LIAM LYNCH , IRA LEADER - THE FERMOY ATTACK , 1919 .......


.......as Commander of the Cork No. 2 Brigade IRA, Liam Lynch wanted to launch an attack on those that were attempting to protect the British 'police'-force (RIC) in Ireland --- the British Army.......


Liam Lynch contacted IRA General Head Quarters to seek approval for this as yet untried 'twist' to an old plan , but the leadership thought it unwise to proceed with the action and turned him down ; at the time , the IRA attacks on RIC barrack's were obtaining the desired results --- extra weapons for the rebels with a mimimum of casualties : " if its not broke , don't fix it . "

But Lynch persisted ; the other IRA Volunteer in charge of the Cork No.2 Brigade , Michael Fitzgerald , was convinced that Lynch's idea was sound , so both men put together a plan of attack which they intended to take back to GHQ .

On the strength of that plan and with both Lynch and Fitzgerald insisting that it would work , they got the go-ahead for the operation ....... (MORE LATER).



THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , by DOROTHY MACARDLE - first published in 1924 .


CLASHMEALCON CAVES.......


".......with Aero Lyons dead , the other men in the cave gave up . Jim McEnery , soaking wet and starving , was brought up first by the Free Staters......."


" Greaney and Rudge Hathaway were brought up , and Jimmy McGrath . Greaney had a mad look on his face . Father Cahill said something reproachful to him as he passed , and a Free State soldier protested : " Why do you want to throw water on a drowned rat ? " .

Their vengeance seemed to have spent itself on Aero Lyons . The soldiers were kind . They let the prisoners warm themselves at the fire and put on dry clothes ; the woman gave them hot tea , and gradually their senses came back . They sat smoking , waiting ...... Jim McEnery said --- " They are going to finish us here . " His wife came to him with their little son . He took the boy in his arms and began to cry .

That was about four o' clock . Nothing was done to them , nothing happened , for about three hours ; then they heard a car drive up . A Free State Officer came in , a small man , with a white , smiling face . He looked from one to another and recognised the Englishman , Rudge Hathaway . " Now : get to the caves ! " he ordered . Rudge had to obey . He went out ....... " (MORE LATER).




LOSING.......

[from ' The Sunday Tribune ', 1st March , 1998 , page 13]


" The peace process has failed . The party should not go back to the talks . They are not a stepping stone to a united Ireland or to disengagement . Adams played his hand well , but it was a selected hand and it was'nt the best one in the game . Long term he has to lose . "


--- Jim McAllister , former member of Provisional Sinn Fein's Ard Chomhairle .

Adams' " selected hand " was one he dealt to himself ; too few 'aces' and too many 'jokers' .....




.......AND LYING ---->

[from ' AP/RN ' , 11th September , 1997 , page 5]


<---- " Decommissioning on our part would be tantamount to surrender . "


--- Provisional IRA statement ( issued days after Provisional Sinn Fein accepted the ' Mitchell Principles ' on 9th September , 1997 ) , intended to keep the remainder of their foot-soldiers happy .

Tell ' The Suits ' you're selling-out to that you will decommission and at the same time tell your own people there's not a chance of that happening !

Remember T.U.A.S ? " Totally Un-Armed Strategy " (for the suits) and " Tactical Use of Armed Struggle " (for the foot-soldiers) .

It must be obvious to all but those who refuse to see it --- the Adams Family are not lying to their new-found 'friends' - the Suits .

---

LIAM LYNCH , IRA LEADER ; THE FERMOY ATTACK , 1919 .


Sunday , 7th September , 1919 ; the date usually recognised for the first planned , organised and co-ordinated IRA attack against British forces in Ireland since the 1916 Rising .


During the Black and Tan war ( which started on 21st January , 1919 ) IRA units attacked Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC - a British 'police'-force in Ireland ) barracks on a regular basis to ' relieve ' them of their weapons , which were then used against them .

The Commander of an IRA Brigade , Liam Lynch ( Cork No. 2 Brigade ) , realised that he could use the frequency of IRA attacks on the RIC to his advantage ; by mounting a surprise attack on those that were endeavouring to protect the RIC --- the British Army ....... (MORE LATER).



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


CLASHMEALCON CAVES .......


".......the Free Staters lowered a rope for Aero Lyons to climb up on -- as he got to the top , the rope ' snapped ' and he fell about one-hundred feet . The Staters riddled his body with bullets then . A priest was at the scene by now ......."


" The Free State Officer in charge wanted the priest , Fr. Cahill , to go down to Lyons and his comrades on a rope . " Will you stay down and starve or come up and be shot ? " was the message he was to bring . If only they would drown themselves , now , Catherine McEnery thought....

While Fr. Cahill stood hesitating about the message , Jim McEnery came out on the ledge and put up his hands . Some soldiers forced Catherine McEnery into a house , for fear , perhaps , of what she might see next . When she looked out from the window she saw four soldiers leading Jim in ; he was swaying between them , his head hanging limply .

She ran out and cried out to him and he looked at her with staring eyes : water was streaming from his clothes -- his face was as white as death . " Who are they all round me ? " , he was asking wildly . " Don't shoot him ! " she implored the soldiers . " No , no , " , they answered, " we won't . " ........(MORE LATER).



WAR.......

[from 'AP/RN ', 12th March , 1998 , page 20]


Speaking in Kerry on 1st March , 1998 , Gerry Kelly said that the 26-County State was founded on the basis of war crimes for which it has yet to answer ; the following week , on the 7th March , 1998 , Martin Ferris said the same .


So that's why the Provos ( and their daughters ) want into the State apparatus ; to make them answer ( or pay £££ ) for their war crimes.....



....... CRIMES ---->

[from ' AP/RN ' , 9th April , 1998 , page 4]


John Kelly , Provisional Sinn Fein Councillor for Maghera at the time ( and now recently 'retired' ) , stated --

-- " We know a united Ireland will not result from this phase of the struggle (but) we are not prepared to put our name to any settlement that copperfastens partition . "


You've resigned from the Provos now , John , and better late than never... But...

..... the people you supported from 1986 to date " put their name to a settlement that copperfastened partition " and you did support them in that , for the last 17 years . All that time telling true Republicans that they were wrong . WHAT A WASTE .......

---

13 HOURS IN NEW ROSS , WEXFORD - 5th JUNE , 1798.......



.......after winning and losing the town twice , in two battles within hours of each other , one of the leaders of the United Irishmen rebel army , John Kelly , led a third attack . He was badly wounded in that assault and Mary Doyle burned to death .......



Both sides were by now exhausted . One of the surviving United Irishmen , a Thomas Cloney , described the last battle as a free-for-all " with two confused masses of men struggling alternatively to drive the other back by force alone . " For the third time in 13 hours , the Irish Rebels were forced out of their own town -- they had lost the battle this time .

Lord Mountjoy , who was in command of a British force from Dublin , was killed during the fight ; the three Irish Rebel leaders --- Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey , Fr. Philip Roche and John Kelly --- escaped , but were captured within a few weeks by the Brits and put to death in Wexford town .

The 13 hour fight on 5th June , 1798 , the thousands of Irish Rebels killed in that and other battles , the public execution of the leaders of the New Ross attack , and the destruction of Irish towns : but still the same spirit of resistance exists today -- hopefully we will never learn .......


[END].



THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , BY DOROTHY MACARDLE -- FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1924.


CLASHMEALCON CAVES.......


".......the Free State troops threw a rope down to Aero Lyons ; his mother knew nothing of the siege -- at the same time as her son began to climb the rope , an old 'grandfather' clock in the kitchen beside his mother , chimed twelve times . The clock had not worked in fifteen years ......."


" What happened on the cliffs edge is not known . Free State soldiers boasted afterwards to their prisoners that some of them cut the rope ; other people say that this is not true . The rope was thin and rotten , it is said . All that is known is this : when Aero Lyons almost reached the top , the rope snapped and he crashed on the rocks below .

