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comerhymewithme-blog · 7 years

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The Us’s

Down the docks

Raves and apartment blocks

The fruit machines and slots

On boats named after poets

The Us’s are boarding

On the Air Coach from Cork

Or the Go Bus from Galway

Or at Limerick Junction wondering if snaiceanna is really an Irish word The Us’s are travelling

On their way

To get abortions

The Us’s

Right now, there’s a couple in Dublin Airport

Wheelie case and Xanax

Going back to his ma’s gaff

The biscuit breaking off in the cup of tea

Her favourite mug

It says Fair City

She won it in a competition on RTE

Done with shame

Finished with guilt

Goes to bed

Electric blanket

And the continental quilt

The Us’s

In Malahide today

A Citizen’s Assembly

Voting for bodily autonomy

Saying Ireland is a pro-choice country

The Us’s

We’re constantly being told by politicians about ‘middle Ireland’

Polling and tolling mysterious conservative bells

Resistent to change

Scared of progress Here. Dáil Eireann, stop describing yourselves

I’m

Saint Vincent appalled

By responsibility dodging in the Dail

It’s over, no more, no way

Because, well, what are nuns doing with multi-million property portfolios anyway

Tonight, we are the Us’s

We are the black jumpers and fist bumpers

The marching drum thumpers

The megaphone wielders

The friends and families who won’t wait

Who shout

Not the Church not the State

Women must decide their fate

The Us’s

We are middle Ireland

We are the coasts

We are the cities, the villages, its children, its ghosts

We are the grannies, and farmers, and students

We’re on the dole

We’re earning loads

We’re scraping our rent together

We should've never taken out that loan

We’re married, we’re divorced

We’re up again in the courts

We’re late for school

We’re early to rise

Walking fields

Opening the shop

Planning the wedding

We’re regretting last night’s shots

We’re at the gym and in the boozer

We don’t know why the dog’s scared of the hoover

The Us’s

We are Young Offenders

We’re Adams and Pauls

We don’t have a breeze what’s going on in the Dail

We slept with the wrong person

We wrote Bobby Sands on a toilet door

We’re caring for our parents

We’re wondering what she’s looking at me for

We’re on the guest list

We’re not getting in

We keep our few bob in a USA biscuit tin

We’ve got tea on the range

A booster seat in the Range Rover

We’re sleeping in doorways

We’re raging The Good Wife is over

The Us’s

We’re training year round

We just started yoga

We’re getting Dine in for Two

We got a class selfie at the Cliffs of Moher

The Us’s

We’re in bits cos our best pal killed himself

We’re on Tinder worrying we’ll be left on the shelf

We’re up at dawn making Christmas cake

We’re giving out about Snapchat fakes

We’re in the petrol station glancing at the papers

We’re in a wetsuit at Grand Canal Dock

We’re in Coppers wondering if there are any takers

We’re selling hats, scarves and headbands

We’re working out our Australia plans

We need to get the roof fixed

We’re on a hospital waiting list

We’re going to find out which neighbour’s dog keeps shiting outside the door

We’re at our daughter’s Holy Communion wondering what we’re crying for

We’re at a parent-teacher meeting

We bought off the plans

We’re down the canal with a bag of cans

The Us’s

We need a new laptop

We’re getting our nails done

We want Wenger out

We wish daft.ie had a comment section

We’re sick and tired of the Luas works

We had our bike nicked

The strike was on so we walked to work

The Us’s

We’re pucking sliotars

We’re buying Rihanna’s Puma slippers

We’re at the Ploughing

We’re writing code

We’ve just discovered a potato wedge roll

We’re going home locked and listening to A Woman’s Heart

We are in the change about to start

We’re rolling pinners

We’re biting quarters

We’re yer ma

Yer man

Yer wan

Your daughter

The Us’s

We’re here

On cobblestones made smooth from marching

Knowing what kind of republic we want to be

Jaded from smoking section bants and debates on TV3

And if you’re angry that’s ok

Use it

Channel it

Get your canvassing boots ready

The Us’s

The Us’s will

Do away with Direct Provision

Dismantle poverty

The Us’s know that gay marriage doesn’t matter unless it’s part of broader social change

The Us’s aren't afraid

We’ll have the barneys

And from that rubble

Build a shelter we can all stand under

The Us’s

We are The Goonies in the well

Saying this one right here, this was my dream

Know that it will come true

Don’t doubt that just a few can change the world

It’s the only thing that ever has

But it won’t just be a couple of campaigners who’ll see this through

It’s you, your mam, your dad

the Us’s

Because what you’re feeling tonight

When you look around

Is when you realise so many strangers are on your side

The Us’s

We’ll be in Dublin Castle

On another sunny day

Screaming GWAN IRELAND

GO WAN THE US’S

This is our time, tonight, today.

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spillercork · 5 years

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Candidates for the 2019 Cork North Central by-election

Due to the election of Fianna Fail’s Billy Kelleher to the European Parliament in May 2019, a by-election is due to take place for his seat in Dáil Eireann.

