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  • Originally posted by quinner View Post
    Whodunnit...?

    100 years after Pearse proclaimed an Irish Republic you still don't understand what he actually meant......

    You are more of a Piss-Torian than a historian.........

    Now wakeup and join the living.....please.
    oil do me best
    We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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    • Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
      oil do me best
      Not nearly good enough....
      Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!

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      • IRA prisoners taken after the Custom House raid May 1921.
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        I google because I'm not young enough to know everything.
        Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit

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        • Are ya on the right thread here Jembo ?
          Everything is self-evident.

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          • I get a bit mixed up to with all these locations and I had to Google as I don't know much about the War of Independence. Oddly enough there doesn't seem to be an ongoing WOI thread, if there is I'm sure DTW could locate it! Perhaps one could be started and made a sticky and Jembo's post could be moved to it?

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            • Originally posted by cogito View Post
              Are ya on the right thread here Jembo ?
              Have we got a thread for The War of Independence?
              I google because I'm not young enough to know everything.
              Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit

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              • Originally posted by jembo View Post
                Have we got a thread for The War of Independence?
                Think we're waiting until 2019...
                Everything is self-evident.

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                • Originally posted by cogito View Post
                  Think we're waiting until 2019...
                  ha ha! I'm sure there must be at least one floating about.....Dtw will sniff it out.......

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                  • Originally posted by cogito View Post
                    Think we're waiting until 2019...
                    Why not 20/20
                    I google because I'm not young enough to know everything.
                    Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit

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                    • Originally posted by KatieMorag View Post
                      ha ha! I'm sure there must be at least one floating about.....Dtw will sniff it out.......
                      Sniffed.... http://www.dublinforum.net/forum/sho...24&postcount=1
                      We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                      • Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
                        i knew we could rely on you

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                        • The mind is everything. What you think you become.

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                          • Originally posted by KatieMorag View Post
                            i knew we could rely on you
                            Fora you oi killa de bull !!!
                            We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                            • March 1923 – The Terror Month
                              March 1923, the penultimate month of the Irish Civil War, saw some of its most brutal acts. John Dorney looks at what Kerry Republicans remembered as, “the terror month”
                              The Irish Civil War broke out in late June 1922. What might have been a brief coming to blows between rival IRA factions instead dragged on for many months, in a small-scale but brutal guerrilla and counter-insurgency campaign between the new Free State government and the Anti-Treaty IRA.

                              As 1922 turned into 1923, it was becoming clear that the guerrillas were not going to topple the Free State, which took increasingly draconian measures –such as wholesale internment and selected executions of captured Anti-Treaty fighters.

                              Towards the end of February 1923, the Executive of the Anti-Treaty IRA met in an isolated location named Ballingeary in Tipperary. IRA chief of staff Liam Lynch was told that the guerrilla army was on the brink of collapse. Their 1st Southern Division reported that, “in a short time we would not have a man left owing to the great number of arrests and casualties”. The Cork units reported they had suffered 29 killed and an unknown number captured in recent actions and, “if five men are arrested in each area, we are finished” [1].

                              Lynch chose to continue the war. The Free State had suspended executions in early February, in the hope that it would help to speed the end of the conflict and the meeting of the IRA leadership must have seemed like the ideal opportunity for them to call it off. For whatever reason, bloody mindedness, fanaticism and idealism are among those attributed to him, Lynch refused.

                              The following month, known among Kerry Republicans as the “terror month” – March 1923 – would demonstrate the cost in lives and bitterness of such a policy.

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                              Paddy Daly – the man behind the killings at Ballyseedy, Countess Bridge and Caherciveen.
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                              I google because I'm not young enough to know everything.
                              Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit

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                              • Major General Emmet Dalton SS Lady Wicklow en route to Passage West....warns accompanying ship (most likely SS Arvonia) of sunken ship hazard created by Irregular Forces......1922. All Tnx NLI.
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                                We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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