would like to take this opportunity to announce that our next event will be a film showing, Q and A session with invited guests, followed by a night of music and entertainment to be held in the Teacher's Club 36 Parnell Square (West).
Our Chairperson for the event will be life long Dublin Republican Patrick Burke.
Our invited special guests will be John McDonagh, New York playwright, Irish Republican activist and former member of Noraid. John will be travelling from America to attend on the night.
Also attending the event as very special guests and participants will be John Crawley, former IRA POW, life long Republican activist and author of the best selling book on his life in the Republican movement The Yank together with Dr Ruan O'Donnell who is Head of the History Department in University of Limerick and author of several books detailing Republican revolutionary history from the United Irishmen Rebellions to the recent phase of the armed struggle ended by the ceasefire of 1997 through the insights of incarcerated Republican activists in the books Special Category Vols 1 and 2.
The events proceedings will commence at 7.30pm (sharp) with a viewing of the recently released film on Noraid and the Irish American dimension, this will be followed by a Q & A session with our invited guests which will be followed by a social event with rebel and traditional ballads provided by live musicians on the night.
Please confirm your interest early as attendance is limited.
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Just finished John's book, a very good read and I will say he certainly had testicular fortitude and I say that as a Loyalist. I did have a question if he's reading this as I know he sometimes does, if O'Callaghan set you up did the thought occur to you, given McGuiness's almost weaponized intransigence that he was also in the control of the British and did similar? You appear to allude to as much in certain parts.
ReplyDeleteA review perhaps, Steve?
DeleteThanks for your comments Steve. I can't say for sure who was in control of the British although I have deep suspicions. The British achieved every objective (end of armed resistance, Nationalist buy-in to a reformed Stormont, recognition of the Crown Constabluary as lawful authority, stablisation of partition, and Dublin government endorsement of the strategic landscape). The Brits could not have achieved all that without a lot of help from within the Provisional movement. In my own case, which you refer to, O'Callaghan did not set me up. He informed on us but the one who set me up was whoever gave me the order to 'come home now, bring everything, and you be on the boat.' For reasons I describe in the book I do not know who gave me that order but I have good idea. Can't prove it though because Liam Ryan, the sound man who handed me the 'comm' was later murdered by Loyalists operating on the orders of RUC Special Branch. I never asked Liam who told him to give me that comm (he would have told me had I asked) but I trusted the IRA leadership at the time and had no reason to question anything. I wish now I had. Sorry if this seems a bit convoluted but there is a lot I know I cannot say because it would betray the confidence of men who trust me not to slobber what they told me but the more I learn the worse the picture gets. The Brits had us big time. As Ian Paisely said on the steps of Stormont in 2007 when he became privy to certain intelligence information on the Provos 'it would make the hair stand on the back of your head'.
DeleteWhy are irish republicans in the US unwilling to criticise American backed genocide against the people of Palestine & the wider Middle East ? Some things will never change . You converse with them - what's their response / long excuse list ?
ReplyDeleteThat's a very good question . Maybe the owner of the site is scared to offend them ? They would probably unfurl a stars & stripes & sing their beloved anthem . The aroma of American ( always first ) irish hypocrisy is lung crushing .
ReplyDeleteWhere are Al Qaeda ? Why haven't they attacked Israel in the past & present ?