The expected date of the by-elections in Cork North Central, Dublin Fingal, Dublin Mid-West and Wexford is towards the end of November at the same time as an expected referendum on extending the vote for the president to Irish in Northern…

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#2019 by-Election #Aontu #By-Election #Candidates #Cork #Cork North Central #Fianna Fail #Fine Gael #Green Party #Labour #Renua #Sinn Fein #Social Democrat #Solidarity

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corkcitylibraries · 5 years

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It Seems Like Nothing Changes

Paul Cussen

August 1919

“A training camp for officers was held in Glandore in August, 1919. This camp was attended by the officers of the Barryroe Company. As far as I can recollect the camp was raided by enemy forces of Military and R.I.C. and had to be disbanded.”

- Lawrence Sexton, Courtmacsherry

Volunteer Michael Fitzgerald (a mechanic and mill worker as well as an active member of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union) having served three months for being part of the capture of Araglen RIC Barracks on Easter Sunday 1919, takes a leading part in the disarming of British soldiers at the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Fermoy.

“It seems to me that England is gaily riding to ruin, unless there is some wonderful secret policy somewhere. I can’t see where it will all end. The futility and brainlessness of all leaders in every camp. With the exception of a few clever ‘doctrinaire’ socialist people who can state a case — they seem to be devoid even of common sense. The only way for an unorganised majority is to rush them in to doing things and to tell them what to do. Everybody seems to be splitting hairs about ‘direct action’ and other phrases, while one bit of liberty after another is taken from them. Lloyd George puts off and throws sops to Cerberus and every clique in England follows suit. They would sell their own souls for a few pence.”

- Countess Markievicz in a letter from Cork Jail, 14 August 1919

Earlier she had written "I have a lovely view over the River Lee, a garden full of pinks, constant meals sent in by local friends, and at night the most beautiful moths fluttering against the bars." And writing about the support she got from local ladies in the Cumann na mBan she said, ''I got lovely roses and such heaps of strawberries and cream too. Friends are so good to me. If you want to be really appreciated in Ireland, go to jail!"

The Irish Victory Fund appeal, which had started in February at the Irish Race Convention, raised just over $1,005,080 within six months.

James Joyce begins to write “Circe” and begins to copy “Cyclops” while a production of Exiles is mounted at the Munich Schauspielhaus and quickly closes due to harsh criticism.

The mayor of Liverpool enlists 700 troops from the local garrison to combat mass looting when the police go on strike.

“Dock rats reeling like ships in a storm from drunken spite within them, and brandishing a weaponry of axes, sticks and crowbars ... a pack of wild women, hair streaming over shawled shoulders, ready to back them with their talons, grasping bricks and broken bottles ... rodents, bloody rodents every one of them.” - opinion of looters by demobbed soldier employed on police force during strike

President Wilson at a parade to honour his return from the Paris Peace Conference

Józef Piłsudski fails to overthrow the existing Lithuanian government of Prime Minister Mykolas Sleževičius, and install a pro-Polish cabinet. One hundred and seventeen people are arrested and six receive life sentences.

1 August

Dave Creedon is born near Blackpool (d. 2007)

Stanley Middleton is born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire (d. 2009)

2 August

14-17 people die in the Verona Caproni Ca.48 crash, Italy’s first aviation disaster.

3 August

Joyce writes to John Quinn that it takes him "four or five months to write a chapter" of Ulysses.

4 August

Sgt. Daniel Hayes dies of chronic bronchitis at the Central Military Hospital.

Constable Michael Murphy and Sergeant John O’Riordan are fatally shot while on patrol at Ballyvraneen, between Ennistymon and Inagh in County Clare.

The Rodin Museum opens in Paris in the Hotel Biron. It contains works by the sculptor which have been left to the state.

Béla Kun flees to Vienna after the Hungarian Soviet Republic is overthrown by the Romanian Army.

5 August

The RIC seize a letter from Michael Collins, Minister for Finance, Dáil Éireann, 6 Harcourt Street Dublin, to Terence Mac Swiney, T.D., Corcaigh Meadh (Mid Cork), regarding the arrangement for a meeting by each T.D. with the most prominent supporters of Sinn Fein in their Constituencies, with a view to forming a central committee for the entire constituency and certain local committees and the advancement of the Dáil Éireann Loan and requests ‘your loyal co-operation’.

6 August

The Denver Jewish Times reports on $5,000 donated to the Irish Victory Fund by Samuel Untermyer. This resulted in a high level of publicity in the Fund and the Irish Cause.

7 August

Charles Godefroy flies his Nieuport fighter under the arches of the Arc de Triomphe.

8 August

The Treaty of Rawalpindi is signed between Afganistan and the UK.

9 August

A secret week-long Volunteer training camp begins at Shorecliffe House, Glandore, Co. Cork for 35 battalion and company officers of the Cork No. 3 (West) Cork Brigade. The training officers are from Dublin Brigade and most lectures are given by Leo Henderson.

