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Dublin's original 1916 Tour, founded by Revolutionary Ireland Podcast host Lorcan Collins in 1996. T-shirts, books etc
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800 years, stolen land, Cromwellian massacres, 30,000 killed in 1798, Catholics denied rights, a million and a half starved in 19th Century, millions emigrated, 16 Executions, Black n Tans, divided country, B Specials, Bloody Sunday, but yeah tell us again why we should apologise
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Patrick who held this sign up through the match. Then Hero James McClean walked over and gave him his jersey!
#JamesMcClean
#COYBIG
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12 Noon, 24 April 1916, one hundred and six years ago.
Remembering those brave men and women of the Easter Rising.
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St Andrews Church beside Molly Malone statue, boarded up. Varadkar killed this buzzing centre of tourism when he closed it down (as Minister of Tourism). We should reopen it as a central tourist office again. Absolute shame to see it like this.
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The man himself, Mick Lynch, with my James Connolly book. And note a copy of
@3CastlesBurning
in his left hand.
See for a copy ✊
#JamesConnolly
#WorkersRepublic
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Roger Casement, the man who exposed the horrors of the rubber industry in the Congo. Arrested Good Friday, on this day, after landing on Banna Strand from U19, having organised a shipment of 20,000 rifles on board the Aud. What a man, a great Fenian, a great revolutionary!
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No apology needed ladies, it’s a great achievement to get to the World Cup and it’s a damn catchy tune! 🙌🇮🇪👏
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My Da, Dermot Collins has passed. A proud Harolds Cross man, a gifted plumber, FCA soldier, a great man for the drink and the funniest fella I ever knew. A happy release in the end.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hAnam.
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“And why shouldn't an Irishman be mad; when he grows up face to face with the plunderers of his land and race, and sees them looking down upon him as if he were a mere thing of loathing and contempt!”
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, 1 August 1915.
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Ex-P.O.W.
Sinn Féin T.D.
I.R.A. Director of Intelligence
Physical Force Republican
#MickCollinsNeverInFineGael
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Those of us who had to leave Ireland for work in the 80’s will forever be grateful to Shane and the Pogues for maintaining our sanity (reasonably intact in my case). Fear finscéalach, slán Shane.
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The O’Rahilly would have been executed in 1916 had he not been killed leading a charge down Moore St. His home is set to be demolished for luxury apartments. In 1921 the IRA planned the attack on the Custom House at 40 Herbert Park. Pity to see it destroyed. Here’s his last words
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The same people who own the Herbert Park Hotel who want tourists to come to Dublin have now destroyed O’Rahilly’s Home 40 Herbert Park a potential tourist attraction. Now it’s a pile of rubble.
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Remembering the 33 people murdered 49 years ago when UVF and UDR (British Army) and British State Intelligence (Including Mi5) agents planted four bombs in Dublin and Monaghan.
Parnell St (5:28pm)
Talbot St (5:30pm)
Nassau St (5:32pm)
Monaghan Town (18:58pm)
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Some decent person has changed the name of Margaret Thatcher Plaza in Madrid to Bobby Sands Plaza.
#BobbySands
Hoy se cumplen 40 años de la muerte de Bobby Sands en huelga de hambre.
La plaza dedicada a la que provocó su muerte ha sido renombrada en su honor. (Madrid)
Antes: Después:
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The Evolution of the British Cartoon Industry 1843 to 2023.
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Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Unrepentant Fenian, interred Glasnevin, 1 Aug 1915.
“And why shouldn't an Irishman be mad; when he grows up face to face with the plunderers of his land and race, and sees them looking down upon him as if he were a mere thing of loathing and contempt!”
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The Starbucks of Shite Sandwiches is coming. Pret, soulless, tasteless and heartless. This place will spread like Omicron. There’s 325 in London alone. Another one for my list of “places not to frequent”.
