Seán Napier
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‘Equality, It is new strung and shall be heard.’ Follow Your Bliss. #enlightenment @1798walkingtour #Journo #Lecturer #PublicHistorian #Ireland
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Joined May 2015
Ireland will be judged as being on the right side of history today. She is not anti-Israel or anti-Jewish. She is anti-genocide and anti-colonialist. #Madiba
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‘As an Irishman I find Spiked so embarrassing. Wrapped in the Union flag and saying “Up the Empire” in 2024 is beyond ridiculous. It might titillate middle-class gammons in Shoreditch but to the rest of us they look sad and desperate. Grow up’. says Ireland.
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"There's nothing!.nothing that you can think of, that the English didn't do to that island right next door to them. "
Christmas 1847 in Ireland | James Tuke “The people were turned out of doors and the roofs of their houses pulled down. That night they made a tent or shelter of wood and straw; however, the drivers [bailiffs] threw them down and drove them from the place. It would have 1/3
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Director- John Fords 1950's classic "Rio Grande" #Blockbuster starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. In this scene Ken Curtis sings superbly "The Bold Fenian Men" the song was written by IRB member Peader Kearney (Behan's Uncle) he also wrote "Ammhran na bhFiann" #Fenians
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“Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.”.— George Bernard Shaw. The face of a nation that eats its farrow.
The face of someone on the brink of denying you a loan from Gringotts.
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#DickCavett Show - 50 years ago this month - Orson Welles gives a superb interview (1970). "There's nothing!.nothing that you can think of, that the English didn't do to that island right next door to them. ". -but for others its was just 'House Training' and 'Nationalist Mopery'
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Today 1965. Roger #Casement makes his final journey back home to Ireland, near 50 years after his execution. His body was exhumed to be re-interred in Glasnevin, Dublin.In 1916 he had wished to be buried in his beloved Glens of Antrim. In 1965 Brit.govt refused this request. 1/
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Just spoke to a business friend who's company has just landed two massive logistics contracts worth potentially millions£ to the local economy . because his company is based in Belfast and can supply the EU & GB unfettered.!.Wake up folks!.
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In 1972 Seamus Heaney drove from Belfast to Derry on the day of the funerals of those murdered on Bloody Sunday. The late Luke Kelly of the Dubliners later asked Heaney to write him a song about his feelings on the journey. Heaney penned "The Road to Derry". #BloodySunday51🏴
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1/So today in 1649,a genocidal maniac & mass murderer sails for Ireland. When he leaves 618 thousand people have been exterminated(That’s equivalent to 27 million people in GB island today).His murder machine is normalised & celebrated with statues, banners & street names today🤷♀️
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“Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.”. — George Bernard Shaw.
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#Partition: 1921. An est 550 people violently murdered,1123 wounded, 11,086 people driven out of their jobs, 23,023 made homeless, 500+businesses destroyed by sectarian mobs & the new police force in a campaign of murder, mayhem & expulsion, then Special Powers Act for 50 years!
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#Partition ‘Don’t say it. don’t say it. doh!!. ‘There is a crack in everything-.That's how the light gets in’ -LC
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For the day that’s in it folks I draw strength from this:. “I am so confident in my Irishness that I have no desire to chip away at the Britishness of my neighbours. Unionist leaders really should have enough confidence to facilitate the Irishness of the Gael”. Martin McGuinness
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Here's an excellent dramatic & comic sketch by actor #patrickstewart #brexit spoof on Monty Python's "What did the Romans ever do for us?" Outlining the importance of the #GoodFridayAgreement & peace in Ireland @guyverhofstadt @MinPres .#HumanRights #ECHR
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⚫ April 1988 Joseph Patrick Kennedy has a run in with the Brits in the Divis area in Belfast accompanied by Fr Matt Wallace. His son Joe will be the new US Special Envoy to the north.
