JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN : 1803 - 1849 .......
.......his parents pulled him from school in 1818 (when he was fifteen years young) as they needed him to get a job to help keep the family together ; he worked as a 'clerk' in a solicitors office , which allowed him time and space to persue his interests in poetry and politics - he had some of his articles published in Dublin periodical's .......
His published work in 'The Nation' newspaper concerned themselves with Irish poetry and short stories , and were signed as being from 'The man in the Cloak' , 'Vaccus' and 'Terrae Filius' . He was an Irish Republican at heart , and his writings could be found in the 'United Irishman' newspaper (edited byJohn Mitchel) , 'The Felon' (edited byThomas Devin Reilly) as well as Charles Gavan Duffy's'The Nation' newspaper .
James Clarence Mangan was a troubled man in his own mind ; a deep-thinker , he tended to keep to himself and , apart from his writing contacts , was not one for socialising : he apparently suffered from what we now know as 'depression' , and his 'mood swings' were no doubt exasperated by the fact that every day was a challenge for him , financially -- also , he had no-one to confide in , or lean on . (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924.
CAHIRCIVEEN.......
".......Dan Shea's father called to Bahaghs Workhouse and enquired re the whereabouts of his son-- he had heard that the Free Staters had executed a number ofIRA prisoners ; the Free State sergeant told him" Yes , a prisoner named Shea was killed......" "
" He heard the sergeant trampling upstairs ; then, from the room above , wild singing and laughter broke out . Mr. Shea saw one of the Free State Officers at last ; a pale , foxy man - he was shaking . " Was it Mick Shea or Dan Shea was killed .... what sort of a coat had he on him ? " , the father asked . "He had a dark tweed on him and a fair hat." " It was Dan , so , and it was you killed him " , the father said . The Officer went in quickly and shut the door . A soldier came to Mrs. Riordan with a dispatch . " Sorry I am to have it to do , ma'am " , he said . It told her that her son had been killed at daybreak " in a mine explosion " .
The same message came that night to Mike Courtney's father in Spunkane ; to Dan Shea's in Island Boy ; to John Sugrue's in Ballinskelligs and to Eugene Dwyer's , in Reenieragh . It was the twelfth of March , 1923 . No mine had been laid by the Republicans near Cahirciveen . " (MORE LATER).
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE.......
[from'AP/RN', 4th November , 1993 , page 13]
Georges-Henri Beautnier , who chaired an April 1992 commission in London dealing with 'Human Rights in Northern Ireland' (sic) is on record stating that -- " Direct discrimination of the most invidious kind still occurs in Northern Ireland " (sic). He stated that the London Government had demonstrated a singular unwillingness to effect real change .
.....THE MORE THEY.....
[from same as above]
In their report entitled ' Fair Employment Legislation in Northern Ireland : A Cosmetic Exercise ' , the 'Clergy for Justice' organisation stated that discrimination is still being utilised-- " in order to weaken economically the Catholic minority and to induce emigration ".
.......STAY THE SAME --->
<--- " Loyalist killings are much more than just retaliation and revenge . The current murderous campaign against Catholics is the continuation of a long series of violent attacks on innocent and uninvolved Catholics , going back many years in our history . These attacks historically predated IRA activity . They run in parallel with , but often precede , IRA acts ."---
--- Cardinal Cahal Daly , 28th October , 1993 .
Friday, September 26, 2003
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN : 1803 - 1849 .......
.......known as a bright child in the school he went to on Lord Edward Street in Dublin (then known as'Saul's Court' , James Clarence Mangan was quick to learn the Irish language .......
Although barely in his teens , he did not need to be prompted to study other languages - he was well on his way to being fluent in German , Italian , French and Spanish when his parents had no choice but to remove him from school ; they were in dire needs and their fifteen-years young son , James , would have to bring in a wage if the family were to stay together .
He got a job in a solicitors office as a 'clerk/secretary/general gofar' and was able to use his time in work to study his own preferred papers - language , poetry and politics . He would sometimes translate poems and other writings from the German language and , indeed , from the Irish language , into English , and have them published , under the name 'Clarence' , in some of Dublin's periodicals . (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
CAHIRCIVEEN.......
.......the people of Cahirciveen knew something had happened the night before , possibly near the Free State Army Barracks ; Nurse Sloan had been called for .......
" Nurse Sloan and Nurse O'Connor went up the road towards Bahaghs . They found clumps of earth and grass flung everywhere and gaps in the road ; cartridge cases were lying about . They picked up a chain of rosary beads -- it was soaked in blood . They came to the shambles then and saw what it would not be right to describe . They did all they could - it was not much - and went back with the awful story to Cahirciveen .
