DONEGAL ,1861 ; EVICTIONS UNDER ' DEASY'S ACT '.......
.......Ireland , late 1850's ; British 'landlords' owned the land-- the Irish were their 'tenants' . But the Brits wanted livestock on 'their' land , not farmers .......
The British 'landlords' were not alone in thinking that they could do as they wished with 'their' holdings ; their bigotry was shared by the political establishment . In 1860 , the British-appointed Attorney General in Ireland , Richard Deasy , had his 'Act' passed into 'law' in this country -- it was known as ' The Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment (Ireland) Act of 1860 ', but was better known as ' Deasy's Act' .
In a nutshell , ' Deasy's Act ' removed whatever insignificant amount of protection that the 'tenant' had in relation to their rights and those of the 'landlord' ; it allowed the Brits a 'free-hand' to do as they choose with 'their' Irish 'tenants' ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......Irish children were denied education by the British ; so the Irish organised underground 'schools' as best they could -- in fields and in abandoned shacks , and behind stone walls . The teachers were paid sometimes , as the people just had'nt got the money ....... "
"....... Padraig Colum , the poet , gives a description of the teachers' difficulties :
My eyelids red and heavy are ,
With bending o'er the smouldering peat ,
I know the Aeneid now by heart ,
My Virgil read in cold and heat ,
In loneliness and hunger smart.
And I know Homer, too , I ween,
As Munster poets know Ossian.
Evidently he must have reprimanded one of his students of the 'forties' for inattention , for --
-- You teach Greek verbs and Latin nouns,
The dreamer of Young Ireland said .
You do not hear the muffled call ,
The sword being forged , the far-off tread
Of hosts to meet as Gael and Gall -
What good to us your wisdom store ,
Your Latin verse , your Grecian lore ? (MORE LATER).
SELF-SERVING.......
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' , 5th August , 1984]
.......The Catholic Archbishop of Managula , Obando Y Bravo , recently (ie 1984) appealed to American business executives for funds to help organise opposition to the Sandinista Governments attempts to install what he termed " a communist system " in Nicaragua .
The Archbishop told the American businessmen that he hoped the Sandinista's would be removed from power if they did not change their policies !
Was the Archbishop afraid that he and his would lose their influence over the poor if they began to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps ?
.......FUND-RAISERS ---->
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 6th November -- a Tuesday , if memory serves -- 1984]
<---- A Reverend Mother and a nun at a Belgian Convent have been jailed and fined £500 each for fiddling £3 million from the state health services . When a police inspector visited the convent , he found the two women dressed in bikinis and splashing about in an indoor swimming pool !
The police searched the building and discovered that every room had plush carpets , leather armchairs and a colour television . The fridges were stocked deep with beer , brandy and wine , and foodstuffs for three-course lunches were found .
Mother Rafaelle (46) and Sister Anne (43) were found guilty of defrauding Belgiums health service of nearly £3 million , and were jailed for three and two months respectively , and both were fined £500 . The two women were claiming payment for hospital treatment that was never carried out on patients who never existed !
Is that the calibre of people that the above-mentioned Archbishop wanted to put in charge of the poor in Nicaragua ?
Friday, November 28, 2003
DONEGAL ,1861 ; EVICTIONS UNDER ' DEASY'S ACT '.
Twenty million acres of land in Ireland ; 661,931 'tenants' (ie native Irish) in Ireland and 19,284 'landlords' (ie British Planter) in Ireland --- if the 'landlord' could get rid of the 'tenants' they could increase the size of 'their' ranches .......
In the late 1850's , an unscrupulous Brit named John George Adair arrived in the Derryveagh area of County Donegal and , by guile , hook and crook , within one year of being in the area , 'owned' more than ninty square miles of the surrounding countryside . Adair imported black-faced sheep from Scotland and allowed them to wander on 'his' land....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the British had declared it to be a crime for the Irish to seek education ; it was one of the methods used to keep the natives in slavery......."
" Under these terrible conditions , the 'hedge-schoolmaster' or " poor scholar " was the man in the gap . He had been so since the battle of Kinsale. The 'hedge-schoolmaster' was a survival of the ancient Bardic professional schools . The Bards , who were poets as well as scholars , were classed next to royalty .
The 'hedge-schoolmaster' , often educated abroad , taught by the sheltered side of a fence in summer . In winter the school was indoors in some old cabin . The children brought sods of turf each day for the fire , as well as bottles of home-made ink and quill pens . They sat on planks mounted on stones , and wrote on their knees . The subjects taught were Irish , English , Greek , Latin , Mathematics and Natural Pilosophy .
The teacher was paid , as best they could , by the people whose children he taught ......." (MORE LATER).
GOD'S.......
[from ' The Sunday World ' newspaper , 6th November , 1983]
In a report home dated 10th December 1887 , a Mgr. Ignazio Persico , who was sent to Ireland by Leo XIII as a Papal Legate , stated --
-- " The state of this country is getting worse , owing to increasing repressive measures introduced by the English Government. It would seem that the English wish to provoke the Irish people into rebellion . "
Persico also said that , when reciting 'The Lord's Prayer' , Irish priests omitted the passage - ".....as we forgive them that trespass against us . "
No more "cheeks to turn ....."
.......ARMY ---->
[from ' The Evening Herald 'newspaper' , 28th November -- a Monday , I'm sure -- 1983]
<---- Father Rogelio Poncel , a forty-four year 'old' Belgian priest who joined up with El Salvador guerrillas , the 'Peoples Revolutionary Army' , stated---
--- " The Bible confronts established order , it must be seen from the point of view of the poor , and Christ was poor . The Bible carried a message of liberation . A Christian , a priest , must be revolutionary - how can we conform what we preach with a system that oppresse's and exploits ? "
Are all the good priests abroad ?
Twenty million acres of land in Ireland ; 661,931 'tenants' (ie native Irish) in Ireland and 19,284 'landlords' (ie British Planter) in Ireland --- if the 'landlord' could get rid of the 'tenants' they could increase the size of 'their' ranches .......
In the late 1850's , an unscrupulous Brit named John George Adair arrived in the Derryveagh area of County Donegal and , by guile , hook and crook , within one year of being in the area , 'owned' more than ninty square miles of the surrounding countryside . Adair imported black-faced sheep from Scotland and allowed them to wander on 'his' land....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the British had declared it to be a crime for the Irish to seek education ; it was one of the methods used to keep the natives in slavery......."
" Under these terrible conditions , the 'hedge-schoolmaster' or " poor scholar " was the man in the gap . He had been so since the battle of Kinsale. The 'hedge-schoolmaster' was a survival of the ancient Bardic professional schools . The Bards , who were poets as well as scholars , were classed next to royalty .
The 'hedge-schoolmaster' , often educated abroad , taught by the sheltered side of a fence in summer . In winter the school was indoors in some old cabin . The children brought sods of turf each day for the fire , as well as bottles of home-made ink and quill pens . They sat on planks mounted on stones , and wrote on their knees . The subjects taught were Irish , English , Greek , Latin , Mathematics and Natural Pilosophy .
The teacher was paid , as best they could , by the people whose children he taught ......." (MORE LATER).
GOD'S.......
[from ' The Sunday World ' newspaper , 6th November , 1983]
In a report home dated 10th December 1887 , a Mgr. Ignazio Persico , who was sent to Ireland by Leo XIII as a Papal Legate , stated --
-- " The state of this country is getting worse , owing to increasing repressive measures introduced by the English Government. It would seem that the English wish to provoke the Irish people into rebellion . "
Persico also said that , when reciting 'The Lord's Prayer' , Irish priests omitted the passage - ".....as we forgive them that trespass against us . "
No more "cheeks to turn ....."
.......ARMY ---->
[from ' The Evening Herald 'newspaper' , 28th November -- a Monday , I'm sure -- 1983]
<---- Father Rogelio Poncel , a forty-four year 'old' Belgian priest who joined up with El Salvador guerrillas , the 'Peoples Revolutionary Army' , stated---
--- " The Bible confronts established order , it must be seen from the point of view of the poor , and Christ was poor . The Bible carried a message of liberation . A Christian , a priest , must be revolutionary - how can we conform what we preach with a system that oppresse's and exploits ? "
Are all the good priests abroad ?
Thursday, November 27, 2003
THE FIRST IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER -
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......convinced that the French were on their way to assist the Irish rebels , the Brits declared martial law in Ireland ; they used the opportunity to raid the Offices of ' The Northern Star ' newspaper and wrecked the machinery before burning the building . The 'paper was out of business . But out of the ashes .......
.......a new Irish Republican newspaper was born -- ' The Press of Dublin ' , which published its first edition in late 1797 - within months of the demise of 'The Northern Star' , which it effectively took over from .
But , in March 1798 , it , too , was put out of business by the British .
Today , the only newspaper worth reading in connection with the Irish Republican struggle against the British presence in this country can be found here. Take out a subscription ; play your part .
[END].
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the Irish people had been evicted from their cabins and their livestock taken in lieu of 'rent' by the British ; they lived in ditches and behind stone walls . One of the leaders of the failed 1848 Rising , Michael Doheny , lived while 'on-the-run' with the people of Ceimaneigh ......."
" In a poem he wrote , Michael Doheny praised the poorest of the poor , the people that gave him comfort and shelter while he was being chased by the British ---
The Felon's Track
Hurrah for the scanty meal
When served by ungrudging hand,
Hurrah for the hearts of steel
Still true to a fallen land.
And in his poem , ' A Cuisle Geal Mo Chroidhe ' , he mentions the treatment he received from the rich , who lived on the fat of the land . Speaking of the Ireland of his love , he says :
For thee I've tracked the mountain's sides ,
And slept within the brake,
More lonely than the swan that glides,
O'er Lua's fairy lake .
The rich have spurned me from their door ,
Because I'd make thee free:
Yet still I love thee all the more,
A cuisle geal mo Chroidhel !
Among the many and varied devices resorted to for keeping the people in slavery was the effective one of keeping them uneducated . Not until 1831 were the penal laws against education for the Irish relaxed .
Not alone was it a felony for the Old Irish to teach or be taught in Ireland , but it was a crime to send a child to school abroad ." (MORE LATER).
DEAD.......
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 10th November , 1983]
A Mr. John Kirkwin was elected as Town Supervisor in Rotterdam , New York , by 6921 to 4780 votes . Kirkwin (57) , died of a heart attack ten days before the elections , live on television !
But he was a politician : how could the punters tell .......?
.......LOSS ---->
[from ' The Evening Herald ' 'newspaper'(!) , 29th November , 1984]
<---- " The Dail(sic) is no better than a poor debating chamber , a place where TD's(sic) gather to talk to each other , but where nobody listens . The deputies are so involved in constituency work that they do not have time to study Bill's coming before them .
After seven-and-a-half years in the Dail (sic) I have lost faith in politicians and in the political system . I have become totally disillusioned with the whole system . "
--- So said Charlie McCreevy , Fianna Fail , the present Free State Minister for Finance .
Ah , come on now , Charlie --- cheer up ! Just think of the good you're doing for the community and carry-on .......
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......convinced that the French were on their way to assist the Irish rebels , the Brits declared martial law in Ireland ; they used the opportunity to raid the Offices of ' The Northern Star ' newspaper and wrecked the machinery before burning the building . The 'paper was out of business . But out of the ashes .......
.......a new Irish Republican newspaper was born -- ' The Press of Dublin ' , which published its first edition in late 1797 - within months of the demise of 'The Northern Star' , which it effectively took over from .
But , in March 1798 , it , too , was put out of business by the British .
Today , the only newspaper worth reading in connection with the Irish Republican struggle against the British presence in this country can be found here. Take out a subscription ; play your part .
[END].
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the Irish people had been evicted from their cabins and their livestock taken in lieu of 'rent' by the British ; they lived in ditches and behind stone walls . One of the leaders of the failed 1848 Rising , Michael Doheny , lived while 'on-the-run' with the people of Ceimaneigh ......."
" In a poem he wrote , Michael Doheny praised the poorest of the poor , the people that gave him comfort and shelter while he was being chased by the British ---
The Felon's Track
Hurrah for the scanty meal
When served by ungrudging hand,
Hurrah for the hearts of steel
Still true to a fallen land.
And in his poem , ' A Cuisle Geal Mo Chroidhe ' , he mentions the treatment he received from the rich , who lived on the fat of the land . Speaking of the Ireland of his love , he says :
For thee I've tracked the mountain's sides ,
And slept within the brake,
More lonely than the swan that glides,
O'er Lua's fairy lake .
The rich have spurned me from their door ,
Because I'd make thee free:
Yet still I love thee all the more,
A cuisle geal mo Chroidhel !
Among the many and varied devices resorted to for keeping the people in slavery was the effective one of keeping them uneducated . Not until 1831 were the penal laws against education for the Irish relaxed .
Not alone was it a felony for the Old Irish to teach or be taught in Ireland , but it was a crime to send a child to school abroad ." (MORE LATER).
DEAD.......
