1920 : CANON MAGNER , CORK , AND THE BLACK AND TANS .......


.......on 15th December , 1920 , two men and a youth were standing in Bandon Town , talking ; Canon Magner was one of the men . The Black and Tans came upon the group of three and gave the youth a beating , then shot him dead . When Canon Magner protested , the Tans asked him for his personal details . On hearing same , a Tan named Harte shot the priest dead .......


The motorist inched his way back to his car and drove off : he then reported the shootings to the British Officer in charge of the Bandon area . There were too many witnesses for the British to do nothing about it , so a 'trial' was held . The Tan who shot Canon Magner dead , Harte , was charged with murder -- he was found " guilty but insane . "

The whole episode turned even more Irish people against the Brits and left them like 'fish with no sea to swim in' ; even more isolated than they were before . Because of their own bullying and arrogant nature , the British had fallen foul of their own trap .


[END].


THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .

DERRY NA FEENA.......


"....... during the gun-fight between the Free Staters and the IRA , George Nagle was wounded in the leg ; he was lying outside Molly O'Brien's house , unarmed . The Free Staters rushed the house and kept the O'Brien's inside it .......


" Molly O'Brien heard shots fired outside and when at last she went out with the water George Nagle was dead , shot through the heart . She wanted to do all that was left to do -- to sprinkle holy water on the body , but it was not allowed (by the Staters). The soldiers took a cart from the shed and put the body in it and drove down along the shore of Acoose Lake . Young Conway O'Connor was wounded that morning also . He was a laughing , light-hearted boy , who never possessed a rifle yet .

He was wounded in the shoulder and became too weak to run ; he hid his revolver and surrendered then . The wound was slight , and his captors marched him for two miles along the shore of the lake . His comrades in the hills saw him pass with them out of sight . A little later people walking along the road met a cart driven by Free State soldiers ; in it were two dead bodies . It was driven to Kenmare . Where a pool of blood was found on the roadside on the northern shore of Acoose Lake , not far from the grove of firs , a little iron cross has been set :-

" Pray for the soul of W. Conway O'Connor , IRA , aged 20 years , 6th Battalion Kerry No. 2 Brigade . Killed 6th of April , 1923 . RIP."

There is a cross in memory of George Nagle on the hillside in Derry na Feena , on the far side of the lake ."


[END].



ABSTRUSE.......

[from 'AP/RN' , 30th September , 1993 , page 6 ('Editorial' column)]

....... " Since the partition of Ireland , successive Dublin governments have run away from the Northern problem and thus have been part of the problem . Now it must become part of the solution . Dublin must assume its national responsibility . "

The Leinster House (Dublin) administration claims jurisdiction over the 26-County State only ; since when has it had a "national responsibility" ?


.......ANIMALS --->

[from 'The Phoenix' magazine , 15th March , 1985]

On the 'Criminal Justice Bill' , Mary McAleese (yer wan from the Park) stated --

-- " I have never regarded the right to silence as a sacred cow anyway ."

Nor us you , Mary.......

---

1920 : CANON MAGNER , CORK , AND THE BLACK AND TANS .......

.......on 11th November , 1920 , Canon Magner had not tolled the Church bells in 'tribute' to'Poppy Day' as the Black and Tans had ordered him to do ; in Bandon Town , on 15th December , 1920 , he was to pay for his refusal .......


On that day(15th December 1920) , Canon Magner was walking in Bandon Town , Cork , with a young lad he knew when a car pulled up beside the pair of them . The driver knew the priest and the three of them stood talking on the side of the road . A truck (possibly a 'Crosley Tender') full with Black and Tans pulled up beside the two men and the boy , and a number of Tans approached them ; one of the Brits lashed out with a punch at the young lad and , before he could fall to the ground , the other Tans were kicking and punching him too.

Suddenly , without saying a word , one of the Black and Tans pulled out his revolver and shot the young lad dead . Canon Magner shouted his protest at the Tan that seemed to be in charge , a Brit named Harte ; the priest was asked for his name and address by Harte and , when Canon Magner gave his details , Harte pulled his gun and shot the priest dead .......(MORE LATER).



THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .


DERRY NA FEENA.......

.......the IRA Fenians of 1923 in the Derry na Feena area lived in the folds of the mountains , from where they would launch attacks onFree State troops in the vicinity .......


" They knew , all through March , that the Free State troops were not far away , and they slept little and watched well . But on the night of the fifth of April , 1923 , they slept , exhausted , all night . It was just in the grey of dawn , when the loch below had taken a pale glimmer , though the valley was dark still under the shadow of the black Reeks , that their sentry gave the alarm . They sprang out from the cabins where they were sleeping and dashed up the hillside . It was in the open they chose to fight . George Nagle had been ill and was being nursed in the cottage of the O'Briens . When he and the others woke , the cottage was already covered by a machine gun .