Mr. Shea heard , late in the morning , of the deaths of five prisoners and he knew from the first that Dan would be one . He went to Bahaghs Workhouse and knocked on the door . There was silence in the place like death . A Sergeant came at last and answered his question . " Yes , a prisoner named Shea was killed ." (MORE LATER).
THE TRUTH .......
[from'The Sunday Business Post' , 25th January , 1998 , page 11]
....... An economist in Dublin's Trinity College , Antoin Murphy , described the 'Celtic Tiger' as - " Predominantly a high-tech multinational tiger , nurtured in a special tax reserve by Celtic tax poachers ."
The 'Celtic Tiger' made the business and political class in this State even richer , at the expense of the rest of us . It should have been strangled at birth .
.......HURTS --->
<--- " Men will get into positions , men will hold power , and men who get into positions and hold power will desire to remain undisturbed and will not want to be removed ."
--- Liam Mellows , IRA leader , as quoted on 4th January , 1922 , in relation to the 'Treaty of Surrender' .
The man was right then , and is still right - bent business leaders , bent trade union bosses and bent politicians . They should ALL be dumped in a real tiger cage .......
.......known as a bright child in the school he went to on Lord Edward Street in Dublin (then known as'Saul's Court' , James Clarence Mangan was quick to learn the Irish language .......
Although barely in his teens , he did not need to be prompted to study other languages - he was well on his way to being fluent in German , Italian , French and Spanish when his parents had no choice but to remove him from school ; they were in dire needs and their fifteen-years young son , James , would have to bring in a wage if the family were to stay together .
He got a job in a solicitors office as a 'clerk/secretary/general gofar' and was able to use his time in work to study his own preferred papers - language , poetry and politics . He would sometimes translate poems and other writings from the German language and , indeed , from the Irish language , into English , and have them published , under the name 'Clarence' , in some of Dublin's periodicals . (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
CAHIRCIVEEN.......
.......the people of Cahirciveen knew something had happened the night before , possibly near the Free State Army Barracks ; Nurse Sloan had been called for .......
" Nurse Sloan and Nurse O'Connor went up the road towards Bahaghs . They found clumps of earth and grass flung everywhere and gaps in the road ; cartridge cases were lying about . They picked up a chain of rosary beads -- it was soaked in blood . They came to the shambles then and saw what it would not be right to describe . They did all they could - it was not much - and went back with the awful story to Cahirciveen .
Mr. Shea heard , late in the morning , of the deaths of five prisoners and he knew from the first that Dan would be one . He went to Bahaghs Workhouse and knocked on the door . There was silence in the place like death . A Sergeant came at last and answered his question . " Yes , a prisoner named Shea was killed ." (MORE LATER).
THE TRUTH .......
[from'The Sunday Business Post' , 25th January , 1998 , page 11]
....... An economist in Dublin's Trinity College , Antoin Murphy , described the 'Celtic Tiger' as - " Predominantly a high-tech multinational tiger , nurtured in a special tax reserve by Celtic tax poachers ."
The 'Celtic Tiger' made the business and political class in this State even richer , at the expense of the rest of us . It should have been strangled at birth .
.......HURTS --->
<--- " Men will get into positions , men will hold power , and men who get into positions and hold power will desire to remain undisturbed and will not want to be removed ."
--- Liam Mellows , IRA leader , as quoted on 4th January , 1922 , in relation to the 'Treaty of Surrender' .
The man was right then , and is still right - bent business leaders , bent trade union bosses and bent politicians . They should ALL be dumped in a real tiger cage .......
Thursday, September 25, 2003
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN : 1803 - 1849.
' My Dark Rosaleen' ; a poem about the authors feelings for his country and its tradition of resistance in arms to those that would seek to rule it . The author , James Clarence Mangan , contributed written material on a regular basis to the Irish rebel newspaper 'The Nation' , and became friends with its Editor , Charles Gavan Duffy .
Born in Fishamble Street , in Dublin , in May 1803 , James Clarence Mangan did not have an easy life , or an easy death . He went to a school on Lord Edward Street (then known as'Saul's Court') and was known as a bright child ....... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
CAHIRCIVEEN .......
.......Mrs. Riordan , who had three sons in prison for Irish Republican activity , woke in a fit of terror one night ; she dreamed she had seen an angel , and that she had seen Free Statesoldiers pulling on a wire .......
" The shock of terror woke her ; rain was drizzling in through the window ; it was beginning to be light . Scream after scream broke from her ; she could not stop screaming , although she felt ashamed and thought the neighbours would think she had gone mad ......
In the morning the people of Cahirciveen had a thousand rumours : there were strange Free State Officers at the hotel ; they had come last night ; something had happened near the Free State barracks , up at the Workhouse -- 'Irregulars' (IRA) had laid a mine - but how could the 'Irregulars' do anything there? That road was controlled by the Free Staters , night and day .