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 10th November , 1983]
A Mr. John Kirkwin was elected as Town Supervisor in Rotterdam , New York , by 6921 to 4780 votes . Kirkwin (57) , died of a heart attack ten days before the elections , live on television !
But he was a politician : how could the punters tell .......?
.......LOSS ---->
[from ' The Evening Herald ' 'newspaper'(!) , 29th November , 1984]
<---- " The Dail(sic) is no better than a poor debating chamber , a place where TD's(sic) gather to talk to each other , but where nobody listens . The deputies are so involved in constituency work that they do not have time to study Bill's coming before them .
After seven-and-a-half years in the Dail (sic) I have lost faith in politicians and in the political system . I have become totally disillusioned with the whole system . "
--- So said Charlie McCreevy , Fianna Fail , the present Free State Minister for Finance .
Ah , come on now , Charlie --- cheer up ! Just think of the good you're doing for the community and carry-on .......
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
THE FIRST IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER -
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......within four years of its formation (ie by 1796) , ' The Northern Star ' newspaper had the largest circulation of any newspaper in Ireland . The Brits were not impressed -- they were harassing the staff of the 'paper on a regular basis and then arrested its Editor , Samuel Neilson , for publishing what they termed a " seditious " article.......
In late 1796 , a French expedition to Ireland , under the command of General Hoche failed ; the British Administration in Dublin Castle convinced themselves that a French invasion of Ireland was imminent and proclaimed a state of martial law ; by May , 1797 , British General Lake had confined Samuel Neilson and almost all of the proprietors of The Northern Star to prison --- the Brits decided to move against the newspaper itself .
A unit of the Irish militia , under orders from their British pay-masters , forced their way into the premises of The Northern Star , smashed the machinery , removed all paper-work and thrashed the building . The Northern Star newspaper was out of business -- it had defied the British for five years ; 1792 - 1797 . However , out of the ashes ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
".......the British 'landlords' removed grain and livestock in lieu of 'rent'-money ; the Irish were evicted and their cabins wrecked . Some died on the roadside or suffocated in the bowels of a coffin ship . The 'landlord' used the now-vacant farm to graze 'his' sheep and cattle ......."
" How fared the people of our area during this period of artificial famine ? People died of hunger here as well as in other places but not to the same extent . This was due to the fact that the people shared their meagre supplies of oatmeal with stranger or neighbour who wanted it . Many of them defended their grain crops . The Battle of Ceimaneigh , fought in 1822 , now repaid them for the losses suffered there .
For besides reducing the tithe and 'landlord rents' , it showed tyrants , who might consider further oppression , the danger of pressing such people too far . Again , eviction of the people would ill-profit the landlord , for the little fields would return to the mountain-state in a short time . At all times , the people deemed it an honour to give food and shelter to men who strove or had striven to free Ireland. Big rewards for information leading to the capture of such men left them unmoved , or rather spurred them to further efforts to ensure their safety .
Treachery was unknown among them . Michael Doheny , one of the leaders of the 1848 Rising , came among them after that failure . He speaks highly of their generosity at a time when they themselves had little to give ......." (MORE LATER).
STOOP DOWN LOW , JUMP UP SHARPLY .......
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' newspaper , 25th September , 1983]
When he was the leader of the
They replied that , in their opinion , the (then) elected representatives for the (then) Sinn Fein organisation should be allowed to join the 'Forum' . They also told Mr. Hume that the 'Federation' insisted " that Britain should declare its intention to withdraw from the North within a period of ten years . " They called Hume's bluff further by stating that all British troops in the Six Counties " should be returned to barracks immediately . " !
Can't ya just picture what happened next -- John Hume , looking over his shoulder , leggin' it down the road , screaming.......
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......within four years of its formation (ie by 1796) , ' The Northern Star ' newspaper had the largest circulation of any newspaper in Ireland . The Brits were not impressed -- they were harassing the staff of the 'paper on a regular basis and then arrested its Editor , Samuel Neilson , for publishing what they termed a " seditious " article.......
In late 1796 , a French expedition to Ireland , under the command of General Hoche failed ; the British Administration in Dublin Castle convinced themselves that a French invasion of Ireland was imminent and proclaimed a state of martial law ; by May , 1797 , British General Lake had confined Samuel Neilson and almost all of the proprietors of The Northern Star to prison --- the Brits decided to move against the newspaper itself .
A unit of the Irish militia , under orders from their British pay-masters , forced their way into the premises of The Northern Star , smashed the machinery , removed all paper-work and thrashed the building . The Northern Star newspaper was out of business -- it had defied the British for five years ; 1792 - 1797 . However , out of the ashes ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
".......the British 'landlords' removed grain and livestock in lieu of 'rent'-money ; the Irish were evicted and their cabins wrecked . Some died on the roadside or suffocated in the bowels of a coffin ship . The 'landlord' used the now-vacant farm to graze 'his' sheep and cattle ......."
" How fared the people of our area during this period of artificial famine ? People died of hunger here as well as in other places but not to the same extent . This was due to the fact that the people shared their meagre supplies of oatmeal with stranger or neighbour who wanted it . Many of them defended their grain crops . The Battle of Ceimaneigh , fought in 1822 , now repaid them for the losses suffered there .
For besides reducing the tithe and 'landlord rents' , it showed tyrants , who might consider further oppression , the danger of pressing such people too far . Again , eviction of the people would ill-profit the landlord , for the little fields would return to the mountain-state in a short time . At all times , the people deemed it an honour to give food and shelter to men who strove or had striven to free Ireland. Big rewards for information leading to the capture of such men left them unmoved , or rather spurred them to further efforts to ensure their safety .
Treachery was unknown among them . Michael Doheny , one of the leaders of the 1848 Rising , came among them after that failure . He speaks highly of their generosity at a time when they themselves had little to give ......." (MORE LATER).
STOOP DOWN LOW , JUMP UP SHARPLY .......
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' newspaper , 25th September , 1983]
When he was the leader of the
S
toopD
ownL
owP
arty , John Hume asked the ' Federation of Irish Societies ' to make a submission to the then talking-shop-and-salaried body that was the 'New Ireland Forum'.They replied that , in their opinion , the (then) elected representatives for the (then) Sinn Fein organisation should be allowed to join the 'Forum' . They also told Mr. Hume that the 'Federation' insisted " that Britain should declare its intention to withdraw from the North within a period of ten years . " They called Hume's bluff further by stating that all British troops in the Six Counties " should be returned to barracks immediately . " !
Can't ya just picture what happened next -- John Hume , looking over his shoulder , leggin' it down the road , screaming.......
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
THE FIRST IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER -
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......having failed in their first attempt to close ' The Northern Star ' newspaper , the Brits seen another opportunity to try again in that newspaper's outright support for the envoy from France , the Rev. William Jackson ; the British had captured Jackson , and the newspaper was in support of him and the new French Administration .......
It was the pretext the British were waiting on -- the ' United Irishmen Society ' was suppressed and declared to be an " illegal organisation " ; its leaders were forced to go ' on the run ' , but not before they had re-organised the 'Society ' as an underground army and re-confirmed its objective to establish an Irish Republic by force of arms .
The Northern Star newspaper which , by now (1796) , had the largest circulation of any newspaper in Ireland , was continuing its business --- and the British were still determined to close it down . However , because of their failed court-case with the newspaper ( in 1792) , they tried a different method ; harassment of the newspapers staff . After a few weeks of this , the Brits moved against the 'paper's Editor , Samuel Neilson , arresting him for a " seditious " article , and transporting him immediately to Newgate Jail in Dublin ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......1847 ; the potato crop had failed-- but the British 'landlord' did'nt care . He still demanded 'his' money , even if the Irish were forced to sell their other crops to get it ......."
" The rents had to be paid . Where the grain was not sold to pay the rents it was seized on the field under armed protection . It is a fact that even grain for seed for the coming year was seized . Thus it came about that the rent could not , willingly or otherwise , be paid on the following year . If the tenant had not already left his home the ' Notice to Quit ' was served on him . Then the crowbar and the battering-ram laid his cabin in ruin .
He and his family were thrown on the roadside to die . It was convenient for the 'landlord' in any case . A drop in the price of corn in Britain , due to free import from other countries , and a good market for meat there , decided the question . Now he would get rid of those troublesome human cattle and keep bullocks and sheep instead .
And so it happened . The great exodus started . Some , who left in time , reached America . Some died on the coffin ships. Some died by the wayside ......." (MORE LATER).
VIOLENCE.......
[from ' Inside Tribune ' newspaper supplement , 6th November , 1983]
According to the Leinster House 'Debates' register , Sean Lemass (Fianna Fail) claimed --
-- " Our objective (ie Fianna Fail) is to establish a Republican Government in Ireland . If that can be done by the present methods we have , we will be very pleased but , if not , we would not confine ourselves to them . "
Fightin' talk - but the fighting was not done by Fianna Fail against the Brits ; it was , and still is , a Fianna Fail (and Free State) 'war' against those that refuse to accept the British jurisdictional claim to any part of Ireland.
.......ON THE STREETS ---->
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 3rd October -- a Monday , I believe -- 1983]
<---- When he was the 'Chief Whip' of Fianna Fail , the now-leader of that party (and present Free State Taoiseach) , Bertie Ahern called for a return to times " when more justice was carried out in the streets than in the courts ." !
WOW ! Bertie the basher ! 'Course he was still wearing the oul' anorak in those days , and the nearest he got to a State function was delivering the invites on behalf of his buddy , Charlie Haughey . AND he was still trying to cultivate some street cred -- especially among the " Uncouth muck-savages , unprincipled and power-hungry members of Fianna Fail ," as Charlie McCreevy (Fianna Fail) described his own party members !*
Maybe Bertie should give McCreevy a few clatters the next time he bumps into him on the street ! And not necessarily for the above comments , either .......
( (*) -- from 'The Sunday Business Post' , 'Agenda' section , 23rd November , 2003 , page 6 ).
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......having failed in their first attempt to close ' The Northern Star ' newspaper , the Brits seen another opportunity to try again in that newspaper's outright support for the envoy from France , the Rev. William Jackson ; the British had captured Jackson , and the newspaper was in support of him and the new French Administration .......
It was the pretext the British were waiting on -- the ' United Irishmen Society ' was suppressed and declared to be an " illegal organisation " ; its leaders were forced to go ' on the run ' , but not before they had re-organised the 'Society ' as an underground army and re-confirmed its objective to establish an Irish Republic by force of arms .
The Northern Star newspaper which , by now (1796) , had the largest circulation of any newspaper in Ireland , was continuing its business --- and the British were still determined to close it down . However , because of their failed court-case with the newspaper ( in 1792) , they tried a different method ; harassment of the newspapers staff . After a few weeks of this , the Brits moved against the 'paper's Editor , Samuel Neilson , arresting him for a " seditious " article , and transporting him immediately to Newgate Jail in Dublin ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......1847 ; the potato crop had failed-- but the British 'landlord' did'nt care . He still demanded 'his' money , even if the Irish were forced to sell their other crops to get it ......."
" The rents had to be paid . Where the grain was not sold to pay the rents it was seized on the field under armed protection . It is a fact that even grain for seed for the coming year was seized . Thus it came about that the rent could not , willingly or otherwise , be paid on the following year . If the tenant had not already left his home the ' Notice to Quit ' was served on him . Then the crowbar and the battering-ram laid his cabin in ruin .
He and his family were thrown on the roadside to die . It was convenient for the 'landlord' in any case . A drop in the price of corn in Britain , due to free import from other countries , and a good market for meat there , decided the question . Now he would get rid of those troublesome human cattle and keep bullocks and sheep instead .
And so it happened . The great exodus started . Some , who left in time , reached America . Some died on the coffin ships. Some died by the wayside ......." (MORE LATER).
VIOLENCE.......
[from ' Inside Tribune ' newspaper supplement , 6th November , 1983]
According to the Leinster House 'Debates' register , Sean Lemass (Fianna Fail) claimed --
-- " Our objective (ie Fianna Fail) is to establish a Republican Government in Ireland . If that can be done by the present methods we have , we will be very pleased but , if not , we would not confine ourselves to them . "
Fightin' talk - but the fighting was not done by Fianna Fail against the Brits ; it was , and still is , a Fianna Fail (and Free State) 'war' against those that refuse to accept the British jurisdictional claim to any part of Ireland.
.......ON THE STREETS ---->
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 3rd October -- a Monday , I believe -- 1983]
<---- When he was the 'Chief Whip' of Fianna Fail , the now-leader of that party (and present Free State Taoiseach) , Bertie Ahern called for a return to times " when more justice was carried out in the streets than in the courts ." !
WOW ! Bertie the basher ! 'Course he was still wearing the oul' anorak in those days , and the nearest he got to a State function was delivering the invites on behalf of his buddy , Charlie Haughey . AND he was still trying to cultivate some street cred -- especially among the " Uncouth muck-savages , unprincipled and power-hungry members of Fianna Fail ," as Charlie McCreevy (Fianna Fail) described his own party members !*
Maybe Bertie should give McCreevy a few clatters the next time he bumps into him on the street ! And not necessarily for the above comments , either .......