10 August

The Ukranian army massacres 25 Jews in Podolla. Massive pogroms are to continue until 1921.

11 August

Andrew Carnegie dies of pneumonia in Lenox, Massachusetts (b. 1835)

The Felixstowe Fury, while preparing for the 8,000 mile flight to Cape Town, side slips at low altitude and crashes. Wireless operator Lt S.E.S. McLeod drowns and the other six crew members are rescued.

The Green Bay Packers are founded and named after their sponsors, the Indian Packing Company.

12 August

Gearóid O’Sullivan (GHQ), Bernie O’Driscoll (Skibbereen), Seán Murphy (Dunmanway) and Denis O’Brien (Kilbrittain) are arrested at the training camp in Glandore which is surrounded by RIC and British military as some “incriminating documents or notes were found on them”.

http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1493.pdf

14 August

Private John Waterfall dies at the Military Hospital from appendicitis/heart attack.

15 August

Benedict Kiely is born in Dromore, County Tyrone (d. 2007)

16 August

The Glandore training camp concludes. Six IRA Volunteers remove a section of track at Farganstown. The next train, however, is not carrying British troops, it is a goods train and it crashes into a nearby field. None of the train’s crew are injured

18 August

“... the hope that an army of military force might cowe the Irish into a frame of mind compatible with the eventual acceptance of some moderate measure of devolution has plainly miscarried”

- London Times

19 August

Afghanistan declares independence from UK.

20 August

Cathal Brugha puts a motion to the Dáil which is seconded by Terence MacSwiney that an Oath of Allegiance should be taken by all members and officials of Dáil Éireann, and all Irish Volunteers. The oath contains the phrase,

I will support and defend the Irish Republic and the Government of the Irish Republic, which is Dail Eireann, against all enemies, foreign and domestic…

22 August

Irish-American, John R. Shillaty is attacked and badly beaten by a mob in broad daylight in Austin, Texas. He is Executive Secretary of the NAACP. He is escorted to the train by the mob and the sheriff

“Your secretary, John R. Shilladay, reached Austin and was received by red blooded white men. As we didn’t need any of his kind (negro-loving white men) we have sent him back home to you. We attend to our own affairs down here, and suggest that you do the same up there” - Deputy Sheriff Gene Barbisch

23 August

15 year old Francis Murphy, a Sinn Féin scout of Glan, County Clare is shot dead by British Soldiers. He dies as a result of bullet wounds received while sitting by the fire reading a book. The inquest into his death concludes that the murder was carried out by the military as revenge for the shooting of Constable Michael Murphy and Sergeant John O’Riordan at Ballyvraneen.

24 August

St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, is consecrated by the bishop of Cloyne, Robert Browne. In attendance is the primate of all Ireland, Michael Logue, the archbishop of Cashel, John Harty and the archbishop of Tuam, Thomas Gilmartin.

The Munster Final is held in Limerick’s Markets Field with the result:

Limerick 1-6 Cork 3-5

25 August

Volunteers start taking the Oath of Allegiance and using the name Irish Republican Army.

The world’s first daily international passenger air service commences when the British Aircraft Transport and Travel Company fly a deHavilland DH 16 from Hounslow Heath, London to Le Bourget airport, Paris.

26 August

Fannie Sellins (nee Mooney) witnesses guards beating Joseph Starzelski, a picketing miner from the Allegheny Coal and Coke Company, who is killed. When she intervenes, deputies shoot and kill her with four bullets then a deputy uses a cudgel to fracture her skull.

28 August

The amount of the national loan issued reaches £250,000.

30-31 August

The Knoxville, Tennessee race riot begins after Maurice Mays (pictured above) is arrested for the murder of Mrs. Bertie Lindsey. A 5,000 strong mob storm the county jail and free 16 white prisoners. They also attack the African-American business district, where they fight against the district's black business owners, leaving at least seven dead and wounding more than 20 people.

An all-white jury takes 18 minutes to find Mr. Mays guilty of Mrs. Lindsey's death. He dies at age 35 in the electric chair in 1922, declaring his innocence to his dying breath.

31 August

Amrita Pritam is born in Gujranwala, Punjab (d. 2005)

The White Army capture Kiev and the Russian tricolor is placed next to the Ukrainian flag already posted on the Duma.

The Ukranian Army kills 35 Jewish defense group members.

#world history #irish history #history to blame #Cork City Libraries

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stairnaheireann · 3 months

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#OTD in 1868 – Birth of Irish patriot and revolutionary, Countess Constance Markievicz, née Gore-Booth in London.