Something had happened , anyway -- Nurse Sloan was called out ....... (MORE LATER).
BACKING.......
[from'AP/RN' , 2nd April , 1998 , page 7]
....... Speaking on Tuesday , 31st March , 1998 , Caoimhghin O Caolain (PSF) stated---
--- " Any new kind of Stormont or any arrangement which copperfastens partition would not be acceptable ."
EXCLUSIVE ! We print here the conversation between Caoimhghin and the Brits following the above quote :
: Brits -- " I say , Key-o-veen , what if we set up a new kind of Stormont for you and the rest of the Micks , and then .....
COC -- " No , no , Sir - sure I could'nt sell that to the bhoys , unless.....
Brits -- .......you could claim it as a stepping-stone just like the other Mick tried to sell the last deal ."
COC -- " SOLD ! "
.......OUT --->
[from'AP/RN' , 11th September , 1997 , page 5]
<--- " Decommissioning on our part would be tantamount to surrender ." ---
--- Provisional IRA statement .
Requires no comment from me .
' My Dark Rosaleen' ; a poem about the authors feelings for his country and its tradition of resistance in arms to those that would seek to rule it . The author , James Clarence Mangan , contributed written material on a regular basis to the Irish rebel newspaper 'The Nation' , and became friends with its Editor , Charles Gavan Duffy .
Born in Fishamble Street , in Dublin , in May 1803 , James Clarence Mangan did not have an easy life , or an easy death . He went to a school on Lord Edward Street (then known as'Saul's Court') and was known as a bright child ....... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
CAHIRCIVEEN .......
.......Mrs. Riordan , who had three sons in prison for Irish Republican activity , woke in a fit of terror one night ; she dreamed she had seen an angel , and that she had seen Free Statesoldiers pulling on a wire .......
" The shock of terror woke her ; rain was drizzling in through the window ; it was beginning to be light . Scream after scream broke from her ; she could not stop screaming , although she felt ashamed and thought the neighbours would think she had gone mad ......
In the morning the people of Cahirciveen had a thousand rumours : there were strange Free State Officers at the hotel ; they had come last night ; something had happened near the Free State barracks , up at the Workhouse -- 'Irregulars' (IRA) had laid a mine - but how could the 'Irregulars' do anything there? That road was controlled by the Free Staters , night and day .
Something had happened , anyway -- Nurse Sloan was called out ....... (MORE LATER).
BACKING.......
[from'AP/RN' , 2nd April , 1998 , page 7]
....... Speaking on Tuesday , 31st March , 1998 , Caoimhghin O Caolain (PSF) stated---
--- " Any new kind of Stormont or any arrangement which copperfastens partition would not be acceptable ."
EXCLUSIVE ! We print here the conversation between Caoimhghin and the Brits following the above quote :
: Brits -- " I say , Key-o-veen , what if we set up a new kind of Stormont for you and the rest of the Micks , and then .....
COC -- " No , no , Sir - sure I could'nt sell that to the bhoys , unless.....
Brits -- .......you could claim it as a stepping-stone just like the other Mick tried to sell the last deal ."
COC -- " SOLD ! "
.......OUT --->
[from'AP/RN' , 11th September , 1997 , page 5]
<--- " Decommissioning on our part would be tantamount to surrender ." ---
--- Provisional IRA statement .
Requires no comment from me .
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
JAMES 'Skin-the-goat' FITZHARRIS - INVINCIBLE.....
.....Fitzharris was fifty years of age when he was sent to Portlaoise Prison ; he was sixty-five when he got out , and things had changed -- the Republican Movement had forgotten him ......
He had no job and no-where to live ; he knew no-one and no-one wanted to know him . His choice now was to live on the street or sign himself into the workhouse -- he chose the latter , and survived for the next twelve years as a pauper - between the gutter and the workhouse . He died in 1910 ( on 7th September ) aged seventy-seven . He was jobless , homeless and friendless when he died , alone , in the South Dublin Union Workhouse in James Street , Dublin .
James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris was twenty-five years young when he joined the Movement in 1858 and stayed true to his Republican principles for fifty-two years , until he died . He had a hard life , in hard times , but he came through it and never recanted his actions or his beliefs . A rebel never would ......
[END].
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
CAHIRCIVEEN......
......twenty-five years young Dan Shea, anIRA Volunteer, was on his way to Correvoola : it was 1923 , a dangerous time for Irish Republicans......