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These two parties have been running the state since its foundation. Pearse Doherty looks on, as one hundred years of #Tweedledum & #Tweedledee plays out to fool us all once again. I think the electorate will be much smarter this time round. #ChangeTheGovernment
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How wonderful this is !! .It's a🥇 for @kelly64kg as the 🇮🇪 is raised and Amhrán na bhFiann plays out at Kokugikan Arena. #olympics #Tokyo2020 .💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
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⚫️ "There's nothing!.nothing that you can think of, that the English didn't do to that island right next door to them. "
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Shane Magowan, one of finest writers of his time, encapsulated a generation of Irish his via poetry & song in an age of turmoil & Thatcherism.
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Filmed over 45 years ago. PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat talks about the massive military bombardment of defenceless Palestinians in their refugee camps and the view of West takes on these atrocities. Israeli Defence Minister General Ezer Weizmann answers back. Sound familiar?
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Former British PM John Major has said there is a case for asking the British govt to set out precise terms that would have to be met for it to call a Border poll in the North. The former PM said it is a “credible demand” from republicans to lay out the terms for such an event.
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The Good Old FF/IRA!. following the 1932 general election. Only gunmen in Leinster House were Fianna Fáil. !
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John Ford's cousins, the Thorntons' house was burnt down by the Black and Tans in 1920. In tribute, in The Quiet Man he named the hero Sean Thornton (John Wayne). 'So the IRA's in this too. '
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Micheál Martin’s not so cunning Machiavellian play of the political stroke backfired spectacularly today. We will now have the most right-wing Irish government since partition. Packed with staunch partitionists, cute hoorism & gombeenism on steroids, scattered with parish pump
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👀'Come Out Ye Black and Tans' shoots to Number 1 on iTunes singles chart
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Well. well. well there ya have it folks. Dup now confirming, yes! it’s a #UnionistVeto!!. straight-up from Jeffrey. #CatOutaTheBag #BrassNeck @ViewFrmStormont @ElishaMcC_SF
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“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”.― Desmond Tutu
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Mar-1922 Five members of the McMahon family were murdered by the #RoyalIrishConstabulary in their home @ Kinnaird Terrace of the AntrimRd. The killers were members of the 'Cromwell Club'-Their leader was RIC Inspector John Nixon, same gang would abduct & murder Malachy Halfpenny.
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'And when great souls die,.after a period peace blooms,.slowly and always.irregularly. Spaces fill.with a kind of.soothing electric vibration. Our senses,restored, never.to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be.better.For they existed'.-M.A
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Shinners have the wind at their back here. Could be major shock coming for the FF/FG duopoly this Saturday. Let’s hope so.
📊 RED C POLL 📊. Fianna Fáil - 21% (-).Sinn Féin - 20% (+2).Fine Gael - 20% (-2).Independents - 14% (-1).Social Democrats - 6% (-).Labour - 4% (+1).Ind Ireland - 4% (+1).Greens - 4% (-).Aontú – 4% (-1).PBP - 2% (-). Read more here - . @RedCResearch #GE24
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'When fascism comes to Ireland it'll be wrapped in the green.Spouting nativist rubbish, racist & obscene. Forgetting that on distant shores many years ago, twas Irish émigrés who'd nowhere else to go. If to Ireland true,.We heed not blood or colour creed,.We have no curse for you
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This week 1965 Roger Casement makes his final journey back home to Ireland nearly fifty years after his execution. He wished to be buried in his beloved Glens of Antrim. But the British govt ruled it out as a condition for his release. He was repatriated to Glasnevin, Dublin.
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Just maybe. It is now possible that for the first time since the foundation of the Irish state, the 33rd Dáil Éireann could be headed up by its first ever female Taoiseach in Mary Lou McDonald? People want change. and change is going to happen.
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The fourth #President of India Varahagiri Venkata Giri was a member of #SinnFein and an Irish Volunteer in #Easter1916. whilst studying law at U.C.D . after taking his LLB and becoming a barrister, he was then deported by the British.