Countess Markievicz, born Constance Georgine Gore Booth, politician, revolutionary, tireless worker with the poor and dispossessed, was a remarkable woman. Born into great wealth and privilege, she lived at Lissadell House in Co Sligo. She is most famous for her leadership role in the 1916 Easter Rising and the subsequent revolutionary struggle for freedom in Ireland. Born in 1868, Constance was…

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seachranaidhe · 5 years

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#OTD in 1919 – Third meeting of Dáil Éireann – Éamon de Valera was elected President of Dáil Éireann (or Príomh Aire) and appointed a cabinet. – Stair na hÉireann/History of Ireland

https://stairnaheireann.net/2019/04/01/otd-in-1919-third-meeting-of-dail-eireann-eamon-de-valera-was-elected-president-of-dail-eireann-or-priomh-aire-and-appointed-a-cabinet-2/

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windwatch · 5 years

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#IRL ‘No to Derryadd Windfarm’ group takes cause to Dáil Eireann

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christinaepilzauthor-blog · 7 years

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John Boyle O'Reilly - Irish Patriot, American Journalist, Poet

by Arthur Russell

"The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide.

The world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side." These lines were quoted by United States President John F. Kennedy in his address to the Irish Parliament (Dáil Eireann), during his visit to Ireland in June 1963. The lines describe the heartache and trauma of Irish emigration which had become an enduring feature of life in Ireland arising from mid nineteenth century social upheavals caused by chronic famine coupled with serious agrarian disturbance.

The President was quoting from one of his favourite writers, John Boyle O'Reilly, who as editor of the paper "The Pilot" and a prolific writer and lecturer, was a dominant and well regarded commentator on the Boston scene during the last decades of the 19th century. Who was John Boyle O'Reilly? He was born in Ireland in June 1844, in Netterville House in Dowth, County Meath near the town of Drogheda; within sight of the 5000 year-old Megalithic tomb complex of Newgrange and its sister site of Knowth in the River Boyne valley. Both of his parents, William David O'Reilly and Eliza Boyle; were school teachers and ardent Irish Nationalists, features that contributed to O'Reilly's love of reading about all things Irish as well as his gift for writing. When he was 15, he went to live with his uncle and aunt in Preston in Lancashire where he worked as a young reporter with a local newspaper. While here he joined the 11th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers. He returned to Ireland in 1863, and enlisted in the 10th Hussars. As a fresh recruit, he became disillusioned by the Imperial authorities treatment of the native Irish population which caused him to encourage 80 fellow soldiers to join the newly formed Irish Republican Brotherhood, which became commonly known as "the Fenians". In the aftermath of an abortive insurrection in 1866, O'Reilly, along with many other Fenian activists were arrested. He was sentenced to be executed, but due to his relative youth (aged 22 years) this was commuted to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour. A year and a half was served in English prisons from which he made several unsuccessful attempts to escape which earned him long periods of solitary confinement before he was transported to serve the remainder of his term in a penal colony in Australia. He had the distinction of being a member of the last group of transportees to be sent to Australia. This was on board the ship Hougoumont where he and a number of fellow Fenian prisoners produced a handwritten newspaper called The Wild Goose which included poems and stories drawn from the experiences of his fellow convicts on board. Seven editions of The Wild Goose were produced, one set of which survives in the State Library of New South Wales.

Convict life in Western Australia

On arrival in Australia he was assigned to a convict camp in the town of Bunbury in Western Australia in 1868. Within a year, and with the help and encouragement of the local Catholic priest, Father Patrick McCabe and some farmers from the nearby town of Dardanup, O'Reilly determined to escape from Australia. Following a prearranged plan, he and a fellow Fenian prisoner absconded from the convict camp and made their way to the Leshenault Peninsula where they had to wait for two weeks before being picked up by the American ship Gazelle which brought him from Australia. After a long voyage with several stops where he was in constant danger of being rearrested, he arrived in Boston in November 1869. Arrival in Boston Here, O'Reilly became involved with the burgeoning Irish American community, including its civil rights and sporting activities. Due to his considerable writing skills, he became part owner of the Pilot newspaper and began serious writing. His first book of poetry "Songs from the Southern Seas" was published in 1873. During the following decade, there were other poetry collections; Songs, Legends and Ballads (1878), The Statues in the Block (1881), In Bohemia (1886). In 1879 he published a novel Moondyne in 1879 based on his convict experiences in Australia, which was very popular among Irish Americans. His final collection of poems, Watchwords was published after his death in 1890. O'Reilly's life in Boston O'Reilly's first newspaper assignment was to cover the Fenian Convention in Boston in 1870, and the abortive Fenian led invasion of British ruled Canada, the most significant action of which was the Battle of Ridgeway in 1866 where the Irish Americans were repulsed by the Canadians. Overall, the military venture into Canada was a total disaster and was responsible for O'Reilly changing his views on Fenian militarism as a means for achieving political ends in either Canada or his native Ireland. Instead he saw the need to raise the status and self esteem of his fellow Irish immigrants to America as a better way to improve their lot in their adopted land, as well as progresslng the eventual achievement of independence back in his native Ireland through political rather than physical force methods. He established his home in the Charlestown neighbourhood where he brought his bride, Mary Murphy in August 1872. Mary was also a journalist who worked for another Boston publication, The Young Crusader, under the name Agnes Smiley. The couple had 4 daughters, the second of which, Agnes O'Reilly, helped with her husband William Ernest Hocking, to establish the mixed gender Shady Hill School near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which still operates. (The school actually began in 1915 with the support of a group of families, as a "back porch" school in the Hocking household until student numbers outgrew this location).