The people heard a dreadful cry below and a wild yell of triumph above . Sea-birds flew up madly into the air . Then came the sharp crackle of the machine-gun . Lyons lay on the ridge of the rock below , maybe a hundred feet down . Greaney and McEnery and Hathaway sprang to him , out of the cave , but he was riddled by the gun-fire while he lay . When they lifted him he was dead . The firing went on and on . Father Cahill stood with his arms lifted on the edge of the cliff ---

--- " Savages ! Stop shooting ! " he cried . He gave Conditional Absolution , standing there on the ridge , to the man below . Then all was quiet for a while . The air was full of the smell of tar . Catherine McEnery was hoping only for one thing now . She hoped they would drown themselves . They were sending up answers to the Free State officers' notes ........" (MORE LATER).



LICKS .......

[from ' Magill ' Annual , 1987 , page 39 ]


On the 24th October , 1986 , Peter Voss , former Vice-Chairperson of the U S Postal Service , was sentenced to four years in prison for accepting bribes in connection with a two-hundred-and-fifty million dollar postal-sorting equipment contract . Voss was Co-Chairperson of Ronald Reagans election campaign in Ohio in 1980 !

Maybe he should've got four years for that too .....



.......AND STICKS ---->

[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' , 10th August , 1986 , page 4]


<---- An ' Independent ' member of Leinster House ( ex-Labour Party member ) Sean Treacy described Conor Cruise O'Brien as " spineless and supine , ( full of ) unprincipled shoneenism . " !

He continued --- " You could say that Labour is now just a rump of Fine Gael . Conor Cruise O'Brien tried to make it a rump of the Unionist Party . "


And now it has made itself a rump of the Stickies .......

---

13 HOURS IN NEW ROSS , WEXFORD - 5th JUNE , 1798 .......


....... on 5th June , 1798 , the Irish Rebels attacked the British forces in the town of New Ross , and took the town ; but it was a short-lived victory --- the Brits re-grouped and forced the Rebels out . The rebels prepared for their second assault .......



The United Irishmen rebel army attacked again and were successful for a second time ; however , before they could consolidate their gain , the Brits gathered their remaining forces and drove the Rebels back --- it is believed to be at this point ( ie the second Irish retreat ) that Mary Doyle , who had once again being ' liberating ' enemy weapons , grabbed-on to a British cannon and vowed to stay with the gun regardless of what happened !

Her own comrades could only get her to safety by wheeling the weapon out of the town , with Mary Doyle said to be sitting on the barrel of same !

The town of New Ross was now on fire , with buildings crumbling and hundreds , if not thousands , of bodies strewn around ; one of the leaders of the United Irishmen , John Kelly ( from Killane ) assembled the remnants of the Rebel Army for one last push , which he led . It was in that last attack that Kelly was badly wounded and Mary Doyle was killed by one of the many fires which now consumed the town ....... (MORE LATER).



THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , BY DOROTHY MACARDLE - FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1924 .


CLASHMEALCON CAVES .......


"....... Aero Lyons was the first of the trapped IRA men to leave the cave ; when the Free State soldiers recognised him from their cliff-top vantage point , they screamed that they were going to butcher him . He passed a note to the Staters telling them he would surrender on his own , and hand over the rifles ......."


" His enemies would hear of no terms for surrender . Catherine McEnery heard of the surrender at eleven o' clock . She knew what had to be done then : she sent two cars away for the priests . It was just mid-day when a rope , brought out in a lorry , was lowered to Lyons from the cliffs , and he knotted it and began to climb up . Mrs Lyons , his mother , tells of a strange thing that happened at that time in the house in Kilflyn .

The cottage is remote from the roads , and they heard no word at all of the siege at the caves . She was sitting in the kitchen ; her young son and daughter were about the house . The father was mending the fence outside the door . A round pendulum clock hangs on the wall , an heirloom , long past work . Its one hand had been hanging at the figure six , motionless , for fourteen or fifteen years . At mid-day they heard the clock strike .....

The four of them gathered round it , staring , counting the strokes . The hand had moved up to the figure twelve and it struck twelve times......." .......(MORE LATER).



CLEAR AS MUCK .......

[from ' AP/RN ' , 3rd February , 2000 , page 9]


Speaking in Newry , County Down , on Sunday , 30th January , 2000 , Gerry Adams stated ---


--- " It is clear that if this process collapses , it is clear that if the Unionists walk out of the process , it is clear that if the British Government is spooked into suspending the process on a Unionist threat to walk out , that decommissioning is never going to happen . "


The Brits and the Unionists can do what they like with " the process " , when they like and as often as they like , Gerry -- you've nowhere else to go except into their waiting arms ; after they have completely neuterd you and yours .

Still , on the bright side -- it should give you enough material for another book ! *


( * Suggested title's ---->

<---- " Please , Sir - Can I have My Balls Back " ;

" How To Sell-Out Victoriously " ;

" How To Finance A Holiday-Home By Selling Your Country " ;

" How I Mingled With Statesmen And Still Kept The Smell Of Sulphur " .

End of this chapter.......

---

13 HOURS IN NEW ROSS , WEXFORD - 5TH JUNE , 1798 .......


.......set-up outside New Ross and ready to attack the British forces in that town , the leader of the United Irishmen , Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey , sent a number of his men , under a flag of truce , to tell the British he was willing to accept their surrender and take prisoners .......



The British shot the truce party dead . The 13-hour battle was about to start :

: The Irish Rebel leadership gathered a huge herd of cattle and stampeded the animals towards the town ; the rebel army followed immediately behind the terrified beasts . The British outposts fell , and the Irish fought their way into the middle of New Ross , meeting strong resistance -- the Brits retreated , re-grouped , and succeeded in forcing the United Irishmen army out of the town .

Some of the Irish Rebels were reluctant to lose the ground they had gained , and had to be practically dragged away by their own comrades ; one such rebel was Mary Doyle , who ran from body to body of dead and dying enemy soldiers , finishing them off or just making sure they were dead before removing their ammunition belts and weapons which she then distributed to her own side !

After taking and then losing the town , which was now partly on fire , the Rebels prepared to launch another attack ....... (MORE LATER).




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


".......after pounding the cave for thirty hours with heavy weaponry , the Free Staters decided to send a scout to investigate . What would he find .......?"


" While the Free State soldiers were making ready to go down a call was heard below , away to the right ; then a savage triumphant yell from the cliff's edge .

Aero Lyons had come out on to the ledge below and put his hands up . They had been starved out . The tide rose to the foot of the second cave and the waves swept in . Saturated with salt-water and parched with thirst , weak and trembling from cold and want of food , they would have sunk into delirium very soon .

The thought of Jim McEnery's wife and child was troubling Lyons . " What will we do ," he kept saying , " about your wife and child ? " He knew well what fate awaited him if he were taken . He was going over plans in his head . " It would not be right for me , " he said , " to slip into the sea . "

There was joy like the joy of fiends above , when Aero Lyons was seen at last , living and trapped . " We'll butcher him ! " , some of the Free State soldiers screamed . Notes were passed up and down by cords . Lyons was trying to make terms . He would surrender himself and the rifles on condition that the rest should go free ........ " (MORE LATER)>



CHRISTMAS PRESSIES .......

[from ' Saoirse ' , January , 2000 , page 2]


On 6th December , 1999 , the members of the Stormont Assembly voted to give themselves a wage ( or should that be 'salary' ? ) increase ; ----

---- 'Ordinary' members went from Sterling £29,000 to £38,000 , those chairing committees and members of the Assembly commission voted to increase their money from £37,000 to £48,000 , a ' Deputy Chairperson ' would now be on £43,000 and two new ' Junior Minister ' positions were created ( on 15th December , 1999 ) at a wage/salary of £55,341 each .

The Stormont 'First Minister' was on £84,504 , as was the Deputy First Minister , but both would now be on £102,344 ! Other Ministers and ' Presiding Officers ' were on £69,451 each -- increased to £71,396 .

But that was back in 1999 ; one would no doubt find it difficult to maintain one's lifestyle in this , the 21st Century , on a 20th Century salary level .......


....... AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR ---->

[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' , 16th January , 2000 , page 21]


<---- Last week ( ie - early Jan 2000 ) the Stormont Assembly members voted themselves a generous redundancy package of half their annual ( recently increased ! ) salary in the event that the Assembly closes down !

As I've said here before , folks --- keep voting for them : there's a standard of living which your VIP's simply must adhere too .......