There was a family of young children in it ; it was impossible to fight there . Landers rushed down to the fence with a Lewis gun and opened fire on the attackers while his comrades made away . Just outside the house Nagle fell , shot in the leg . Tom Mannix tried to lift him but could not . Nagle told him to take his gun . The fighting passed up the hill then and Nagle was alone . He was calling "Molly ! Molly !" , and Molly O'Brien ran out to him and he asked for water . She ran back to get it but Free State soldiers rushed up and kept her inside the house ......." (MORE LATER).


AND IT's NO , NAY , NEVER .......

[from 'The Evening Press' , 1st December-- a Monday , I believe -- 1986 , page 4]

In an interview carried out on the Aran Islands (on 30th November) , the then Fianna Fail leader Charlie Haughey was asked if his party would form a coalition with the new Progressive Democrat party ; he replied ---

--- " There will be no agreement between Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats now , in the General Election , or afterwards . Turncoats once are turncoats always. "

You'd know all about " turncoats " , Charlie . Wonder how those words tasted to you later , C J ?


....... NO NEVER NO MORE --->


<--- Fianna Fail are in the news here lately , but not for the following reasons ---

--- Execution of Irish Republican prisoners , mass imprisonment and deaths on hunger-strike , more internment in the 1950's and 1960's , censorship introduced by them in the early 1970's , their extension of the 'Offences Against the State Act' and-- special congrats here -- their use for the first time of the 'Criminal Law(Jurisdiction) Act' , which allowed for the jailing of Irish Republican activists and escapee's .


Stroke the money , drink and drive , sell passports for 'dog-food' money , sell your re-zone vote to the highest bidder and so on and on .....

Political gangsters and mis-fits , political prostitutes and professional gombeens . History will wonder why we allowed it .......

---

1920 : CANON MAGNER , CORK AND THE BLACK AND TANS.......


....... in early November , 1920 , the Black and Tans demanded that Canon Magner show"respect" on 'Poppy Day' and pay tribute to dead British soldiers ; the seventy-three year old priest was a well-known Irish Republican supporter .......


The Brits ordered Canon Magner to toll the church bells twice (to mark the second anniversary of the ending of the European War) at eleven A.M. , and warned him that he would be severely dealt with if he did not comply . The same demand , in writing , was nailed to the door of the Church by one of the Tans , on their way out of the building .

11th November , 1920-- 'Poppy Day' : and the Church bells remained silent . Canon Magner went about his business , and the Black and Tans went about their's ; days passed , with only the usual snide comments and remarks coming from the British forces to the priest and his parishoners . The days passed into weeks , with no retribution from the Tans over Canon Magner's refusal to toll the bells .

However... in Bandon Town one morning (15th December , 1920) ....... (MORE LATER).



THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .....

DERRY NA FEENA


" Derry na Feena means "the Oak Wood of the Fenians." Here the Fenians of Cahirciveen , marching to Killarney , in February 1867 , got the countermanding order and dispersed , heavy at heart , leaving the fight for their children's children to carry on . There is no wood here now ; it is a grey , barren valley under the Macgillicuddy Reeks , with the height of Carrantuohill looming over it and a grey lake below - Loch Acoose , one of the most desolate lakes of Kerry , with its solitary grove of dark trees .

Derry na Feena was the fastness of a little company of the Fenians of 1923 . They lived among the folds of the mountains in the stony hollows , befriended through winter nights in the few scattered cabins above the lake , coming out when enemy inroads were threatened , to blow up bridges , set ambushes or barricade the mountain roads . (MORE LATER).



DIVIDE .......

[from'RTE Today/Tonight' programme, 11th April ,--a Thursday , if memory serves-- 1985]


During a discussion on divorce , Mary Harney (then withFianna Fail;now Free State Taniste and 'Progressive Democrat'leader) referred to what she called "Northern Ireland" (sic) as "the country closest to us" !

She corrected herself quickly , on that occasion at least , but the fact that she could think along those lines in the first place speaks volumes . The woman could and should spend a lifetime correcting herself .....


.......AND CONQUER -->

[from'The Evening Press' newspaper ,17th April -- a Wednesday , I believe-- 1985]

<-- When he was Free State Minister for 'Justice' , Fine Gael's Michael Noonan welcomed representatives of the 'Police Federation of Northern Ireland' (sic) to the Annual Conference of the 'Garda Representative Assocoiation' in Bundoran , County Donegal , held that year(1985).