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"To insist that people wear a poppy would be contrary to everything that it stands for. We offer our full support to James for exercising his right to choose not to wear a poppy.”. Royal British Legion stands by James McClean’s .
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Well, I also never thought I’d see the day that the Irish state would officially commemorate those who burned Cork City to the ground and murdered innocence in the way. Talk about peak Irish sycophancy and insult to historical fact.
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Indeed…. it could be named after man from good Ulster Protestant stock, knighted by the establishment for his international human rights work and.hanged for his part in the 1916 #Rising in Dublin. Imagine that.
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In 1972 Seamus Heaney drove from his home in Belfast to Derry on the day of the funerals of those murdered on #BloodySunday. The late Luke Kelly of the Dubliners later asked Heaney to write him a song about his feelings on the journey. Heaney wrote "The Road to Derry" @alextomo
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1/ July-1575, Mass murderer,thief and slave trader Francis Drake participated in a bloody massacre on Rathlin Island. He hunted down and butchered 600 inhabitants, slaughtering women, children and the elderly seeking refuge in caves, it was the Srebrenica of its day in Ireland.
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‘In the same way a blackout drunk tries to piece together the night before, the English suspect they did something shameful in Ireland but can’t recall the exact details’.
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Sir Mike Jackson was platformed on @RTELateLateShow 2011 promoting his book and given a fluffy flaffy interview. 'boys will be boys' tut tut. stuff by PK. Says it all folks!.
Sir Mike Jackson deliberately fabricated a story to the media about what his men had just committed in Ballymurphy 1971- murder!. Saying there was no cover-up of the shooting dead of 10 people, calling it a "preposterous accusation. we don't do conspiracies" he said. Really!
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'Guerrilla Days' in Ireland - rare footage captured during the Tan War . the harassing of locals in occupied Ireland- an everyday occurrence. 'Come Out Ye Black and Tans.
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☘️ #NYPD Emerald Society Pipes & Drums lead the march to honouring the memory of all those lost on September 11th. #RoddyMcCorley ☘️ #911Memorial
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▪️🏆Sam Maguire, Roger Casement and many #Gaa founders & families are of Protestant stock and heritage. The father of unionism himself Edward Carson was a Gael @tcddublin. Gaelic sports are for everyone & excludes no one. It belongs to us all. Creid ionat Féin. #BuildCasement
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One of the greatest evocative scenes in Irish film history #TheField starring the late greats Richard Harris & John Hurt. I'm sure 'The Bull' he has a few choice words for Rees Mogg putting a hard british border in his field. #Outsiders #Amadan Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón
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Rosaleen Sands, the mother of hunger striker and MP Bobby Sands has passed away today. "I love my son. just like any other mother does. ".
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After today's Windsor shenanigans and spin, it really boils down to one core issue and always was this core issue all along. The elephant in the room if you like. Will the Dup accept democracy and the nomination of a SF 'First Minister'? Or find more reasons not to do so.?.
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"Be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the queen." -Seamus Heaney.
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"We have no national government; we are ruled by Englishmen, and the servants of Englishmen, whose object is the interest of another country, whose instrument is corruption; whose strength is the weakness of Ireland.”. First statement of Belfast 'Society of United Irishmen'-1791.
Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris says 'unhelpful comments' made by Leo Varadkar resonate with unionists.
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📢 Pleased to announce I have been selected as a candidate to go forward to the Ard Chomhairle for the #Balmoral area in the upcoming council elections in #SouthBelfast. #enlightenment #democracy
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'Unionism stands for pluralism and multi-culturalism. it is inclusive and welcoming'."Nationalism is narrow and exclusive" A.Foster. Really?.
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Michael McDowell opposed the Peace Process from its inception, he harangued John Hume for meeting the Shinners to help bring peace in the north and constantly undermined and set his face to dismantling the #GFA, if given half the chance. Thankfully he lost his Dáil seat having.
