It must take little to upset him. It took a murderous attack on the Crimean Bridge celebrated by the Ukraine Junta and its NATO sponsors with a recording of Marilyn Monroe’s greeting to JFK’s on the latter’s birthday on President Putin on HIS 70th Birthday, to provoke the latter to remove one of the […]
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MUSINGS ON LEADERS OF THE “CIVIL WAR” – by Donal Kennedy
On 21st January 1919 the Inaugural Meeting of Dail Eireann had a small attendance. Every candidate elected in Ireland the month before was invited. The 26 Unionists and the 6 “Nationalists” elected boycotted the National Parliament and 37 of the 73 Republicans were in British jails- many accused of a “German” plot which might […]
DAIL EIREANN NEVER RATIFIED NOR DID IT APROVE THE ARTICLES FOR AGREEMENT SIGNED IN LONDON – by Donal Kennedy
TREATIES ARE AGREED BETWEEN STATES WHICH RECOGNISE EACH OTHER. THERE WAS NO TREATY SIGNED IN LONDON BY THE DEMOCRATICALLY ESTABLISHED AND FUNCTIONING IRISH REPUBLIC AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WHICH WAS USURPING POWER IN IRELAND. Dail Eireann acquiesced by a small majority in its acceptance. It was seen as a Mafia-type offer which the delegates […]
GARRET FITZGERALD’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY “ALL IN A LIFE” – by Donal Kennedy
Its near 700 pages are very interesting, and I’d recommend them to patients, pensioners and prisoners spared the distractions of parenthood or work. Garret was a brilliant man, and the success of Aer Lingus over some decades was largely his doing. He was also an educator teaching statistics in Rathmines Tech and Economics in […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE NEW BRIT PM, O’CONNELL STREET, MICHEÅL MARTIN AND A HAPPY BIRTHDAY…
And so we say farewell to B Johnson, as he fades into the background again. The man of the moment is Rishi Sunak, who, we are told, will calm the markets. Will that be enough? Are there Tories who simply hate him? And what of Micheál Martin? I say he’s moving out of the Taoiseach […]
THE GENERAL ELECTION VICTORY OF SINN FEIN IN IRELAND IN 1918 by Donal Kennedy
In or about December 2008 I wrote the following* which was published in various fringe papers – “On January 28 1919, exactly one week after the first meeting of Dail Eireann, a young man remarked in his diary – ‘Just one thing occurs to me to mention before I put this […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT THE PM DOGFIGHT, AN ELECTION CALL HERE, S BANNON & D TRUMP,AND SINN FÉIN & LIBEL
For those of us who like to pick through the entrails of politics, the past week has been….marvellous. Boris the prince coming over the water to the rescue, Penny, beautiful and named after a battleship, Rishi with his non-dom wife and LOADSAMONEY. Remember these days, folks. We may not see their like again.. Meanwhile, back […]
FURTHER TO “CELEBRATING AN IRISH INDEPENDENCE DAY ” By Donal Kennedy
I might explain that I passed it for re-publication because Micheal Martin is proposing the erection of a statue of Michael Collins in Dublin. Cromwell sought to be painted warts and all. Collins won the hearts of the nation during the war of independence. In the last months of his life […]
CELEBRATING AN IRISH INDEPENDENCE DAY? by Donal Kennedy
Published in HISTORY IRELAND July/August Edition 2018 If Ireland is to celebrate an Independence Day, as advocated by Dennis Kennedy (May/June Issue) it should be on December 14th because on that day in 1918 her voters, quietly and peaceably in the polling booths, determined that Ireland should be a sovereign and independent state. The […]
ABC WELCOMES EXIT OF PRIME MINISTER TRUSS; NEW PM MUST ADDRESS IRISH ISSUES
AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE 1919 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 1724 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 John M. Corcoran Esq, Chairman Michael J. Cummings, Secretary October 20 NYC, Washington D. C., & Philadelphia “We welcome the resignation of the Thatcher- wannabe Prime Minister Liz Truss” stated Chairman John Corcoran. “Her principal Irish policies of tearing up the […]
