“REMEMBER THE MAINE” was the slogan used as a pretext for the seizure of Cuba, Puerto Rico
and the “Philippines” from the weakening Spanish Empire by the United States.
An American warship blew up in Havana and Spain was the presumed culprit. It is now believed it was a spontaneous eruption, an accident with no felonious intent.
Amongst the American servicemen killed were three with Irish names.
“Kelly and Burke and Shea” were invoked to recruit Irishmen for Uncle Sam’s establishment of an Empire which would, within a century eclipse those of Spain and Britain.
Michael Collins used recite the swaggering celebration of Irish bellicosity “Kelly and Burke and Shea” for his party piece.
His brave life ended, when he was taken for a fool by Lloyd George, and bullied into using British
artillery against his former friends and comrades by Churchill.
The fascistic Blue Shirts who claimed his inspiration, issued election posters mocking Fianna Fail’s
Eamon de Valera and Sean Lemass for having non-Irish surnames. And the Jesuit educated political
Editor of the Irish Times, Stephen Collins endorses such ignorant xenophobic and unethical behaviour.
Finbarr Cafferkey, an Irish citizen with an Irish Surname, has died in Ukraine, apparently fighting
Russians. Micheal Martin, the leader of Fianna Fail and successor of de Valera and Sean Lemass,
appears to know nothing of those men nor their rational and ethical and largely successful policies.
He is the spiritual heir of John Redmond, classified by Roger Casement as a liar, and an accomplice
of the crime against Europe.
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