Dalton accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty and he was commanding the troops at the Four Courts following Collin's commands. He was in the car with Collin's when he was killed at Béal na Bláth. Dalton had advised him to drive on, but Collins, who was not an experienced combat veteran, insisted on stopping to fight. He held one of the highest ranks, as major general, in the pro-Treaty National Army but resigned his command following the assassination of Collins and would denounce the Free State execution of republican prisoners.

He worked a bit in the Seanad before he working in film production in Ireland and the US. In 1958 he founded Irish Ardmore Studios in Bray and his daughter is the Irish actress Audrey Dalton. There’s many clips of Dalton speaking of his time in WW1 and during the Tan / Civil War as well as a book written by his younger brother Charlie on the Dublin Brigade.

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Remembering Kieran Doherty TD who died on this day, 40 years ago, after 73 days on Hunger Strike.

Fuair siad bás ar son saoirse na hÉireann 🇮🇪

"But we who labour for the genuine regeneration of our country cannot be content with mere material improvements- we seek to restore to our country her true traditional spirit, her true historic lineaments....We seek in a regenerated Ireland not a mongrel country built up after the image and likeness of England, nondescript in population, nondescript in pursuits, nondescript in public spirit. We want the future to reflect the past, in its essential spirit, but to improve on that past by reading in the clear mirror of native history the failings of that past, and by seeking to avoid them, and by reproducing the fidelity, the public spirit, the highmindness and the other virtues that reflect glory on our race."

Dineen, "The Irish Language Revival Movement" (1904)

An Irishwoman was raped by a Nigerian ''Refugee'' who faked that he was gay in order to gain Asylum back in Waterford, 2014.

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