" About two-hundred-and-fifty Free State soldiers were out that day from Waterville , searching the hills . It must be that someone gave them information on the road . A party of military burst into the wake-house and arrested four lads . Mike Courtney was taken , and John Sugrue and Willie Riordan and Eugene Dwyer . A friend of Dan's sat on his knee and covered him so that he was not seen , but the soldiers met somebody on the road who told them he was there . They went back , then , and arrested Dan .
The prisoners were taken to the Bahaghs Workhouse , near Cahirciveen. They were there still , a few days later , when the news came of the fight on Garrane . Mrs. Riordan had three sons in prison - Pete in Tralee , Pat in the Curragh Camp , and Willie , now in the Workhouse at Bahaghs . So many prisoners had been shot , she used to be anxious about Pat and Pete, but she thought Willie was safe enough . He was only eighteen years old .
One night , a couple of weeks after his arrest , she woke in a fit of terror ; she had dreamed something that made her shake from head to foot : she had been looking through a stained-glass window and saw the figure of an angel ; then she had seen Free State soldiers pulling a wire ....... (MORE LATER).
POLITICS .......
[from 'Ireland on Sunday',3rd May ,1998 , page 15]
....... In an interview , Sean(son of Charlie) Haughey stated --
-- " I do find it a little bit frustrating that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael people will come up to you and tell you its awful what they are doing to your father , and then go into the (Leinster House) Chamber and say something completely different . That can be difficult to understand ."
SUCH INNOCENCE ! Who would have believed that someone from that family , and with connections to that party , could be so naive ? Thanks for sharing that with us , Sean --- you have opened my eyes ! Nice guy's like you deserve my vote .....
.......AND PAY-PACKETS --->
[from'The Sunday Tribune' , 4th May , 1997 , page 3]
<--- Free State President Mary Robinson was paid £2298 punts a week ! (That would be Euro 2917 aweek,every week.)
Yeah , well .... with money like that floating around , maybe Sean Haughey should'nt be so 'innocent' .
.....Fitzharris was fifty years of age when he was sent to Portlaoise Prison ; he was sixty-five when he got out , and things had changed -- the Republican Movement had forgotten him ......
He had no job and no-where to live ; he knew no-one and no-one wanted to know him . His choice now was to live on the street or sign himself into the workhouse -- he chose the latter , and survived for the next twelve years as a pauper - between the gutter and the workhouse . He died in 1910 ( on 7th September ) aged seventy-seven . He was jobless , homeless and friendless when he died , alone , in the South Dublin Union Workhouse in James Street , Dublin .
James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris was twenty-five years young when he joined the Movement in 1858 and stayed true to his Republican principles for fifty-two years , until he died . He had a hard life , in hard times , but he came through it and never recanted his actions or his beliefs . A rebel never would ......
[END].
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
CAHIRCIVEEN......
......twenty-five years young Dan Shea, anIRA Volunteer, was on his way to Correvoola : it was 1923 , a dangerous time for Irish Republicans......
" About two-hundred-and-fifty Free State soldiers were out that day from Waterville , searching the hills . It must be that someone gave them information on the road . A party of military burst into the wake-house and arrested four lads . Mike Courtney was taken , and John Sugrue and Willie Riordan and Eugene Dwyer . A friend of Dan's sat on his knee and covered him so that he was not seen , but the soldiers met somebody on the road who told them he was there . They went back , then , and arrested Dan .
The prisoners were taken to the Bahaghs Workhouse , near Cahirciveen. They were there still , a few days later , when the news came of the fight on Garrane . Mrs. Riordan had three sons in prison - Pete in Tralee , Pat in the Curragh Camp , and Willie , now in the Workhouse at Bahaghs . So many prisoners had been shot , she used to be anxious about Pat and Pete, but she thought Willie was safe enough . He was only eighteen years old .
One night , a couple of weeks after his arrest , she woke in a fit of terror ; she had dreamed something that made her shake from head to foot : she had been looking through a stained-glass window and saw the figure of an angel ; then she had seen Free State soldiers pulling a wire ....... (MORE LATER).
POLITICS .......
[from 'Ireland on Sunday',3rd May ,1998 , page 15]
....... In an interview , Sean(son of Charlie) Haughey stated --
-- " I do find it a little bit frustrating that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael people will come up to you and tell you its awful what they are doing to your father , and then go into the (Leinster House) Chamber and say something completely different . That can be difficult to understand ."
SUCH INNOCENCE ! Who would have believed that someone from that family , and with connections to that party , could be so naive ? Thanks for sharing that with us , Sean --- you have opened my eyes ! Nice guy's like you deserve my vote .....
.......AND PAY-PACKETS --->
[from'The Sunday Tribune' , 4th May , 1997 , page 3]
<--- Free State President Mary Robinson was paid £2298 punts a week ! (That would be Euro 2917 aweek,every week.)