The Catalpa Rescue

In 1875, O'Reilly was approached by the leader of the major Irish nationalist organisation in the United States, John Devoy; to advise on the rescue of six Fenian leaders still imprisoned in Australia. This plan had significant support from the Irish American community and funds were forthcoming to purchase a whaling ship called the Catalpa and its crew for the venture. The result was the successful Catalpa Rescue which saw the six prisoners being picked up just outside Australian waters after dodging naval patrols that had been alerted about the escape. The fact that Catalpa was flying the flag of the United States in international waters prevented the Australian authorities from forcibly boarding the ship. O'Reilly as editor of the Pilot, was first to break the news of the escape in June 1876, which caused much celebration in United States and Ireland; extreme anger in Britain and Australia. The escape is celebrated by an impressive memorial in Rockingham, Western Australia which features 6 flying geese which draws on the tradition of Irish soldiers leaving Ireland to join Continental armies after the War of the 2 Kings which saw Protestant King William replace Catholic King James on the English throne. These and succeeding generations of departing Jacobite Irish soldiers came to be called the Wild Geese. This recalled the Wild Goose name also applied by O'Reilly and his Fenian prisoner comrades to their publication on board the Hougoumont transporting them to Australia. The Social activist Through the medium of The Pilot newspaper O'Reilly articulated his support for the establishment of the rights of the emancipated slaves emerging from the American Civil war. His immediate focus was a recent U.S. Supreme Court as well as the campaigning of one Henry Grady who advocated what he termed establishing "The New South" which would keep the black population in a second class role in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's ruling which declared the 1875 Civil Rights Act unconstitutional.

'Never did oratory cover up the weaker points of a repulsive cause so well' The Pilot printed a series of articles disputing the claims advanced by Grady that highlighted the realities of southern life. The massacre by a white mob of 8 black men in South Carolina in December 1889 prompted the following editorial from O'Reilly. To some extent, it reflects his undimmed Irish Nationalism, along with inevitable opposition against the "Anglo Saxon"; at the same time encouraging opposition "by law first and by manly force in extremity." The black race in the South must face the inevitable, soon or late, and the inevitable is - DEFEND YOURSELF. If they shrink from this, they will be trampled on with yearly increasing cruelty until they have sunk back from the great height of American freedom to which the war-wave carried them. And in the end, even submission will not save them. On this continent there is going to be no more slavery. That is settled forever. Not even voluntary slavery will be tolerated. Therefore, unless the Southern blacks learn to defend their homes, women, and lives, by law first and by manly force in extremity, they will be exterminated like the Tasmanian and Australian blacks. No other race has ever obtained fair play from the Anglo-Saxon without fighting for it, or being ready to fight. The Southern blacks should make no mistake about the issue of the struggle they are in. They are fighting for the existence of their race; and they cannot fight the Anglo-Saxon by lying down under his feet. This editorial roused considerable criticism across the country to which the Pilot faithfully published and responded. Replying to the St. Louis newspaper Church Progress that: 'It is neither Catholic nor American to rouse the negroes of the South to open and futile rebellion' O'Reilly wrote: 'True, and the Pilot has not done so. We have appealed only to the great Catholic and American principle of resisting wrong and outrage, of protecting life and home and the honour of families by all lawful means, even the extremest, when nothing else remains to be tried.' His anti-racist views as well as his support for minorities suffering from various forms of discrimination made him a much sought after speaker promoting better race and inter-ethnic relations across the country. By contrast, O'Reilly's views of Women's suffrage remained consistently "conservative" based on sincerely held views that society and civilisation was ultimately under pinned by violence. He contended that Society was a blend of competing interests each of which was backed by men willing and able to fight for what they believed. In this scenario, O'Reilly saw women's lack of physical strength in protecting their own interests as reason not to extend the franchise. "A vote, like a law is no good unless there is an arm behind it; it cannot be enforced. This is a shameful truth, perhaps, but it is true".

"We want no contest with women; they are higher, truer, nobler, smaller, meaner, more faithful, more frail, gentler, more envious, less philosophic, more merciful - oh, far more merciful and kind and lovable and good than men are. Those of them that are Catholics, are better Catholics than their husbands and sons; those who are Protestants are better Christians than theirs. Women have all the necessary qualities to make good men; but they must give their time and attention to it while the men are boys."He had well defined views on the role of newspapers and journalists in keeping society on the straight and narrow. Journalism should be much much more than "muckraking and manufactured outrage", their role being to explain the world to readers honestly and clearly. Surely this is a current theme in an age of so-called "fake news" (real and/or alleged)? O'Reilly's published writings

His published writings were well received to the extent that he was often commissioned to write commemorative pieces for special events. Some of his works are still highly regarded.

