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Dan Breen and the RIC the forgotton force

The Black And Tans

Historical articles report of the highly controversial figure, Oliver Cromwell arriving in Ringsend on August 15, 1649. Cromwell landed in Ireland on behalf of the English parliamentary forces with an army of 4,000 Horses and 8,000 foot soldiers. Ringsend was used as the initial staging point for the siege of Drogheda and for the conquest of Ireland. At the time Cromwell was received well by lo...

Donnellys coal yard spencer dock, by Eamon Mac Thomais

MacThomáis came from a staunch Republican family. He was born Edward Patrick Thomas in the Dublin suburb of Rathmines. His father, a fire-brigade officer, died when Éamonn was five years old and his family moved to Goldenbridge, Inchicore. He left school at 13 to work as delivery boy for White Heather Laundry, learning Dublin neighbourhoods with great thoroughness. He said he found work to help...

The old Dublin Docks by Eamon Mac Thomais

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Éamonn MacThomáis visits St Catherine's Bakery in 1979

In Dublin there were six liberties, all of which were originally under ecclesiastical control (and the first three of which give their name to the modern district in the city’s south side). St Sepulchre, ruled by the archbishops of Dublin, was created before 1199 and consisted of three parishes in the city and extensive lands in the county. Thomas Court and Donore was initially governed by St T...

He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He was arrested by the British on charges of sedition and imprisoned in Brixton prison in England. His death there in October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike brought him and the Irish struggle to international attention. In prison he immediately started a hunger strike in protest at his internment a...

Vinny Byrne asked to see Lieutenant Peter Ames and Lieutenant George Bennett at the door of 38 Upper Mount Street. The maid was obliging, pointing out the rooms where both men slept. Byrne sent Tom Ennis with some men to the back room and he went to the front parlour himself. As I opened the folding-doors, the officer, who was in bed, was in the act of going for his gun under his pillow. Doyle ...

One evening in 1884 Talbot, who was penniless and out of credit, waited outside a pub in the hope that somebody would invite him in for a drink. After several friends had passed him without offering to treat him, he went home in disgust and announced to his mother that he was going to "take the pledge" (renounce drink). He went to Holy Cross College, Clonliffe where he took the pledge for three...

Eamon mac Thomais Reciting a poem called The Mother by Patrick Pearse

The exact spot were Patrick Pearse Surrendered in 1916 by Eamon Mac Thomais

Dan Breen The Galtee Mountain Boy

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Dick McKee and Peadar Clancy Irish Republican army told by Kenneth Griffith.

Sligo's noble six

The start of the 77 anti treaty executions.

Mary Margret Walsh Anti Treaty IRA

The Iveagh Markets told by Éamonn Mac Thomáis

Éamonn MacThomáis talking about Francis Street Dublin

Eamonn mac thomais talking about Dublin street Characters

Eamonn mac Thomais talking about Meath Street and Thomas Street in Dublin

Zozimus by Eamonn mac thomais

Eamonn going into the phoenix park