Yeah , well .... with money like that floating around , maybe Sean Haughey should'nt be so 'innocent' .
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
JAMES 'Skin-the-Goat' FITZHARRIS - INVINCIBLE.....
......the second jarvey (cab-driver) , Michael Kavanagh, also turned informer and gave information to the British which resulted in the arrest of James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris.....
When he was first arrested , the British offered Fitzharris a deal if he , too , would turn informer , but he refused . His 'trial' actually ended with him being acquitted by the jury but the Judge then halted proceedings and ordered that he be re-arrested ; he was then charged with being an 'accomplice' in the deed , found guilty , and sentenced to life . It should be remembered that during both of his 'trials' , 'Skin-the-Goat' made a mockery of the proceedings and refused to recognise the so-called "authority" of the British to carry-out such functions in Ireland .
James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris was fifty years of age when he began his life sentence - he was sixty-five when he got out of (Portlaoise) Prison , and things had changed ; his comrades were either dead or had moved away and , to the eternal shame of the Republican Movement , it turned its back on the man .......(MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .....
CAHIRCIVEEN.
" The Shea's farmhouse stands quite alone in an untravelled valley . Dan would often come down from the hills to rest there and get a meal . Noreen , his little sister , was startled out of sleep in the early morning to see a tall man standing by her bed , covering her with his gun . "Hands up!" he shouted , "have you any diehards here ?" Noreen laughed , and went to sleep again - it was only Dan at his tricks . He and some of his comrades had come down for breakfast . It was early March (1923) and the nights were cold in the hills . Mike Courtney came in later to ask would they come to the wake at Correvoola , a quiet place in the hills . It would be safe enough , the boys thought , and they went . Dan's mother looked after him from the door . He was laughing : he never put on the rifle-strap but he laughed .
He was only twenty and those were dangerous times : the thought of death in battle , for Ireland, was , maybe , sweet to Dan , but Mrs. Shea prayed that her son might live . About two-hundred-and-fifty Free State soldiers were out that day from Waterville searching the hills ......" (MORE LATER)
AND HERE's TO YOU .......
Speaking on the 'Radio Ulster' TALKBACK programme on 28th May , 1997 , Provo Councillor Alex Maskey stated that Provisional Sinn Fein Councillors would not rule out performing the 'royalist' duties of Lord Mayor of Belfast if they were elected to the post. These duties were said to include toasting the British Queen at 'Official' dinners ; attending 'Remembrance Day' ceremonies and greeting members of the British 'Royal' family visiting Belfast !.
A 'Sterling' job , lads ....
......MRS. ROBINSON --->
[from 'The Sunday Business Post' newspaper , 31st August , 1997 , page 1].
Dunno where she is now , or what she's up to ( could still be in the job , for all I care ) but Mary Robinson (who had a handy little nixer going for herself in the Free State Presidential Palace) is on a pension of Euro 1480 , a week , every week , for the rest of her life! . And no , don't be worrying about the welfare of MR. Mary Robinson and the two young 'uns because , when Mary pops her clogs ( or steps out of her Dr. Martins or whatever the fashion is now for women !) , then the hubbie gets the pension . FOR LIFE!. Euro 1480 , a week , every week .
Keep voting out there , folks : there's lifestyles to be maintained ......
......the second jarvey (cab-driver) , Michael Kavanagh, also turned informer and gave information to the British which resulted in the arrest of James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris.....
When he was first arrested , the British offered Fitzharris a deal if he , too , would turn informer , but he refused . His 'trial' actually ended with him being acquitted by the jury but the Judge then halted proceedings and ordered that he be re-arrested ; he was then charged with being an 'accomplice' in the deed , found guilty , and sentenced to life . It should be remembered that during both of his 'trials' , 'Skin-the-Goat' made a mockery of the proceedings and refused to recognise the so-called "authority" of the British to carry-out such functions in Ireland .
James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris was fifty years of age when he began his life sentence - he was sixty-five when he got out of (Portlaoise) Prison , and things had changed ; his comrades were either dead or had moved away and , to the eternal shame of the Republican Movement , it turned its back on the man .......(MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .....
CAHIRCIVEEN.
" The Shea's farmhouse stands quite alone in an untravelled valley . Dan would often come down from the hills to rest there and get a meal . Noreen , his little sister , was startled out of sleep in the early morning to see a tall man standing by her bed , covering her with his gun . "Hands up!" he shouted , "have you any diehards here ?" Noreen laughed , and went to sleep again - it was only Dan at his tricks . He and some of his comrades had come down for breakfast . It was early March (1923) and the nights were cold in the hills . Mike Courtney came in later to ask would they come to the wake at Correvoola , a quiet place in the hills . It would be safe enough , the boys thought , and they went . Dan's mother looked after him from the door . He was laughing : he never put on the rifle-strap but he laughed .