( (*) -- from 'The Sunday Business Post' , 'Agenda' section , 23rd November , 2003 , page 6 ).
Monday, November 24, 2003
THE FIRST IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER -
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......the British 'Authorities' were keeping an eye on the Irish Republican newspaper ' The Northern Star ' ; before it could celebrate its first 'birthday' , they tried a low-key 'diplomatic' approach to put it out of business .......
The Brits arrested the proprietors of The Northern Star and prosecuted them on eight charges ranging from 'sedition' to ' treason' ; the well-known Dublin barrister , John Philpot Curran, and his team , defended the newspaper management and staff -- and the Dublin Castle 'Authorities' (the Brits) lost the case ! The newspaper continued publishing .
However , after the new French Republican Government sent over an envoy ( Rev. William Jackson ) to assist the United Irishmen , the Brits got their way : Jackson was seized by the British and his treatment and 'trial' was published in full by The Northern Star newspaper , which threw its considerable weight full-square behind the French envoy and the 'paper used that opportunity to make it known that it fully supported the new French Administration....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the women and children were in a panic ; the British forces were within earshot , and they had come to collect ' rent-money' from the Irish ; a musket-fight began , followed by hand-to-hand fighting between the Brits and the Irish farmers --the foreigner fled the battle......."
" The return of hope. The exhortation to stand firm with the good steel always ready . The vision of the day when Irishmen would be back in the good land of Ireland which they had had to yield . People admitted harbouring a good deal of ill-feeling for the pot-bellied Planters . They would say no more about them but would merely pray that the slaughter and the terror of rout might attend on them .
The 'Famine' of 1847 did not begin or end in that year . A state of semi-starvation already existed . It is true that the failure of the potato crop in that year precipitated it ; but there was no actual shortage of food anywhere --- better food than the potato . The fact was that all the grain grown by the small farmer went to pay the 'rents' , the 'landlords' and the 'tithe rents'. The failure of the potato crop wrung no concession from the 'landlord'....... (MORE LATER).
BOLAND'S FREE DAY ---->
<---- Back in April 1983 , the late John Boland (Fine Gael) had a great idea -- ' Work a Day for Ireland (SIC) ' ; his proposal was for those lucky enough to have a job to " work a day for no pay " , the benefit being that the Free State Exchequer would profit by production with no cost to itself .
When not lodged in his ivory tower , John lived in the family home at Holmpatrick , Skerries , in County Dublin , which he shared at the time with his wife and two children . A former auctioneer , he was educated in Dublin at the Presentation Convent in Terenure , the CBS in Synge Street and University College Dublin . He was Chairperson of Dublin County Council from 1971-'72 , 1976-'77 and 1979-1980 .
He was appointed Free State Minister for Education in 1981 (and floated a lead kite about raising the school entry age) and also served , for about three months , as the Free State Minister for Health , during 1987.
Anyway , at the time John wanted those of us that had a job to work for free for one day while he was being paid £121.70p (Euro 154.53 cents) a day , a sum that most of us only dreamed about earning in a week ! It's easy , I would guess , to give up £121.70p when you know , at the end of the week , you'll still be collecting a salary of £486.80p (Euro 618.11 cents) for the other four days ! Not so easy for the rest of us , though .
Needless to say , the idea never got past the 'OUT' tray on Mr. Boland's polished table ; the rest of us just could'nt afford it .
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......the British 'Authorities' were keeping an eye on the Irish Republican newspaper ' The Northern Star ' ; before it could celebrate its first 'birthday' , they tried a low-key 'diplomatic' approach to put it out of business .......
The Brits arrested the proprietors of The Northern Star and prosecuted them on eight charges ranging from 'sedition' to ' treason' ; the well-known Dublin barrister , John Philpot Curran, and his team , defended the newspaper management and staff -- and the Dublin Castle 'Authorities' (the Brits) lost the case ! The newspaper continued publishing .
However , after the new French Republican Government sent over an envoy ( Rev. William Jackson ) to assist the United Irishmen , the Brits got their way : Jackson was seized by the British and his treatment and 'trial' was published in full by The Northern Star newspaper , which threw its considerable weight full-square behind the French envoy and the 'paper used that opportunity to make it known that it fully supported the new French Administration....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the women and children were in a panic ; the British forces were within earshot , and they had come to collect ' rent-money' from the Irish ; a musket-fight began , followed by hand-to-hand fighting between the Brits and the Irish farmers --the foreigner fled the battle......."
" The return of hope. The exhortation to stand firm with the good steel always ready . The vision of the day when Irishmen would be back in the good land of Ireland which they had had to yield . People admitted harbouring a good deal of ill-feeling for the pot-bellied Planters . They would say no more about them but would merely pray that the slaughter and the terror of rout might attend on them .
The 'Famine' of 1847 did not begin or end in that year . A state of semi-starvation already existed . It is true that the failure of the potato crop in that year precipitated it ; but there was no actual shortage of food anywhere --- better food than the potato . The fact was that all the grain grown by the small farmer went to pay the 'rents' , the 'landlords' and the 'tithe rents'. The failure of the potato crop wrung no concession from the 'landlord'....... (MORE LATER).
BOLAND'S FREE DAY ---->
<---- Back in April 1983 , the late John Boland (Fine Gael) had a great idea -- ' Work a Day for Ireland (SIC) ' ; his proposal was for those lucky enough to have a job to " work a day for no pay " , the benefit being that the Free State Exchequer would profit by production with no cost to itself .
When not lodged in his ivory tower , John lived in the family home at Holmpatrick , Skerries , in County Dublin , which he shared at the time with his wife and two children . A former auctioneer , he was educated in Dublin at the Presentation Convent in Terenure , the CBS in Synge Street and University College Dublin . He was Chairperson of Dublin County Council from 1971-'72 , 1976-'77 and 1979-1980 .
He was appointed Free State Minister for Education in 1981 (and floated a lead kite about raising the school entry age) and also served , for about three months , as the Free State Minister for Health , during 1987.
Anyway , at the time John wanted those of us that had a job to work for free for one day while he was being paid £121.70p (Euro 154.53 cents) a day , a sum that most of us only dreamed about earning in a week ! It's easy , I would guess , to give up £121.70p when you know , at the end of the week , you'll still be collecting a salary of £486.80p (Euro 618.11 cents) for the other four days ! Not so easy for the rest of us , though .
Needless to say , the idea never got past the 'OUT' tray on Mr. Boland's polished table ; the rest of us just could'nt afford it .
Sunday, November 23, 2003
THE FIRST IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER -
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......the new Irish Republican newspaper was a great success ; it was soon publishing leaflets and pamphlets etc and , in 1795 , it published the well-known periodical of the time , ' Bolg an Tsolair ' (the 'Gaelic Magazine').......
By this stage (ie three years after it's formation) , ' The Northern Star ' had well and truly gone beyond seeking only " equal representation of all the people in parliament " and was now openly calling for the overthrow of English rule in Ireland ; its position was that it would not accept less than complete separation from England .
The newspapers circulation soared and people queued to buy each new issue . But the British 'Authorities' in Ireland were in the queue for a different reason : to close the newspaper .
They had tried to put the 'paper out of business before --- within a year of it's first issue , the Brits tried a 'diplomatic' approach to shut it down ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the hand-to-hand fight between the Irish farmers and the British soldiers left one soldier , John Smith , dead ; his British comrades had enough and fled the scene . The Irish buried the two men they lost , and also buried Smith......."
" Maire Bhuidhe witnessed the battle . One of her brothers fought in it . She composed a poem which , although the engagement itself was relatively small , will keep its memory alive while the Irish language lives . It tells of the peace of the countryside , of how happy she was as she listened to the singing of the birds .
Then suddenly the dreadful sound of an army approaching came to her ears . The heavy harmony of the cavalry and the general vibration of the whole army seemed to shake the mountain . The terror of the women and children as they ran from their homes bewailing the fate of their fathers , brothers and husbands who they thought would be encircled and whose utter destruction seemed imminent .
The sight of other brave men hurrying to the scene to help their neighbours or die with them . The rolling volleys of musketry , the fierce charge with the steel of our men , the immediate break and utter rout of the well-equipped and numerically far superior enemy . The joy at the seemingly-impossible victory . The praise for her great men of the Gael ........" (MORE LATER).
KELLY'S (unsung)HERO'S ---->
<---- In early 1983 , the late Leinster House member John Kelly ( Fine Gael ) was worried about the high level of unemployment -- approximately two-hundred-thousand people were out of work on the island -- and he was also upset about the estimated five-thousand people a month joining those on the dole .
At the time , John , married and a father of five , was living in the family home on Ailesbury Road in Ballsbridge and , as well as his Leinster House 'job' , was employed by University College Dublin (since 1965) as a Law Professor ( Roman Law and Jurisprudence ) from which institution he was being paid a 'half-salary'.
He served in three Free State Departments --- Taoiseach , Defence and Foreign Affairs --- as ' Parliamentary Secretary ' between 1973 and 1977 , was Free State Attorney General for a few months after '77 , and was the State Minister for Trade , Commerce and Tourism (and Foreign Affairs) in the 1981 - 1982 Fine gael/Labour Administration .
Anyway , the bould John , before returning to his cosy Ballsbridge home , advised those who lost their jobs , or could'nt get a job in the first place , to emigrate ! If they refused to go , he said , they would be a burden on the State and on P.A.Y.E. workers.......
The man should've been a Jockey ; he had the neck for it .....
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......the new Irish Republican newspaper was a great success ; it was soon publishing leaflets and pamphlets etc and , in 1795 , it published the well-known periodical of the time , ' Bolg an Tsolair ' (the 'Gaelic Magazine').......
By this stage (ie three years after it's formation) , ' The Northern Star ' had well and truly gone beyond seeking only " equal representation of all the people in parliament " and was now openly calling for the overthrow of English rule in Ireland ; its position was that it would not accept less than complete separation from England .
The newspapers circulation soared and people queued to buy each new issue . But the British 'Authorities' in Ireland were in the queue for a different reason : to close the newspaper .
They had tried to put the 'paper out of business before --- within a year of it's first issue , the Brits tried a 'diplomatic' approach to shut it down ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the hand-to-hand fight between the Irish farmers and the British soldiers left one soldier , John Smith , dead ; his British comrades had enough and fled the scene . The Irish buried the two men they lost , and also buried Smith......."
" Maire Bhuidhe witnessed the battle . One of her brothers fought in it . She composed a poem which , although the engagement itself was relatively small , will keep its memory alive while the Irish language lives . It tells of the peace of the countryside , of how happy she was as she listened to the singing of the birds .
Then suddenly the dreadful sound of an army approaching came to her ears . The heavy harmony of the cavalry and the general vibration of the whole army seemed to shake the mountain . The terror of the women and children as they ran from their homes bewailing the fate of their fathers , brothers and husbands who they thought would be encircled and whose utter destruction seemed imminent .
The sight of other brave men hurrying to the scene to help their neighbours or die with them . The rolling volleys of musketry , the fierce charge with the steel of our men , the immediate break and utter rout of the well-equipped and numerically far superior enemy . The joy at the seemingly-impossible victory . The praise for her great men of the Gael ........" (MORE LATER).
KELLY'S (unsung)HERO'S ---->
<---- In early 1983 , the late Leinster House member John Kelly ( Fine Gael ) was worried about the high level of unemployment -- approximately two-hundred-thousand people were out of work on the island -- and he was also upset about the estimated five-thousand people a month joining those on the dole .
At the time , John , married and a father of five , was living in the family home on Ailesbury Road in Ballsbridge and , as well as his Leinster House 'job' , was employed by University College Dublin (since 1965) as a Law Professor ( Roman Law and Jurisprudence ) from which institution he was being paid a 'half-salary'.
He served in three Free State Departments --- Taoiseach , Defence and Foreign Affairs --- as ' Parliamentary Secretary ' between 1973 and 1977 , was Free State Attorney General for a few months after '77 , and was the State Minister for Trade , Commerce and Tourism (and Foreign Affairs) in the 1981 - 1982 Fine gael/Labour Administration .
Anyway , the bould John , before returning to his cosy Ballsbridge home , advised those who lost their jobs , or could'nt get a job in the first place , to emigrate ! If they refused to go , he said , they would be a burden on the State and on P.A.Y.E. workers.......
The man should've been a Jockey ; he had the neck for it .....
Saturday, November 22, 2003
THE FIRST IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER -
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......the first issue of ' The Northern Star ' was published in January , 1792 , in Belfast - Wolfe Tone declared that if the aims of the newspaper were to be achieved , it would lead to an Irish Republic . ' The Northern Star ' was set-up as a business , with a Committee of ten investors .......
The 'business-like' structure of the newspaper was believed to be the first such attempt in which an Irish newspaper was controlled by what was , in effect , a 'Board of Directors' -- a 'sub-committee' of management , consisting of three members , was put in place by the 'Directors' ; one of the management team was Samuel Neilson , also the 'papers Editor .
