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Celtic Mythology | Five Sacred Guardian Trees of Ireland

Tree lore is a suspected ancient school of knowledge with roots stretching back into our earliest symbolic imaginations. The Tree is a common universal, archetypal symbol that can be found in many different traditions around the ancient world. Trees are symbols of physical and spiritual nourishment, transformation and liberation, sustenance, spiritual growth, union and fertility. The Guardians of…

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Derry, Northern Ireland, young girl on rollerskates gravely regards British soldier, «Battle of the Bogside» 12–14 August, 1969

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A sad and highly emotive article published in the paper “An Phoblacht” May 30th 1981.  Patsy was a relentless socialist who gave his life fighting for both a socialist republic and also the demands of the Hunger Strikers. In the right side of the paper we have the last photographs that were taken of Patsy before his death. We can see that the British Govt. had let these men live in states of despair, pain and isolation in order to uphold and suppress growing resistance within Socialist Republican communities. Patsy O’Hara, his last words to his mother Peggy. “Please Mammy let the fight go on!” Peggy right  up until her death in 2015, carried on the message of her son Patsy and has been a strong resilient  voice of socialism in Ireland, even standing against Sinn Fein in the 2007 elections as a protest to their support for British devolution and support for the RUC/PSNI.

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#OTD in 1689 – Siege of Derry began.

In 1685, the Roman Catholic James II came to the throne of England. His agent Richard Talbot, earl of Tyrconnell, started to dismiss Protestant officers from the army in Ireland, replacing them with Roman Catholics. For English Protestants, the last straw came when the birth of a son to his second wife meant that his Protestant daughter Mary would not succeed to the throne. In the summer of 1688,…

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#OTD in 1613 – A charter incorporates Derry as the city of ‘Londonderry’ and creates the new county of ‘Londonderry’.

Despite the official name, the city is more usually known as simply Derry, which is an anglicisation of the old Irish Daire, which in modern Irish is spelt Doire, and translates as ‘oak-grove/oak-wood’. The name derives from the settlement’s earliest references, Daire Calgaich (‘oak-grove of Calgach’). The name was changed from Derry in 1613 during the Plantation of Ulster to reflect the…

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