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  • interesting 1916 commemoration 'person hole' [must be pc] , is that eamon bulfin of 'bulfin road' ??

    Sherwood foresters on mount st bridge [front one wounded] or is it a replay??
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    • Originally posted by cosmo View Post
      interesting 1916 commemoration 'person hole' [must be pc] , is that eamon bulfin of 'bulfin road' ??

      Sherwood foresters on mount st bridge [front one wounded] or is it a replay??
      Eamon Bulfin for sure....long story.
      We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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      • Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post


        Eamon Bulfin for sure....long story.
        Eamon Bulfin (1892–1968) was an Argentine-born Irish republican. He was the son of writer William Bulfin (1864–1910) of Birr, in County Offaly (then called King's County). His father had emigrated to Argentina at the age of 20 and was a writer and journalist who became the editor/proprietor of The Southern Cross.

        Bulfin was a pupil at Patrick Pearse's school, Sgoil Éanna (in English, St Enda's), and studied at University College Dublin, where he became captain of the Irish Volunteer Company. One of Pearse's favourite pupils, he assisted with teaching after he graduated. He was recruited to the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1913, and along with some fellow St Enda's students created home-made bombs in the school's basement in preparation for the Easter Rising.
        In the Easter Rising of 1916, he raised the green flag with the words "Irish Republic" painted onto it over the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin, the headquarters of the rebellion. Following the insurrection he was condemned to death, but was reprieved and deported to Buenos Aires after internment in Frongoch internment camp in Wales along with the other Irish soldiers of the Rising.
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        We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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        • Connacht Tribune,

          Editor's Leader
          1916

          Reflecting on the Rising

          We are now at a sufficient distance from the dreadful events that took place in Dublin during Easter Week to view them dispassionately, to appraise the aims, motives and methods of those who were mainly concerned in them, and to consider their possible consequences on the future of Ireland.

          The outbreak, no matter how regrettable it was, or how ridiculous its issue from the point of view of the chief actors, must be dealt with fairly by the critic.

          Much blood has been shed, many precious lives have been lost and owing to shell-firing, a vast amount of valuable property has been destroyed. The cause that would justify all this needs to be a great and noble one, of the highest that the nation can put before itself.

          What then, was the aim of the insurgents? We are not defending them, but trying to see the trend of events from their standpoint. It will not do, where evidence is not forthcoming, to ascribe to them sinister purposes, and say that they were out for an orgy of blood and plunder. We must rather look to the studied expression of their hopes and aims as set forth in the document proclaiming an Irish Republic.

          Such were their principles, principles for which, as events have proved, they were prepared to lay down their lives. Can we say that their aims were sordid and unworthy, and that the men who professed them deserve unhonoured graves?

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          • Originally posted by archangel View Post
            Connacht Tribune,

            Editor's Leader
            1916

            Reflecting on the Rising

            We are now at a sufficient distance from the dreadful events that took place in Dublin during Easter Week to view them dispassionately, to appraise the aims, motives and methods of those who were mainly concerned in them, and to consider their possible consequences on the future of Ireland.

            The outbreak, no matter how regrettable it was, or how ridiculous its issue from the point of view of the chief actors, must be dealt with fairly by the critic.

            Much blood has been shed, many precious lives have been lost and owing to shell-firing, a vast amount of valuable property has been destroyed. The cause that would justify all this needs to be a great and noble one, of the highest that the nation can put before itself.

            What then, was the aim of the insurgents? We are not defending them, but trying to see the trend of events from their standpoint. It will not do, where evidence is not forthcoming, to ascribe to them sinister purposes, and say that they were out for an orgy of blood and plunder. We must rather look to the studied expression of their hopes and aims as set forth in the document proclaiming an Irish Republic.

            Such were their principles, principles for which, as events have proved, they were prepared to lay down their lives. Can we say that their aims were sordid and unworthy, and that the men who professed them deserve unhonoured graves?
            I wonder what they said seven years later.....
            Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!

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            • not all colonials sided with the british...mr Collins...any relation....[refused to report to barracks and fight rebels].
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              • That time of year...

                Everything is self-evident.

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                • someone had a heads up on rising.. german imperial eagle attacking john bull
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                  • theres a video on my facebook page about a tour of cathal brugha barracks, i can`t forward it to here [don`t know how] but its very interesting....the credits read....video highlights, cathal brugha barracks, visit. ireland 2019...... theres a few surprising bits in it. maybe someone can track it down.
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