The newspaper was an instant success -- it reflected and promoted the Irish Republican viewpoint and was as popular in Dublin , Edinburgh and London as it was in Belfast . It had its own printing-press that was used to publish other material ( ie leaflets , pamphlets and booklets etc ) of a Republican nature ; indeed , in 1795 , ' The Northern Star ' printed another big seller of the time , ' Bolg an Tsolair ' ( 'the 'Gaelic Magazine' )....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......in 1822 , the Irish refused to pay the British 'tithe rent' ; they knew the Brits would send in their military to demand that the 'rent' be paid , so the Irish farmers raided the ' Big Houses ' looking for arms . Just south of the Pass of Ceimaneigh , the British military and the Irish farmers came face-to-face ....... "
" The Irish scattered among the houses of Tuirin na nEan , Cloch Barrach and Na hinseacha , at the foot of Duchoill Mountain . They re-assembled and took up a position to the south of the old Cork-Bantry road . As British soldiers and Yeoman coming from the east and west deployed in front of them , the Irish opened fire . The enemy took cover and our men followed up with bayonet and pike to meet a volley which killed two of their number , Amhlaoibh O Luingsigh from Doireach ( in the parish of Cill na Martra ) and Barra O Laoghaire from Gaortha na Tornora ( in the parish of Ballingeary ) .
In the hand-to-hand fight which followed , a British soldier was killed . His name was John Smith , of the Rifle Brigade . The entire enemy force broke and fled for their lives . Our men took away their dead -- Amhlaoibh O Luingsigh was buried in Ballyvourney , and Barra O Laoghaire in the old graveyard in Inchigeela . The Irish buried the soldier Smith in Muing na Biorraighe at Gort Luachra . Later he was transferred to the old graveyard in Inchigeela , where a stone erected by his comrades marks his grave ......." (MORE LATER).
REVISIONIST COWBOYS .......
....... Captain Robert Monteith , a colleague of Roger Casements , once said ---
--- " The English Empire may have been founded by bayonets , but it is maintained , in a great measure , by those who write of it's glories or by those who write in derision of men and women who challenge it's power . "
And the same is true today -- we have no shortage of journalists and politicians who begin with a compromise for the British presence in this country and quickly descend into appeasement of all things British.......
.......AND PROUD INDIANS ---->
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 10th October , 1992 -- a Saturday , if memory serves -- page 5]
<---- Phillip Sheridan was born in Killinkere , County Cavan , in 1831 . The Sheridan Family had to leave Ireland because of the Great Hunger , and young Phillip grew up in America to become the 'Supreme Commander' of the U S Army.
He 'made his name' by his evil treatment of the U S Indians . He was responsible for the slaughter of the Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee in 1890 --- one-hundred Indians , under Chief Big Foot , were massacred by the U S 7th Cavalry ; about half of the dead were women and children .
The Wounded Knee massacre was the last of the Indian uprisings , and prompted Phillip Sheridan to state -- " The only good Indian I ever saw was dead ."
The Irish and the Native Americans have a common enemy --- imperialism . Phillip Sheridan was on the wrong side .......
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
.......the first issue of ' The Northern Star ' was published in January , 1792 , in Belfast - Wolfe Tone declared that if the aims of the newspaper were to be achieved , it would lead to an Irish Republic . ' The Northern Star ' was set-up as a business , with a Committee of ten investors .......
The 'business-like' structure of the newspaper was believed to be the first such attempt in which an Irish newspaper was controlled by what was , in effect , a 'Board of Directors' -- a 'sub-committee' of management , consisting of three members , was put in place by the 'Directors' ; one of the management team was Samuel Neilson , also the 'papers Editor .
The newspaper was an instant success -- it reflected and promoted the Irish Republican viewpoint and was as popular in Dublin , Edinburgh and London as it was in Belfast . It had its own printing-press that was used to publish other material ( ie leaflets , pamphlets and booklets etc ) of a Republican nature ; indeed , in 1795 , ' The Northern Star ' printed another big seller of the time , ' Bolg an Tsolair ' ( 'the 'Gaelic Magazine' )....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......in 1822 , the Irish refused to pay the British 'tithe rent' ; they knew the Brits would send in their military to demand that the 'rent' be paid , so the Irish farmers raided the ' Big Houses ' looking for arms . Just south of the Pass of Ceimaneigh , the British military and the Irish farmers came face-to-face ....... "
" The Irish scattered among the houses of Tuirin na nEan , Cloch Barrach and Na hinseacha , at the foot of Duchoill Mountain . They re-assembled and took up a position to the south of the old Cork-Bantry road . As British soldiers and Yeoman coming from the east and west deployed in front of them , the Irish opened fire . The enemy took cover and our men followed up with bayonet and pike to meet a volley which killed two of their number , Amhlaoibh O Luingsigh from Doireach ( in the parish of Cill na Martra ) and Barra O Laoghaire from Gaortha na Tornora ( in the parish of Ballingeary ) .
In the hand-to-hand fight which followed , a British soldier was killed . His name was John Smith , of the Rifle Brigade . The entire enemy force broke and fled for their lives . Our men took away their dead -- Amhlaoibh O Luingsigh was buried in Ballyvourney , and Barra O Laoghaire in the old graveyard in Inchigeela . The Irish buried the soldier Smith in Muing na Biorraighe at Gort Luachra . Later he was transferred to the old graveyard in Inchigeela , where a stone erected by his comrades marks his grave ......." (MORE LATER).
REVISIONIST COWBOYS .......
....... Captain Robert Monteith , a colleague of Roger Casements , once said ---
--- " The English Empire may have been founded by bayonets , but it is maintained , in a great measure , by those who write of it's glories or by those who write in derision of men and women who challenge it's power . "
And the same is true today -- we have no shortage of journalists and politicians who begin with a compromise for the British presence in this country and quickly descend into appeasement of all things British.......
.......AND PROUD INDIANS ---->
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 10th October , 1992 -- a Saturday , if memory serves -- page 5]
<---- Phillip Sheridan was born in Killinkere , County Cavan , in 1831 . The Sheridan Family had to leave Ireland because of the Great Hunger , and young Phillip grew up in America to become the 'Supreme Commander' of the U S Army.
He 'made his name' by his evil treatment of the U S Indians . He was responsible for the slaughter of the Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee in 1890 --- one-hundred Indians , under Chief Big Foot , were massacred by the U S 7th Cavalry ; about half of the dead were women and children .
The Wounded Knee massacre was the last of the Indian uprisings , and prompted Phillip Sheridan to state -- " The only good Indian I ever saw was dead ."
The Irish and the Native Americans have a common enemy --- imperialism . Phillip Sheridan was on the wrong side .......
Friday, November 21, 2003
THE FIRST IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER -
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
".......the response to young Wolfe Tone's pamphlet of September 1791 (entitled - ' An Argument on Behalf of the Catholics in Ireland ' ) was massive ; within weeks , societies of people in support of the ideals expressed by Tone were being formed in Ireland......."
By the end of that year (1791) a decision was taken to publish the political viewpoint and opinion of Wolfe Tone and other United Irishmen on a regular basis --- in January 1792 , the first issue of ' The Northern Star ' was published in Belfast ; it was a radical newspaper , edited by Samuel Neilson , and its first issue stated that its brief was to demand "equal representation of all the people in parliament ."
Wolfe Tone added that if the newspaper's aim was to be achieved , it would lead to the establishment of an Irish Republic , free of British interference . ' The Northern Star ' was run on very 'business-like' lines , with a Committee of ten investors ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS .......
" .......when the Irish heard that a fighting-force from France were about to land at Bantry Bay in Cork to take on the Brits , they armed themselves as best they could to help the French . The British , however , were watching all this ....... "
" The British Yeomanry force was composed entirely of Planters and captained by 'landlords' . They were dressed in uniform , and were well armed with sword , pistol , and carbine . The French fleet under Hoche was unable to land troops because of fierce and prolonged gales , and had to put to sea again .
In the year 1822 , our people took up arms again . Poor weapons they had , pikes and old unreliable muskets . They refused to pay the tithe rent and prepared to resist as best they could . As a preliminary they decided to raid for arms the 'Big Houses' of the Planters in the neighbourhood of Bantry town . While engaged in this enterprise , word was conveyed to the military authorities in both Bantry and Macroom .
At that time a company of the Rifle Brigade occupied barracks in Inchigeela . All took the field , the Muskerry and Bantry Yeoman included , and proceeded to round up our men who had just reached their own area south of the Pass of Ceimaneigh ....... (MORE LATER).
TWISTS.......
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' , 20th April , 1997 , page 1]
....... Speaking at his partys Ard Fheis , Fianna Fail leader Bertie Ahern stated ---
--- " No-one , no-one , is welcome in this party if they betray the public trust . I say this and I mean this with every fibre of my being . "
.......AND TURNS ---->
[from 'AP/RN' , 23rd April , 1998 , page 8]
<---- Speaking at their Ard Fheis that year (1998) , Derry Councillor for Provisional Sinn Fein Mary Nelis stated ---
--- " The British mindset was for disengagement ; the British have decided to leave but they don't know by what road so they're going about it in a roundabout sort of way . "
That's some bleedin' "roundabout" , Mary -- after over 800 years they're still stuck on it .......
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .......
".......the response to young Wolfe Tone's pamphlet of September 1791 (entitled - ' An Argument on Behalf of the Catholics in Ireland ' ) was massive ; within weeks , societies of people in support of the ideals expressed by Tone were being formed in Ireland......."
By the end of that year (1791) a decision was taken to publish the political viewpoint and opinion of Wolfe Tone and other United Irishmen on a regular basis --- in January 1792 , the first issue of ' The Northern Star ' was published in Belfast ; it was a radical newspaper , edited by Samuel Neilson , and its first issue stated that its brief was to demand "equal representation of all the people in parliament ."
Wolfe Tone added that if the newspaper's aim was to be achieved , it would lead to the establishment of an Irish Republic , free of British interference . ' The Northern Star ' was run on very 'business-like' lines , with a Committee of ten investors ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS .......
" .......when the Irish heard that a fighting-force from France were about to land at Bantry Bay in Cork to take on the Brits , they armed themselves as best they could to help the French . The British , however , were watching all this ....... "
" The British Yeomanry force was composed entirely of Planters and captained by 'landlords' . They were dressed in uniform , and were well armed with sword , pistol , and carbine . The French fleet under Hoche was unable to land troops because of fierce and prolonged gales , and had to put to sea again .
In the year 1822 , our people took up arms again . Poor weapons they had , pikes and old unreliable muskets . They refused to pay the tithe rent and prepared to resist as best they could . As a preliminary they decided to raid for arms the 'Big Houses' of the Planters in the neighbourhood of Bantry town . While engaged in this enterprise , word was conveyed to the military authorities in both Bantry and Macroom .
At that time a company of the Rifle Brigade occupied barracks in Inchigeela . All took the field , the Muskerry and Bantry Yeoman included , and proceeded to round up our men who had just reached their own area south of the Pass of Ceimaneigh ....... (MORE LATER).
TWISTS.......
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' , 20th April , 1997 , page 1]
....... Speaking at his partys Ard Fheis , Fianna Fail leader Bertie Ahern stated ---
--- " No-one , no-one , is welcome in this party if they betray the public trust . I say this and I mean this with every fibre of my being . "
NEWSFLASH
, Bertie --- Your "being" is all outta "fibre" !.......AND TURNS ---->
[from 'AP/RN' , 23rd April , 1998 , page 8]
<---- Speaking at their Ard Fheis that year (1998) , Derry Councillor for Provisional Sinn Fein Mary Nelis stated ---
--- " The British mindset was for disengagement ; the British have decided to leave but they don't know by what road so they're going about it in a roundabout sort of way . "
That's some bleedin' "roundabout" , Mary -- after over 800 years they're still stuck on it .......
Thursday, November 20, 2003
THE FIRST IRISH REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER -
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .
In September , 1791 , a young Trinity College graduate from Kildare , Theobald Wolfe Tone , issued a pamphlet entitled - ' An Argument on Behalf of the Catholics in Ireland '.
The fact that Tone was a Protestant and had called for a " brotherhood of affection , a communion of rites and union of power among Irishmen of every religious persuasion , and thereby to obtain a complete reform of the legislature founded on principles of political and religious liberty " ensured that he quickly came to national attention .
Within weeks , societies of ' United Irishmen ' were being established in the country ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......one of the more humane British Army Commanders , Sir John Moore , said of British involvement in Irish affairs --- " If I were an Irishman , I would be a rebel......."
" His own people did not appreciate his humanity , but Michael O' Dwyer ( Irish Rebel leader ) of Wicklow did when he released him after capture , and Soult , Marshal of France , paid him tribute by erecting a monument over his grave at Corunna . The year 1803 saw Emmet's attempt to throttle British power at its source in Dublin . Its failure was succeeded by the usual intensified crushing of body and spirit .
The year 1602 had also seen the end of the Irish system of laws which had functioned for fifteen-hundred years . They were replaced by a penal system , every modification of which was intended to improve on or supplant some feature thought to be over-merciful to the people . One of the most hated enactments was the Tithe Law which made it compulsory on the people , almost entirely Catholic , to pay one-tenth of their meagre means of subsistence towards the support of an alien Church .