He was only twenty and those were dangerous times : the thought of death in battle , for Ireland, was , maybe , sweet to Dan , but Mrs. Shea prayed that her son might live . About two-hundred-and-fifty Free State soldiers were out that day from Waterville searching the hills ......" (MORE LATER)
AND HERE's TO YOU .......
Speaking on the 'Radio Ulster' TALKBACK programme on 28th May , 1997 , Provo Councillor Alex Maskey stated that Provisional Sinn Fein Councillors would not rule out performing the 'royalist' duties of Lord Mayor of Belfast if they were elected to the post. These duties were said to include toasting the British Queen at 'Official' dinners ; attending 'Remembrance Day' ceremonies and greeting members of the British 'Royal' family visiting Belfast !.
A 'Sterling' job , lads ....
......MRS. ROBINSON --->
[from 'The Sunday Business Post' newspaper , 31st August , 1997 , page 1].
Dunno where she is now , or what she's up to ( could still be in the job , for all I care ) but Mary Robinson (who had a handy little nixer going for herself in the Free State Presidential Palace) is on a pension of Euro 1480 , a week , every week , for the rest of her life! . And no , don't be worrying about the welfare of MR. Mary Robinson and the two young 'uns because , when Mary pops her clogs ( or steps out of her Dr. Martins or whatever the fashion is now for women !) , then the hubbie gets the pension . FOR LIFE!. Euro 1480 , a week , every week .
Keep voting out there , folks : there's lifestyles to be maintained ......
Monday, September 22, 2003
JAMES 'Skin-the-Goat' FITZHARRIS - INVINCIBLE......
.....on 6th May , 1882 , two carriage-loads of armed Invincibles left Mulbeths Bar (12 Lower Bridge Street, Dublin) and headed for the Phoenix Park : they assassinated Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke , two top British Government Officials ......
The killings were condemned by both the Establishment and the Churches , but months went by and no arrests were made . Then , in one day , twenty-six men (all members of the 'Invincibles') were arrested and charged with the 'Phoenix Park murders' -- the men soon realised that this was no 'desperate face-saving' expedition by the British ; one of the top members of the 'Invincibles' , James Carey , had turned informer and his brother , Peter , also told the British all he knew about the group .
The other jarvey (cab-driver) Michael Kavanagh , also agreed to inform on the 'Invincibles' . Between May and December 1883 , fourteen 'Invincibles' passed through Green Street Courthouse -- eight received life sentences and six were put to death . One of those sentenced to life was James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris , who was arrested on the evidence given by the other driver , Michael Kavanagh . (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924.
WEST KERRY - PATRICK LYNCH of Moyrisk.....
.....crying over the body of her dead husband Patrick Lynch , she was threatened with being shot herself if she did'nt back off .....
" The Free Staters carried the body of Patrick Lynch in to the house and flung him down on the floor . The baby went to him and began shaking him , calling to Dada to wake up - "and she walking in his blood" . One of the young soldiers began to cry , but others were jeering the whole time . Mrs Lynch wanted them to call the neighbours - to go for a priest , but they would do nothing . " A priest for a dead man ?" , one of them said . " What is the man's name ?" , a soldier whispered to her.
" You came out to kill a man " , she said , " and you not knowing his name ?" " I was told nothing " he replied sullenly ; " I had to come. " She turned to them then , quietly : " Tis a hard thing to say , for myself and the child ," she said , " but I'd rather see him dead on the floor before me than be the man that fired that shot ."
There was a face among them that she recognised ; the man had been Patrick's Lieutenant after 1916 . He did not speak a word the whole time .
[END]
"COME IN LUDKA - YOUR DINNERS POURED OUT ....." ......
[from 'The Sunday Business Post', 18th January , 1998 , page 5].
...... When she was Free State Minister for 'Justice' , Nora Owen (Fine Gael) granted citizenship to a Ludka Kozeny , on 21st March , 1997 . She had done the same for Kozeny's husband , Viktor , in 1995 .
This was not Viktor's first time to be mentioned in the media ; he was already famous in the Czech Republic as a 'go-getter' , a successful 'can-do' business-man , who had persuaded eight-and-a-half million people to 'invest' in his 'Harvard Group Investment Fund' , promising them a ten-fold return on their money within " a year and a day " . But the "Fund" , such as it was , failed , and Viktor legged it ! He later surfaced in London's Mayfair area , where he made the headlines again - by spending £13,000 punts (Euro 16,506 , and God knows how many Czech'whatyamaycallsit' that is !) on dinner for three people at 'LA GAVROCHE' restaurant !
