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  • #31
    Originally posted by quinner View Post
    Must have been a ''delivery'' problem when we had no dinner.....
    A great speech from a man Who believed in improving his Country........


    He (they) tried.....For whatever they had in mind they must have known that they would lose.....

    But, from a ''Political angle it was big success.....

    Did he know that the leaders would be executed.....As in most cases they are to deter others.....I believe he did.....

    He was well aware of the absence of ''fighting'' Unionists would mean it would be a purely ''British'' response...

    Was he concerned that people were too willing to accept the status Quo....The support for the ''British'' in the war seemed to prove that......

    Did it really concern him that there was a serious danger of there being ''more British than the British themselves''...

    He would have been well aware of what was going on all over the British isles regarding the ''Workers'' and unions.....A link up across the water for strength would have been on the cards after the war....

    Did he feel he was running out of time for an ''old fashioned'' rebellion.........



    Whatever it was.......He tried...
    Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!

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    • #32
      Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
      LOL..Yeah, an ye shudda bin gehhin 5 dinners apiece......
      Well, watching all the cattle being put on ships to be sent ''abroad'' and going home to have an oxo for dinner......Made me feel part of the new ''free'' Country......
      Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!

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      • #33



        star trek is never wrong. its 2024 .
        in god i trust...everyone else cash only.

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        • #34
          Originally posted by quinner View Post
          Well, watching all the cattle being put on ships to be sent ''abroad'' and going home to have an oxo for dinner......Made me feel part of the new ''free'' Country......
          After all....Ireland was Great Britain's private farm..... all the crops going over there in 1845 while the farmworkers ate grass.
          We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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          • #35
            The Eight of May

            On the eight of May to the world's dismay
            Four of Ireland's finest
            Were brutally shot down
            In the early dawn
            From their cells they were roughly drawn
            And marched to Kilmainham's yard
            To face the firing squad
            And none were spared.


            Conn Colbert was a Limerick lad who was born in eighty eight
            The part he played in 1916 no-one could under-rate
            He built the Fianna Eireann and had them well prepared
            And he took his leader's sentence so another man could be spared.
            He framed the Fianna motto so each Fianna boy was true
            His courage unsurpassed, he joined the Glorious Few.

            For the Fianna boy is.........

            Patriotic, Reliable, Diligent, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful
            Thrifty. Brave. Clean, Humble, Punctual and Temperate.



            Sean Heuston, the youngest executed was barely twenty-five
            He faced the firing squad with the most extraordinary pride.
            Unlike the others before him, his sentence was delayed
            So his family came to see him and with him they all prayed.

            “I might have fallen in action, as others have done, “ he said
            “And been far less prepared than I am for what now lies ahead
            But let there be no foolish talk of a wasted enterprise
            Where soldiers die so bravely our country will arise”

            “And I have no regrets at all, because Ireland will be free
            From the apex to the bottom and from the heartland to the sea “
            And when his execution was complete his countenance was transformed
            As with some angels' splendid light his corpse was all adorned.


            Poor Michael Mallin, the darling of Kilmainham
            He loved his wife dearly and his children so well
            But he loved Ireland wholly and was sore at her treatment
            At the hands of the British and he swore he'd give them hell.

            At his home at old Emmet road he trained his men tirelessly
            And smuggled the rifles along his garden wall
            While his children slept upstairs. his soldiers marched boldly
            From the edge of the Liffey all the way back to the Union Hall.

            From the College of Surgeons he fired at the Shelbourne
            But British fired back with their Gatling guns
            He was collared and marched with the great Countess Markievicz
            To Richmond for trial with South Dublin's other sons.

            He died a hero's death and left a legacy
            A soldier to the core he dreamed of Ireland free.

            At the South Dublin Union Eamonn Ceannt led his trusted men
            Into the battle with extraordinary valour
            As in their hundreds the lads from the long meadows
            rallied furiously and raised the tricolour

            For a full week they held their sacred ground without the least retreat
            And brought the British to despair as their casualties did increase
            and despite repeated reinforcements the Brits remained surrounded
            So that when the order to surrender came these rebels were astounded.

            When Eamonn Ceannt was condemned he faced his fate with the serenest fortitude
            and along with the other leaders at Arbor Hill he rests there now in solitude.

            Soon all Ireland was appalled at Britain's horrible crime
            and the sacrifice of these four men made the love of freedom shine
            deep in the hearts of the people so they too soon arose
            and brought Ireland's ancient struggle nearest to it's close.


            Michael O'Flanagan .......May 2015
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            "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.”

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            • #36
              National Archives release secret police files from lead-up to Easter Rising

              Secret police files from one of the most pivotal periods in Irish history are being made public.

              More...

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              • #37
                Quick link to the files here...
                Everything is self-evident.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by admin View Post
                  Secret police files from one of the most pivotal periods in Irish history are being made public.

                  More...
                  This is great news for those of us who have a keen interest in this history. Here's Tom Clasrke's shop they refer to....
                  75 Parnell Street, Clarke’s city centre tobacconist..... signed as No 75A.....with another branch in 55 Amiens Street.

                  Clarke was one of the old school, a true Irish hero, except that he wasn't Irish at all, he was actually born in Hampshire, though both his parents were Irish.

                  Clarke suffered badly from being locked up in Pentonville Jail England for his part in the Fenian Dynamite Campaign in London, where he as 'Henry Wilson' along with others tried to blow up London Bridge......when he was caught and tried he was given penal servitude for life....It was all O'Donovan Rossa's idea.......but a protest in Ireland and in the House of Commons helped get him out.

                  On his release he went to the US, where he met and married his missus Kathleen Daly, 21 yrs his junior, and a daughter of a prison mate in pentonville.......he bought land out there and worked for Clan na Gael under John Devoy. He returned to Ireland in 1907 and opened his famous tobacconists and got involved in the IRB, and along with fit young rebels like Bulmer Hobson and Sean McDermot who he encouraged and trained, he got up to no good.....his shop was used as a message exchange by the IRB and others......... he did sterling work throughout, even at his age 9590 he was part of the GPO crowd and was second after Pearse to be shot by firing squad in Kilmainham. He asked his wife to pass a message to the Irish people, it read;

                  'I and my fellow signatories believe we have struck the first successful blow for Irish freedom. The next blow, which we have no doubt Ireland will strike, will win through. In this belief, we die happy.'

                  That looks like TC at the door of his shop....this pic first posted by our Super Moderator Rashers.
                  Attached Files
                  We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                  • #39
                    1916 Police files released

                    Secret police files dating from 1915 and 1916 are being made available online today by the National Archives for the first time.
                    More......

                    http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0601/705...-police-files/

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by bojangles View Post
                      Secret police files dating from 1915 and 1916 are being made available online today by the National Archives for the first time.
                      More......

                      http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0601/705...-police-files/
                      http://www.dublinforum.net/forum/sho...0&postcount=38
                      We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                      • #41
                        We make sure yis get the news

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by bojangles View Post
                          We make sure yis get the news
                          Morag said she was a saddo for leaving herself logged on.... I think dat was just a cover story.
                          We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
                            Morag said she was a saddo for leaving herself logged on.... I think dat was just a cover story.
                            Huh?
                            Cover story for what?

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by KatieMorag View Post
                              Huh?
                              Cover story for what?
                              Now who woke you up eh ?
                              We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
                                Now who woke you up eh ?
                                This morning, you mean? No-one you'd know.......

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