The people of our area were always ready to grasp at any opportunity to assert their rights by force of arms . In 1796 they heard of the coming of the French fleet to Bantry Bay ( Cork ) to aid them , and grasped the poor arms they possessed . They were well watched , however , by the combined forces of the regular British Army and Yeomanry of the Barony of Muskerry ......." (MORE LATER).
DIZZY DOYLE's DATA DEFINATELY DISFUNCTIONAL.......
[from ' The Phoenix Magazine ,' 23rd May - 5th June , 1997 , page 18]
Speaking to an international conference on the Irish 'Famine' , hosted by the Leinster House Administration at Dublin Castle recently , Avril Doyle ( Free State Minister of State and Chairperson of the 'Famine' Commemoration Committee at the time ) , stated ---
--- " It would be all too easy to develop an exaggerated rhetoric of blame , a callow descent into easy sentimentality , in which we can all wallow luxuriantly as vicarious victims of the Famine (sic) , rather than as its beneficiaries . The one million dead left few descendants . The bulk of Famine (sic) victims' descendants are not in Ireland but scattered across the globe . It is also too facile to blame every modern Irish ill , from schizophrenia to alcoholism , on the Famine (sic) , degenerating into a maudlin culture of complaint . "
UNBELIEVABLE ! THAT is the Free State mentality --- the ' Great Hunger ' was an " exaggerated rhetoric " full of " sentimentality " from which the Irish were the " beneficiaries " !!
AND there's more --- In 1996 , speaking at the launch of the Leinster House 'Famine' (sic) commemoration programme , the same Avril Doyle described the 'Famine' (sic) as --- " A shared British-Irish experience " !
In much the same way , no doubt , that the Holocaust was 'a shared German-Jewish experience' , perhaps.......
' THE NORTHERN STAR ' : 1792 - 1797 .
In September , 1791 , a young Trinity College graduate from Kildare , Theobald Wolfe Tone , issued a pamphlet entitled - ' An Argument on Behalf of the Catholics in Ireland '.
The fact that Tone was a Protestant and had called for a " brotherhood of affection , a communion of rites and union of power among Irishmen of every religious persuasion , and thereby to obtain a complete reform of the legislature founded on principles of political and religious liberty " ensured that he quickly came to national attention .
Within weeks , societies of ' United Irishmen ' were being established in the country ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......one of the more humane British Army Commanders , Sir John Moore , said of British involvement in Irish affairs --- " If I were an Irishman , I would be a rebel......."
" His own people did not appreciate his humanity , but Michael O' Dwyer ( Irish Rebel leader ) of Wicklow did when he released him after capture , and Soult , Marshal of France , paid him tribute by erecting a monument over his grave at Corunna . The year 1803 saw Emmet's attempt to throttle British power at its source in Dublin . Its failure was succeeded by the usual intensified crushing of body and spirit .
The year 1602 had also seen the end of the Irish system of laws which had functioned for fifteen-hundred years . They were replaced by a penal system , every modification of which was intended to improve on or supplant some feature thought to be over-merciful to the people . One of the most hated enactments was the Tithe Law which made it compulsory on the people , almost entirely Catholic , to pay one-tenth of their meagre means of subsistence towards the support of an alien Church .
The people of our area were always ready to grasp at any opportunity to assert their rights by force of arms . In 1796 they heard of the coming of the French fleet to Bantry Bay ( Cork ) to aid them , and grasped the poor arms they possessed . They were well watched , however , by the combined forces of the regular British Army and Yeomanry of the Barony of Muskerry ......." (MORE LATER).
DIZZY DOYLE's DATA DEFINATELY DISFUNCTIONAL.......
[from ' The Phoenix Magazine ,' 23rd May - 5th June , 1997 , page 18]
Speaking to an international conference on the Irish 'Famine' , hosted by the Leinster House Administration at Dublin Castle recently , Avril Doyle ( Free State Minister of State and Chairperson of the 'Famine' Commemoration Committee at the time ) , stated ---
--- " It would be all too easy to develop an exaggerated rhetoric of blame , a callow descent into easy sentimentality , in which we can all wallow luxuriantly as vicarious victims of the Famine (sic) , rather than as its beneficiaries . The one million dead left few descendants . The bulk of Famine (sic) victims' descendants are not in Ireland but scattered across the globe . It is also too facile to blame every modern Irish ill , from schizophrenia to alcoholism , on the Famine (sic) , degenerating into a maudlin culture of complaint . "
UNBELIEVABLE ! THAT is the Free State mentality --- the ' Great Hunger ' was an " exaggerated rhetoric " full of " sentimentality " from which the Irish were the " beneficiaries " !!
AND there's more --- In 1996 , speaking at the launch of the Leinster House 'Famine' (sic) commemoration programme , the same Avril Doyle described the 'Famine' (sic) as --- " A shared British-Irish experience " !
In much the same way , no doubt , that the Holocaust was 'a shared German-Jewish experience' , perhaps.......
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
THE BRITISH ' MILITARY SERVICE (No. 2) BILL 1918 ' ---
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
.......the Catholic Hierarchy and the Trade Union movement organised a joint 'day-of-action' to show the level of opposition that existed to the British Conscription Act in Ireland ; on Tuesday , 23rd April , 1918 , the whole country practically closed down.......
Huge anti-conscription open-air rallies took place over the following week , and the British were left in no doubt that their Conscription Act would not be accepted ; in early May 1918 , Westminster instructed their 'governing executive' in Dublin Castle to vacate the premises , and a 'new broom' was put in place -- Lord French .
The new man and his staff soon realised that the Irish were not for turning in relation to the imposition of Conscription ; by this stage the population was of one voice , with guarantees being issued at every rally " that limits would not be placed on the means used to resist conscription . "
Within days , the British had backed-off ; they introduced a publicity campaign for their new 'recruitment drive' in Ireland and abandoned in total their previously-held intention to conscript Irishmen into the British armed forces . The ' Military service (No.2) Bill 1918 ' was heard of no more .
[END].
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
" .......the Irish were , once again , fighting the land to make it arable . But there were other forces turned against them ....... "
" On the first day of the New Year , 1603 , O'Sullivan Beare , the last Irish military leader to tread the land , passed northwards through Ballingeary , Kilnamartyra and Ballyvourney on his last fiery trail into history . Military resistance , for the old Irish , was finished for many a weary year to come .
Wars there were , that helped in the further destruction of the natives and the confiscation of their lands . But there were wars between English rulers , and it mattered little to the people which gained the mastery . Men like Eoghain Rua O'Neill and Sarsfield wasted their lives and talents fighting for Charles 1 . It was not until the year 1798 that a serious attempt was made to shake off the yoke of the foreigner .
It was a military failure , yet it was a victory in every other way . It showed the people , the enemy , and the world that the utmost repression and barbarity of penal laws could not , though maintained for centuries , bring the people to their knees . Sir John Moore of Corunna , humane and gallant British soldier , who witnessed the brutalities of the soldiery and yeomanry of 1798 , exclaimed : " If I were an Irishman , I would be a rebel . " (MORE LATER).
'SPENCE' FORCE.......
[from ' New Hibernia ' magazine , July 1985 , page 11]
During an interview , the then Ulster Volunteer Force leader 'Gusty' Spence stated ---
--- " I was a fascist . There was a lot of fascism in the Ulster Volunteer Force . "
And that fascism is still there ; it is part of the British imperialistic nature .
.......AND SPENT FORCE ---->
[from ' AP/RN ' , 30th July , 1992 , page 13]
<---- British Army Brigadier A.E.C. Bredin said in 1987 ---
--- " Whatever solution is arrived at in Ireland , it is axiomate that the British Government can ever allow a united Ireland . We must be realistic - Britain's welfare comes before Irish unity . "
Is'nt Brigadier Bredin an awful silly-billy altogether ? He does'nt realise that the issue of Irish unity is not his decision !
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
.......the Catholic Hierarchy and the Trade Union movement organised a joint 'day-of-action' to show the level of opposition that existed to the British Conscription Act in Ireland ; on Tuesday , 23rd April , 1918 , the whole country practically closed down.......
Huge anti-conscription open-air rallies took place over the following week , and the British were left in no doubt that their Conscription Act would not be accepted ; in early May 1918 , Westminster instructed their 'governing executive' in Dublin Castle to vacate the premises , and a 'new broom' was put in place -- Lord French .
The new man and his staff soon realised that the Irish were not for turning in relation to the imposition of Conscription ; by this stage the population was of one voice , with guarantees being issued at every rally " that limits would not be placed on the means used to resist conscription . "
Within days , the British had backed-off ; they introduced a publicity campaign for their new 'recruitment drive' in Ireland and abandoned in total their previously-held intention to conscript Irishmen into the British armed forces . The ' Military service (No.2) Bill 1918 ' was heard of no more .
[END].
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
" .......the Irish were , once again , fighting the land to make it arable . But there were other forces turned against them ....... "
" On the first day of the New Year , 1603 , O'Sullivan Beare , the last Irish military leader to tread the land , passed northwards through Ballingeary , Kilnamartyra and Ballyvourney on his last fiery trail into history . Military resistance , for the old Irish , was finished for many a weary year to come .
Wars there were , that helped in the further destruction of the natives and the confiscation of their lands . But there were wars between English rulers , and it mattered little to the people which gained the mastery . Men like Eoghain Rua O'Neill and Sarsfield wasted their lives and talents fighting for Charles 1 . It was not until the year 1798 that a serious attempt was made to shake off the yoke of the foreigner .
It was a military failure , yet it was a victory in every other way . It showed the people , the enemy , and the world that the utmost repression and barbarity of penal laws could not , though maintained for centuries , bring the people to their knees . Sir John Moore of Corunna , humane and gallant British soldier , who witnessed the brutalities of the soldiery and yeomanry of 1798 , exclaimed : " If I were an Irishman , I would be a rebel . " (MORE LATER).
'SPENCE' FORCE.......
[from ' New Hibernia ' magazine , July 1985 , page 11]
During an interview , the then Ulster Volunteer Force leader 'Gusty' Spence stated ---
--- " I was a fascist . There was a lot of fascism in the Ulster Volunteer Force . "
And that fascism is still there ; it is part of the British imperialistic nature .
.......AND SPENT FORCE ---->
[from ' AP/RN ' , 30th July , 1992 , page 13]
<---- British Army Brigadier A.E.C. Bredin said in 1987 ---
--- " Whatever solution is arrived at in Ireland , it is axiomate that the British Government can ever allow a united Ireland . We must be realistic - Britain's welfare comes before Irish unity . "
Is'nt Brigadier Bredin an awful silly-billy altogether ? He does'nt realise that the issue of Irish unity is not his decision !
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
THE BRITISH ' MILITARY SERVICE (No. 2) BILL 1918 ' ---
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
......the anti-conscription campaign was in full swing ; the Catholic Hierarchy met in Maynooth on Sunday , 21st April , 1918 , to discuss their support for the campaign .......
It was agreed , by the Catholic Hierarchy , to use their contacts in the Trade Union movement to take the issue further ; the 'Irish Trade Union Congress' was contacted immediately and both the Catholic Church and the Congress called for a one-day , all-out strike , to take place two days later (ie Tuesday , 23rd April , 1918) to show the British the level of opposition in Ireland to their ' Conscription Act ' .
The one-day strike was a massive success --- the whole country practically closed down : shops did'nt open , factories remained closed , newspapers were not published , trains remained in the station and no-one turned-up to operate the trams . Huge anti-conscription open-air rallies took place over the following week ........ (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the British used the land for sport ; they had no interest in the work that the native Irish put in to turn a wicked mountain-side in to a piece of land on which they could 'survive' ....... "
" Having cleared an area which had disputed every inch with them , the people could not afford to relax their heart-breaking toil and vigilance to any extent . For the nature of the soil was such that its desire to return to its former state was unappeasable . Like a genuine wild creature , it was untameable .
Did one but turn one's back on it for but a short time , the rushes and the furze and the heather appeared above its surface . Even the rock that had been passed over 'grew' again . I remember an old man's comment on the reclamation of a particularly boulder-infested patch . He stood watching the crowbar work for a while and then , referring to the soil , said -- " It is hard . Do ye think ye will be able to release it ? "
Yet there was little soil to release compared with the volume of stone . The other forces massed against the people since , let us say , the year after the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 , were the alien forces that had driven them to the rocks . " (MORE LATER).
HONEST.......
[from ' Hot Press ' magazine , Volume 16 , No.11 , 2nd July , 1992 , page 12]
In an interview , Free State Senator Brendan Ryan stated --
-- " We are very wealthy . My wife is a psychiatrist and I'm a lecturer . I personally have never known deprivation . (Wealth) has corrupted me to a certain extent . You step further and further from common reality and further into a minority view of the world . "
An honest politician ?? The man should've been a Priest ! But then again .......