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I’ll tell you who definitely were fascists and Nazi sympathisers. The Blueshirts. Who merged into Fine Gael.
#ActualHistory
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The Casement Statue by Mark Richards, destined for Sandycove is looking great!
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Young Kevin Barry, IRA Volunteer, UCD medical student, 18 years of age, hanged in Mountjoy Jail on the 1st of November 1920. Remembered with pride 100 years later.
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Back in action on the streets of Dublin from July 1st. I'll be doing daily public tours (numbers limited) and small family/friends private group bookings. 1916, Tan War, Civil War etc. My 25th year on the 1916 Tour. Booking essential so get in early!
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Sinn Féin of today, the party of Mary Lou, can most definitely trace their roots directly to the Sinn Féin of over 100 years ago in the same manner that Fine Gael’s origins can be traced back to the fascist Blue Shirts of the 1930’s. Two historical facts, not just opinion!
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Sam Maguire, Corkman, member of Church of Ireland, worked in London, swore Mick Collins into the IRB, active with the IRA in England, died in penury in 1927 age 49, his name lives on in the cup that Dublin just won for the fifth time in a row.
#SamMaguire
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Executed in Kilmainham Gaol,
3 May 1916, PH Pearse, Tom Clarke & Thomas MacDonagh.
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Big turn out to say no to developers destroying Dublin’s heritage.
#Cobblestone
#MerchantsArch
#MooreStreet
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Roger Casement was hanged in Pentonville Prison on this day 3 August 1916. A man who exposed the brutal horror of rubber plantations in the Congo and Amazon. Casement was responsible for sending 20,000 rifles to Ireland which never landed. Pictured with the Fenian John Devoy.
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Thanks be to Met Éireann for keeping all my friends in the Six Counties safe and free from Storm Barra.
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The Auxiliaries terrorised the people of Ireland, murdering, plundering, burning and beating their way to infamy. Never forget it was the Auxiliaries who shot innocents in Croke Park. I for one am very proud of Tom Barry and the Boys of Kilmichael. 🇮🇪
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Had a tour with a great group from Belfast, cross community. Bumped into the main woman today who was on the street campaigning for Moore St. Dublin was buzzing today, lots of people shopping and eating and a great vibe!
@MaryLouMcDonald
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12 Noon, Easter Monday, 1916 a small band of brave men and women began the fight for Irish freedom. Let’s hope someday we can complete their dream and create a United Ireland, a non sectarian Republic of equality.
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Executed in Kilmainham Gaol, OTD, 3 May 1916, Pearse, Clarke and MacDonagh.
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Executed in Kilmainham Gaol, OTD, 4 May 1916. Joe Plunkett, Willie Pearse, Mick O’Hanrahan and Ned Daly.
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Daily tours restart on March 1st.
This is my 26th year doing the 1916 Walking Tour.
Bring the family this year if you can, and I’d appreciate you spreading the word!
1916, Tan War & Civil War.
for tickets!
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I think the time has come for the Cork Fire Brigade to apologise to the British Government for trying to put out the fires that were kindly lit by the forces of Imperialism as they set Cork City ablaze 100 years ago.
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I'm dipping my feet into the world of podcasting. It's called Revolutionary Ireland. Search for it on Spotify and Apple Podcasts/iTunes etc. Hope to do a weekly podcast on everything revolutionary, 1798, 1916 etc. to more recent times. Hope you like the first one. Lorcan
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I’ve 100 times more faith in
@PresidentIRL
than all the NATO Dads in Dublin who’d delight in sending our youth off to war knowing that their own red wine and fillet steak induced gout or Guinness and Tayto induced type 2 diabetes will exempt them from similar service.
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Delighted with the news that my book “Ireland’s War of Independence; The IRA’s Guerrilla Campaign 1919-21” will be republished by OBrien Press in September. I have a few first editions available in my online shop in my bio if anyone wants one!
