Also - wtf is this post? “I have survived UVF car bombs” where’s proof of this? Plural means he was dodging them on a weekly basis - is he from West Belfast? Secret Provo history? Or a RUC bomb defuser?

Doesn’t sound it - and he says in some videos he’s from the Ballymun flats (“I am from the ghetto” in post implies this probably) - how many “UVF carbombs” were being detonated in the Ballymun Flats or surrounding area?

I can only really think of the Dublin - Monaghan bombings which any kid living in Dublin City in the 70s were witness too - but does that mean all them are hard men “surviving UVF car bombs”

The post as per last 2 sentences is obviously him trying to sound tough/hard and it’s just comes off as pathetic, given how it’s obvious waffle. Claims he was a Wall Street banker or something too hence the New York part. What an absolute spoofer.

“Now that you have testified your loving admiration for the brave Irish soldier of the Union, I call upon you to give three cheers for the two sons of John Mitchel who are fighting as bravely on the other side”

- Young Irelander Thomas Francis Meagher, now a Union commander of the famous 69th New York Infantry Regiment, in the autumn of 1861. Young Irelander John Mitchel had sided with the Confederacy where two of his son would fight and die for it.

“I die willingly for South Carolina, but oh! that it had been for Ireland!”

- John C. Mitchel Jr, July 20, 1864 after he was mortally wounded and died later after hours of agony. The next son James lost his arm in one of the battles near Richmond and the youngest son, William, served in the Stonewall Brigade and was killed at Gettysburg.

After the war James, Mitchels only surviving son from the American Civil War and who lost an arm, became a New York City fire marshal and his son, John Purroy Mitchel, was elected mayor of New York in 1913, pictured here.

“Cillian Murphy says he moved his family back home because he wanted his kids to be Irish.”

Based

https://twitter.com/newstalkfm/status/1514830013920645120

Kenneth Clark ‘Civilization - Episode 1’

Discusses the importance on books in the medieval period, particularly how Charlemagne commissioned various works. Charlemagne had elephants and all sorts of wealth but it was the books that mattered, which captured his legacy.

Also talks about the rise of the Crucifixion as a symbol/artwork in Western Europe, which is fitting for today given its Good Friday.

A lot of examples of the artwork shown in this video can be seen in the Archeology Museum in Dublin. In there, you can see St Patrick’s Bell, Cross of Cong (and others like it, much like the decorated metal Cross shown in video) and the Shrine of the Cathach which held writings ascribed to St Colmcille and his relics.

Sadly, a lot of this beautiful artwork was melted down and destroyed during the Reformation in Ireland and also in England/Scotland/Wales.

An Episcopal Crosier said to be an early copy of the Bachal Isu, dating from the 8th Century. Kept in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

In pic is Communist Peadar O'Donnell showing how little he knew about the Occupied Six by the fact that his letter addressed to the Orangemen in 1932 or so is written as though these people were descended from United-Irishmen (lmfao). Many more examples of this ignorance and naivety in the history of Irish Communists (which would lead to the split in the IRA in 1969 when Marxist-Leninists muscled into the movement in the 60s).

Modern day Republican Maoist-Marxist-Leninists are no different. They are never going to unite the working classes of 'Protestant and Catholics' because that notion involves dropping the religions, traditions & ethnic identities, which Orangemen are never going to do nor should Irish Nationalist do (which most of these MLM deracinated fools have already).

There's no difference to what MLM types promote for Orangemen & what's already exists in the Free State for Orangemen. The Free State already has them represented on the flag, allowed former unionists to sit in the Dáil, allowed Protestants to dominate the courts, allowed Protestants to keep gatekeeping key positions in Bank of Ireland, Rothunda etc.

The Free State is actively subverting the Irish Nation and destroying Irish traditions, which Orangemen would be more that happy to join in on as well as MLMs in their secular atheism and Anti-Catholicism. So why would Orangemen join the MLM vision of a United Ireland when joining the Free State would be the same anyway?

Peadar O'Donnell is himself the pillar of Left-Wing Republicanism. In essence, he embodies nearly everything that is the current state of modern day Leftie/Communist wing of Republicanism.

He was opposed to the Catholic nationalism of many IRA members, and once said disparagingly that "we don't have an IRA battalion in Belfast, we have a battalion of armed Catholics". Indeed, amongst others, he eventually left the IRA to set up the communist Republican Congress (covered briefly here).

Those who joined Republican Congress would leave with Frank Ryan to serve in the International Brigade against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. When those Irish Communists were fighting for the Spanish Republic, they were unhappy about being referred to as part of a "British Battalion". He and every Irishman that went fought on this side was commanded by former Black & Tan Jewish Homosexual George Nathan, who was involved in a series of killings which took place on the 7 March 1921, when the sitting Sinn Féin mayor of Limerick George Clancy, the councillor and former mayor Michael O'Callaghan and a city clerk named Joseph O'Donoghue, were all shot at their homes.

The tension was such that Nathan had to explain to Frank Ryan and the Irish that he had indeed served the Auxiliaries in County Limerick, but that as a Jew he was a genuine anti-fascist and that "we are Socialists together now"

I can't think of a bigger example of what represents modern day Left Wing Irish Republicanism than this

Roy Johnston is another figure to know about. He was a Stickie, but the Stickie mindset has now infected all of mainstream Irish Republicanism.

Roy was an Irish theoretical physicist and Marxist who as a member of the IRA in the 1960s argued for a National Liberation Strategy to unite the Catholic and Protestant working classes. He lived in England during 50s and was in the Communist Party of Great Britain.

He returned to Ireland in 1963 and joined the IRA at the invitation of the Chief-of-Staff Cathal Goulding, as during the 1960s after the failure of the Border Campaign in 1956-62, Cathal was trying to reorganise the IRA from armed struggle to a Marxist-Leninist theory circle jerk and so was inviting academics to join.

In next 2 posts I’ll extract from book on Roy Johnston’s formative political years as men like this are what would enable the split in the IRA by the end of the 1969 and were the reason for the overall Leftward shift that occurred in the Republican movement decades after.