---

13 HOURS IN NEW ROSS , WEXFORD - 5th JUNE , 1798 .......


....... while on the move to New Ross , the army of United Irishmen ( and women ) , about three-thousand strong , had captured artillery pieces from British forces ; the rebels spent about three days at Carrickbyrne Hill learning how to use their new weapons .......


After two or three days , the leaders of the Rebel Army --- Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey , John Kelly and Fr. Philip Roche --- moved the approximately three-thousand-strong force the short distance from Carrickbyrne Hill to Corbett Hill ; they could now look down on the town of New Ross , which was then a walled town .

The Rebel leaders knew that there was about three or four-thousand enemy soldiers in New Ross , commanded by a General Johnson and a ' Lord ' Mountjoy , the latter in charge of an enemy Brigade from Dublin . One of the Rebel leaders , Harvey , wanted to take the town without bloodshed , if possible , and sent a number of his men , under a flag of truce , to let the British know that he was willing to accept their surrender and take prisoners ....... (MORE LATER).



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


CLASHMEALCON CAVES .......


"....... the Free State troops had a search-light trained on the cave ; they were pounding the area with machine-gun fire and grenades . The explosions and gun-fire lasted all night ......."


" In the grey dawn , exhausted , they began to say the Republicans must be dead . Free State soldiers volunteered to go down . There was hesitation for a long time and disputes arose . The people from the cottages began to venture out . For some hours , nothing was done by the Staters . At ten o'clock that morning , the people heard it had been decided to send down a scout .

What would the scout find ? Were they all dead in the cave , or drowned ? Was the cave empty ? There had been no sign from it for thirty hours . Could they --- it would be like Aero Lyons --- could they , by some miraculous feat of daring , have got away ? How Aero would laugh .

If the cave was empty what would the Staters do ? Make sure they were drowned , maybe , and go away ..... And then , supposing they had escaped ! " (MORE LATER).



A WELL-DRESSED THUG....... ---->


<---- " Before the end of the year we'll burn the Tricolour over the GPO in Dublin and then we'll fire their city centre . Ulster (sic) has buried its dead and its widiws and orphans have wept , and Ulster has proved its commitment to the cause .

Now is the time for the Dublin people's commitment to their cause to be put to the test and it will have its fill of Irish widows and orphans to mourn their dead by the time we're finished . All loyalist efforts should be channeled against the Irish Republic because that is the weakest point in the British-Irish Agreement , and if bombs go off and fires consume Dublin , the ordinary people whose relatives are burnt or blown to bits will soon put pressure on their Irish Government (sic) to abort the Anglo-Irish Agreement . "


--- George Seawright , a loyalist who spoke his mind ( as opposed to the rest of his type , who put on a suit and wrapped the above type of sentiment in a greasy spin ) , speaking in Newtownards , County Down , as quoted in ' The Sunday World ' newspaper , 14th September , 1986 , page 8.

That's the mentality we've been dealing with here for over 800 years ; is it possible to sell-out to people like that and still hold on to your own principles , your own (alleged) ' bottom-line ' ? Ask Gerry .......

---

13 HOURS IN NEW ROSS , WEXFORD - 5TH JUNE , 1798 .......


.......the Irish rebels, camped at Three Rock ( and about four-thousand strong ) were divided by their leader , Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey , into three groups -- two of the groups went towards Wicklow , while the third group ( of about three-thousand men and women ) headed-off towards New Ross in Wexford .......


The two ' Wicklow ' groups put up a fierce struggle against professional British Yeomanry , but were eventually forced to scatter , leaving hundreds of fellow rebels dead or dying . By this time , the largest group ( under Harvey ) had reached Carrickbyrne Hill , about two-hours march from New Ross ; on their journey from Three Rock to Carrickbyrne Hill they had encountered and defeated armed British contingents and Harvey decided they should set-up base at the Hill and teach the rebel army how to use the captured pieces of artillery which they had obtained from the British forces they had met along the way .

After a few days in training , the rebel army were judged to be ready to be moved to the next ' camp ' -- the last such stop before they would attack the town of New Ross ....... (MORE LATER).



THE TRAGEDIES OF KERRY , BY DOROTHY MACARDLE - FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1924 .


CLASHMEALCON CAVES .......


" .......the seven IRA men crept out of Dumforts Cave in the darkness and made their way to another cave ; then two of them , Tommy McGrath and Patrick O' Shea , said they would keep going to try and get help . Both men lost their grip and fell to their death......."



" With daylight on Tuesday , lorry after lorry came tearing out from Tralee with troops and munitions , bombs and grenades and mines . A machine-gun was placed on the point that commanded the cave . An armoured car was run out to the edge of the cliff . The Free State soldiers were swarming above the cliffs like green-flies , the people said .

The bombardment of the cave went on all day . The crackle of the machine-gun and the thunderous concussion of bursting shells , the rending explosion of mines and grenades , shook the houses in Causeway and Ballywilliam ; shook the listening people , fathers and mothers , wives and sisters of the besieged Republicans , to their hearts .

All day it went on and all day there was no answer from the silent cave . Aero Lyons was laughing , no doubt . That night darkness was routed from Clashmealcon . The white beam of a search-light crept over the rock-face , making every ridge and hollow stand out clear . Crimson flame and smoke from burning tar-barrels mixed with yellow , choking sulphurous fumes , made the creek below look like the pit of Hell .

The roar of the ocean and the roar of the fire , the pounding of brakers on rocks and the crash of explosions filled the night with a fiendish din . Rage and fury grew in the defeated horde of Free State soldiers above the cliff ........ " (MORE LATER).



GREEDY CUBS....... ----->


....... <----- In 1983 , the leader of Fine Gael was Garret Fitzgerald -- he was Free State Minister for Foreign Affairs 1973--1977 , became leader of Fine Gael in 1977 and was Free State Taoiseach for nine months between 1981 and 1982 . He was appointed 'Taoiseach' again in the Leinster House administration which was formed on the 14th December 1982 .

Twenty years ago , Mr. Fitzgerald was on Punts 826 a week ( Euro 1048 ) from the taxpayer to look after the finances of the State ; those that could'nt get a job or did'nt want to emigrate , in 1983 , went on the dole --- and Garret and his type decided that they could live on Punts 29 ( Euro 37 ) a week ! So , twenty years ago , it took a person on the dole 22 weeks to get the same amount of money that our politicians were pocketing in one week !

See -- it was'nt the ' Celtic Tiger ' that made them greedy .....

---

13 HOURS IN NEW ROSS , WEXFORD - 5th June , 1798 ........


.......the town of Enniscorthy , and Wexford Town itself , had both fallen to the British in late May , 1798 ; the United Irishmen planned to take New Ross , and use it as a base .......


The plan was to use New Ross as a base from which to march on Waterford and Kilkenny . There were at least four-thousand Irish rebels , all brave at heart but undisciplined in matters military .

They set-up a temporary base at Three Rock , just outside Wexford Town , and spent about three days there , drilling and learning basic military manoeuvres ; their leader , Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey , was aware that they needed to strike at the British quickly , before they could 'bed' themselves down in New Ross .

The United Irishmen were divided into three groups ; two of the groups , each consisting of hundreds of rebels , were dispatched towards Wicklow ( to delay and confuse the enemy ) while the third contingent , consisting of about three-thousand men and women , headed off towards New Ross , in Wexford ....... (MORE LATER).



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


CLASHMEALCON CAVES .......


".......the IRA men were trapped in Dumforts Cave ; the Free Staters had tried to burn them out , but were not successful . When darkness fell , the IRA men crept out , one-by-one , in an attempt to escape ......."



" They moved stealthily , for fear of stirring a pebble , between the lonely pinnacle and the cliff , out of the creek and along to the flat rock over which hung , they knew well , a ledge they would be able to climb to and , above it , another cave . They came to the flat rock and stood there , cold and wet , hungry and victorious , their ruse wholly successful , their going unheard .

It seemed that the enemy were so idle in the wet night that if only aid could be summoned , one little company ambushing above might save them now . Tommy McGrath and Patrick o'Shea volunteered to go farther , to try to make their way out and get help . For a little distance they groped their way safely , but the night was black and the rocks baffled them ; there was no pathway now , no escape -- only rocks jutting everyway overhead and slippery masses of seaweed below .