Possibly his best known poem is "The Cry of the Dreamer", which shows his love for Ireland and his memories of boyhood days in the rural countryside near the River Boyne in Ireland which he would never see again; ("the dear old river, where I dreamed my youth away"). It also articulates his tedium with "heart weary building and spoiling, and spoiling and building again"; which was part and parcel of his new life in Boston; as well as his awareness of his adopted city's ("crowded hives of men") social inequalities. ("no pride but pity for the burdens the rich endure" as against "nothing sweet in the city but the patient lives of the poor"). The poor of the cities, the black population struggling to find their way to true freedom, the native Indian being driven from their ancestral lands as well as the many ethnic groups, including his own Irish immigrants trying to make their way in a new land all feature in O'Reilly's writings.

I am tired of planning and toiling In the crowded hives of men; Heart-weary of building and spoiling, And spoiling and building again. And I long for the dear old river, Where I dreamed my youth away; For a dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day. I am sick of the showy seeming Of a life that is half a lie; Of the faces lined with scheming In the throng that hurries by. From the sleepless thoughts' endeavour, I would go where the children play; For a dreamer lives forever, And a thinker dies in a day. I can feel no pride, but pity For the burdens the rich endure; There is nothing sweet in the city But the patient lives of the poor. Oh, the little hands too skillful, And the child-mind choked with weeds! The daughter's heart grown willful, And the father's heart that bleeds! No, no! from the street's rude bustle, From the trophies of mart and stage, I would fly to the woods' low rustle And the meadows' kindly page. Let me dream as of old by the river, And be loved for the dream alway; For a dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day. Among his more popular lines are the piece "A White Rose", often quoted at many wedding celebrations wherever English is spoken, demonstrate a romantic side of this talented writer. A White Rose

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. But I send you a cream-white rosebud With a flush on its petal tips; For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips Death and aftermath O'Reilly suffered from bouts of insomnia and on one of these took medicine containing chloral hydrate used by his wife to help him sleep. His wife Mary found him unconscious sitting at a table with one hand resting beside a book, and the other holding a cigar. All attempts to revive him failed and he died at 5 pm on August 10th 1890 in his 46th year. Public announcements attributed the death to heart failure, while the official record shows accidental poisoning. His funeral was attended by thousands of mourners. Five of his Fenian comrades who had found a haven in United States were his coffin bearers to Calvary Cemetery in Roxbury. Later in the year his remains were exhumed and removed to Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline. Immediately after his death, there was widespread outpouring of tributes to O'Reilly led by President Grover Cleveland who wrote "I have heard with sincere regret that John Boyle O'Reilly is dead. I regarded him as a strong and able man, entirely devoted to any cause he espoused, unselfish in his activity, true and warm in his friendship, and patriotic Massachusetts Senator George Frisby Hoar wrote to Mary O'Reilly "Accept my profound sympathy in your great loss and the great public loss. Your husband combined, as no other man, some of the noblest qualities of the Irishman and the American."

Six years later (June 1896), a multi-figure bronze sculpture made by Daniel Chester French of O'Reilly was unveiled on the Fenway, Boston, at which President Cleveland spoke. Perhaps the strongest endorsement of O'Reilly and what he stood for was from his Pilot newspaper colleague James Jeffrey Roche who published his biography. "O'Reilly defended the oppressed negroes, as he had defended the oppressed Indians, as sincerely and zealously as he had all his life defended the oppressed of his own race. It was morally impossible for him to do otherwise."

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Arthur Russell is the author of Morgallion, a novel set in medieval Ireland during the Invasion of Ireland in 1314 by the Scottish army led by Edward deBruce, the last crowned King of Ireland. It tells the story of Cormac MacLochlainn, a young man from the Gaelic crannóg community of Moynagh and how he and his family endured and survived that turbulent period of history. Morgallion was awarded the indieBRAG Medallion.

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organisationskoval · 1 year

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156) National Socialist Irish Workers Party (Narodowo-Socjalistyczna Irlandzka Partia Robotnicza; NSIWP) - niewielka partia neonazistowska w Republice Irlandii, założoną w 1968 roku. NSIWP została założona w 1968 roku przez Terence'a Allana-Byrne'a w Irishtown w Dublinie. Wśród jego członków był Jos Mussche, były członek holenderskiego SS. Jego biuletyn nosił nazwę Phoenix. Partia miała bliskie powiązania z National Socialist British Workers Party i była powiązana ze World Union of National Socialists. W 1979 roku Byrne miał wyrytą na piersi swastykę; odmówił leczenia indyjskiemu lekarzowi i został skierowany do innego szpitala, gdzie inny lekarz odmówił leczenia i „zwrócił uwagę, że rany, które otrzymał, kosztują podatników dużo pieniędzy”. NSIWP miała tylko garstkę członków i nigdy nie kwestionowała żadnych wyborów; było to jednak ważne w produkcji nazistowskich akcesoriów dla ruchu europejskiego i brytyjskiego, ponieważ w przeciwieństwie do większości krajów europejskich, Republika Irlandii nie miała prawa takiego jak brytyjskie ustawy o stosunkach rasowych, które zabraniałyby produkcji lub sprzedaży materiałów neonazistowskich. Wysłali także listy z pogróżkami do irlandzkich Żydów i Czarnych mieszkających w Irlandii. Tomás Mac Giolla (Workers Party, partia socjalistyczna), Tony Gregory (niezależny lewicowy TD) i Alan Shatter (żydowski TD z Fine Gael) podnieśli tę sprawę w Dáil Eireann w 1985 r.; zakaz podżegania do nienawiści, Prohibition of Incitement To Hatred Act, 1989 zakazała produkcji takich przedmiotów. Republikańscy socjaliści i inni antyfaszyści od czasu do czasu walczyli z członkami NSIPR. "Commander" Byrne zmarł na początku lat 80., a partia przestała istnieć pod koniec lat 80. Colm Tarrant, sekretarz NSIWP, później pracował w Irish–Arab Society, organizacji antyizraelskiej.

