The Irish Hero Thread.

[Declan]

Frank Flood was a 1st Lieutenant in the Dublin Active Service Brigade during the Irish War of Independence. He was executed by the British authorities in Mountjoy Prison age 19 years old.He was born at 6 Emmet Street, Dublin on 1 December 1901.He was a close personal friend of Kevin Barry, and asked that he be buried as close as possible to him.[He had taken part in the September 1920 ambush during which Kevin Barry had been arrested and had been involved in the planning of several aborted attempts to rescue him.He would remain buried at Mountjoy Prison, together with nine other executed members of the Irish Republican Army known as The Forgotten Ten, until he was given a state funeral and reburied at Glasnevin Cemetery on 14 October 2001 after an intense campaign led by the National Graves Association.

 

[Declan]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Flood&ved=2ahUKEwjAvcvJ7r-FAxV6hIkEHeL6CZUQFnoECEEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1GNja6Yu4DhG8BjNnI9L8G

An engineering student. Just 19 and hanged.

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

During the Battle of Loos Doyle was caught in a German gas attack and for his conduct was mentioned in dispatches.[6] A recommendation for a Military Cross was rejected as "he had not been long enough at the front".[6] Doyle was presented with the "parchment of merit" of the 49th (Irish) Brigade instead. On 16 August 1917, he was killed in action at the Battle of Langemarck "while administering the Last Sacraments to his stricken countrymen".[4][7]

Doyle was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery during the assault on the village of Ginchy during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

Willie Doyle - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

View: https://x.com/irelandbattles/status/1795353453839155705

 

[valamhic]

Willie Doyle - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Al lot of these rebels were former British Army members. Emmet Dalton for example.

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Arriving later today. Should be a good read:

 

[Myles O'Reilly]

They put up a mural featuring O'Duffy in a school in Monaghan a couple of years back but had to remove it after the students kicked off.

School criticised for mural featuring Blueshirt leader Eoin O’Duffy – The Beacon

The inclusion of Eoin O'Duffy in a secondary school mural has been criticised given O'Duffy's open fascism and leadership of the Blueshirts.

the-beacon.ie

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

They put up a mural featuring O'Duffy in a school in Monaghan a couple of years back but had to remove it after the students kicked off.

School criticised for mural featuring Blueshirt leader Eoin O’Duffy – The Beacon

The inclusion of Eoin O'Duffy in a secondary school mural has been criticised given O'Duffy's open fascism and leadership of the Blueshirts.

the-beacon.ie

what do students even know these days? Nothing

 

[Anderson]

View: https://t.me/OffgridIreland/682843

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

John Scotus Eriugena- The Savior of Civilisation​

It was a period in which the man for whom this review is named was recognised as perhaps the preeminent thinker of Christendom.



He was the man we know as Ioannes Scottus Eriugena, which means simply John the Irishman; as if he were a man shouldering a shovel for Murphy or MacAlpine on the Holloway Road or laying subway tracks under the streets of New York or Boston.

John Scotus Eriugena- The Savior of Civilisation?

Dr Matt Treacy

eriugenareview.com

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

View: https://x.com/PangurBn10/status/1800853653907206527

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

View: https://x.com/FinbarrDBradley/status/1789982272700960795

 

[Declan]

Great stuff Plunkett

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

An Introduction to the Works of Desmond Fennell

The work of Desmond Fennell is continuing to be re-discussed and appreciated by increasingly younger generations of dissident Gaels, hoping to find answers to how Ireland has come to its current hollowed out, cultureless predicament — as well finding useful answers to how we can grow out of this.

An Introduction to the Works of Desmond Fennell (Fennellism pt. 0) — MEON

Desmond Fennell was Ireland's finest modern intellectual. Luckily for dissidents, his body of work also lays out the essential intellectual project of modern Irish Nationalism.

meonjournal.com

 

[Declan]

I must check him out more, he looks like a gaelic marxist like what tadge gaelach was????

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Desmond Fennell's guide to almost everything - Gript

2024 could well be the year that sees a major revival of interest in Desmond Fennell and his ideas.

gript.ie

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

The Anglo protestant ascendancy in Ireland spent decades trying to convince Paddy of the ill effects of Catholicism on Irish life and culture. Fennel made the case that the real issue is that the Catholic Faith was never allowed to truly permeate Irish cultural praxis, such as it did in places like Italy:

“I continue to be struck by something that struck me then. Although regular practice of Catholicism is considerably less in Italy than even today in the Republic of Ireland, the Catholic religion is much more in evidence there than here. Also, as an offshoot of that, there is much more public recognition of many people’s belief in the existence of a spiritual world, and of the pursuit of holiness, as elements of life past and present. In part this has to do with the strong persistence in Italy of a Catholic culture in the form of town and city festivals, mostly in honour and commemoration of a dead saint, or to mark some Church holy day such as the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. All of these festivals are enacted or participated in by thousands of people or, as in Catania for the feast of Saint Agatha, by an entire large city. Our ruinous history, by one means or another, deprived us of such a normal heritage of a Catholic people. Indeed, St. Patrick’s Day apart, our special public holidays are days when the banks are closed. If ever there were a parody of a capitalist society! Moreover, in Italy, in these great public religious occasions, the civic authorities actively participate.”

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Desmond Fennell on the Spire of Dublin

Seeing what Ireland’s politicians had erected in the centre of the capital’s main thoroughfare, Fennell was not impressed.

‘Ireland After the End of Western Civilisation’ (2009)

“When I first saw it, I remarked that it would have been more suitable for the other Blackpool, the popular English seaside resort, than for the centre of Ireland’s capital city. But on reflection, I recognised that it was at least an honest statement of the Republic’s state of mind after its prudent self-effacement during the Northern War and during the past-effacing enrichment of the Celtic Tiger boom. It stood for, represented, and said Nothing.”

 

[SeekTheFairLand]

Dessie O'Hare
A free man once again.

And a song in his honour.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE6apBCBp0Y

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

A Mason Once Again: The birth of the Irish Free State​

the Free State government moved to execute the untried and unconvicted Myles O’Connor, Liam Mellows, Joseph McKelvey and Richard Barrett. The men could not have had a hand in the killing of Hales, as they had been imprisoned since summer. The executions were carried out in Mountjoy Jail at 8am on 8th December and were audaciously illegal.

The executions have been referred to as an auto-da-fé. Significantly they were carried out on 8th December – the Feast of the Immaculate Conception - a feast day with great significance to a majority-Catholic country which was then only days old. Symbolism is important. Famously the Easter Rising’s timing in 1916 was chosen for reasons related to the Resurrection.



This dimension to the 8th December murders did not go unnoticed, and it particularly perturbed the Vatican. There was a suspicion by the rector of the Irish College in Rome, who was far more sympathetic to the republicans than the Hierarchy in Ireland was, that there may have been a deeper significance to the executions. It was stated outright elsewhere that the Free State government was acting under pressure from powerful groups within the emergent British Dominion.

A Mason Once Again: The birth of the Irish Free State

Why were four Irish republicans executed on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception 1922?

eriugenareview.com