They had come within reach of the breakers that flung themselves like monsters against the rocks and dragged the shingle back with a grinding roar . They were torn from their hold in the darkness and drowned ........" (MORE LATER).



LORD.......

On the eve of the 17th Century plantations , Sir William Parson , an English ' Overlord ' , stated ---

--- " We must change the Irish course of government , apparel , manner of holding land , language and habit of life . It will otherwise be impossible to set up in them obedience to the law and the British Empire . "

That was the 17th Century, this is the 21st Century : and they're still at it ......



.......SAVE US ---->

[from ' The Sunday Times ' , 20th October , 1985 , page 16]


British ' Lord ' Grey Gowrie resigned as British Arts Minister in September 1985 because his £33,000 sterling salary per year -- " was not sufficient to support my lifestyle . "

The poor man could'nt put bread on the table , in 1985 , on £687 Sterling a week !

DAMN IT, Grey , old man ; if we had known in time we would have organised a collection for you .......

---

, 13 HOURS IN NEW ROSS , WEXFORD -- 5th June , 1798 .......


....... the United Irishmen attacked the British forces in New Ross , Wexford on 5th June , 1798 , and were successful ; but the British re-grouped and took back the town , driving the Irish rebels out.......


The rebels themselves re-grouped , under the command of Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey , Thomas Cloney , Father Philip Roche and John Kelly . They forced their way into New Ross again and scattered the British forces but , once again , for the second time , the Brits re-grouped , attacked , and put the rebels to flight .

Feeling that a final victory was within their grasp , the United Irishmen assembled for another push -- the third such attack . The thirteen-hour battle for the town of New Ross in Wexford was one of the most ferocious and bloody fights of the 1798 Rising . In late May , 1798, the town of Enniscorthy and Wexford Town itself fell to the British ; the Irish rebels in the area , under Harvey , planned to take New Ross and use it as a base ....... (MORE LATER).




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


CLASHMEALCON CAVES.......


"....... two Free State soldiers attempted to enter Dumfort's Cave --- both were shot dead by the IRA unit inside . The other's knew not to try it again ......."


" Free State Officers went into the village and sent wires : " Prominent irregulars in caves . Come on ! " The Free Staters believed De Valera and Humphrey Morgan were there . They sent soldiers to every cottage to take out the hay and brought it to the cliff's edge and bundled sods of turf into it and threw it down , flaming and smoking , to the mouth of the cave . They wired to Tralee for paraffin , oil and tar . Lorries came tearing out loaded with oil and petrol and something that seemed like sulphur .

They got sheets from the houses and saturated them with the sulphurous stuff and set fire to them and flung them down . They made a choking smoke with a poisonous fume . They poured oil and tar and petrol into hay and turf and flung it all , flaming , down to the cave . A roaring blaze and a yellow smoke . The people thought that the rocks themselves would be consumed . But the wind changed and blew the flames out to sea . It was the season in Kerry of " the rough weather of the cuckoo " -- the weather called " scoriveen " . At nightfall torrents of rain came down .

The Free State Officers talked of rushing the cave under a shield of iron shutters , or attacking it from a boat , but the soldiers would make no such attack . They were cold and wet and their efforts subsided during the night . They tried once more to lower a lamp , but a shot from the cave smashed it , and they tried no more . The night was hung with thick , impenetrable darkness ; the tide , at midnight , was far out -- the elements were with the IRA men in the caves . One by one , they crept out from the narrow mouth of the cave and walked , barefoot , over the boulders , to the right , along by the friendly overshadowing rock wall........" (MORE LATER)>



TAKE IT DOWN FROM THE MAST .......
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 13th September , 1986 -- a Saturday , if memory serves -- page 4]

Peter Robinson ( Deputy leader of the ' Democratic Unionist Party ' at the time ) stated ---

--- " If someone will tell me the time and the place when the Union Jack will ever be banned , I'll be there with mine to make sure it keeps flying . Ulster (sic) is part of the United Kingdom , the Union Jack is its flag and no one can morally or legally order it to be taken down . If anyone here finds the flag provocative it is they who should be dealt with and not the flag . "


Mr. Robinson would do well to realise that most people on this island find that flag " provocative " , and for good reason -- it would serve him better in the long run to make his peace with the majority here , rather than threaten them .....



....... IRISH TRAITORS --->

[from ' The Sunday Business Post ' , 20th July , 1997 , page 14 ]


<--- Writing in ' The Irish News ' on Thursday , 17th July , 1997 , Gerry Adams stated that his party ( Provisional 'Spin' Fein ) wanted -- " Maximum constitutional change and a renegotiation of the Union . "

That's what Fianna Fail and the SDLP , amongst others , have always being willing to settle for . But its not what 1798 , 1803 , 1916 etc was about . Its not what the last 834 years have been fought for . And its not what the next 834 years , if it takes that long , will be fought for ......

---

THIRTEEN HOURS IN NEW ROSS , WEXFORD - 5th JUNE , 1798 .



The Irish poet William Rooney was so taken by the exploits of United Irishwoman Mary Doyle that , in the late 19th Century , he wrote one of his best known works about the 1798 fighter -- ' Heroine of Ross '.

Mary Doyle was to the fore in the thirteen-hour battle of New Ross , in County Wexford , on 5th June , 1798 ; during that battle , which involved thousands of fighters on both sides , the United Irishmen won the fight , and the town , on their first attack -- only to lose it when the British Yeomanry , under the command of a General Johnson , re-grouped and drove the rebels out .

However , within hours the Irish rebels had themselves re-grouped and were ready for another attack ....... (MORE LATER).



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


CLASHMEALCON CAVES.......


"....... the Free Staters forced Jimmy McGrath to take them to the hidden caves in Clashmealcon where the IRA unit made camp ; he was tortured until he agreed to do so ; he was sure the cave was empty but , when he entered ......."


" 'Aero' Lyons and O'Shea and Jim McEnery and Greaney and the brave Englishman , Hathaway , and his own brother , Tom , were there . Dumfort's Cave was named , it is said , after a Fenian who used to hide there in '67 , or maybe from some fugitive of penal times . It is a small shallow hollow at the base of the rocks at the apex of the horse-shoe shaped creek .

Great boulders lie piled in front of it ; the tide flows almost to the hole -- half-way up the cliffs jut over it in an arch and the grassy edge above shelves out over that arch again . From no point , except one , far out on one butt of the horse-shoe , can the cave be seen . There is no way to it save the slippery path where only one man at a time can go , and he must cling with his hands ; the path is commanded , the whole way down , from the cave .

It is a position from which one man , had he provisions , might defy a besieging host ; the high rocks above are his allies , and the deep ocean below .

Not one of them blamed Jim McGrath . They took him into the cave . A Free State soldier tried to follow him , shouting " Come out ! " A bullet fired from the cave killed him instantly , and he fell on the flat rocks below . One more tried and was shot and fell into the sea . No soldier would go down after that ......." (MORE LATER).



TWISTED .......

[from 'AP/RN' , 31st July , 1986 , page 4]


In 1975 , Margaret Thatcher said ---

--- " The pursuit of equality is a mirage . Opportunity means nothing unless it includes the right to be unequal . "

And the Tories are determined to give that " right " to the working class......



.......LOGIC ---->

[from ' The Evening Press ' , 7th August , 1986 -- a Thursday , if memory serves -- page 7]


<---- According to the British Royal Air Force , the true position of Rockall is nearly one nautical mile south-east of where it was thought to be -- in other words , it is a mile closer to Ireland .

The Rock itself is one-hundred foot long and sixty foot high , and is situated about 260 miles north-west of Donegal , 300 miles distance from Scotland , 350 miles from the Faroe Islands and 440 miles from Iceland . It's previous position was (incorrectly) fixed by a (British ?) naval surveyor , a Captain Alexander Vidal , in 1831 .


" Rock on , Rockall , you'll never fall , to Britains greedy hands ....... "

---

THE B-SPECIALS ; 1920 - 1970 .......


.......on April Fools Day , 1970 , the Brits announced the 'disbandment' of the B-Specials ; a few weeks later , they announced the establishment of a 'new' force of men --- the ' Ulster Defence Regiment' . The UDR was to be heavily armed .......


