous organ" has been revealed . Nine prisoners were taken from Tralee to be killed at Ballyseedy , and nine coffins were sent out from the jail , but only eight men had been killed .
Their names were John Daly , George Shea , Timothy Twomey , Patrick Hartnett , James Connell , John O'Connor , Patrick Buckley , and James Walsh .
Patrick Buckley , who had five children , was thought by some of his friends to be safe in jail - he had done so much for Michael Brennan in Limerick in the trouble with the Black-and-Tans . There were others who knew that his action then would be little protection to him now . John Daly was captured on the 4th of February . He had been in the Republican Army for seven years or more , and was known to the enemy .
They beat him until his spine was injured beyond recovery , in Tralee Jail ." (MORE LATER)>
SIX OF ONE ......
[from 'The Irish News' newspaper , 12th June , 1996]
...... "(I admire 'The Observer' newspaper because) it does a better job of widening the mainland people's knowledge of the complexities of the situation (in the North) " --
-- Martin McGuinness ; can you spot the mistake ? YES ! - that's it : Marty referred to 'the North' when he really meant "the Province" !
......HALF DOZEN OF THE OTHER -->
[from 'The Sunday Business Post' newspaper , 24th March , 1996 , page 26]
<-- " He's not a republican , he's not a nationalist , but he is Taoiseach of this country " --
--Provo spokesperson Rita O'Hare describing the then Fine Gael leader John Bruton . Two outta three , Rita : the 26-county state is not a "country" . At least not to Republicans .... and NO , Rita - it's not a 'province' either !
Monday, September 01, 2003
TIM COUGHLAN - IRA VOLUNTEER 1906-1928 ; SHOT DEAD BY IRA INFORMER OR FREE STATE AGENTS ..... ?
......the 'evidence' from the informer Sean Harling did not tally with the post-mortem findings , but Harling insisted his version was correct - the 'Tribunal' that he was given 'evidence' too had been set-up by his employers .....
Other people that lived on Dartry Road at the time of the shooting later spoke of the high level of police activity in the area before the incident and mentioned hearing more than the number of shots which Harling said were fired during the alleged gun-fight .
Police records of the alleged events on that January 1928 evening did not tally with the sequence of events as outlined by their man , Sean Harling , yet this line of investigation was not followed-up on : why ?
A pool of blood was found on the Dartry Road in a location which , according to Harling's account of events , had no bearing on the incident that evening - how did the blood get there and whose blood was it ?
Again , no questions asked . Why ? (MORE LATER)>
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS .....
.....the Free Staters claimed that the incident was caused by a land-mine planted by the IRA on the Killorglin Road - but the IRA had not built a barricade nor planted explosives on that road at the time , and could not have been responsible .....
" They had , however , at Knocknagoshel , attached a trigger-mine to a dump . The following statement was issued on the tenth of March (1923) from IRA Headquarters , Kerry No.1 Brigade --
" A trigger-mine was laid in knocknagoshel for a member of the Free State Army , Lieutenant o'Connor , who had made a hobby of torturing Republican prisoners in Castleisland . On Tuesday , a party of Free State troops , including Lieutenant O'Connor , proceeded to the place , and two Captains , Lieutenant O'Connor , and two privates were killed . "
Reprisals on prisoners , instituted by the Free State Government in Mountjoy on December 8th , 1922 , had become a systematic practice in their jails . It was concluded that the slaughter of eight prisoners at Ballyseedy and of four at Killarney and of five at Cahirciveen were reprisals for the Knocknagoshel mine . " (MORE LATER)>
BENT , BLOATED BEEF BANDIT BLACKGUARD BAMBOOZLE'S BRETHREN .....
[financial figures from 'The Phoenix' magazine , 27th September , 1996 , page 15]
.....'Hands out' - oops! - I mean 'Hands Up' those that remember the 'Beef Tribunal' ? A Mr. Dermot Gleeson certainly should -->
<-- as the Free States Attorney General at the time , he was the highest-flying 'Legal Eagle' of them all and , as such , the best man to defend 'Beef Baron' Larry Goodman : especially as the taxpayer was footing the bill ! And wha' a bleedin' bill ....