Delegates to the Conference gave two standing ovations to the RUC men after they were formally welcomed by the then General Secretary , Jack Marrinan ; RUC Federation Chairperson Alan Wright , probably fighting back the tears , stated -- " We all belong to a family and that family is the police ."

Fine Gael's 'Justice' man , Mickey Noonan , no doubt by now bawling his little squinty eyes out , blubbered -- " We support them in their endeavours to bring law and order to a disturbed part of this Country ."

Don't ya mean "bringing law and order to the Country closest to us" , Mickey?

'One big happy family' indeed.....

---

1920 : CANON MAGNER , CORK , AND THE BLACK AND TANS .......

........new orders had been issued by British Prime Minister Lloyd George to the British forces in Ireland -- terrorise the Irish population . Ordinary workers were now being targetted by , amongst others , the Black and Tans.......


Non-combatants were now being hit financially , as their places of employment were put out of commission by the British , and physically , as the Black and Tans and 'ordinary' British soldiers turned on them viciously , as per the new instructions which they received from Westminster .

The idea was , apparently , to leave the population too scared to offer assistance (safe-houses , money , transport , information etc) to the IRA and thus isolate the rebels and pick them off -- 'fish with no sea to swim in.'. It might have worked , over time ,(although it's doubtful) but for one particularly bloody incident which had the complete opposite effect :

: An elderly priest in Dunmanway, in Cork , seventy-three year old Canon Magner , had no time for the British and was a vocal and well-known Republican supporter ; in early November , 1920 , the Black and Tans entered the Church and demanded that Canor Magner show "respect" on the up-coming 'Armistice('POPPY')Day' which , that year , fell on the 11th November ....... (MORE LATER).


THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .

CAHIRCIVEEN.......

"....... Free State Lieutenant McCarthy voiced his concern to the remaining IRA prisoners about the Free State Murder-Gang from Dublin that were operating inKerry ; he supported the Free State Administration , he said , but was not an executioner for them -- he was going to resign his post .......

" The following is the Official IRA report , signed by the Officer Commanding , Kerry , Third Brigade and the Officer Commanding Operations , Kerry Brigade , with reference to the "ambush" mentioned in the Free State Portobello communique :

: " There was no ambush in the vicinity . All our troops had been removed from the vicinity of Cahirciveen and the workhouse . There was no barricade and no mine laid there by us . The five prisoners had been arrested more that a week previously ."

The fathers came asking for their sons' bodies , but they were refused . Father Sheehan of Dromod prevailed on the Free State military at last to give them up , and five coffins were sent out , nailed down . The people opened the coffins in the church . Two of the bodies were recognisable . There were bullet wounds , not in vital places ; the others could not be recognised . They were buried in one grave in Cahirciveen . The people set up a rough , wooden cross on the road-side to sanctify that black gap , but the Free State soldiers broke it .

It has been mended now and stands there unmolested . The cattle graze quietly in the field and grass is growing again on the road-side .

[END].


LIVING BEYOND OUR MEANS.......

[from 'The Sunday Times' , 28th April , 1985 , page 2]

Nearly twelve-thousand workers left the 'National Coal Board' in Britain during the Miners Strike of that time , according to the Chairperson of the Board at that time , Ian MacGregor (in a letter to Peter Bruinvel , then Tory MP for Leicester East).


If the Trade Union leadership was any good , would the workers not have seen it through ? And where is the Trade Union leadership in this State in relation to the issue of the double bin-tax ? Every worker in the State pays income-tax on his or her earnings , we pay more tax when we spend our money (VAT) , and we pay again if we can save a few bob(D.I.R.T) .

That tax is paid to go towards essential services , such as the collection of household rubbish , but now thepoliticians want to charge a separate amount for the collection of rubbish-bins , with no reduction in the income-tax levy ! The politicians and the Trade Union leadership should be ashamed of themselves-- both groups are non-productive spongers and leeches , living off the working class and the unemployed ; they're wealthy , fat and comfortable - but still they want more.

And the thing is-- the people they want it from simply have'nt got it to give ; but they don't care. It's either get it that way , or work for a living like the rest of us that can get work . And that's not gonna happen !

---

1920 : CANON MAGNER , CORK , AND THE BLACK AND TANS .......


.......in Ireland in the mid-1920's , the British were losing the war against the IRA ; the British Prime Minister , Lloyd George , issued new orders to his Commander-in-Chief in Ireland , Sir Neville Macready -- ' fight and terrorise the population , not just the rebels and their supporters ....' .......