Self-loading rifles , sub-machine guns , Bren guns and Browning machine guns mounted on armoured cars ; about eight-thousand members of the 'old' B-Specials / Ulster Volunteer Force joined the 'new' force , put on a different British uniform and basically carried-on from where they had left off .

In one form or another , in one uniform or another and with one name or another , the British and/or their lackeys in this country have never shrinked from using violence to maintain their grip on Ireland or part thereof . It is of no concern to Republicans whether they call themselves the British Army , the Ulster Volunteer Force , the B-Specials , the Ulster Defence Regiment or the Police Service of Northern Ireland (sic).

Their shared objective is to sustain an unnatural entity -- the British presence in Ireland . They might as well try and stop the tide coming in ......


[END].



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


CLASHMEALCON CAVES.......


".......after driving-off the Free State attackers , the IRA men knew they would be back in force the next day ; they prepared to go on the run ......."


" But it seems that the Free State soldiers had said to a woman in Causeway that they knew the Republicans had a cave , and that they would make a good search for it next day . " And she never stirred her tongue to give us the warning ." It is a thing that the people do not forgive .

Three of the nine had been wary and gone inland , but six men , losing, as though by some unavoidable doom , all judgement , went into Dumfort's Cave . They slept ; they put out no sentry ; they had taken in no food . The Free State troops took one prisoner on Sunday morning-- Jimmy McGrath . He was Tom's brother , but had not his quick wit ; he hardly understood what the danger was . The Free Staters ' interrogated ' him in Tralee Barracks by their inhuman methods until he broke down and promised to take them to the caves . It would do little harm , he thought --- there was nobody there .

Very early on Monday morning he came out with the Free State troops to Clashmealcon . The soldiers watched from above while he clambered down the half-hidden , perilous path . He came down the cliffs and up the steep slope of shingle to the mouth of Dumfort's Cave ........ " (MORE LATER).



SOCIALIST SHYSTER....... ----> [from ' The Evening Press' newspaper , 19th February --- a Tuesday , I think --- 1985]



----> John O'Connell , a Fianna Fail Leinster House member at the time , stated that Charlie Haughey " could claim to be a socialist as it was he who brought in free TV licences , electricity and travel for the elderly . "


And Charlie Haughey did those things ; to his credit . And they are still in operation to this day . But that's where his credit run's dry .......


....... The man ripped-off the taxpayer in this State for his own selfish , personal , financial benefit , and continues to live an extremely comfortable lifestyle . Fianna Fail's idea of a " socialist " is someone who does'nt rip them off ! There idea of an " honest politician " is someone who , once purchased , stays purchased .

But , now that I think of it , Haughey DID rip his own off as well -- remember his " best political and personal friend " , Brian Lenihan , was dying and needed an operation ? And the bould Charlie touched all his business buddies for cash to help poor Brian out ?

Ask Lenihan's widow how much of that cash got through to her .......

---

THE B-SPECIALS ; 1920 - 1970 .......


....... an RTE camera-crew showed the B-Specials 'keeping the peace' at Civil Rights marches ; the bloody footage was shown world-wide and embarrassed the Brits to such an extent that , in October 1969 , they decided to give the impression that they were prepared to change things .......



It was announced , with fanfare , that the B-Specials would be disbanded -- and , on 1st April , 1970 ( April Fool's Day ! ) , they were --- in name only .....

The British presented the 'disbandment' of the B-Specials as a " fair solution " by a ' fair administration ' to a problem which they had only been made aware of and gratefully accepted the plaudits from those foolish enough to offer them .

However , the Brits , as usual , gave with the one hand and took with the other --- within weeks of the " disbandment " of the B-Specials , the Brits announced that a " new " part-time force was to be established -- the ' Ulster Defence Regiment ' (UDR) . The ' Ulster Defence Regiment ' was to be placed under the ' control ' of the British Army and was to be issued with top-of-the-range weaponary ....... (MORE LATER)



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



CLASHMEALCON CAVES .......


"....... Jim McEnery's sister , Catherine, was holding a young , frightened Free State soldier as 'prisoner' in her family house --- he had run away during the gun-fight earlier that day . Four IRA men , including Timothy 'Aero' Lyons , called to the house and the Free State soldier thought he was done for ......."


" " I'm a Catholic, " , he was crying ; " get me a priest ." Lyons soothed him and told him to stay close to him and he would be safe . The 'prisoner' thankfully obeyed . A Free State cycling corps came up to the attack , was ambushed from as many sides as there were defenders -- some seven or eight , maybe-- broke up in confusion and returned to Tralee . The Free State 'prisoner' ran after his own army and rejoined it in the retreat .

When night fell all was quiet again . Catherine McEnery went out . She knew well that the comedy was over and there would be real danger next day , and she wanted to know what the men would do . She met 'Aero' Lyons wandering in the dark fields . He was in great delight over the day's work , but when she asked him " What are you going to do ? " he answered doubtfully - " I don't know ". She met her brother Jim then , with Tom Greaney . " What will you do at all ? " , she asked . " We are going to a place that's safe ," Greaney answered . " We'll send a scout tomorrow for whatever we want . "" (MORE LATER).



MALVINAS MARSHAL'S MINIMISE MICK MASSACRE ....... ---->

[from ' The Sunday Times ' , 22nd September , 1985 , page 4]


<---- BBC news executives and their equivalent suits in the BBC Current Affairs department held internal meetings during the Malvinas/Falklands War in 1982 ; four decisions were reached ---


--- 1) - ban interviews with bereaved relatives ;

2) - it was agreed that reporting be shaped to suit " the emotional sensibilities of the public " ;

3) - that to adhere to what they called the BBC's " normal detached reporting style " (!) would be " an unnecessary irritation " ( What a nice British way to describe propaganda ! ) and

4) - that the weight of BBC coverage would be concerned with " British government statements of policy . "


Would'nt ya love to be a 'fly-on-the-wall' while those Eton chappies at the Beeb are discussing what they'd no doubt describe as " the Irish problem " :


Eton chappie # 1 --- " I say , Clive , those damn Micks are still fighting back . "


Eton chappie # 2 --- " So I see , Edward - it's just not cricket ....."


Eton chappie # 1 --- " By jove , I've got it ! Let's jolly-well not interview the relatives of the Mick terrorists that we , eh , defend ourselves against , and we could also simply tell the public here on the mainland what they want to hear ... "


Eton chappie # 2 --- " Crikey , Edward , old sport , that's it ! And lets waive the rules and not be neutral in what we report - except of course if it comes from our man in Number Ten..... "


Then the 'fly-on-the-wall' buzzed around the two chaps -- and try as they might , they just could'nt swat it .......

---

THE B-SPECIALS ; 1920 - 1970 .......


....... by Christmas Day , 1925 , the 'A' and 'C'-Specials were no more ; but the B-Specials had been 'beefed-up' -- it was now , in reality , the ' Ulster Volunteer Force ' loyalist terror-gang in a British uniform , operating as per usual , but this time with the official protection of Westminster .......


The B-Specials seen the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1960's as a personal challenge to their 'position ' in society and took no prisoners when told to " police and monitor " the meetings and marches associated with those looking for equal treatment under British jurisdiction . The B-Specials left many a bloody footprint in the street . Ironically , it was the fact that they suppressed the Civil Rights campaign so viciously which led to their disbandment .....

......their blatant sectarianism , witnessed by the worlds media ( courtesy of an RTE camera-crew on the spot) acutely embarrassed the Brits ; in October 1969 , Westminster pulled-off another 'sleight-of-hand' trick , comparable to that of 1920 , when they put the Ulster Volunteer Force loyalist gun-gang into a British uniform and called them the B-Specials ........ (MORE LATER).



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


CLASHMEALCON CAVES.......


"....... Free State troops captured IRA man Jim McEnery in the Causeway area , but let him go ; later , other Free State troops arrived and surrounded McEnery's house , thinking he was inside -- two IRA men looking on thought the same , and opened fire on the Free Staters ......."


" Jim McEnery , meanwhile , had been sighted and was pursued . His friend , Tom McGrath , saw those in pursuit and fired on them , diverting them to himself . He retreated to Clashmealcon and there disappeared . Reinforcements from the Free State post at Ballyheigue , advancing to surround McEnery's house , came under the cross-fire from their own troops and the Republicans .