... his fee for taking on the case was £175,000 , he charged £75,000 for making two submissions to the Tribunal , and was paid £3,000 PER DAY for fifty-six days on which the Tribunal was sitting (total £168,000) and a further £2,500 PER DAY for sixty-two other sitting days (£155,000) .
And when the Tribunal was'nt sitting - well , the bould Dermo musta' considered himself as being 'locked-out' or whatever , and was paid £118,000 for those days !
Now , as I remember it - Larry Goodman's company was being investigated (careful!) for allegedly (THAT'S better !) ripping off the taxpayer , yet the 'powers-that-be' determined that it was okay that the same company be defended with taxpayers money !
Jaysus , lads - 'straight bananas' is only in the ha'penny place ....
( THANKS to Sean McG. for sorting out the problem I had with the 'new code' issue : thought I was finished there for a while !)
......the 'evidence' from the informer Sean Harling did not tally with the post-mortem findings , but Harling insisted his version was correct - the 'Tribunal' that he was given 'evidence' too had been set-up by his employers .....
Other people that lived on Dartry Road at the time of the shooting later spoke of the high level of police activity in the area before the incident and mentioned hearing more than the number of shots which Harling said were fired during the alleged gun-fight .
Police records of the alleged events on that January 1928 evening did not tally with the sequence of events as outlined by their man , Sean Harling , yet this line of investigation was not followed-up on : why ?
A pool of blood was found on the Dartry Road in a location which , according to Harling's account of events , had no bearing on the incident that evening - how did the blood get there and whose blood was it ?
Again , no questions asked . Why ? (MORE LATER)>
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
BALLYSEEDY CROSS .....
.....the Free Staters claimed that the incident was caused by a land-mine planted by the IRA on the Killorglin Road - but the IRA had not built a barricade nor planted explosives on that road at the time , and could not have been responsible .....
" They had , however , at Knocknagoshel , attached a trigger-mine to a dump . The following statement was issued on the tenth of March (1923) from IRA Headquarters , Kerry No.1 Brigade --
" A trigger-mine was laid in knocknagoshel for a member of the Free State Army , Lieutenant o'Connor , who had made a hobby of torturing Republican prisoners in Castleisland . On Tuesday , a party of Free State troops , including Lieutenant O'Connor , proceeded to the place , and two Captains , Lieutenant O'Connor , and two privates were killed . "
Reprisals on prisoners , instituted by the Free State Government in Mountjoy on December 8th , 1922 , had become a systematic practice in their jails . It was concluded that the slaughter of eight prisoners at Ballyseedy and of four at Killarney and of five at Cahirciveen were reprisals for the Knocknagoshel mine . " (MORE LATER)>
BENT , BLOATED BEEF BANDIT BLACKGUARD BAMBOOZLE'S BRETHREN .....
[financial figures from 'The Phoenix' magazine , 27th September , 1996 , page 15]
.....'Hands out' - oops! - I mean 'Hands Up' those that remember the 'Beef Tribunal' ? A Mr. Dermot Gleeson certainly should -->
<-- as the Free States Attorney General at the time , he was the highest-flying 'Legal Eagle' of them all and , as such , the best man to defend 'Beef Baron' Larry Goodman : especially as the taxpayer was footing the bill ! And wha' a bleedin' bill ....
... his fee for taking on the case was £175,000 , he charged £75,000 for making two submissions to the Tribunal , and was paid £3,000 PER DAY for fifty-six days on which the Tribunal was sitting (total £168,000) and a further £2,500 PER DAY for sixty-two other sitting days (£155,000) .
And when the Tribunal was'nt sitting - well , the bould Dermo musta' considered himself as being 'locked-out' or whatever , and was paid £118,000 for those days !
Now , as I remember it - Larry Goodman's company was being investigated (careful!) for allegedly (THAT'S better !) ripping off the taxpayer , yet the 'powers-that-be' determined that it was okay that the same company be defended with taxpayers money !
Jaysus , lads - 'straight bananas' is only in the ha'penny place ....
( THANKS to Sean McG. for sorting out the problem I had with the 'new code' issue : thought I was finished there for a while !)
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