Ireland at that time was heavily depended on agriculture ; the British , however , perhaps because they came from an industrialsed country and background , only threw the odd cursory glance at the Irish tradition of working the land : until now . British Commander-in-Chief Sir Neville Macready added a new string to the bow of the Black and Tans and other forces under his command -- that of saboteurs ; bread-mills were wrecked , farm co-op's burned , creameries put out of business .

Ordinary workers and other individuals who up to now had not been specifically targetted by the British found themselves on the front-line .......(MORE LATER).


THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924 .

CAHIRCIVEEN.......

.......on Monday morning , 12th March , 1923 , five IRA prisoners were taken from their cells by the Free Staters " to be removed to Tralee " . That evening , a Free State Officer , Lieutenant McCarthy rushed into the IRA prisoner's cells and asked one of the prisoners , John Graham , what did he know of the removal of the five men that morning ? Graham told him that the men were being moved to a jail in Tralee .......


" Lieutenant McCarthy then said -- " They were murdered on the road this morning by the men who took them out . I myself am putting in my resignation this night . The fellows that killed them were some of the Dublin Guards , who were at the workhouse on Sunday evening . One of them was a Divisional Officer . The sergeant had no order to give the key of the room to anyone . Myself and Hegarty went to bed . The other fellows went to the guardroom and told the Sergeant to come down to the prisoners' room , and one of the guard refused to go . He then told him he would blow his brains out , and brought him down at the point of the revolver . He told the Sergeant he was taking him and his escort , and if he told a word of what happened on the way he would blow his brains out ."

McCarthy continued -- " He then took them down the road . There was no attempt to escape , as the prisoners were shot first and then put over a mine and blown up . It was a Free State mine , laid by themselves . I will get the statement put into the paper . There were six or eight in the lot that murdered them . It is a murder-gang that is going around trying to keep on the war . We ourselves will support the Free State Government and fight for it , but we will not fight for murder . We will do no more work until these fellows are properly dealt with . Our best friends in Cahirciveen will not speak to us since ." (MORE LATER).


FRIENDLY.......

[from'The Sunday Business Post' , 28th December , 1997 , page 7]

....... In an interview with Emily O'Reilly , Gerry Adams stated in relation to Bill Clinton --

-- " I've only spoken to him a few times but I know that he is engaged(re the Six Counties). I talk quite often to people who talk to him quite often , and they will tell you , quite freely , that he continually comes back to this issue . He now describes himself as an Irish-American ! "

WOW ! GER knows people that know people that etc etc .....

One 'statesman' to another , in a round-a-bout sort of way : don't forget ,GER , the Brits have been at that game for longer than you have .......


.......FIRE -->

[from'The Sunday Times' , 24th March , 1985]

<-- On Thursday , 21st March , 1985 , at dawn , the Israelis , under their then so-called 'Iron Fist' policy (ie shoot first , ask questions later) attacked two villages outside of Sidon and later claimed to have "killed twenty-one terrorists" . Amongst the dead were two journalists , one sound engineer , and one camerperson , from the American CBS Network .

Get the 'BIG LIE' out first ; policy then , policy now .

---

1920 : CANON MAGNER , CORK , AND THE BLACK AND TANS .


From around mid- 1920 , the English Black and Tans in Ireland were not only losing the war with the IRA , but were coming-round to realise that fact themselves -- as were their political masters in Westminster .

The then British Prime Minister , Lloyd George , secured the backing of his cabinet to " intensify efforts " in Ireland to crush the rebels ; the then Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in Ireland , Sir Neville Macready , was contacted and handed a new brief -- terrorise the population , not just the rebel army and its base of supporters ....... (MORE LATER).



THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924.


CAHIRCIVEEN.......

".......the five IRA prisoners were taken outside by their Free State captors ; it was Monday morning , 12th March , 1923 -- the prisoners were told they were "to be removed to Tralee" ......."


Three Free State Officers came in first , while it was still dark , and a guard , who was with them , called out the five names . " Be ready in half-an-hour " , they said . When they had gone , instead of packing his things , Michael Courtney knelt down and said a prayer . They were all ready when , half-an-hour later , the three Free State Officers came back . "Will we take our parcels ?" , Dan asked .

" The lorry will take them after you " , was the reply . "We'll need no parcels , Dan ," Mike Courtney said : " We're not going far ." He had his rosary beads in his hand . Eugene Dwyer , too, understood . He looked at his comrades and said : " 'Tis death , and we're going to meet it like men." "They can't do more than kill us ," Dan said then . As they went out of the door the guard said in a low , distressed voice : " God pity you , boys !"