They all scattered over the country then and McEnery's house was left in peace . Catherine McEnery , Jim's sister , looked out and saw a stray soldier threatening two young Republican scouts . She went up and he turned to her , excited and frightened . " They'll plug me ," he said , " for running away ! " She took him prisoner and gave him a cup of tea . ' Aero ' Lyons came to the house with Hathaway , Shea and Greaney .

The poor Free State soldier who , in his own barracks , had seen prisoners killed , upset the dresser in a terrified effort to escape ......." (MORE LATER).



MICHAEL McDOWELL.......

[from 'The Sunday Times' , 21st July , 1985 , page 1]


From midnight last night , the South African police and army were given extra powers under emergency provisions of the ' Public Security Act 1953 ' which --


-- "..... sanctioned the banning of gatherings , closure of premises and control of traffic , arrest without warrant , and detention of any person in the interests of public order . Magistrates and police officers are empowered to use or authorise force including force resulting in death if persons refuse to heed instructions given in a loud voice . Those arrested without warrant may face indefinite detention . Detainee's may consult a lawyer only with Ministerial permission . "

Our Mick Mc would scale many a lampost if he thought he'd get something like the above .....



....... SAY's " NO " ! ---->

[from 'New Hibernia' magazine , January , 1986 , page 11]


<---- On the 30th November , 1985 , the representative of the Free State administration was one of fifty-two Countries that abstained in a United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution condemning apartheid in South Africa .


An 'Assembly' after Mick Mc's heart .....

---

THE B-SPECIALS ; 1920 - 1970 .......


.......on 10th December , 1925 the A-Specials and the C-Specials were told by the Brits that they were no longer needed ; on 14th December 1925 , both gangs mutinied and took hostages --- two days later (16th December 1925) the A-Specials and the C-Specials contacted Unionist leader 'Sir' James Craig and told him they wanted more money to leave their jobs . On 18th December 1925 , they were told to take the original offer or be sacked with no pay-off at all .......


The Brits knew that if they 'gave-in' to the demands of the A-Specials , the C-Specials would look for the same and the B-Specials would then in all probability look for a cash bonus as well --- it had to be 'nipped in the bud' . And it was --- instead of 'sticking to their guns' (!) the A-Specials all but apologised and , within twenty-four hours (ie by the 19th December , 1925) had accepted 'Sir' Craigs offer of two months pay per member -- they were now on the dole !

By Christmas Day , 1925 , the A-Specials and the C-Specials were no more . However , the other outfit , the B-Specials , were 'beefed-up' --- their numbers were increased and a new British 'law' , the ' Special Powers Act ' , gave them practically retrospective authority ie if an act they committed was a bit on the ' dodgy ' side , the 'Act' would be invoked to cover their action !

The organised , uniformed and armed band of thugs known as the B-Specials had sprung from the ranks of the loyalist killer-gang , the ' Ulster Volunteer Force ' ( UVF) in 1920 ; the Specials carried-on as if they had never left the UVF terror-gang --- pogroms against the Nationalist population continued , although now the perpetrator's wore a British uniform , were paid to crack "fenian skulls" and were protected by their political masters for doing so ....... (MORE LATER).



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


CLASHMEALCON CAVES.......


"....... Clashmealcon ; sun and wind , at high tide , when the foam is leaping , is a scene of elemental life --- at night , it is like a tomb ......."


" 'Aero' Lyons , christened Timothy , won the name by which he will be remembered by dropping out of the sky , as it seemed , whenever he was least expected and seeming to be in a dozen places at once . A light , lean , hardy man in build , he delighted in activity and in danger . He had a child's love of going about , where he was most keenly hunted , in disguise , and there was laughter in nearly every adventure of his , whatever the period . His was a name of power : while an invisible outlaw , marked out to be shot at sight , he would rule his district as a potentate and be obeyed .

He had the lighthearted bravery of spirit that leads Irishmen to early death . It was on a day in the middle of April that Free State troops came to Causeway to make a round-up . From ditches and hollows on every side , Lyons and the nine men under him kept them fighting all day until at nightfall the others gave up the chase . One of his comrades , Jim McEnery , had a house close to his mother's , a mile or so from the cliffs . He was married and had a little son . His sister Catherine was never without anxiety for him ; she had it in her mind always that he was doomed -- he had a grave , patient look , sometimes , like a man facing great pain . She used to be very watchful about the place .

His house was raided early on Sunday morning and he was arrested . If only he had been taken to prison then .... but his guards let him escape , as though it was meant ; he ran out to seek refuge among the cliffs . Later , more Free State troops came and surrounded the house , not knowing what had occurred . His comrades saw them from a house across the road and two of them , Shea and Hathaway , knowing nothing of his escape , opened fire ......" (MORE LATER).



MORE THAN 1 WAY.......

[from 'AP/RN' , 28th November , 1985 , page 5]


At a meeting of Lisburn Council on 25th November , 1985 -- a Monday , if memory serves -- , Democratic Unionist Party Councillor William Beattie stated that - " 50,000 armed men would solve the Northern Ireland (sic) problem ."

Beattie then advised Irish Republicans to " leave Ulster " (sic) or else they would be " kicking up the daisies from 12 feet under " !

However , those that know ' BATTY ' Beattie assure me he meant " 12 armed men " and " 50,000 feet under " .....



....... TO 'COERCE' A CAT of 9 tails --->

[from 'AP/RN' , 15th August , 1985 , page 1]


<--- In April 1963 the then South African Minister for 'Justice' , Jon Vorster , when introducing a new ' Coercion Bill ' to Parliament , stated that he would exchange all such legislation for-- ".... just one clause of Northern Irelands (sic) Special Powers Act . " !

Yourself and the 'Batty' fella should get together , Jon --- soul-mates on the same Christmas-card list .....

---

THE B-SPECIALS ; 1920 - 1970 .......


.......on 10th December , 1925 , Unionist leader 'Sir' James Craig told the A-Specials and the C-Specials that they were to be disbanded immediately --- he offered each man two months pay if they would just resign there and then ; they wanted more .......


On 14th December , 1925 , in Derry and Ballycastle , the A-Specials mutinied and imprisoned their own Officer Corps ! ; other areas followed suit . On 16th December , 1925, the A-Specials contacted 'Sir' James Craig and told him they wanted the proposed two months pay plus a two-hundred-pounds Sterling tax-free bonus for each man !

On the 18th December , 1925, one of Craig's minion's , a Dawson Bates , told the A-Specials that there would be no change in the original offer -- he threatened the A-Specials further by stating that if they did not accept the offer on the table they would be dismissed , sacked on the spot -- with no financial ' hand-shake ' at all ....... (MORE LATER).



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


CLASHMEALCON CAVES

" The story of 'Aero' Lyons and his five companions and how they stood siege for three nights and days in Clashmealcon Caves will be told in Ireland while men praise the fighters for freedom -- " while grass grows and water runs. " Dark , impregnable cliffs confront the Atlantic from Kerry Head to Kilmore . At the foot of the cliff , long ridges run out to the breakers that crash over them in tempestuous riots of foam .

At Clashmealcon stands a tall , isolated turret of rock , guarding a narrow , horse-shoe shaped creek , whose base has been bitten in far under the cliff . Here seagulls and cormorants breed; the tufted sea-pinks root in every crevice - soft winds , gorse-scented , blow from the wild spaces inland , while below , round the lonely pinnacle , the ocean breakers battle and swirl and foam . On a day of sun and wind at high tide , when the sea and the sky are blue and the foam is leaping , it is a scene of elemental , rejoicing life .

At night , under a brooding sky , when the ocean is beating heavily on the rocks , it is like a tomb or a place of mourning for Ireland's dead . " (MORE LATER).



A WOLF IN .......

[from 'AP/RN' , 5th December , 1985 , page 16]


Gandhi said ---

--- " Where the choice is set between cowardice and violence , I would advise violence . This is because he who run's away commits mental violence , he has not the courage of facing death by killing . I would a thousand times prefer violence than the emasculation of a whole race . I prefer to use arm's in defence of honour rather than remain the vile witness of dishonour . "

The 'establishment' will quote the man ad nauseam when it suits them -- all except the above quote . For obvious reasons ...