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Heard the Kennedy and McSharry families, who also own the Herbert Park Hotel, went ahead this morning and demolished the O’Rahilly home at 40 Herbert Park, to build apartments. Another piece of Dublin history destroyed for greed.
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Me and Donal Fallon reckon it’s high time Moore St is sorted out. 20 plus years since this issue arose. Support
@MooreSt_Trust
Preserve the whole terrace, incorporate a museum and keep the tradition of street traders too!
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Best fella to come out of Cork since O’Donovan Rossa, great to see the inimitable and hilarious
@TadhgHickey
at the march today.
#Ireland4All
#FreePalestine
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Happy birthday to the Grandfather of Irish Republicanism, Theobold Wolfe Tone, born on the 20 June 1763.
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Tommy has been doing walking tours since 1986. I’ve been going since 1996. That’s 64 years between us. Someone needs to retire us 🫣
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They won’t be happy until Dublin becomes one continuous office block. Shame on
#DublinCityCouncil
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Eight years since Shane Mac Thomáis departed and left a hole in Dublin as big as a crater. A great 1916 Tour guide, a brilliant mind and a great friend to many people in Dublin and around the world. This pic courtesy of one of his best friends the brilliant snapper
@KidCon
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#Imbolc
, celebration of the Goddess Bríd. Later Lá Fhéile Bríde. Either way, it’s the beginning. Winter is over! Better days are coming.
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Sláinte, here’s to Christopher Brady, Mick Molloy and Liam O Brien the three lads who spent the day printing this beautiful document 105 years ago on the 23 April 1916. They finished it about 1am and walked home dodging a few G-Men along the way. Up the Republic.
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Pleasure to meet
@ColmDore
&
@Seanofthesouth
who will soon launch their tour of 1798 in
#Belfast
.
#HenryJoy
#BetsyGrey
Wishing you every success in the new venture.
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24 April 1916 (OTD) Patrick Henry Pearse read the Proclamation outside the General Post Office as the Rising began (on Easter Monday).
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Five years since Shane Mac Thomáis left us. This is my favourite image from the day we went to Frongoch, Wales. Shane was a great guide and comrade and is fondly remembered by all who knew him!
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Executed in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, on this day, 3rd May 1916. PH Pearse, Tom Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh.
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Rose Dugdale was an incredibly brave and intelligent woman. I love this photo from Good Friday 2006. Condolences to Jim. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam dílis.
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On this day 30 August 1913 James Connolly was arrested and sent to Mountjoy Jail where he went on hunger strike, becoming the first male hunger striker of the 20th century in Ireland. The Viceroy let him out after a week! (This is also the day before Bloody Sunday 1913)
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Saw this in Belfast City Hall. Winnie Carney, first woman into the GPO in 1916. A Remington typewriter in one arm and a Webley in the other hand.
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Brits had 5 years negotiating Brexit. We had a month and a half to negotiate leaving the Empire in 1921 (under threat of war). If Mick Collins had five years to negotiate we’d have got a 32 County Socialist Republic and they’d have thrown Scotland in as part of the deal.
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Me and Gerry (AKA Mick Lynch) up in Lurgan for a talk! Up Armagh!
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This is Aleyna Corum from Denmark who was on tour with me this morning. Last night she saw a man on Arran Quay about to jump in the Liffey. Some people would walk on but Aleyna spoke to him and called the Guards. I think she’s brilliant.
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“I can hear the curlew passing overhead. Such a lonely cell, such a lonely struggle. But, my friend, this road is well trod and he, whoever he was, who first passed this way, deserves the salute of the nation. I am but a mere follower and I must say Oíche Mhaith.”
#BobbySands
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I always enjoyed meeting Brendan Kennelly on the street in Dublin or in Lemon where he was a regular. He’d always recite a poem and loved to chat. He gave me this poem one day. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
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1916 Proclamation read by PH Pearse outside the GPO on Easter Monday.
