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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

"UNION, LIBERTY, THE IRISH REPUBLIC!" - MAYO, 23RD AUGUST 1798.

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ON THIS DATE (23RD AUGUST) 219 YEARS AGO : FRENCH BATTLECRY ON IRISH SOIL. "UNION, LIBERTY, THE IRISH REPUBLIC!" - the words and...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

LONDON'S ATTITUDE TO IRELAND - 'EXHAUSTED IRRITATION AND SPORADIC HATRED MIXED WITH FEAR...'

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TWO 'WRONGS', BUT ONLY ONE GETS THE HEADLINE. The newspaper article (pictured, left) which was published in 'The Sunday Times...
Monday, July 31, 2017

TURNING THE PAGE ON SOMETHING MORE OUTLANDISH.

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PURPOSELY MISSING THE BIGGER PICTURE... Whether intentional or not - and I suspect not - the result of the fallout from that article by Ke...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

BRITISH 'AUTHORITY' IN IRELAND QUESTIONED BY ARMED IRISHMEN.

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ON THIS DATE (26TH JULY) 103 YEARS AGO : HOWTH GUNS AND A BRITISH MASSACRE ON THE DUBLIN QUAYS. 'A nationalist depiction of the shootin...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

THE IRISH 'INTELLIGENTSIA' AND THEIR 'BRITISHNESS'.

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PROSE AND CONS. By prisoners from E1 Landing, Portlaoise Prison, 1999. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS : Grateful thanks to the following for their help...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

PAT CANNON COMMEMORATION, DUBLIN, JULY 2017.

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VOLUNTEER PAT CANNON COMMEMORATION, WEDNESDAY 19TH JULY 2017, DUBLIN. Pat Cannon (left), Dublin, and Peter McElchar, Donegal. At 2.15pm o...
Wednesday, July 05, 2017

THE SHAMROCK AT THE HEART OF THE IRISH NATION.

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ON THIS DATE (5TH JULY) 77 YEARS AGO : THOMAS ÓG MacCURTAIN'S LAST DAY ON EARTH... Tomás Óg MacCurtain, left, 33 years of age, pictured...
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