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“Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England, Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation". -C.S. Parnell
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#UnquietGraves - Absolutely chilling exposé on British ‘state sponsored terrorism’ and collusion in the north that inflicted murder & mayhem against an innocent and defenceless civilian population. These are ‘war crimes’.
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So a majority if its pro-union can maintain union regardless of what others think, but a majority if it is pro-unity can't have a Irish unity without regard to what unionists think. Voter privilege for maintaining Union and onerous for ending it. The very antithesis of democracy.
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🟢After 285 years the last Penal Law, The Admin of Justice (Language) Act (Ireland) 1737 is in the bin!.The Act had continuously forbid the use of Irish in any official capacity in Ireland. Still operated post partition in the north. "Equality: It's new strung and shall be heard"
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1/ Today 1981 Bobby Sands begins hunger strike in the H-Blocks Long Kesh. It would be one of the greatest seismic political & historical events of our time that changed Ireland forever. "I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul"
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1/May, 1981 #SouthBelfast. Leaving Forster Green. Hunger striker Francis Hughe's remains are hijacked by the RUC at Belvoir to prevent it heading to #WestBelfast They invoked the Flags & Emblems Act to forcibly redirect the funeral cortege assaulting the family & the undertakers.
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◾️"Self-government is our right. A thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself - than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers, or to love our kind".-Roger Casement. #Selfdetermination
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🟢"I'm haunted by these human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country, to see white chimpanzees is dreadful, if they were black one would understand such, but their skins are as white as ours”.Charles Kingsley’s view of the Irish when in Sligo, Ireland 1860
"There's nothing!.nothing that you can think of, that the English didn't do to that island right next door to them. "
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Today in 1981, 29 year old Joe McDonnell dies after 61 days on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. Here, fellow hunger striker Laurence McKeown speaks of his comrade Joe. The hunger strikers would go on to change the course of Irish history. Beidh cuimhme air go deo.
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At the beginning of Feb 1947, the British cabinet decided to end the mandate over Palestine and abandon it after nearly 30 years of occupation. Just as they had done in Ireland and India they left a partitionist construct behind that descended into chaos.
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This makes more sense than ever. #UnquietGraves. "They had gone in the mire to destroy us and our nation and down after them we had to go.". - General Tom Barry, 3rd West Cork Brigade, IRA.
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1st March-1981 #BobbySands begins his hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. It would be one of the greatest political & historical events of our time that would shake the world. "I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul."
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#TheQuietMan Along with John Wayne & John Ford is Arthur Shields who fought in the #EasterRising under Connolly at the GPO & retreated to Moore Street alongside Patrick Pearse in 1916. He was captured and held for six months in the Frongoch internment camp! #Rebels #AshfordCastle
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"Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join.Each wanting his head on the back of a coin;. If the Irish had sense they'd drowned both in the Boyne!.And partition thrown into the ocean. The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide.Long may it stay between England and me. '
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Sir Mike Jackson deliberately fabricated a story to the media about what his men had just committed in Ballymurphy 1971- murder!. Saying there was no cover-up of the shooting dead of 10 people, calling it a "preposterous accusation. we don't do conspiracies" he said. Really!
#BallymurphyMassacre verdict raises questions for Gen. Sir Mike Jackson. Was Captain in 1 Para at #Ballymurphy. Admitted he had likely briefed media 2 of dead were “gunmen”. Became CGS, head of British Army, in #Iraq War. Told inquest suggestion of cover-up was “preposterous”.
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“The people who are in favour of the #Treaty, are not in favour of the Treaty on its merits, but are in favour of the Treaty because they fear what is to happen if it be rejected. That is not the will of the people, that is the fear of the people.”. - Liam Mellows TD. 1922
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Roger Casement is hanged at Pentonville Prison in London for his role in the EasterRising1916. He was 51 years old.