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oldcurrencyexchange · 4 years

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Irish Coin Daily: Ireland Special €2 commemorative (Centenary of the 1st Dáil Éireann) 2019

Date: 2019

2019 Ireland – Special €2 commemorative coin (Centenary of the 1st Dáil Éireann)

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2019 Ireland – Special €2 commemorative coin (Centenary of the 1st Dáil Éireann). Apart from the Europe-wide coins that all states issue, this is only the second special commemorative €2 coin Ireland has issued on its own since 2002 – the previous one being the 2016 Easter Rising…

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fragmentdesigns · 7 years

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So yesterday was international womens day and I didn't say anything. I will admit it was mostly because I was busy and kept meaning to get around to it, but it was also because I hate that we still have a day. Just like I hate that @sara.pascoe is a female comic not just a comic and @sharonhorgan gets referred to as a female writer not a writer, and I'm a female small business owner not a small business owner and on and on. By putting our gender in front of our job/accomplishment feels like either our gender is more important; get back to making babies, or we can't really compete against the men so awh look at the cute little female whatever. And if it doesn't involve genitals we're able to do everything a man can, and while men might be able to pee standing up but we can grow a baby so nananana....I'm ranting now I'll rein it in! So I'm treating everyday as womens day! And I'm intending to post every so often about amazing inspirational women, there's plenty out there! First up this picture is of a print I bought from @jam_art_factory back in #Dublin a few weeks ago, its Countess Markievicz one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, although she didn't take her seat in protest, and the second woman in the world to hold a cabinet position in the first Dáil Eireann. And I just love the quote “Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.” #iwd #internationalwomensday #easterrising #countessmarkievicz #feminism #trailblazer http://ift.tt/2m2jYZX

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coldrealitycampaigns · 7 years

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Some Good News: We are all crew on this voyage

Greenpeace ship Esperanza on her route towards Antarctica in a Force 10 storm.

About a month ago, Deutsche Welle journalist Irene Quaile AKA Iceblogger wrote, in a piece titled Some Arctic good news – not #fakenews!

“With the environment and climate under constant fire from the actions of President Trump, it is great to end the week with a little piece of good news”.

“One thing that made me smile was the announcement that the famous cruise ship operator Hurtigruten had signed the Arctic Commitment, calling for a ban on the use of marine heavy fuel oil (HFO) in the Arctic.”

“So let’s go into the weekend with a round of applause for the tireless campaigners for a clean Arctic. It is hard for an environment journalist to be optimistic in these difficult times. But every little helps. And winning over the cruise ship industry which so many people associate with holiday expeditions into remote areas with intact nature and spectacular wildlife would be a great way to get a wider public “on board” for the voyage to protecting the icy regions of our warming planet.”

We’re about to enter another weekend, when tired campaigners for human rights, civil rights, animal rights, and the environment try to sleep a bit later than usual. Unless they have small kids. But while they try to rest, the nihilistic free market economics machine rumbles machine, and its detrimental impact upon the world continues. The current chapter of the Dakota pipeline protest is closing, but this could be the start of something remarkable, not the end. The New York Times tell us that President Trump is taking aim at the environment and all manner of scary stuff being predicted for the North Atlantic. So on a Friday afternoon I find myself harking back to Irene’s comments.

As someone who works as a communications advisor to environmental campaigns, I like to tell myself that I’m not just a “PR guy” peddling #AlternativeFacts. I work to promote and protect a brand, and that brand is Planet Earth.

One of the organisations I work with, the Clean Arctic Alliance, is campaigning to get heavy fuel oil out of Arctic shipping. Last month, in Tromsø, Norway, we launched the Arctic Commitment, calling on the international community to sign up, and thereby contribute to protecting Arctic communities and ecosystems from the risks posed by the use of HFO. Read more: This is How You Make an Arctic Commitment.