.......TO GOD ---->
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 19th June , 1992 -- a Friday , if memory serves -- page 8]
Catholic Priest Fr. Vincent Kiss apparently siphoned off over one-million punts from charity funds to pay for his lavish lifestyle -- he earned £20,000 a year , but cashed cheques worth £250,000 and owned a luxury house in Australia and another in the Philippines !
And why not ? Sure has'nt GOD got loads'a houses too !
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
......the anti-conscription campaign was in full swing ; the Catholic Hierarchy met in Maynooth on Sunday , 21st April , 1918 , to discuss their support for the campaign .......
It was agreed , by the Catholic Hierarchy , to use their contacts in the Trade Union movement to take the issue further ; the 'Irish Trade Union Congress' was contacted immediately and both the Catholic Church and the Congress called for a one-day , all-out strike , to take place two days later (ie Tuesday , 23rd April , 1918) to show the British the level of opposition in Ireland to their ' Conscription Act ' .
The one-day strike was a massive success --- the whole country practically closed down : shops did'nt open , factories remained closed , newspapers were not published , trains remained in the station and no-one turned-up to operate the trams . Huge anti-conscription open-air rallies took place over the following week ........ (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the British used the land for sport ; they had no interest in the work that the native Irish put in to turn a wicked mountain-side in to a piece of land on which they could 'survive' ....... "
" Having cleared an area which had disputed every inch with them , the people could not afford to relax their heart-breaking toil and vigilance to any extent . For the nature of the soil was such that its desire to return to its former state was unappeasable . Like a genuine wild creature , it was untameable .
Did one but turn one's back on it for but a short time , the rushes and the furze and the heather appeared above its surface . Even the rock that had been passed over 'grew' again . I remember an old man's comment on the reclamation of a particularly boulder-infested patch . He stood watching the crowbar work for a while and then , referring to the soil , said -- " It is hard . Do ye think ye will be able to release it ? "
Yet there was little soil to release compared with the volume of stone . The other forces massed against the people since , let us say , the year after the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 , were the alien forces that had driven them to the rocks . " (MORE LATER).
HONEST.......
[from ' Hot Press ' magazine , Volume 16 , No.11 , 2nd July , 1992 , page 12]
In an interview , Free State Senator Brendan Ryan stated --
-- " We are very wealthy . My wife is a psychiatrist and I'm a lecturer . I personally have never known deprivation . (Wealth) has corrupted me to a certain extent . You step further and further from common reality and further into a minority view of the world . "
An honest politician ?? The man should've been a Priest ! But then again .......
.......TO GOD ---->
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 19th June , 1992 -- a Friday , if memory serves -- page 8]
Catholic Priest Fr. Vincent Kiss apparently siphoned off over one-million punts from charity funds to pay for his lavish lifestyle -- he earned £20,000 a year , but cashed cheques worth £250,000 and owned a luxury house in Australia and another in the Philippines !
And why not ? Sure has'nt GOD got loads'a houses too !
Monday, November 17, 2003
THE BRITISH ' MILITARY SERVICE (No. 2) BILL 1918 ' ---
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
......on 16th April , 1918 , conscription was made law in Ireland --; John Redmond's 'Irish Parliamentary Party ' withdrew from Westminster in protest and , on 18th April , 1918 , the ' IPP ' joined with Sinn Fein and the Irish Labour Party in signing an anti-conscription pledge .......
Arthur Griffith and Eamonn de Valera signed the anti-conscription pledge on behalf of Sinn Fein , John Dillon and Joseph Devlin signed for the Irish Parliamentary Party , William O'Brien and Tim Healy signed for the ' All for Ireland League ' and Bill O'Brien signed for the Irish Labour Party .
The following Sunday (21st April , 1918) , copies of the Pledge were taken around the country to church doors with the support of the Catholic Hierarchy -- this was the same Catholic Hierarchy which , prior to the 1916 Rising ( and , indeed , in most cases, after the Rising ) had allowed their names to be printed on recruiting posters urging Irishmen to join the British Army !
On that same Sunday ( ie 21st April , 1918 ) the Catholic Hierarchy were holding a meeting in Maynooth and voiced their support for the anti-conscription campaign --- they discussed other methods by which they could highlight their case ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the Irish were still being hounded by the British 'landlords' and their agents ; but the Irish still had rebel blood in them and would strike back when it suited them ......."
" My uncle , Dan Harrington , often told me of a little incident which reveals an honest Englishman's opinion of both the integrity of the 'landlord' and the quality of the land he lorded over . One day when about twelve years old , Dan met a 'landlord' and party shooting woodcock . Anxious to see this, for him , unusual pastime , he stood on a rock to watch the proceedings . The game was plentiful and his point of vantage being excellent , he stayed on it .
Presently , the 'landlord' and one of his guests , a British Army Captain , also mounted the rock to rest and survey the activities of their companions . The Captain's eyes ranged over the terrain . At length , he spoke -- " Sir Augustus ," he said , " did I hear you say that you took rents from the people about here ? "
" Oh, yes, " replied Sir Augustus Warren , " the land about here is very good ." The Captain looked at him and said -- " GOOD ? Good ? Egad sir , it is . For cock-shooting , perhaps ! "
The forces of nature arrayed against the people were indeed formidable and unrelenting . My father told me how the little fields were made ......." (MORE LATER).
GOOD APPLES.......
[from ' AP/RN ' , 4th June , 1992 , page 5]
....... According to Church of Ireland Primate , Dr. Robin Eames , it was " the failure of the few " which allowed the " good name " of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( a pro-British militia in the Six Counties ) to suffer !
The good Primate is also said to believe that if you put a good apple into a barrel of bad apples , the latter will revert to a near-perfect state !
.......IN A ROTTEN ORCHARD ---->
[from ' Hot Press Magazine ', Volume 16 , No.10 , 18th June , 1992 , page 47]
<---- Canadian Bishop Hubert O'Connor resigned in 1991 after charges were pressed alleging that he had raped two women ; in Newfoundland in 1991 , four 'Christian Brothers' and ten Diocesan Priests were found guilty of child sexual abuse at the Mount Cashel Orphanage .
In New Orleans in America , a Fr. Dino Cinel , an italian-born Catholic Priest , allegedly made pornographic videos of teenage boys in his rectory and sold photographs of the boys to porno mags -- the District Attorney , Harry Connick , a Catholic , admitted in an interview that he had originally been unwilling to prosecute Fr. Cinel because he did not want to embarrass " Holy Mother Church " !
How mis-guided -- the District Attorney would have done " Holy Mother Church " a true favour had he prosecuted the Priest at the earliest opportunity . What was he waiting for -- a bad apple to go good ?
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
......on 16th April , 1918 , conscription was made law in Ireland --; John Redmond's 'Irish Parliamentary Party ' withdrew from Westminster in protest and , on 18th April , 1918 , the ' IPP ' joined with Sinn Fein and the Irish Labour Party in signing an anti-conscription pledge .......
Arthur Griffith and Eamonn de Valera signed the anti-conscription pledge on behalf of Sinn Fein , John Dillon and Joseph Devlin signed for the Irish Parliamentary Party , William O'Brien and Tim Healy signed for the ' All for Ireland League ' and Bill O'Brien signed for the Irish Labour Party .
The following Sunday (21st April , 1918) , copies of the Pledge were taken around the country to church doors with the support of the Catholic Hierarchy -- this was the same Catholic Hierarchy which , prior to the 1916 Rising ( and , indeed , in most cases, after the Rising ) had allowed their names to be printed on recruiting posters urging Irishmen to join the British Army !
On that same Sunday ( ie 21st April , 1918 ) the Catholic Hierarchy were holding a meeting in Maynooth and voiced their support for the anti-conscription campaign --- they discussed other methods by which they could highlight their case ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the Irish were still being hounded by the British 'landlords' and their agents ; but the Irish still had rebel blood in them and would strike back when it suited them ......."
" My uncle , Dan Harrington , often told me of a little incident which reveals an honest Englishman's opinion of both the integrity of the 'landlord' and the quality of the land he lorded over . One day when about twelve years old , Dan met a 'landlord' and party shooting woodcock . Anxious to see this, for him , unusual pastime , he stood on a rock to watch the proceedings . The game was plentiful and his point of vantage being excellent , he stayed on it .
Presently , the 'landlord' and one of his guests , a British Army Captain , also mounted the rock to rest and survey the activities of their companions . The Captain's eyes ranged over the terrain . At length , he spoke -- " Sir Augustus ," he said , " did I hear you say that you took rents from the people about here ? "
" Oh, yes, " replied Sir Augustus Warren , " the land about here is very good ." The Captain looked at him and said -- " GOOD ? Good ? Egad sir , it is . For cock-shooting , perhaps ! "
The forces of nature arrayed against the people were indeed formidable and unrelenting . My father told me how the little fields were made ......." (MORE LATER).
GOOD APPLES.......
[from ' AP/RN ' , 4th June , 1992 , page 5]
....... According to Church of Ireland Primate , Dr. Robin Eames , it was " the failure of the few " which allowed the " good name " of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( a pro-British militia in the Six Counties ) to suffer !
The good Primate is also said to believe that if you put a good apple into a barrel of bad apples , the latter will revert to a near-perfect state !
.......IN A ROTTEN ORCHARD ---->
[from ' Hot Press Magazine ', Volume 16 , No.10 , 18th June , 1992 , page 47]
<---- Canadian Bishop Hubert O'Connor resigned in 1991 after charges were pressed alleging that he had raped two women ; in Newfoundland in 1991 , four 'Christian Brothers' and ten Diocesan Priests were found guilty of child sexual abuse at the Mount Cashel Orphanage .
In New Orleans in America , a Fr. Dino Cinel , an italian-born Catholic Priest , allegedly made pornographic videos of teenage boys in his rectory and sold photographs of the boys to porno mags -- the District Attorney , Harry Connick , a Catholic , admitted in an interview that he had originally been unwilling to prosecute Fr. Cinel because he did not want to embarrass " Holy Mother Church " !
How mis-guided -- the District Attorney would have done " Holy Mother Church " a true favour had he prosecuted the Priest at the earliest opportunity . What was he waiting for -- a bad apple to go good ?
Sunday, November 16, 2003
THE BRITISH ' MILITARY SERVICE (No. 2) BILL 1918 ' ---
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
....... the ' Military Service (No. 2) Bill 1918 ' was put forward in Westminster for discussion on 9th April , 1918 , by British Prime Minister , Lloyd George , as was the so-called ' Home Rule Bill ' . On 16th April , 1918 , the Bills were approved .......
John Redmond's ' Irish Parliamentary Party ' withdrew from the British Parliament in Westminster in protest --- Redmond and his followers had no objection to encouraging Irishmen to join the British Army and fight their wars for them (even if that meant Irishmen in a British Army uniform being stationed in Ireland !) but could not be seen to be part of a system which forced Irishmen to join the British Army .
Redmond knew that without the 'platform' offered by Westminster on which to broadcast his and the ' Irish Parliamentary Party's ' presence , he would loose ground to the Sinn Fein party --- so he joined with Sinn Fein and the Irish Labour Party in compiling a joint anti-conscription pledge in the Mansion House in Dublin , on 18th April , 1918 , in the presence , and with the support of , the then Lord Mayor of Dublin , Laurence O'Neill . (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the British invader had forced the Irish from their farms ; the Irish forged new farms on the sides of mountains -- the British wanted them , too , and classed such farms as " holdings " which " belonged " to the British ' landlords ' --- the British also used the Irish " tenants " as free labour ....... "
" The British 'landlord' "owned" the wild birds of the air and all the ground game . Woe to the man or boy caught chasing a hare or setting a trap or snare . The penalty was meted out according to the humour of the particular 'landlord' , he being also the local dispenser of British 'justice' . I can cite an instance , from living witnesses , where the 'landlord's' gamekeeper saw a young man crossing one of the Derrynasaggart mountains , accompanied by a greyhound . He shot the young man with a rifle and killed him . The gamekeeper was never brought to trial before a court . He left the country , and there the matter ended .
I am happy to relate , however , that some spirited young men from the parish of Ballyvourney crossed the Kerry border and , driving the 'landlord' and his men before them into the Big House , they laid siege to it . A strong party of armed police soon intervened to effect a timely rescue . " (MORE LATER).
OLD.......
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' Magazine , 8th March , 1992 , page 4]
During the (first) Gulf War , while (the then) British Foreign Secretary , 'Sir' Geoffrey Howe , was boring the British 'House of Commons' with " deep expressions of concern " etc etc about the " savagery of Saddam Hussein " , the then British Minister for Trade , Alan Clark , was entertaining British exporters to Iraq and showing them how to fill in their forms so as to dodge the arms embargo !
British 'suit' --- " Paperwork , you say , chaps ? Oh those forms ! Jolly nuisance , I agree . Only for the bean-counters upstairs , you understand , HAR-HAR ! "
.......WARS---->
[from ' AP/RN ', 23rd April , 1992 , page 7]
<---- " Talks which do not seek to end partition and the British connection , the Union , are a waste of time for Nationalist Ireland . The Unionist veto needs to be removed , not reinforced . "
--- so said Gerry Adams , during his speech at the Provisional Sinn Fein Easter Commemoration in Belfast that year (1992) . ' End partition , break the Union , remove the Unionist veto ' --- ah , those were the days , Gerry, . Shame you turned your back on them .
