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SPANISH  SIESTA - ALMOST RECOVERED...!
2024-02-04 17:52
DIA DHUIT. TÁIMID AR AIS...SAGHAS AR..!Hola! ¡Estamos de vuelta... más o menos...!Hello! We're back...sort of..!Shivering here, in wet and windy 14°C in Ireland, comp… Read More
2023-12-17 22:13
We're working on another 17-part post for Wednesday, 20th December 2023, and I'm told - despite the Christmas distractions - it'll be ready to go by then (Ho! Ho! Ho!).Among the 17 occurranc… Read More
2023-12-10 21:36
'LETTERS OF ASSURANCE' AND ALL THAT...!On Wednesday, 13th December 2023, we'll be cominatya' with a 17-piece post on Irish history and politics, mentioning various occurrences which took pl… Read More
'DORA'  WASN'T PRETTY IN IRELAND...
2023-12-03 13:51
THE BRITISH 'DORA' IN IRELAND....and we're back, after our 'working holiday'!We had an eventful break (!), and enjoyed the two gigs laid on by the Movement, during and after the working days… Read More
2023-11-19 20:43
18 FOR THE 22ND ON 1169...! Well haven't we been busy bees!We've put together 18 articles, covering the years 1919 to 2002, for the blog, for Wednesday, 22nd November 2023!Included in the ar… Read More
'TAKING THE SOUP'  WITH THE MONEY-LENDERS...
2023-10-14 15:12
GETTING READY.....FOR A NINE-PARTER ON THE 18TH!The British presence in Ireland gets its strength from the weakness of the Irish, by seducing, subduing and/or executing those they deem to be… Read More
2023-09-24 20:39
The 'score' from this particular sporting occasion was 2 - 0, and it's an 'outing' that is still being talked about in Irish republican circles...! In the mid-19th Century in Ireland, these… Read More
2023-09-13 08:51
ON THIS DATE (13TH SEPTEMBER) 87 YEARS AGO : TWENTY-FOUR YEAR OLD IRISH REPUBLICAN KILLS HIMSELF OVER MENTAL TORTURE BY FREE STATERS.'In fond and loving memory of Seán Glynn, Captain… Read More
'IRISH WAYS...
2023-09-11 20:50
..AND IRISH LAWS'.Ireland, 1930's - this young Irish republican was driven to extremes by the constant evil inflicted on him by the Free State 'authorities' who held him captive... This enem… Read More
2023-08-21 19:22
"...THE GOLDEN SLEEPY DREAM OF YESTERDAYS." A brilliant military tactician, this foreign army man agreed with his comrades-in-arms that the British military and political presence had no pl… Read More
2023-08-06 19:05
..AS WITH THE MORAL LAW OF THE CHURCH.." This British 'Sir' took control of a pro-British militia in Ireland and worked with them to obtain ten's of thousands of rifles and millions of round… Read More
POOR WIDOWS AND CHIMNEY SWEEPS...
2023-07-21 13:36
And we're back in Dublin, mostly in one piece (!), after our assault on the South-East - Waterford, Kilkenny, Carlow, Wexford and Tipp - where eight (supposed) adults and eleven children in… Read More
2023-07-02 16:38
LEGAL FINDINGS STYMIED FOR FEAR OF UPSETTING A DEAD MAN...! Within months of the British having 'outlawed' the 32-County Dáil Éireann, local councils in Ireland had decided to… Read More
2023-04-30 10:03
This 'surrender document' signalled the end of six days of fighting between approximately 20,000 British troops (including, in their ranks, Irish men) and a volunteer rebel force of about 1… Read More
2023-04-23 15:30
In the early 1980's in Ireland, this world-famous Irishman wrote a poem for his mother and became as well-known for his writing skills as he was for his social justice campaigns... This Engl… Read More
2023-04-15 16:55
In our best Galway accent (!) we'll be Cominatya on Wednesday, 19th April 2023.Among the five pieces we'll be posting will be one concerning what happened when a grouping from the Free Sta… Read More
2023-03-20 12:17
ON WEDNESDAY, 22ND MARCH 2023, WE'LL BE.......with a six-parter, including a piece on an explanation issued by the IRA over forty years ago as to why it had carried out a particular operatio… Read More
THE SOMNOLENCE AND LASSITUDE OF IRELAND.
2023-03-15 08:53
ON THIS DATE (15TH MARCH) 171 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… Read More
2023-02-24 15:30
...Well - back in Dublin from our escapades in Galway (...more about that later!), but not back posting the blog just yet.As promised before our break, we'll be back here on Wednesday, the 1… Read More
2023-01-15 22:58
GETTING FITTER FOR PURPOSE...AND - - on Wednesday, 18th January 2023, we'll be...Our first post of 2023, the 21st year of the '1169' blog, will be landing on this page on Wednesday, 18th Jan… Read More
2023-01-08 13:26
NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE JUST YET (!)...BUT - - on Wednesday, 18th January 2023, we'll be...Phew!Crazy days since we last spoke to you on the blog, and they ain't quite over yet - still recoverin… Read More
2022-12-04 12:07
BITS, BATS AND BRITS...!This republican operative was captured by the Staters in 1923 and went on hunger strike for forty-one days before being released in July 1924 ; de Valera attempted to… Read More
2022-11-27 11:44
8 4 U ON THE 30TH!We've gone back as far as the 17th century in one of our eight pieces for Wednesday, 30th November 2022, which is the period linked to a well-known author who suggested a n… Read More
WHY IS THIS STATE POLITICIAN SWEATING...?
2022-11-20 11:15
WHY IS THIS STATE POLITICIAN SWEATING...?Would it have something to do with a political buddy of his from Tipperary, and/or an expensive dinner and/or a mobile phone licence?Or maybe it's so… Read More
2022-10-31 11:59
The stalwarts, having said their piece and again having stated and explained their political position, brought proceedings temporarily to an end and moved to a different location where they… Read More
BRITISH ARMY FLOGGINGS IN IRELAND IN 1920.
2022-10-19 09:50
ON THIS DATE (19TH OCTOBER) 277 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF THE MAN WHO URGED THE IRISH "TO BURN EVERYTHING ENGLISH EXCEPT THEIR COAL"."Burn everything English but their coal" - the 'Hibernian Pa… Read More
2022-09-17 13:01
...we're putting together a special piece for Wednesday, 21st September, 2022, concerning (very concerning, actually..) about the BA in this country, and the everlasting damage inflicted on… Read More

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