Saturday, January 04, 2003

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.......the English had strengthened the Antrim Garrison and were better prepared than was known ...... ...
Friday, January 03, 2003

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Another informer , Nicholas Magin , earned his 30 pieces of silver during the 1798 Rising ...... ...
Thursday, January 02, 2003

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..... Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen were in agreement that the best hope of carrying out a successful revolution was with aid from Fran...
Wednesday, January 01, 2003

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The Reverend William Jackson , who was born in Dublin in 1737 , lived most of his life in London , where he edited a radical journal , the ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2002

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" .... lets shoot 100 men a week " ~ No doubt MacReady learned his ' peace-keeping' skills in other countries which ...
Monday, December 30, 2002

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.........indeed, after his stint as a British ' peace-keeper ' , Widgery maintained his British Army connections by continuing to se...
Sunday, December 29, 2002

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" It strikes me that the British Army ran amok that day and they shot without thinking of what they were doing . They were shooting ...
Saturday, December 28, 2002

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In August , 1916 , Roger Casement , who was arrested on the eve of the Rising at Banna Strand in Kerry ( havi...
Friday, December 27, 2002

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...... however , three days later (May 8) , three Republicans were executed - Eamonn Ceannt (Commander of the South Dublin Union) , Michael ...
Thursday, December 26, 2002

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More information has been E-mailed to me re the aftermath of the 1916 Rising -- ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2002

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..... Con Colbert held the position of Captain of ' F ' Company , Fourth Battalion , during Easter Week... ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2002

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One of perhaps the least-mentioned leaders of the 1916 Rising , and the youngest , was Con Colbert . He was born ...
Monday, December 23, 2002

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This month thirty-one years ago (December 5 , 1971) , the ' Democratic Unionist Party ' (DUP) was officially launched : prior to thi...
Sunday, December 22, 2002

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The American Civil War (1861-1865) was fought to ensure " that self-determination belonged only to the whole people of the nation ...
Saturday, December 21, 2002

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That old British chestnut surfaced here again recently regarding Roger Casement ; the British still insisting that the ' diaries ' t...
Friday, December 20, 2002

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......but Carter had another visitor- Garret Fitzgerald , the then Fine Gael top statesman , got word that Carter had been speaking to Fr S...
Thursday, December 19, 2002

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.....throughout Easter Week , the women engaged in the fight also helped to look after the wounded and voluntered to do the difficult and da...
Wednesday, December 18, 2002

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During Easter Week 1916 , almost 100 women , members of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army , played a full part in the fighting : Cum...
Tuesday, December 17, 2002

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Tim Pat Coogan , the newspapers mentioned previously , the Provos , Piet De Pauw etc -- all wrong in relation to the outcome of the vote on ...
Monday, December 16, 2002

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Bertie Ahern , ' Sunday Business Post' , 3/5/98 , page 16 - said it means that "Britain is out of the equation " ~ ...