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
....... the ' Military Service (No. 2) Bill 1918 ' was put forward in Westminster for discussion on 9th April , 1918 , by British Prime Minister , Lloyd George , as was the so-called ' Home Rule Bill ' . On 16th April , 1918 , the Bills were approved .......
John Redmond's ' Irish Parliamentary Party ' withdrew from the British Parliament in Westminster in protest --- Redmond and his followers had no objection to encouraging Irishmen to join the British Army and fight their wars for them (even if that meant Irishmen in a British Army uniform being stationed in Ireland !) but could not be seen to be part of a system which forced Irishmen to join the British Army .
Redmond knew that without the 'platform' offered by Westminster on which to broadcast his and the ' Irish Parliamentary Party's ' presence , he would loose ground to the Sinn Fein party --- so he joined with Sinn Fein and the Irish Labour Party in compiling a joint anti-conscription pledge in the Mansion House in Dublin , on 18th April , 1918 , in the presence , and with the support of , the then Lord Mayor of Dublin , Laurence O'Neill . (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the British invader had forced the Irish from their farms ; the Irish forged new farms on the sides of mountains -- the British wanted them , too , and classed such farms as " holdings " which " belonged " to the British ' landlords ' --- the British also used the Irish " tenants " as free labour ....... "
" The British 'landlord' "owned" the wild birds of the air and all the ground game . Woe to the man or boy caught chasing a hare or setting a trap or snare . The penalty was meted out according to the humour of the particular 'landlord' , he being also the local dispenser of British 'justice' . I can cite an instance , from living witnesses , where the 'landlord's' gamekeeper saw a young man crossing one of the Derrynasaggart mountains , accompanied by a greyhound . He shot the young man with a rifle and killed him . The gamekeeper was never brought to trial before a court . He left the country , and there the matter ended .
I am happy to relate , however , that some spirited young men from the parish of Ballyvourney crossed the Kerry border and , driving the 'landlord' and his men before them into the Big House , they laid siege to it . A strong party of armed police soon intervened to effect a timely rescue . " (MORE LATER).
OLD.......
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' Magazine , 8th March , 1992 , page 4]
During the (first) Gulf War , while (the then) British Foreign Secretary , 'Sir' Geoffrey Howe , was boring the British 'House of Commons' with " deep expressions of concern " etc etc about the " savagery of Saddam Hussein " , the then British Minister for Trade , Alan Clark , was entertaining British exporters to Iraq and showing them how to fill in their forms so as to dodge the arms embargo !
British 'suit' --- " Paperwork , you say , chaps ? Oh those forms ! Jolly nuisance , I agree . Only for the bean-counters upstairs , you understand , HAR-HAR ! "
.......WARS---->
[from ' AP/RN ', 23rd April , 1992 , page 7]
<---- " Talks which do not seek to end partition and the British connection , the Union , are a waste of time for Nationalist Ireland . The Unionist veto needs to be removed , not reinforced . "
--- so said Gerry Adams , during his speech at the Provisional Sinn Fein Easter Commemoration in Belfast that year (1992) . ' End partition , break the Union , remove the Unionist veto ' --- ah , those were the days , Gerry, . Shame you turned your back on them .
Saturday, November 15, 2003
THE BRITISH ' MILITARY SERVICE (No. 2) BILL 1918 ' ---
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
....... the Brits needed more 'cannon-fodder' in France, where they were under attack from a German offensive ; Lloyd George ( British Prime Minister ) looked at Ireland and wanted conscription on the books -- he knew a ' sweetener ' such as 'Home Rule' after the war would assist his endeavours .......
The British offer of 'Home Rule' was nothing of the sort -- a reading of the 'small print' (ie the hidden "terms and conditions") of the ' Home Rule ' Bill exposed it for the fraudulent offer it was --- Lloyd George was willing to offer only local government powers , under the British Crown , to Ireland , with only a small , if any , ' suggestative ' input into issues of law , education and finance . Westminster would still have the final word and British troops would still be on the ground .
On 9th April , 1918 , the ' Military Service (No. 2) Bill 1918 ' was put forward in Westminster by Lloyd George for discussion --- it called for conscription to be extended (ie from Britain) to Ireland ; also up for discussion was the ' Home Rule Bill ' ( which was , in effect , nothing of the sort ). One week later ( on the 16th April , 1918 ) , both Bills passed through Westminster ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS .......
".......human lives , tissue , blood , sweat and time ; but eventually nature yielded . The wasted land began to take shape . The Irish , forced from their fertile farms by the Planters, had started again , on the sides of mountains . But the foreigners noticed -- they wanted more ....... "
" Now , having made homes of a sort from hell's alternative , the tormented people expected that at least their right to the meagre fruits of their labour would not be disputed . But the greedy Sassenach (the British) eye saw a way further to persecute the mere Irish and at the same time to enrich himself .
The rocks were divided into estates . A man's mud-wall cabin and little fields were classified as " holdings " and " farms " , and groups of them became estates " belonging " to a 'landlord' who already lived in the home of some Irishman driven to the rocks . Some there were who never saw " their estates " but lived in England or elsewhere .
They employed agents who collected the 'rents' from the 'tenants' . Thus did the people come to know those hated terms . As well as taking 'rents' from the people , the 'landlord' " owned " their bodies and tried hard for the mastery of their souls . If he wanted a man or men or women , he merely sent a servant intimating the time and place where his or their services were required ." (MORE LATER).
NOT JOLLY-.......
[from ' Fortnight Magazine ', No.303 , February 1992 , page 30]
....... On 17th December , 1991 ( a Tuesday , I believe ) , the then head of Scotland's Yard 'anti-terrorist' branch , Commander George Churchill-Coleman stated --
-- " We are winning the fight against terrorism and they know that jolly well ."
Oh good show , George - game of cricket , anyone ......?
.......-WELL FAIR ---->
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' , 8th March , 1992 , page 40]
<---- In 1563 , the composer of Britains current National Anthem ' God Save the Queen ' died in Belgium having had to flee England to escape persecution as a Catholic !
There's a lesson in there , Gerry --- Ya just can't please the Brits.......
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
....... the Brits needed more 'cannon-fodder' in France, where they were under attack from a German offensive ; Lloyd George ( British Prime Minister ) looked at Ireland and wanted conscription on the books -- he knew a ' sweetener ' such as 'Home Rule' after the war would assist his endeavours .......
The British offer of 'Home Rule' was nothing of the sort -- a reading of the 'small print' (ie the hidden "terms and conditions") of the ' Home Rule ' Bill exposed it for the fraudulent offer it was --- Lloyd George was willing to offer only local government powers , under the British Crown , to Ireland , with only a small , if any , ' suggestative ' input into issues of law , education and finance . Westminster would still have the final word and British troops would still be on the ground .
On 9th April , 1918 , the ' Military Service (No. 2) Bill 1918 ' was put forward in Westminster by Lloyd George for discussion --- it called for conscription to be extended (ie from Britain) to Ireland ; also up for discussion was the ' Home Rule Bill ' ( which was , in effect , nothing of the sort ). One week later ( on the 16th April , 1918 ) , both Bills passed through Westminster ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS .......
".......human lives , tissue , blood , sweat and time ; but eventually nature yielded . The wasted land began to take shape . The Irish , forced from their fertile farms by the Planters, had started again , on the sides of mountains . But the foreigners noticed -- they wanted more ....... "
" Now , having made homes of a sort from hell's alternative , the tormented people expected that at least their right to the meagre fruits of their labour would not be disputed . But the greedy Sassenach (the British) eye saw a way further to persecute the mere Irish and at the same time to enrich himself .
The rocks were divided into estates . A man's mud-wall cabin and little fields were classified as " holdings " and " farms " , and groups of them became estates " belonging " to a 'landlord' who already lived in the home of some Irishman driven to the rocks . Some there were who never saw " their estates " but lived in England or elsewhere .
They employed agents who collected the 'rents' from the 'tenants' . Thus did the people come to know those hated terms . As well as taking 'rents' from the people , the 'landlord' " owned " their bodies and tried hard for the mastery of their souls . If he wanted a man or men or women , he merely sent a servant intimating the time and place where his or their services were required ." (MORE LATER).
NOT JOLLY-.......
[from ' Fortnight Magazine ', No.303 , February 1992 , page 30]
....... On 17th December , 1991 ( a Tuesday , I believe ) , the then head of Scotland's Yard 'anti-terrorist' branch , Commander George Churchill-Coleman stated --
-- " We are winning the fight against terrorism and they know that jolly well ."
Oh good show , George - game of cricket , anyone ......?
.......-WELL FAIR ---->
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' , 8th March , 1992 , page 40]
<---- In 1563 , the composer of Britains current National Anthem ' God Save the Queen ' died in Belgium having had to flee England to escape persecution as a Catholic !
There's a lesson in there , Gerry --- Ya just can't please the Brits.......
Friday, November 14, 2003
THE BRITISH ' MILITARY SERVICE (No. 2) BILL 1918 ' ---
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
.......in 1914 , the 'Irish National Volunteers' split after one of its leaders , John Redmond , attempted to get the organisation to fight with the British Army in ' World War 1 '.......
Tens of thousands of Irishmen , convinced by John Redmond that the British were on the verge of implementing a true ' Home Rule ' Bill for Ireland , died fighting with the Brits in the trenches of France --- approximately fifty-thousand Irishmen in all .
In late 1917/early 1918 , the Germans launched an offensive against the 'allies' in France ; the Brits needed more soldiers . The then British Prime Minister , Lloyd George, was aware that conscription in Ireland would be vehemently opposed by Irish Republicans ( and was also aware that they would use the issue to garner support ) so he offered what he considered a " sweetener " -- a simultaneous ' Home Rule ' Bill ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the native Irish were forced off the fertile lands by successive plantations by the British ; they had to live among the rocks , and try to reclaim land from nature on which to survive ....... "
" Food must be had to provide the energy . However , it was certainly done and the green spots started to show against the dour and forbidding background . In time , and following a colossal expenditure of human tissue and with the worst of tools , the little fields and cabin showed signs of the owner's industry . They caught the Planter's eye.....
Surely the man who starts to work on a piece of rejected raw material and makes some useful article from it is entitled to be recognised as the lawful owner of it ? Surely the unfortunate people who had to comply with the order " to Hell or Connaught " were entitled to call the rocks their own ? They had just been forced out of the good land they lawfully owned to make room for the Planters.
To go to Connaught meant to go to the waste places where they could suffer and die at their leisure . The majority did die , but some survived and started to make the little fields . Surely the raw material they used belonged to them ? It was flung at them as an alternative to hell . Certainly it was the next thing to it ." (MORE LATER).
PILLAR.......
[from ' The Irish Times ', Wednesday/Thursday 1st/2nd January , 1992 page 11]
In 1808 , Trinity College in Dublin donated £100 towards the building of Nelsons Pillar , and Arthur Guinness and Sons gave £25 .
The total cost of the Pillar was £6856 , 8 shillings and 3 pence ( including the railings around it ) !
Nelsons Pillar was 'removed' in 1966 , without British 'permission' !
.......OF SOCIETY---->
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 20th November , 1991 -- a Wednesday , if memory serves -- page 9]
Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian Statesman and Author during the 'Renaissance Period' .
He wrote his political philosophy in a book entitled ' The Prince ' , in which he argued that rulers should use all the methods they can , even dishonest ones , to strengthen the powers of the State .
This deviousness has given rise to the adjective ' Machiavellian ' .
Everyone in Leinster House must be just too busy to read ould Nic's book in full : they all seem convinced that they have to enrich themselves , and not the State !
( Note to 'Whitewell' - the link you gave me is faulty : can you correct same ? )
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND........
.......in 1914 , the 'Irish National Volunteers' split after one of its leaders , John Redmond , attempted to get the organisation to fight with the British Army in ' World War 1 '.......
Tens of thousands of Irishmen , convinced by John Redmond that the British were on the verge of implementing a true ' Home Rule ' Bill for Ireland , died fighting with the Brits in the trenches of France --- approximately fifty-thousand Irishmen in all .
In late 1917/early 1918 , the Germans launched an offensive against the 'allies' in France ; the Brits needed more soldiers . The then British Prime Minister , Lloyd George, was aware that conscription in Ireland would be vehemently opposed by Irish Republicans ( and was also aware that they would use the issue to garner support ) so he offered what he considered a " sweetener " -- a simultaneous ' Home Rule ' Bill ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the native Irish were forced off the fertile lands by successive plantations by the British ; they had to live among the rocks , and try to reclaim land from nature on which to survive ....... "
" Food must be had to provide the energy . However , it was certainly done and the green spots started to show against the dour and forbidding background . In time , and following a colossal expenditure of human tissue and with the worst of tools , the little fields and cabin showed signs of the owner's industry . They caught the Planter's eye.....
