Saturday, March 08, 2003

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The IRA launched it's ' S-Plan' in January 1939 , after years of preparation . Jim O'Donovan , an IRA Instructor and colleag...
Friday, March 07, 2003

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A branch of the Irish Volunteers was founded in Limerick in January 1914 , and John Daly was mainly responsible during the following months ...
Thursday, March 06, 2003

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.......later , while working as a hospital attendant in England , John Daly played an active part in the dynamite campaign in English cities...
Wednesday, March 05, 2003

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Born on October 18th, 1845, in Limerick , this veteran revolutionary became a living link between the Fenians an...
Tuesday, March 04, 2003

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..... at the same time that Padraig Pearse launched the newspaper ' An Barr Buadh ' and his new political party ' Cumann na Saoi...
Monday, March 03, 2003

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Ninty-one years ago this month , a new political weekly newspaper began publication - March 16th, 1912. ...
Sunday, March 02, 2003

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..... the evenings in the IRA training camps were devoted to lectures and written exercises , including instruction in map reading , signall...
Saturday, March 01, 2003

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.....Tom Barry realised the need for proper training and saw the advantages of a highly-trained Flying Column to fight the British : the col...
Friday, February 28, 2003

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.....attacks on RUC barracks continued throughout 1957 and during the early months of 1958 but , by the summer of that year, oppression on ...
Thursday, February 27, 2003

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....in the Westminster election of May 1955 Sinn Fein , with an abstentionist policy , won two of the twelve seats in the Six Counties ~ To...
Wednesday, February 26, 2003

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Republican policy changed radically in the in the early 1950's - the IRA leadership issued an order prohibiting military action against ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2003

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....on April 16th , 1940 , Tony D'Arcy , a native of Headford , County Galway , died after 52 days on hunger strike ; Jack McNeela , a n...
Monday, February 24, 2003

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.....on March 1st , 1940 , Jack McNeela and Jack Plunkett , who were both arrested during the swoops which followed the raid by the IRA on t...
Sunday, February 23, 2003

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Those of us that were politically active in the 1980's will always remember the hunger strike of 1981 ; in one way or another , it touch...
Saturday, February 22, 2003

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....by 1936 , largely due to the efforts of the I W W U , most employers had conceded a shorter working week , with the working hours being ...
Friday, February 21, 2003

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.....throughout the Black and Tan War ( 1919 - 1921 ) the I W W U played their part in the liberation struggle and were prominent in the ...
Thursday, February 20, 2003

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Within two years of its formation , many of the I W W U members were involved in the Great Lock-Out of August 1913 and , following the endin...
Wednesday, February 19, 2003

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In September 1911 , at a meeting in the Antient Concert Room in Brunswick (now Pearse) Street in Dublin , which was attended by dozens of wo...
Tuesday, February 18, 2003

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Peter Barnes and James McCormick were to be made an example of - the question of guilt or innocence was immaterial as long as English ' ...
Monday, February 17, 2003

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Within hours of the August 25th , 1939 , Coventry explosion ,Peter Barnes was arrested at his lodgings at 176 Westbourne Terrace and three d...