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IRA Creggan, Derry 1980s armed with 2 G3 rifles

The lads in 1986

Good thread on the Anti-Busing protests in Boston during 1970s, I made twitter thread on this a while ago that i'll repost in here soon but this twitter thread also good too

https://twitter.com/palatinepuritan/status/1527072012639776769?l

News Report on the aftermath of the Cloghoge Checkpoint attack, 1992.

Covered it briefly in this post but also a reminder that the Irish state kidnapped PIRA Volunteer Frank Stagg's coffin (who was murdered while on hunger strike in 1976) from the airport and deployed a huge chunk of the Defence Forces at the funeral while covering his grave in concrete and having patrols for over 6 months to prevent Republicans from removing his body and giving him the funeral according to his will (to be buried beside Óglach Michael Gaughan in the republican plot in Ballina).

In order to get his body, his brother George bought the burial plot next to his and 22 months later they managed to get his body out via digging through this plot and then giving him the burial per his will beside the body of Michael Gaughan in the republican plot in Ballina

Some remarkable footage below showing testament to anti-national tendencies of the Dublin state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjvP8DB7Cyc

Hunger Strike Memorial in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery in remembrance of all those who died on Hunger Strike during the 20th century.

Normal states don't do this

"Foreign and hostile laws and the pernicious influence of a hated and hitherto dominant race drove the Irish people from their trysting-places at the cross-roads and hurling fields back to their cabins where but a few years before famine and fever reigned supreme. In those wretched homes – homes consecrated by sufferings which should appal the devil – the Irish peasant too often wasted his evenings and his holidays in smoking and card-playing" https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2022/06/05/a-word-about-irish-athletics-1884

'A citizen without arms is like a priest without religion, like a woman without chastity, like a man without manhood. The very conception of an unarmed citizen is a purely modern one.'

Pádraig Mac Piarais, From a Hermitage

In 1922, The Irish Labour Party published a document entitled "Liam Mellow's Jail Programme", based on notes Mellows had smuggled out of jail after being captured by the Irish Free State. In this document, Mellows outlines a 10 point programme he proposed that the Anti-Treaty IRA adopt in 1922.

Note:

3: State ownership of all banks

4: Confiscation of all the large ranches and estates, without compensation to the landed aristocracy, and the distribution of the land among the landless farmers and agricultural labourers. Election of joint councils representatives of these two classes to distribute and manage the land. Abolition of all forms of tenure and indebtedness either to private owners or to the state. Cancellation of all debts and mortgages.

10: The universal arming of all workers in the town and country to defend their rights

Full Sheet

Despite what Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin states, Mellows was clearly not a Marxist as he was not in any way motivated by materialism and was fairly Catholic.

'”I am a citizen of the Irish Republic proclaimed at Easter 1916 which has the allegiance of the overwhelming majority of the people of Ireland... I owe allegiance to one country only – Ireland – and the cause of Irish freedom, which is the cause of God.”

In one of his last letters, he wrote “Ireland must tread the path our Redeemer trod. She may shirk as indeed she has shirked – ‘Put away with Chalice’ – but her faltering feet will find the road again, as indeed she is already finding it”
Most of his final letters have a religious fervour.

Historian Pat Walsh opines that Mellows was not a Communist nor a Marxist, but simply a nationalist who, in a situation of desperation for the Republican forces who looked set to lose the Civil War, thought that only by bringing workers into the national struggle could the Republican forces survive. "It was with great reluctance," Walsh writes, "that Mellows advocated this course."

This is also further evidenced when one reads Mellow's 'Fleshpots of Empires' speech (see here)

"We would rather have this country poor and indigent, we would rather have the people of Ireland eking out a poor existence on the soil; as long as they possessed their souls, their minds, and their honour. This fight has been for something more than the fleshpots of Empire."

That doesn't sound like a Marxist/Communist to me, but a Nationalist. To conclude, the "Liam Mellow's Jail Programme" is a Nationalist programme, a Nationalist vision of how the country should be operated. A vision of the reconquest of Ireland, an Ireland for the Irish, an Ireland that belongs to the Irish - Aiséirí na hÉireann

''Ireland does not want a change of master. It would be folly to destroy English tyranny in order to erect a domestic tyranny that would need another revolution to free the people. The Irish Republic stands therefore for the ownership of Ireland by the people of Ireland. It means that the means and process of production must not be used for the profit or aggrandisement of any group or class.

Ireland has not yet become industrialised. It never will if in rejecting and casting off British Imperialism (and its offspring the Free State and Northern Parliaments) the Irish workers insist that a native imperialism does not replace it...[in follows quote in pic]”

- Liam Mellows

Gaelic Futurism