Surely the man who starts to work on a piece of rejected raw material and makes some useful article from it is entitled to be recognised as the lawful owner of it ? Surely the unfortunate people who had to comply with the order " to Hell or Connaught " were entitled to call the rocks their own ? They had just been forced out of the good land they lawfully owned to make room for the Planters.
To go to Connaught meant to go to the waste places where they could suffer and die at their leisure . The majority did die , but some survived and started to make the little fields . Surely the raw material they used belonged to them ? It was flung at them as an alternative to hell . Certainly it was the next thing to it ." (MORE LATER).
PILLAR.......
[from ' The Irish Times ', Wednesday/Thursday 1st/2nd January , 1992 page 11]
In 1808 , Trinity College in Dublin donated £100 towards the building of Nelsons Pillar , and Arthur Guinness and Sons gave £25 .
The total cost of the Pillar was £6856 , 8 shillings and 3 pence ( including the railings around it ) !
Nelsons Pillar was 'removed' in 1966 , without British 'permission' !
.......OF SOCIETY---->
[from ' The Evening Press ' newspaper , 20th November , 1991 -- a Wednesday , if memory serves -- page 9]
Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian Statesman and Author during the 'Renaissance Period' .
He wrote his political philosophy in a book entitled ' The Prince ' , in which he argued that rulers should use all the methods they can , even dishonest ones , to strengthen the powers of the State .
This deviousness has given rise to the adjective ' Machiavellian ' .
Everyone in Leinster House must be just too busy to read ould Nic's book in full : they all seem convinced that they have to enrich themselves , and not the State !
( Note to 'Whitewell' - the link you gave me is faulty : can you correct same ? )
Thursday, November 13, 2003
THE BRITISH ' MILITARY SERVICE (No. 2) BILL 1918 ' ---
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND.
August 1914 ; war in Europe (' World War 1 ') . The ' Irish National Volunteers ' ( founded at the end of 1913 , in response to the Loyalist grouping , the UVF which , in 1913 , was under the command of a Sir George Richardson , a retired British General and veteran of many colonial wars ) splits , when one of its leaders , John Redmond , of the ' Irish Parliamentary Party ' ( the so-called ' United Irish League ' or the ' Home Rule Party ' ) urges the ' Volunteers ' to join the British Army and fight with British troops.
The majority of the ' Irish National Volunteers ' stayed with John Redmond , while those opposed to fighting for the Brits went over to Sinn Fein and the ' Irish Republican Brotherhood ' ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the earth takes it back - past generations have reclaimed parts of the area and built a stone fence around it ; one quarter of the reclaimed land was covered by that stone fence ......."
" This was due , of course, to the number and depth of stones and boulders that had to be removed from the reclaimed area . A horse and cart could be driven on top of some of these fences . The little fields and big fences were indeed made at the cost of blood and sweat and tears .
What of the people who made the little fields ? The best on earth , I would say . Driven long ago from the fertile inland by successive plantations , they took root among the rocks . It is significant that all bear old Irish names . You will rarely find a Planters name among them . If you do , you will find that it is located on a spot worth occupying .
It is hard to visualize how any human being , no matter how strong and courageous , survived the winters before the first little field was made . One could build a house of some sort in a short time , but to make a field in the wilderness takes time and energy ....... " (MORE LATER).
YOUNG........
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' , 21st July , 1991 , page 36]
In July 1554 , Mary the 1st of England entered her second 'marriage' , to King Phillip the 2nd of Spain ; her first 'marriage' was at age 3 to the son of the King of France , who was 9 months young at the time !
A 3 year-young child 'marrying' a 9 month-young child ! The kids themselves obviously would'nt have had a clue what was going on , but the parents and other adults should have known better .
.......PEOPLE --->
[from ' AP/RN ' , 12th September , 1991 , page 14]
" If our (party) structures do not suit their needs (ie young people) we must change them accordingly . "
--- so said Larry O'Toole , North-Dublin representative for Provisional Sinn Fein .
In this case , the adults should know better ; if you are willing to " change your structures " to attract new members , by doing so you will lose some of your existing membership !
Only the unprincipled could stay in a party like that .....
IRISHMEN TO FIGHT FOR ENGLAND.
August 1914 ; war in Europe (' World War 1 ') . The ' Irish National Volunteers ' ( founded at the end of 1913 , in response to the Loyalist grouping , the UVF which , in 1913 , was under the command of a Sir George Richardson , a retired British General and veteran of many colonial wars ) splits , when one of its leaders , John Redmond , of the ' Irish Parliamentary Party ' ( the so-called ' United Irish League ' or the ' Home Rule Party ' ) urges the ' Volunteers ' to join the British Army and fight with British troops.
The majority of the ' Irish National Volunteers ' stayed with John Redmond , while those opposed to fighting for the Brits went over to Sinn Fein and the ' Irish Republican Brotherhood ' ....... (MORE LATER).
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......the earth takes it back - past generations have reclaimed parts of the area and built a stone fence around it ; one quarter of the reclaimed land was covered by that stone fence ......."
" This was due , of course, to the number and depth of stones and boulders that had to be removed from the reclaimed area . A horse and cart could be driven on top of some of these fences . The little fields and big fences were indeed made at the cost of blood and sweat and tears .
What of the people who made the little fields ? The best on earth , I would say . Driven long ago from the fertile inland by successive plantations , they took root among the rocks . It is significant that all bear old Irish names . You will rarely find a Planters name among them . If you do , you will find that it is located on a spot worth occupying .
It is hard to visualize how any human being , no matter how strong and courageous , survived the winters before the first little field was made . One could build a house of some sort in a short time , but to make a field in the wilderness takes time and energy ....... " (MORE LATER).
YOUNG........
[from ' The Sunday Tribune ' , 21st July , 1991 , page 36]
In July 1554 , Mary the 1st of England entered her second 'marriage' , to King Phillip the 2nd of Spain ; her first 'marriage' was at age 3 to the son of the King of France , who was 9 months young at the time !
A 3 year-young child 'marrying' a 9 month-young child ! The kids themselves obviously would'nt have had a clue what was going on , but the parents and other adults should have known better .
.......PEOPLE --->
[from ' AP/RN ' , 12th September , 1991 , page 14]
" If our (party) structures do not suit their needs (ie young people) we must change them accordingly . "
--- so said Larry O'Toole , North-Dublin representative for Provisional Sinn Fein .
In this case , the adults should know better ; if you are willing to " change your structures " to attract new members , by doing so you will lose some of your existing membership !
Only the unprincipled could stay in a party like that .....
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
P. J. SMYTH AND THE TASMANIA ESCAPE , 1853 .......
.......in mid-July , 1853 , John Mitchel , ' Young Ireland' leader , was smuggled on board a ship bound for America by the Irish Rebel , P. J. Smyth ; in late November , 1853 , the ship docked in New York .......
The following year (1854), John Mitchel wrote a book about his five years in prison ; even today , that book , ' Gaol Journal ' , is considered to be one of the best works about prison life to be put on paper .
As a younger man , John Mitchel had wrote , in his ' United Irishman ' newspaper ( suppressed by the British in May , 1848 ) that " Ireland's opportunity would come when England was in difficulty . "
Roll on the hard times , England.......
[END]
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......turning due south with the rocky Foherish , we reach Carrigaphooca , where the Foherish joins the Sullane , which comes from the western boundary ......."
" Here we cross the Sullane , a few miles to the west of Macroom , and continuing due south over a dividing ridge reach the Toon river at Toon bridge , the place from whence we started . The circuit of our area is complete . We have enclosed perhaps eighty-square miles , and three parishes -- Inchigeela-Ballingeary , Ballyvourney and Kilnamartyra .
What of the physical features within the enclosure ! They are in keeping with the boundaries . Massive ridges of rock run from west to east through the entire area . There are not twenty acres together in any part of it , in which a rock , large or small , does not show . A twenty-acre field , even with a rock showing , is indeed a rarity . And small level fields are rare enough . The vast majority are inclined at a more or less difficult angle to the horizontal .
All have been reclaimed from the rock , the marsh , the bog , the heather , the brake , and , worst of all , from the stony and eroded hillside . The quality of the soil is not good , even in the best pockets . I have seen little fields , reclaimed by past generations , where the area under the stone fence around one field exceeded one quarter of the area of the field itself ....... " (MORE LATER).
TWO FINGERS.......
[from ' The Observer ' newspaper , 16th June , 1991 , page 19]
In a profile of Boris Yeltsin by William Millinship , it was stated that , as a schoolboy during the war , the young Boris broke into a church which was being used as an ammunition store and stole a couple of hand-grenades .
Wondering how exactly they worked , the bould Boris tackeled one of them with a hammer -- the resulting explosion blew two fingers off his left hand !
On 19th February , 1991 , Boris was being interviewed on television when , apparently , out of the blue , he called for Gorbachov's resignation -- weeks later , when he was on television again , he departed from the text of a prepared speech and made a declaration of war on the country's leadership !
...way to go , Boris -- get into their camp and then piss all over them ....
.......TO THE VOTERS --->
[from ' Hot Press ' magazine , Volume 15 , No. 12 , 27th June , 1991 , page 37]
The late Brian Lenihan ( Fianna Fail ) , Charlie Haughey's right-hand man at the time , was interviewed and questioned about Fianna Fail's decision ( now that they were in power again ) to work the 1985 Hillsborough Treaty -- in the run-up to the election , Fianna Fail had described that Treaty as " unconstitutional , immoral and unworkable . "
The Brian fella stated --- " We decided FORGET (his emphasis) the arguments about the rights and wrongs we'd engaged in while in opposition . Here was a Treaty between two States , in place , and we were intent on working it to the maximum extent . "
Told ya ! Breaking election promises , pledges and guarantees is nothing new for Fianna Fail ; its how they make their living .
.......in mid-July , 1853 , John Mitchel , ' Young Ireland' leader , was smuggled on board a ship bound for America by the Irish Rebel , P. J. Smyth ; in late November , 1853 , the ship docked in New York .......
The following year (1854), John Mitchel wrote a book about his five years in prison ; even today , that book , ' Gaol Journal ' , is considered to be one of the best works about prison life to be put on paper .
As a younger man , John Mitchel had wrote , in his ' United Irishman ' newspaper ( suppressed by the British in May , 1848 ) that " Ireland's opportunity would come when England was in difficulty . "
Roll on the hard times , England.......
[END]
WHERE MOUNTAINY MEN HAVE SOWN :
war and peace in rebel Cork ,
in the turbulent years 1916-21.
By Micheal O'Suilleabhain : published 1965.
THE LITTLE FIELDS.......
".......turning due south with the rocky Foherish , we reach Carrigaphooca , where the Foherish joins the Sullane , which comes from the western boundary ......."
" Here we cross the Sullane , a few miles to the west of Macroom , and continuing due south over a dividing ridge reach the Toon river at Toon bridge , the place from whence we started . The circuit of our area is complete . We have enclosed perhaps eighty-square miles , and three parishes -- Inchigeela-Ballingeary , Ballyvourney and Kilnamartyra .
What of the physical features within the enclosure ! They are in keeping with the boundaries . Massive ridges of rock run from west to east through the entire area . There are not twenty acres together in any part of it , in which a rock , large or small , does not show . A twenty-acre field , even with a rock showing , is indeed a rarity . And small level fields are rare enough . The vast majority are inclined at a more or less difficult angle to the horizontal .
All have been reclaimed from the rock , the marsh , the bog , the heather , the brake , and , worst of all , from the stony and eroded hillside . The quality of the soil is not good , even in the best pockets . I have seen little fields , reclaimed by past generations , where the area under the stone fence around one field exceeded one quarter of the area of the field itself ....... " (MORE LATER).
TWO FINGERS.......
[from ' The Observer ' newspaper , 16th June , 1991 , page 19]
In a profile of Boris Yeltsin by William Millinship , it was stated that , as a schoolboy during the war , the young Boris broke into a church which was being used as an ammunition store and stole a couple of hand-grenades .
Wondering how exactly they worked , the bould Boris tackeled one of them with a hammer -- the resulting explosion blew two fingers off his left hand !
On 19th February , 1991 , Boris was being interviewed on television when , apparently , out of the blue , he called for Gorbachov's resignation -- weeks later , when he was on television again , he departed from the text of a prepared speech and made a declaration of war on the country's leadership !
...way to go , Boris -- get into their camp and then piss all over them ....
.......TO THE VOTERS --->
[from ' Hot Press ' magazine , Volume 15 , No. 12 , 27th June , 1991 , page 37]
The late Brian Lenihan ( Fianna Fail ) , Charlie Haughey's right-hand man at the time , was interviewed and questioned about Fianna Fail's decision ( now that they were in power again ) to work the 1985 Hillsborough Treaty -- in the run-up to the election , Fianna Fail had described that Treaty as " unconstitutional , immoral and unworkable . "
The Brian fella stated --- " We decided FORGET (his emphasis) the arguments about the rights and wrongs we'd engaged in while in opposition . Here was a Treaty between two States , in place , and we were intent on working it to the maximum extent . "
Told ya ! Breaking election promises , pledges and guarantees is nothing new for Fianna Fail ; its how they make their living .
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