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War of Independence: 1919 - 1921
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Nevertheless Hogan remained in charge of his column and, by the time the truce came about in July 1921, they had failed to pull off even ONE successful ambush.We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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Originally posted by KatieMorag View PostAND Michael Collins, The Irish VCs and The Squad are all stickificated......
Originally posted by KatieMorag View Postwhy? Seems obvious to me.......Civil War thread is a sticky.......much easier to find. I think it's cutbacks, they've reduced the sellotape budget......We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View PostYes of course...
It does make sense.... I was just playing silly for ONCE.... Nuttin like a good oul fashioned bit a stickification te liven things up on those long lonely nights.....
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THOMAS WHELAN Executed: 14 March, 1921 6.00 a.m.
Aged 22, from Sky Road, Clifden, Galway.
Thomas Whelan went to Dublin aged 18 looking for work, and after a year or two joined the Volunteers. He had worked with the Midland and Great Western Railway. He lived at Barrow Street, Ringsend. He was arrested in November 1920 and brought to Kilmainham, before being transferred to Mountjoy. He was charged with the shooting of Captain Baggallyon Bloody Sunday, November 21st, 1920. Whelan strongly protested his innocence.
Maud Gonne McBride comforts Wheelan's mother outside Mountjoy. Wheelan did not do it....We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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Dev's bright idea..."let's burn the custom house" was it eighty percent of Dub best volunteers captured....what a feckin gobshite eejihh. They were told te use paraffin to set the place ablaze....so guess wha....when the Brits turned up to arrest them....they cordoned the place off and sniffed their hands....any fin...in clink....All done against the wishes of Michael Collins who had been doing all the heavy lifting.... while the Divil was swanning it in luxury in the Waldorf Astoria New York.Attached FilesWe'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View PostDev's bright idea..."let's burn the custom house" was it eighty percent of Dub best volunteers captured....what a feckin gobshite eejihh. They were told te use paraffin to set the place ablaze....so guess wha....when the Brits turned up to arrest them....they cordoned the place off and sniffed their hands....any fin...in clink....All done against the wishes of Michael Collins who had been doing all the heavy lifting.... while the Divil was swanning it in luxury in the Waldorf Astoria New York.
custom house 21.jpgEverything is self-evident.
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Originally posted by KatieMorag View Postis that the fire where all the records were destroyed? What a stupid thing to do
I hate to say it, but it's true, the act did attract massive publicity all over the world and did hasten matters toward the Free State.
All that said; The world and his dog trying to chase ancestry are at a great disadvantage on account of the archive that was housed in the Custom House.
The second massive archive was destroyed in that other major debacle The Bombing of the Four Courts.
Two of the most important archive depositories destroyed "needlessly" imo anyway.We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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Originally posted by cogito View PostView from the quays...
Can you remember how Vinny Byrne avoided capture....very clever ??????We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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