.......SHEEPS CLOTHING --->

[from 'The Sunday Times' , 28th July , 1985 , page 39]

In North Devon , Britain , a law was passed in 1678 compelling everyone to be buried in wool !

And when the Brits stopped being buried in it , they tried to pull it over everyone's eyes !

---

THE B-SPECIALS ; 1920 - 1970........


.......the pro-British Unionist regime in the Six County Stormont 'parliament' was now in control of the re-named 'Police' force , the Royal Ulster Constabulary ; the thirty-five-thousand strong gang of 'Ulster Special Constabulary' were now surplus to requirements --- redundancies were on offer .......


Westminster ( which held the purse-strings ) offered a lump sum of one-million-two-hundred-thousand pounds Sterling to be divided between the A-Specials and the C-Specials -- the other gang , the B-Specials , ( " the cutting edge ") were to be kept as they were . The Specials , being the mercenaries they were , turned on themselves : the B-Specials were happy enough , although a bit fretful - they wondered when their masters in Westminster would turn on them . But for now , they had a job , a 'career' , which paid them well for suppressing their Nationalist neighbours .

The ( by now ) three-thousand-five-hundred-and-fifty-three full-time A-Specials and the approximate similar number of C-Specials were told by Loyalist leader James Craig ( now a British 'Sir' ) on 10th December 1925 that they were to be disbanded immediately ; he offered them two months pay each if they would just resign --- they wanted more ....... (MORE LATER).



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


The War of Brothers .......

".......the passion of the Kerry people for freedom from the British was almost spiritual -- pitted against the enemy , Kerry was full of heroes . But when that passion was denied and stifled , it made for dangerous and treacherous men ......."


" Of Kerry and the old wars with the British terrible stories are told ; of Kerry and the war of our own time with England there are more terrible stories still , stories that will haunt those glens and dark lochs and waste places for all time . The men who spilled out their lives there for Ireland were kindly and gentle men -- everywhere the same tale is told . But they were brave , and they lived under foreign rule which would make a crime of a man's native valour and a virture of acquiescence in evil things .

It would have been the destiny of those young Kerry men , in a free Ireland , to live vigorous , well-reputed , achieving lives , to observe their generation a little , and die , and be remembered a little while .

It was their destiny to live a score or more of poverty-bitten years , burdened and obscure ; to rise up in their passionate valour and hurl themselves against Ireland's enemy --- to die violent deaths , to become the awakeners and redeemers of their nation , and be remembered while Ireland lives . "

[END].



MINORITY.......

[from ' The Sunday Times ' , 12th January , 1986 , page 37]


In America , man-made 'vegetables' are to be marketed , which have been developed through agricultural biotechnology by a company called ' DNA Plant Technology' of New Jersey . The new ' food ' group , called "vegisnax" , will be tailored to customers requirements .

The company , ' DNA Plant Technology ' , claimed that they were also working on " a redesign of the tomato " ! If scientists were capable of DNA 'redesign' seventeen years ago , what are they up to now ? And with what ?



.......REPORT --->

[from ' The Sunday Times ' , 5th January , 1986 , page 9]


<--- All Italian hotels are obliged by law to pass their residents names and passport numbers to the police who , in turn , pass the information on to the 'Interior Ministry' . Once there , a Tom Cruise ' do-alike ' feeds that info into a computer for cross-checks with the names of wanted persons !

Wanna throw a spanner in their works ? Get yourself DNA redesigned !

---

THE B-SPECIALS ; 1920 - 1970........


.......the pro-British Unionist regime in the Six County Stormont 'parliament' was now in control of the re-named 'Police' force , the Royal Ulster Constabulary ; the thirty-five-thousand strong gang of 'Ulster Special Constabulary' were now surplus to requirements --- redundancies were on offer .......


Westminster ( which held the purse-strings ) offered a lump sum of one-million-two-hundred-thousand pounds Sterling to be divided between the A-Specials and the C-Specials -- the other gang , the B-Specials , ( " the cutting edge ") were to be kept as they were . The Specials , being the mercenaries they were , turned on themselves : the B-Specials were happy enough , although a bit fretful - they wondered when their masters in Westminster would turn on them . But for now , they had a job , a 'career' , which paid them well for suppressing their Nationalist neighbours .

The ( by now ) three-thousand-five-hundred-and-fifty-three full-time A-Specials and the approximate similar number of C-Specials were told by Loyalist leader James Craig ( now a British 'Sir' ) on 10th December 1925 that they were to be disbanded immediately ; he offered them two months pay each if they would just resign --- they wanted more ....... (MORE LATER).



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


The War of Brothers .......

".......the passion of the Kerry people for freedom from the British was almost spiritual -- pitted against the enemy , Kerry was full of heroes . But when that passion was denied and stifled , it made for dangerous and treacherous men ......."


" Of Kerry and the old wars with the British terrible stories are told ; of Kerry and the war of our own time with England there are more terrible stories still , stories that will haunt those glens and dark lochs and waste places for all time . The men who spilled out their lives there for Ireland were kindly and gentle men -- everywhere the same tale is told . But they were brave , and they lived under foreign rule which would make a crime of a man's native valour and a virture of acquiescence in evil things .

It would have been the destiny of those young Kerry men , in a free Ireland , to live vigorous , well-reputed , achieving lives , to observe their generation a little , and die , and be remembered a little while .

It was their destiny to live a score or more of poverty-bitten years , burdened and obscure ; to rise up in their passionate valour and hurl themselves against Ireland's enemy --- to die violent deaths , to become the awakeners and redeemers of their nation , and be remembered while Ireland lives . "

[END].



MINORITY.......

[from ' The Sunday Times ' , 12th January , 1986 , page 37]


In America , man-made 'vegetables' are to be marketed , which have been developed through agricultural biotechnology by a company called ' DNA Plant Technology' of New Jersey . The new ' food ' group , called "vegisnax" , will be tailored to customers requirements .

The company , ' DNA Plant Technology ' , claimed that they were also working on " a redesign of the tomato " ! If scientists were capable of DNA 'redesign' seventeen years ago , what are they up to now ? And with what ?



.......REPORT --->

[from ' The Sunday Times ' , 5th January , 1986 , page 9]


<--- All Italian hotels are obliged by law to pass their residents names and passport numbers to the police who , in turn , pass the information on to the 'Interior Ministry' . Once there , a Tom Cruise ' do-alike ' feeds that info into a computer for cross-checks with the names of wanted persons !

Wanna throw a spanner in their works ? Get yourself DNA redesigned !

---

THE B-SPECIALS ; 1920 - 1970 .......



.......an incident with the 'Specials' , which the Brits would rather forget about , took place on the night of 23rd January 1921 ; a fifteen-man unit of the A-Specials from Fermanagh drove to Clones in County Monaghan and broke into a pub.......


The A-Special burglars looted the till , looking for the 'money-float' , sampled the beverages on the premises and proceeded to thrash the building . Locals alerted the Royal Irish Constabulary (British 'police' force) , who arrived in force , within minutes , and armed; the RIC opened fire on the premises , killing one of the A-Specials and seriously wounding a number of others . The RIC later admitted thinking that the pub-looters were 'ODC's' or IRA !

June 1921 ; the new Six-County state came into existence -- by the end of that year the Stormont regime had taken command of the ( now re-named ) 'police' force-- the 'Royal Ulster Constabulary' (RUC) . The 'Ulster Special Constabulary' were now also controlled by the Unionists in Stormont . In 1925 , with the Six Counties " firmly established as a separate entity " , as the Brits and the Free Staters would have it , there was now no need to maintain the thirty-five thousand strong Specials as they were then constituted ---

--- redundancies were on the cards ........ (MORE LATER).



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


The war of brothers .......


".......the small farms feed as many of the family as is possible ; the rest go to America with a heavy heart ......."


" If there is hardness in the land and in the life of the people , there is no meanness in it . They look out over wide spaces ; God's world is before their imagination -- the past and the future of Ireland are in their daily thought . There is grace and kindliness in their homes , and they give hospitality as their forefathers gave it in the days of their chieftainship in the land .