By burning HFO, ships sailing in the Arctic – and anywhere else – harmful emissions of air pollutants, including sulphur oxide, nitrogen oxide, particulate matter, and black carbon. When emissions from HFO are deposited on Arctic snow or ice, the climate warming effect from the black carbon is at least three times more than when emitted over open ocean – leading to even more accelerated melt. So, it’s crucial that the global shipping industry start shifting away towards a fossil fuel free future – something that may be hastened by last week’s EU vote to include the shipping industry in Europe’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

There’s more. Next week, the European Parliament will is expected to pass its Arctic resolution, a broad document that, amongst other things, includes a recommendation to a ban on heavy fuel oil from the Arctic. In July, we’re expecting member countries of the International Maritime Organization to start the ball rolling on eventual ban, thanks to unprecedented interest in the issue.

Another recent piece of good news – widely reported, then swept away by all the bad news was a story from my homeland, Ireland. A bill introduced by member of parliament (TD) Thomas Pringle for Ireland to divest from fossil fuels to the Dáil Eireann, the Irish parliament, passed 90 to 53 votes. This means that’s the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund will no longer invest in any fossil fuel related activity. Ireland is the first country to take such a bold move. Even the apparently squeaky clean Norway, which has been divesting like crazy from its mammoth sovereign pension fund, is still up its elbows in generating revenue directly from the sales of oil.

To be, this Mr Pringle’s achievement is historic and incredible. Ireland has been lagging behind on its climate change obligations for some time, overplaying the “sure we’re only small what difference do we make” card, along with the agricultural version of Norway’s Arctic oil card “Our beef industry has relatively low climate impact, so if we stop doing it, someone else will replace us and be more carbon intensive”. My hope is that this helps change the narrative for Ireland, and instead of being a heavy per capita user of carbon-based fuels, that we take a cultural leap of faith, and use our punch-above-our-weight influence to good for the global climate. Nice move, Ireland, now do better.

After reading Irene’s blog, and the news from Ireland, I read Naomi Klein’s article for The Nation, Trump’s Crony Cabinet May Look Strong, but They Are Scared. Klein points out that the likes of Exxon’s Tillerson on Trump’s staff of evidence of a desperate fossil fuel industry in its death throws. In fact, I believe that they are so scared that this is how they’ve fought their way – capitalising on the complacency of others – into the Oval Office.

“And no one has more reason to fear ascendant social movements than Tillerson. Because of the rising power of the global climate movement, Exxon is under fire on every front. Pipelines carrying its oil are being blocked not just in the United States but around the world. Divestment campaigns are spreading like wildfire, causing market uncertainty. And over the past year, Exxon’s various deceptions came under investigation by the SEC and multiple state attorneys general. Make no mistake: The threat to Exxon posed by climate action is existential. The temperature targets in the Paris climate deal are wholly incompatible with burning the carbon companies like Exxon have in their reserves, the source of their market valuation. That’s why Exxon’s own shareholders were asking increasingly tough questions about whether they were on the verge of being stuck with a whole bunch of useless assets.”

As that weekend passed, climate-change denier and Trump advisor Myron Ebell, inadvertently endorse Klein, when he declared that the green movement was the ‘greatest threat to freedom’.

What Ebell meant, of course was that the actions of those wish to protect the planet are a great threat to his personal freedom to do whatever the fuck he wants, even if that means screwing up the planet for the sake of the paltry dollars he would like to accumulate (by way of Exxon) before he pops his clogs, like all of these rich stupid old white men. Ya can’t take it with ya, Myron.

Of course Exxon is desperate to drill. That’s why, back in December, the new US secretary of state AND Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson declared that Exxon will head back to the Arctic once Russia sanctions are lifted.

Maybe there’s some light showing through in the dark. It’s been impressive to see the mass mobilisations and protests against Trump in the US, and the bulwarks of the rule of law pushing back at his every move. In Europe, we need to wake up, and maybe we’re starting to. In France, it looks like politicians of reasonable, but different shades are cooperating to ensure that the appalling Marine Le Pen gets defeated in the forthcoming presidential elections. A Le Pen win in France, would be bad news for a post Brexit-EU, and the knock on environmental effects are at best unclear right now.

The reason these oil drillers and right wingers and climate deniers are manipulating and lying, twisting the truth and attacking is that they don’t care about you. They care about what they care about, and what they care about is preserving an idea of world order that either never existed, or if aspects of it ever did then they are way past their sell by date. They think that they can afford to cling to these shreds of nonsense and get away with it, and that be setting us against one another, they can distract us so that they can pursue their ridiculous zero sum game.

We can’t afford to humour them. We should abandon them their dangerous populist fantasies, and work together, as pluralists, to at least agree that we have a hell of a lot of work to do, and that we need to work together, as countless people do already worldwide to strive for a better, safer, cleaner society. In her blog, Irene talking is about getting “a wider public ‘on board’ for the voyage”. As environmentalists, activists, politicians, teachers, journalists , parents, friends, that’s what we need to do. As Marshall McLuhan wrote,

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

You can follow Irene on Twitter at @iceblogger

Some Good News: We are all crew on this voyage was originally published on Dave Walsh

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