Incidentally , when I knew it , 'LE GAV (which was what we called it) was owned by my old buddies , the Roux brothers . Certainly won't be dining there again ......
.....on 6th May , 1882 , two carriage-loads of armed Invincibles left Mulbeths Bar (12 Lower Bridge Street, Dublin) and headed for the Phoenix Park : they assassinated Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke , two top British Government Officials ......
The killings were condemned by both the Establishment and the Churches , but months went by and no arrests were made . Then , in one day , twenty-six men (all members of the 'Invincibles') were arrested and charged with the 'Phoenix Park murders' -- the men soon realised that this was no 'desperate face-saving' expedition by the British ; one of the top members of the 'Invincibles' , James Carey , had turned informer and his brother , Peter , also told the British all he knew about the group .
The other jarvey (cab-driver) Michael Kavanagh , also agreed to inform on the 'Invincibles' . Between May and December 1883 , fourteen 'Invincibles' passed through Green Street Courthouse -- eight received life sentences and six were put to death . One of those sentenced to life was James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris , who was arrested on the evidence given by the other driver , Michael Kavanagh . (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924.
WEST KERRY - PATRICK LYNCH of Moyrisk.....
.....crying over the body of her dead husband Patrick Lynch , she was threatened with being shot herself if she did'nt back off .....
" The Free Staters carried the body of Patrick Lynch in to the house and flung him down on the floor . The baby went to him and began shaking him , calling to Dada to wake up - "and she walking in his blood" . One of the young soldiers began to cry , but others were jeering the whole time . Mrs Lynch wanted them to call the neighbours - to go for a priest , but they would do nothing . " A priest for a dead man ?" , one of them said . " What is the man's name ?" , a soldier whispered to her.
" You came out to kill a man " , she said , " and you not knowing his name ?" " I was told nothing " he replied sullenly ; " I had to come. " She turned to them then , quietly : " Tis a hard thing to say , for myself and the child ," she said , " but I'd rather see him dead on the floor before me than be the man that fired that shot ."
There was a face among them that she recognised ; the man had been Patrick's Lieutenant after 1916 . He did not speak a word the whole time .
[END]
"COME IN LUDKA - YOUR DINNERS POURED OUT ....." ......
[from 'The Sunday Business Post', 18th January , 1998 , page 5].
...... When she was Free State Minister for 'Justice' , Nora Owen (Fine Gael) granted citizenship to a Ludka Kozeny , on 21st March , 1997 . She had done the same for Kozeny's husband , Viktor , in 1995 .
This was not Viktor's first time to be mentioned in the media ; he was already famous in the Czech Republic as a 'go-getter' , a successful 'can-do' business-man , who had persuaded eight-and-a-half million people to 'invest' in his 'Harvard Group Investment Fund' , promising them a ten-fold return on their money within " a year and a day " . But the "Fund" , such as it was , failed , and Viktor legged it ! He later surfaced in London's Mayfair area , where he made the headlines again - by spending £13,000 punts (Euro 16,506 , and God knows how many Czech'whatyamaycallsit' that is !) on dinner for three people at 'LA GAVROCHE' restaurant !
Incidentally , when I knew it , 'LE GAV (which was what we called it) was owned by my old buddies , the Roux brothers . Certainly won't be dining there again ......
Sunday, September 21, 2003
JAMES 'Skin-the-Goat' FITZHARRIS : INVINCIBLE .....
.....on 6th May , 1882 , the'Invincibles' held a meeting in 'Mulbeths Public House' (12 Lower Bridge Street , Dublin) to discuss the arrival of the new British Chief Secretary , Lord Frederick Cavendish......
The route that Cavendish was to travel on his way to the Vice-Regal Lodge was known to those at the meeting . All were armed with knives (pistol-shots would only alert British patrols in the area) and two carriages were organised ; one driven by James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris and the other by Invincible member Michael Kavanagh.
James Carey led the men out of Mulbeths Bar and into the two carriages , which then headed for the Phoenix Park . The new British Chief Secretary ,Lord Frederick Cavendish and his 'Permanent Undersecretary' Thomas Henry Burke , were waylaid by the Invincibles in Dublin's Phoenix Park and assassinated ....... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
WEST KERRY - Patrick Lynch of Moyrisk.....
.....on the last day of November , 1922 , the Free Staters raided the house of Patrick Lynch and took him out into the yard ; his wife went to hide his revolver in the cupboard and get him a coat . But she heard shots from the yard .....
