#old ira

[khaperai]

The old IRA, County Roscommon, 1966

[lexjaq]

I just found out today that my great grandad was pro old ira or part of the old ira and I just find it pretty ironic that less that 100 years after my Irish mum has had 3 kids with an English man.

[seachranaidhe]

Comdt. Vincent Byrne II Bn, Dublin Brigade, Old IRA.

Comdt. Vincent Byrne II Bn, Dublin Brigade, Old IRA. Vincent (Vinny) Byrne Joined the Irish volunteers in 1915 at the age of 14. He fought in E Company, 2nd Battalion during the 1916 Easter Rising at Jacobs Biscuit Factory on Bishop Street, Dublin seeing for the first time a man killed by gunfire. At one point armed with a .22 rifle the 14 year old Byrne held 2 policemen prisoner. He fought here…

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[brianjohnspencer]

The Old IRA react to the Provisional IRA "I'm not going to criticise men who are fighting..." - Martin Walton "I don't agree with the tactics... I don't agree with them. Too many innocent people getting knocked out." - Matt Flood "I cannot stand it. I have no sympathy with it in any shape or form." - R. McCorley "They should never have been allowed to call themselves IRA men at all..." Vinny Byrne "They are preventing the ultimate Union of the Irish people... Hearts and minds... We have two traditions and they must be welded..." - Sean MacEntree Watch in full here: http://youtu.be/PBv1xB-r-EY

[1tric]

Lest we forget?

What happened when an old English soldier and an ex IRA man had to share a hospital ward?

Can you imagine an 80 year old ex English soldier sleeping next to an ex IRA soldier also in his 80s? Well in the ward I worked on back in the late 1980s, this is exactly what happened. Initially they arrived on the same day, two elderly gentlemen, coming in to have the same surgery. I settled them into their beds, and introduced them to each other. However I was young, and even though I was well…

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[brianjohnspencer]

Ed Moloney (@edmoloney48) - Being censored by the Irish Times

He wrote: "[The Workers Party (Old IRA) saying it had disbanded] was the 1980’s equivalent of Gerry Adams’ ‘I was never in the IRA’ lie of the post-1998 era, and being the sort of journalist I am, when a lie is so outrageous it becomes offensive and so big it cannot be ignored, then I think it is our duty as reporters to expose it. And so, along with a few souls like Vincent Browne, I set out as often as I could to demonstrate precisely why and how it was a lie (incidentally those who accuse me of being obsessed with Adams used to say, in exactly the same way, that I was obsessed with the Sticks. What they miss in both instances is that a) it has nothing to do with the person or people involved and b) is all to do with the scale of the lie and rage at the fact that so many in the media happily ignore it). So, I composed a Northern Notebook in two parts. The first dealt with the WP’s political rise and the second with the Official IRA. The Notebook was usually written on a Thursday morning and the cartoon designed the same afternoon in liaison with Rowel Friers, then dispatched on the Thursday night for Saturday’s paper. Come that Saturday I picked up the Irish Times and there was the part of the Notebook dealing with the electoral rise of the Workers Party. But of the Official IRA there was no sign. It had been disappeared, just like one of those old photos which airbrush Trotsky out of scenes that have Lenin, Stalin and other comrades celebrating the latest revolutionary exploit in early Soviet Russia. I never did get an adequate explanation why the Irish Times chose to remove half the Northern Notebook nor who was responsible – and needless to say the paper’s readers were told nothing of this. At the time however the WP’s influence in D’Olier Street was considerable and I suspect their sympathisers had a hand in this episode and in the threat to sack me over my coverage of the Assembly election later that year." In full here: http://thebrokenelbow.com/2014/04/20/the-irish-times-censors-its-cartoonist/

[politically-incorrect-blog]

The Anglo Irish War.