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Well folks an auspicious start to 2022 as on my first tour of the new year I had the pleasure of the Dublin U20 Hurling Team, thanks to legendary hurler & Boss Seán Power. These lads are going to be champions this year, mark my words. A credit to their team & City! Up the Dubs.
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Had the great pleasure of the Leinster Rugby Team on the 1916 Walking Tour today. Absolute gentleman and great craic all of them! Here we are in the Garden of Remembrance.
@leinsterrugby
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Belfast, Dublin, Derry, Antrim, Cork & Kerry. A wonderful group of people from all over Ireland on the tour on Saturday. ❤️🇮🇪
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I worked in England in the 80's. We always saw the poppy as a symbol of imperialism & a mark that you were a Tory. The vast majority of the British & Irish I worked with never wore them. Footballers never wore them. Trains etc. were never painted with them. Now it’s Poppy Fascism
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9 May 1916 James Connolly's Court Martial was held in Dublin Castle as he lay in a bed, wounded. Nora, his daughter, two days later, managed to smuggle out a statement he made to the Court.
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That time of the year when it’s time to don my “Poppy”
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Worked hard on that Revolutionary Ireland Podcast on James Connolly. Then you think how hard he worked for change in Ireland and then he gave his life for the cause of freedom. He was some man for one man.
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This weekend the 1916 Walking Tour kicks off for the year with daily public tours.
This is year 28 of me running the tour!
Tickets from
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Tadhg Hickey, the Intifada of Comedy. 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 ✊
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Had a great evening bringing the U20 Dublin GAA Squad on the 1916 Walking Tour today. A credit to their city and their sport, such a great bunch of young men. Up the Dubs
@DubGAAOfficial
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Willie Pearse sculpted Roisín Dubh under the bust of Mangan in Stephens Green. Not a lot of people know that.
#WilliePearse
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We got soaked on the tour today but for me it was worth it as there was a great group on today! We remembered James Connolly on his birthday too. ✊
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A special badge I commissioned in aid of Lajee Refugee Centre in Aida Camp. They’re a tenner and I hope to sell 150. All money, including manufacturing costs goes to Lajee. Thanks to
@Leftwingbadges
for waiving their cost.
#Palestine
#Ireland
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Happy New Year to everyone! Hope to see you on the 1916 Walking Tour in 2023, my 27th year doing the tour!
❤️🇮🇪
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Starry Plough, Irish Citizen Army flag. The Plough represents the dignity of Labour and the stars, Socialism.
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Tom Clarke, Thomas MacDonagh and Patrick Henry Pearse executed on 3 May 1916.
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Today 24 April 1916 the Easter Rising began. When we get a United Ireland this will be an annual holiday I hope.
#RepublicDay
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Daily tours restart on March 1st.
This is year 27 of me doing the 1916 Walking Tour. Here’s a pic by
@KidCon
about 20 years ago. Now I’m overweight and grey but still happy to be touring!
R/T please - topics 1916, Tan War, Civil War and lots more! 🇮🇪✊❤️
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Does anyone else see a fascist dictator who tried to take over Europe or am I’m just reading too much into it?
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104 years ago on this day the IRA began a fight against the British Empire. You can read about Robinson, Breen, Hogan, Treacy and a host of other revolutionaries in my book which is available at (I’ll sign it for you if you’d like).
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Visitors from the Basque Country, Scotland, China, the USA, London, Germany, Denmark, Catalunia, Austria and a heap of Irish from Finglas, Walkinstown and Crumlin Co Antrim. A lovely Easter Sunday group for the 1916 Walking Tour. ❤️🇮🇪
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31 Aug 1913 Big Jim Larkin was arrested having spoken from a window in the Imperial Hotel (opposite the GPO) Markievicz called 3 cheers for Larkin & she was assaulted by the police. The DMP then attacked everyone on the street. Bloody Sunday prompted foundation of Citizen Army!
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