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STATE POLITICIAN HID IN PLAIN SIGHT : SEX, MONEY AND POWER...
On the 15th September, 1919, a 24-years-young British Army soldier, a Mr William Milburn Booth(from Norton-on-Tees, Durham, in England, 'Service Number 60488', attached to the 2nd Battalion, 'Yorkshire...
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ROADS AND FULL STOPS...
ROADS AND FULL STOPS...1920's - a commercial trader horse-drawn convoy('supply train') of over one dozen carts, carrying several tons of different foodstuffs, was making its way from one country town...
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1940's - 'THE COLONIAL GOVERNOR OF NORTHERN IRELAND' ANNOUNCED THE VERDICT :...
On the 2nd September, 1919, three RIC members - a 'Sergeant' Philip Brady('Service Number 54833', aged 48, a Cavan man [Corcashel, Annagh Parish], married with six children [all under 11 years of age])...
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1920 - 'IRA'/RIC ; SO-CALLED 'FRIENDLY FIRE' IN BOSTON...
On Tuesday and Wednesday, 19th and 20th August, 1919, the sixth session of the First Dáil Éireann(the 32-County body, not the Leinster House imitation that exists today) was held in the 'Round Room' of...
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'IRA TRUCEILEERS' CALLING THE SHOTS IN 1923...?
ON THIS DATE (5TH AUGUST) 43 YEARS AGO - 22 ALLEGED IRA MEMBERS JAILED FOR A TOTAL OF 4,000 YEARS.Christopher Black (pictured), one of the many so-called 'supergrasses' that inflicted heavy damage on...
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THE GAA 'BACK IN THE DAY...'
THIS WOULD BE A BALL-LESS OWN GOAL TODAY......but not so 'back in the day' when it happened!'If such an edict was issued today by the British in relation to GAA clubs in the Occupied Six Counties, the...
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'CIGS' IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH...
'Dublin Child Killed. A little girl named Kathleen O'Grady was knocked down by a military motor car in South Richmond Street..."- how 'The British Newspaper Archive' summarised the death, on the 15th...
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1922 - MICHAEL COLLINS ASKS THE 'ROYAL NAVY' FOR ASSISTANCE...
On the 29th June, 1919, a deaf man, a Mr Patrick Studdert (56), from an area known as 'the Blocks'(McSweeney Terrace') in the village of Kilkee, in the county of Clare, who was not a member of the...
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"ONLY A COMPLETE POLITICAL AND MILITARY PURGE CAN SAVE IRELAND NOW..."
ON THIS DATE (17TH JUNE) 181 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF A GREEN-HEARTED LOYALIST.Emily Lawless, pictured, (aka 'Emily Lytton'), the writer and poet, was born on the 17th of June, 1845, in Ardclough, County...
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"THE GENTLEMANY NATURE OF THE IRISH REBELS" IS CONDEMNED.
ON THIS DATE (27TH MAY) 148 YEARS AGO : BIRTH OF A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT MEMBER-IN-WAITING.'Francis Sheehy-Skeffington did not enter his wife Hanna's details on the 1911 Census form at their home...as...
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"BURIED QUIETLY IN THE PRESENCE OF STRANGERS..."
ON THIS DATE (13TH MAY) 174 YEARS AGO : 'LADIES LAND LEAGUE' FOUNDER BORN.Anna Catherine Parnell, pictured, was born 'Catherine Maria Anna Mercer Parnell' on the 13th May, 1852 - 174 years ago, on this...
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SLAVERY - "THE IRISH WERE TARGETED THE MOST..."
Three different dates listed by our six sources for this shooting in 1919 - 15th April, 25th April and 29th April, and an unlikely scenario.A British Navy vessel had docked near the village of An...
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'GOODBYE TO THE SUN'S WARM KISS...'
...AND WE'RE BACK (RELUCTANTLY...)!Yes, we're back in Dublin, Ireland, from our 'lil adventures in the Canary Islands, Morocco, Western Sahara, Spain, Mauritania, Madeira, the Savage Islands, Cape...
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MAURITANIA, MADEIRA AND THE SAVAGE ISLANDS...
CANARY ISLANDS, MOROCCO, WESTERN SAHARA, SPAIN......and maybe/probably even Mauritania, Madeira, the Savage Islands, Cape Verde and the Azores!That's why you're seeing this post instead of our usual...
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THE BIRTH OF 'THE RISING OF THE MOON'...
ON THIS DATE (15TH MARCH) 174 YEARS AGO : IRELAND WITNESSES THE BIRTH OF 'THE RISING OF THE MOON'.On the 9th March, 1907, a play entitled 'The Rising of the Moon', by Isabella Augusta Persse...
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1923 : FSA SOLDIER CALLS HIS COMRADES "A MURDER MACHINE..."
103 YEARS AGO ON THIS DATE (12TH MARCH) : FREE STATERS SHOOT FIVE IRA PRISONERS IN THE LEGS THEN PLACE THEM OVER A LANDMINE.Bahaghs Lodge, built in 1833, became Cahersiveen's workhouse in the An Gorta...
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1867 - "SURRENDER IN THE NAME OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC...!"
'The Fenians challenged the police in the 'Name of the Irish Republic' to surrender and give up their arms.Tim Daly reached for Sub-Constable O’Donnell's gun and as the two men struggled over the gun,...
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IRELAND, 1921 - THE PRO-BRITISH PARAMILITARY GROUPING 'THE IDENTIFICATION...
Our information suggests that, on the 18th February, 1849, a 'Constabulary of Ireland' member, a Mr Henry Madden (31), "...accidentally sustained an injury in non-suspicious circumstances while on...
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1922 - IRA DELIVER NOTICE TO MICHAEL COLLINS : "WE NO LONGER RECOGNISE YOUR...
1923 - A REBEL'S MOTHER GOES FOR A LAST WALK WITH HER SON...'1920's Ireland : a high-ranking British 'Earl' who nixered (!) as an 'Imperial Staff' member wrote to a toff buddy of his about comparisons...
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CONSTANCE GEORGINA GORE-BOOTH MARKIEVICZ - FOREVER TARNISHED.
ON THIS DATE (4TH FEBRUARY) 158 YEARS AGO - CONFUSED PATRIOT BORN."Countess Markievicz chaired the founding meeting of Fianna Fáil and was a Fianna Fáil TD..."- Micheál Martin, Fianna Fáil.'Return of...
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