The other IRA prisoners knew no more until the evening , when a Free State officer , Lieutenant McCarthy , came in to them in a very excited state . He called a prisoner named John Graham , and asked : " What was supposed to happen the prisoners when taken out ? " Graham answered: "Going to be removed to Tralee." .......(MORE LATER)........



KINKY SEX ON RTE.......

[from'AP/RN' , 1st April , 1993 , page 4]


The 'International Federation of Journalists' , representing three-hundred-thousand members in seventy countries , called RTE's Supreme Court appeal for continued permission to use Section 31 (which banned Irish Republican spokesmen and women from being heard on television and radio ) as "an outrage" . The main U. S. journalists union , the 'Newspaper Guide' , said it was " astonished " that RTE was looking for a "self-bondage" plea in relation to its free speech rights !

.....whatever about the "self-bondage" bit , RTE definately deserves a good whippin' .. !



.......AS WE SCREW OURSELVES --->

[from'AP/RN' , 6th April , 1995 , page 4]

The 1989 - 1992 Fianna Fail/Progressive Democrat Free State administration approved the £2.8 billion (punts) 'soft loan' from the European Union to 'British Nuclear Fuels Limited' for developing the THORP nuclear facility at Windscale/Sellafield when they held the E.U. Presidency in 1990 . The then Free State Finance Minister , Albert Reynolds , signed the agreement . They are now of the opinion that the facility should be closed down for health and safety reasons !

Daft lot , are'nt they .....?

---

JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN : 1803 - 1849 .......


.......a sufferer from depression , James Clarence Mangan was perhaps not necessarily by choice , a loner-- he kept his troubles , real or imagined , in his head .......


He fell into the trap that snared so many others in that time (and still does today)-- alcohol ; drink and opium were his crutch , and weakened him to such an extent that he became a victim of the cholera epidemic of the time .

On 13th June , 1849 , he was found half-dead in a damp cellar in Bride Street , Dublin , and taken to the Meath Hospital ; on 20th June , 1849 , James Clarence Mangan died , aged only forty-six years .

His writings have secured him a place in Irish history and , although perhaps not as well known as others of his time , James Clarence Mangan played his part as best he could .

[END]


THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by Dorothy Macardle - first published in 1924.

CAHIRCIVEEN.......

".......on the 12th of March , 1923 , the families of IRA prisoners were contacted by Free Staters and informed that their sons had "died at daybreak in a mine explosion." But theIRA did not lay any mines in that area ......."


" The people thought vengeance would fall out of the skies-- they thought the prison walls would be struck down-- they thought help and justice would come to them out of Heaven or earth . But no help and no justice came .

Letters came to the mothers from the barracks , signed by the Free State Officers , expressing condolence for the deaths of their sons . They laughed and cried at that last touch of horror , and threw the letters into the fire . They went out and cursed the Officers in the streets . The man who owned the field on the Bahaghs Road said he could not graze his horses on it . They went mad with the smell of blood .

The other prisoners knew nothing of what had happened until that night . The five men taken at the wake had been called to some kind of 'Courtmartial' on the ninth , but no sentence was pronounced , and no more was thought of it . On Monday morning , the twelfth of March , 1923 , they were called out--" to be removed to Tralee ." (MORE LATER).



FORMER.......

[from'AP/RN' , 18th December , 1986 , page 16]

Speaking to 'The Irish Press' on 12th December , 1986 , retired Free State Army Commandant J. Lavery said -- " The root cause of all the trouble , the British presence , has now been legitimised by Dr. (Garret) Fitzgerald's 'Anglo-Irish Agreement' (The Hillsborough Treaty of 1985) . Every ill in the Six Counties stems from this presence and until this fact is grasped , no crumbs of British concessions will influence the situation . The correct Irish response to the British is : when you have the opportunity , grab them by the rifle barrel or any other appropriate extremity and hold on till it hurts ." !!

Make you wonder what the man was doing in the Free State Army in the first place .....


.......FRIENDS --->

[from same as above]


<--- Speaking to the 'Fitzwilliam Post' (a Dublin city-centre free newspaper) on his relationship with Margaret Thatcher (the then British Prime Minister) , Fine Gael leader and the then Free State 'Taoiseach' Garret Fitzgerald said --- " I would not describe it as a friendship , as we have never had the opportunity to become close enough for that ."

Sounds like Garret was willing , but Mags said " No ,No , No....." !

---

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 .

---

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 .......

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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 .

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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' .

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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 ......

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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 ......

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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' .....

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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 .....

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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 .....

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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 .....

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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?

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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 .....

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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' ....

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