" She ran out - her husband's brother had disappeared . He had escaped , leaping over a wall . She could not find Patrick for a while . She found his body then , with a bullet wound through it from side to side , lying on the grass slope below the house . She knelt down ; it was too late to help him . She said -"May God have mercy on your soul ." There seemed to be scores of soldiers about ; they had the house surrounded ; they could have taken him living -- so many , and he with naked hands ....
One of the Free State soldiers shouted to her - " Get out of my way or I'll give you the contents of this ," lifting his rifle . "Shoot me !" , she said ; "I'd sooner die than be living after him ." (MORE LATER).
VOTE FOR ME ......
[from 'The Sunday Tribune' , 15th March , 1998 , page 13]
...... It was reported that 'Lucilita Bhreathnach' (Provisional Sinn Fein) publicly condemned the armed struggle during the 1994 European elections in which she was a candidate .'
Just as well she was'nt elected ; if she was prepared to sell-out while just looking for votes , imagine what she'd do if she got the seat . And what would she be prepared to sell-out on in order to keep the seat .....?
......VOTE FOR JOHNGER -->
[from 'The Sunday Tribune' , 22nd February , 1998 , page 15]
<-- In 1986 , Gerry Adams told the 'Andersontown News' newspaper (which , incidentally , has an 'all-new-and-approved' 'Vacancies' page ; especially if you like a job with a uniform)- "If at any time (Provisional) Sinn Fein decide to disown the armed struggle they won't have me as a member ."
NOTE the "at any time" ; no "if's" or "but's" about it : must have been the last time that the bould Gerry spoke without some spin-doctors hand up his a**e !
Anyway -- I think a 'BRING BACK JOHN HUME' campaign should be launched to fill the vacancy should (when ? / if ?) Gerry leave . John Hume would fit right in , having spent a lifetime 'Stooping Down Low' .....
.....on 6th May , 1882 , the'Invincibles' held a meeting in 'Mulbeths Public House' (12 Lower Bridge Street , Dublin) to discuss the arrival of the new British Chief Secretary , Lord Frederick Cavendish......
The route that Cavendish was to travel on his way to the Vice-Regal Lodge was known to those at the meeting . All were armed with knives (pistol-shots would only alert British patrols in the area) and two carriages were organised ; one driven by James 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris and the other by Invincible member Michael Kavanagh.
James Carey led the men out of Mulbeths Bar and into the two carriages , which then headed for the Phoenix Park . The new British Chief Secretary ,Lord Frederick Cavendish and his 'Permanent Undersecretary' Thomas Henry Burke , were waylaid by the Invincibles in Dublin's Phoenix Park and assassinated ....... (MORE LATER).
THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .
WEST KERRY - Patrick Lynch of Moyrisk.....
.....on the last day of November , 1922 , the Free Staters raided the house of Patrick Lynch and took him out into the yard ; his wife went to hide his revolver in the cupboard and get him a coat . But she heard shots from the yard .....
" She ran out - her husband's brother had disappeared . He had escaped , leaping over a wall . She could not find Patrick for a while . She found his body then , with a bullet wound through it from side to side , lying on the grass slope below the house . She knelt down ; it was too late to help him . She said -"May God have mercy on your soul ." There seemed to be scores of soldiers about ; they had the house surrounded ; they could have taken him living -- so many , and he with naked hands ....
One of the Free State soldiers shouted to her - " Get out of my way or I'll give you the contents of this ," lifting his rifle . "Shoot me !" , she said ; "I'd sooner die than be living after him ." (MORE LATER).
VOTE FOR ME ......
[from 'The Sunday Tribune' , 15th March , 1998 , page 13]
...... It was reported that 'Lucilita Bhreathnach' (Provisional Sinn Fein) publicly condemned the armed struggle during the 1994 European elections in which she was a candidate .'
Just as well she was'nt elected ; if she was prepared to sell-out while just looking for votes , imagine what she'd do if she got the seat . And what would she be prepared to sell-out on in order to keep the seat .....?
......VOTE FOR JOHNGER -->
[from 'The Sunday Tribune' , 22nd February , 1998 , page 15]
<-- In 1986 , Gerry Adams told the 'Andersontown News' newspaper (which , incidentally , has an 'all-new-and-approved' 'Vacancies' page ; especially if you like a job with a uniform)- "If at any time (Provisional) Sinn Fein decide to disown the armed struggle they won't have me as a member ."
NOTE the "at any time" ; no "if's" or "but's" about it : must have been the last time that the bould Gerry spoke without some spin-doctors hand up his a**e !
Anyway -- I think a 'BRING BACK JOHN HUME' campaign should be launched to fill the vacancy should (when ? / if ?) Gerry leave . John Hume would fit right in , having spent a lifetime 'Stooping Down Low' .....
Saturday, September 20, 2003
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 .....
.....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 .....
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