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zizu Kilbane
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Posted: 21 Nov 2020 at 8:41am |
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A pivotal day in the Irish War of Independence. The impact that the early morning killings, almost exactly 100 years ago to the moment as I write this, had on the castle administration can't be understated. (My own grand uncle was part of the group who assassinated a British Intelligence Operative at Morehampton Road.)
The Croke Park Massacre that followed later in the day only served to the Irish publics resolve. Like it's name same up north 50 years later, the British government held a sham enquiry of which no one was ever found guilty
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"Sometimes, sh*t happens, someone's gotta deal with it, and who ya gonna call?"
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horsebox
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Do they ever? |
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When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
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nvidic
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And an innocent civilian and wounded another! Everything else is spot on Edited by nvidic - 21 Nov 2020 at 10:36am |
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ShamtheRam
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Highly recommend the Bloodied Field pod to anyone looking to know more about the day.
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Denis Irwin
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Tremendous job from the GAA
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Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".
Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
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zizu Kilbane
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That's not definitive. The landlord, a Mr Smith, is alleged to have been a Castle informer. I've read the first hand accounts of some of the men who took part (inc. My grand uncle) in the military archives. He's referenced as a spy or intelligence agents in a few of them. Now it's very plausible of course that this how they remembered things retrospectively. It may have helped their conscious' to do so. Alot of the men suffered psychologically in later life. We'll never know for sure. Certainly Lt McClean, who they killed, was a high ranking intelligence agent in the castle
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"Sometimes, sh*t happens, someone's gotta deal with it, and who ya gonna call?"
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Was Michael Hogan not shot at the Canal End?
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Ulster Champions 2020 our 40th Title. Take that all ye Moanaghan ***ts!
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daithi
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Edited by daithi - 21 Nov 2020 at 8:50pm |
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Just because it's tradition does not make it right
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nvidic
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Interesting, you'd certainly hope that was the case for all of them.
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No. The Carlisle Grounds.
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