There is wisdom in them that should be shaping the mind of their generation ; bravery and freedom are in their spirit , and unyielding pride . They are of the nobility of Ireland , the clans who , because they would not surrender their faith and nationhood , were cast out by the conqueror into the wilderness . Not from gathering in crowds and listening to orations the men of Kerry have stored up the passion for Ireland's freedom that is in their blood .

From their mothers --- proud-spirited Kerry women --- and from their mother Eire , that passion seems to be born . It is a thing of spiritual life or death that there is no evading : purified by spendthrift sacrifice it makes heroes - denied and stifled , it makes dangerous and treacherous men . " (MORE LATER).



MESSING.......

[from 'The Irish Times' ,6th October , 1997 --- a Monday , I'm sure --- page 12]


U S President Lyndon Johnson had grave doubts about U S involvement in Vietnam as early as May 1964 --- in a taped conversation with his 'National Security' adviser , McGeorge Bundy , Lyndon Johnson stated that Vietnam was not worth fighting for and called the conflict ---

--- " The biggest damned mess that I ever saw ."

( See Michael Beschloss's book ' Taking Charge : The Johnson White House Tapes , 1963 - 1964 ').



....... US UP --->

[from 'AP/RN' , 3rd April , 1997 , page 10]


Speaking in North Belfast on Easter Monday (1997) , Gerry Kelly stated ---

--- " We are in the end game ."

That was said six years ago ; are the Brits fooling you , Gerry , or are you wide to the true position and simply trying to keep your own people on side by mis-leading them ?

It was years later before Lyndon Johnson admitted his mistake , too .

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THE B-SPECIALS ; 1920 - 1970 .......


.......in December , 1920 the new A-Specials moved into RIC (Unionist 'Police' force) barracks and thousands of RIC men were now free from 'desk-duty' and could roam the streets ; in February 1921, fifteen-thousand B-Specials were let loose on the public.......


Those B-Specials that were not ex-UVF men were said to have been unsuitable even for membership of that loyalist gun-gang--- one can only imagine how deranged they must have been , and how delighted to find themselves in an 'official' British military uniform , with a full weapons kit at their disposal .......

The number of C-Specials was never properly determined ; this grouping had no specific duties , but were presumed to be 'ready for action' in an "emergency situation" . Each 'C'-man would be allowed carry some weapons and would be entitled to a gun-licence ( while most nationalists were not ) . In effect , the C-Specials were a device to encourage the Unionist population to arm itself .

One of the most embarrassing ( for theBrits) incidents with the 'Specials' occurred on the night of 23rd January , 1921 ; a fifteen-man unit of the A-Specials from Newtownbutler in County Fermanagh drove to Clones in County Monaghan and broke into a pub ....... (MORE LATER)>



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

THE WAR OF BROTHERS.......

".......KERRY = waters racing over zig-zag cataracts down from the hillcrests; water in stony hollows , weedy rivers meandering over bogs......."


" Starved as the stony soil is , so the people are . They live anxiously by fishing or on farms -- little farms won by the bitter labour of generations out of the mountain-side . When a hundred sunken boulders have been wrenched and uprooted with iron bars and piled along four sides , a man's field is made; the son that is growing up will have strength , God helping , to add another field before he is old .

They have staked out claims for their descendants up to the very summits of the stony hills . The farm keeps as many of a family as it can feed; the rest go to America and break their hearts there , very often , for a breath of the Kerry air , for the life that is lived at home ......." (MORE LATER).



FAIR EXCHANGE IS NO .......

[from 'The Evening Herald' , 2nd May , 1985--- a Thursday, I believe--- page 21]


During the Haughey/Thatcher summit in 1980 , the then Fianna Fail leader indicated that in return for a united Ireland "we" might be prepared to give up the States neutrality ! After the Summit , Sile de Valera stated ---

--- " A united Ireland and independent Ireland could well make possible a fresh approach to the consideration of her place within the scheme of western defence . "

In February of that same year (1985) , the then Deputy Leader of the S.D.L.P. , Seamus Mallon , stated that he , too , would trade neutrality for unity .


NOTE TO HOUSE-BURGLARS--- if you break-in to Haughey's house , Sile de Valera's house or Mallon's house , and take something , you're on a winner; they're bound to offer you something else of their's in exchange for it!


........ROBBERY --->

[from 'The Sunday Tribune' , 13th July , 1997]


<--- The 'Sunningdale Agreement' of 1973 acknowledged the fact that the Six Counties " are part of the geographical entity of Ireland . "

A position that the " powers-that-be " attempted to reverse in the Stormont Treaty of 1998 .

You allowed yourself to be used as bait in '98 , Gerry ---

---the house-burglars are on your property .......

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THE B-SPECIALS ; 1920 - 1970.......


.......on 6th September , 1920 , the 'Ulster Special Constabulary' was established by Westminster ; it was to be formed in three separate units --- the A-Specials , B-Specials and the C-Specials .......


In October , 1920 , a J. R. Clynes , of the British Labour Party objected to the formation of the 'Ulster Special Constabulary' claiming (correctly) that the British Government were " legally arming the Orangemen " . However , a recruitment drive for the ' Ulster Special Constabulary ' began in November 1920 , and the ' Ulster Volunteer Force '(UVf - a Unionist killer gang) issued orders to its membership to apply to join the B-Specials --- the RIC ( Unionist 'police' force) also came out publicly with an appeal for the UVF to join the new B-Specials ; thousands of UVF men applied and were accepted .

In December , 1920 , the new A-Specials moved into RIC barracks ; there was three-thousand-five-hundred 'A'-members , meaning that thousands of RIC men would soon be available to roam the streets of Ireland , causing disturbances which they could then blame on the Nationalists ; the new B-Specials ( UVF men in uniform) were unleashed on the public in February 1921 --- fifteen-thousand of them ........ (MORE LATER).



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


THE WAR OF BROTHERS.......


"........the Free State soldiers took to alcohol to ease their consciences ; they were chasing down their old comrades and being forced to torture and execute them in prison-camps and on the roadsides......."


" The Free State Government was subject to England , bound by oath and interest to the English King . It was pledged to do the Empire's work , and the Empire's work can be done only in the Empire's way . That way , even , wins no lasting victory . That policy was pursued , with most concentrated vigour , in Kerry , in the Spring of 1923 . And in Kerry it has most surely failed . A traveller goes from Killarney to West Kerry and to North and South-west Kerry as a bird flying out of a nest into windy skies .

In Killarney there were rich lawns and shrubberies and woods with laurels and rhododendrons ; here there are stark mountains and boggy wastes . Here there are rocks thrusting up against the sky on the mountain-ridges , thrusting out into the Atlantic at the feet of the crags , rearing up , precipitous islands , out of the sea . Here are waters racing in zig-zag cataracts down from the hillcrests ; water in stony hollows , dark and still . Inlets from the ocean , glowing blue , weedy rivers meandering over bogs......." (MORE LATER).



NOT FIT.......

[from ' The Sunday Times' , 9th June , 1985]

On 13th March , 1856 , the then British Queen , Victoria , was asked to visit Woolwich to review the return of British troops from the Crimea War ; her Office agreed , on her behalf , with one condition -- that the soldiers who lost limbs or who in any other way looked wounded be kept away ! Did'nt want to embarrass , or offend , the old dear and , more importantly , did'nt want to publicise the fact that the Brits suffered as much (almost) as they inflicted in that conflict .

A case of early 'spin doctoring'.......


.......FOR THE PUBLIC --->

[from 'The Evening Herald' , 8th May,-- a Wednesday, if memory serves-- 1985]


Fine Gael Councillor John Quirke , a member of Wexford County Council since 1967 , lost his sight three years ago (ie 1982) . Before the selection convention last month (April '85) to pick Enniscorthy candidates for the County Council elections , he was visited by what he termed as " a high-ranking Fine Gael Party Official " following which Quirke failed to win one of the nominations . He said ---

--- " I have no doubt the fact that I went blind three years ago was held against me by the Fine Gael Party National(sic) Executive . They made it known they would not ratify my candidature if I was selected by a local convention . It was denied my blindness was the reason for me not to go forward , but it is obvious that was the reason . I am bitterly disappointed that my handicap should be used against me . "

Much to serious an issue for a smart-arse comment like " the blind leading ....... "

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