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This is not 1920's Alabama-but Belfast's very own 1920's Kristallnacht - the brutal murders of the McMahon family & WW1 veteran Malachy Halfpenny both fell victim to the gruesome sectarian thugs of the B-Specials 'Cromwell Murder gang'#TheKeening#Pogram#PutridState.#CivilRights50
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Carlsberg don’t do Traffic wardens in Portadown but if they did. 😎.
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A deliberate misleading spoof by @VictoriaLIVE "so why do you take the salary?" - . CH- "I don't - you should know that Victoria.". ‘You trying to tell me Boris Johnston going to represent the interests of the people living in Ireland?. excellent point made by @ChrisHazzardSF
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#OrmeauRoad today. The PSNI treatment of relatives who were laying flowers in remembrance of their loved ones murdered at Seán Graham bookies in 1992. This is truly upsetting for these families and the community.
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Wait till the end. it’s a cracker!.
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At one stage in our sad #history- In what was known as #Black47 during #AnGortaMor over 1000 Irish souls would perish each day for several months due to #starvation & #disease.Really puts things into perspective.
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"Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought. I get angry when I hear that word "empire"; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised. I am profoundly anti-empire. " #baubles
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#May 1st, 1981. Rosaleen Sands visits her dying son. Beside her is Oliver Hughes', brother of #Hungerstriker Francis. "I love my son. just like any other mother does". One of Bobby's most moving poems was, 'Dear Mum. '👇.
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It’s actually approaching 6.9 million. 👍. you missed some 1.9 million citizens. #SubliminalPartition.
Ireland’s population now approaching 5 million. More people living, working and raising families in Ireland than at any point since independence. Our people are our greatest strength.
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"To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman, in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter, these were my means" .-Wolfe Tone
This is an historic day. It is about the future. It is about working together to deliver for workers and families, and creating new and exciting opportunities that ensure our children and grandchildren can achieve their dreams and ambitions in life. As a First Minister for.
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'A hard-line loyalist party has British politics in its death grip, because it knows that its cause is dying'. Excellent read that sums up the present state of affairs.
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I see one of Ireland's most vicious, relentless & vilest #twitter trolls has been exposed. Eoghan Harris is presently @MichealMartinTD advisor on Northern affairs. He shamelessly pursued his victims with the gusto of the jackboot and #Section31.
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I was in the audience tonight. sitting next to the Dup/TUV mob - I've never experienced such disgraceful misogynistic bigotry & hatred in a while. Their cornerboy sectarian antics & snarling at Martina was something else. such sheer bitterness shocked me!.
.@M_AndersonSF showed her ability & strength of character tonight. This election is not Orange/Green- Brexit hurts everybody. I've no doubt that Remain voters within Unionist community know well that their interests are best served by having Martina in Brussels #EP2019 #Anderson1
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@SeanKellyMEP @MaryLouMcDonald @sinnfeinireland @duponline This Parnell monument sits at the top of O'Connell Street Seán. what's that about then?.Read it sometime.
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@darrenmccaffrey It's in the #GFA treaty. Britain can not interfere in any referendum in Ireland when voting on unification, it's quite explicit Darren.
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‘Nobody has ever been tried for the 1994 Loughinisland massacre but police arrested two journalists. It’s a scandal worthy of Kafka’.
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I’m going to my nephews funeral today, it’ll be a funeral like no other. Everyone will be apart at a time of great sadness when human nature, grieving & empathy dictate we all stick close together but such are the times & sacrifices many will have to make for the living #Covid19.
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Hard hitting & powerful piece from Brian Feeney in today's paper. ". the DUP are dishonest, insincere and can't be trusted. The tectonic plates in the North have shifted. Arlene Foster was probably the last unionist first minister. ".#Endgame
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#Standby. Launching a petition. to rename Chichester Street, Belfast. #McCracken Street !. who's with me?
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'Young people should educate themselves about. Bertie Ahern'.
"A finance minister without a bank account?". This interview, which Bertie Ahern walks out of, is a must-watch.
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