Nice post but you forgot to call him a cunt. B -
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Most literature is favourable to the 16 Rebels. I just look for some balance. I’m not saying everything was hunky dory back then but the accepted narrative is distorted.
The assassinated founder of the INLA went there along with some other Ra head who wrote a book on it, it sickens me to be associated with them frankly. Mostly decent Blueshirts though
Seamus Costello. Old school republican socialist of the military variety. Wiped out by the Officials on the North Strand in 1977. Not sure he could be held responsible for the way the INLA developed after his death.
Was the subject of an assassination attempt in Lismore Park in Waterford in 1974. The sound of the gunfire woke me. The bullet holes could be seen in the wall for years afterwards. Waterford ( and Lismore Park, particularly ) was an Official stronghold.
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He was the dirty little secret they never talked about anyway
I actually stumbled upon the little memorial plaque to him at the North Strand there during the summer
Didn’t ye vote for the IPP as well in 1918? Right stubborn cunts in Waterford.
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Yes we are. We elected a Redmond to parliament in every election in the city from 1891 to 1952.
I’d love to root out an article I read 2 or 3 years back on the history of the IRA. Even suggested that some of the most notorious and conspicuous founders and leaders of rebel bodies such as IRB, IRA were in fact counter-revolutionaries (agents of the British establishment).
Root away, pal.
Here Riggo, when you are bolloxing on about balance did you know that De Valera spoke at a commemoration for Redmond in 1956 in Wexford and said the following
Eamon de Valera said that although he had not changed his views on his differences with Redmond, he was happy to play his part “in doing honour to a great Wexford man to whom we are quite ready to give credit for having worked unselfishly according to his views for the welfare of his country”.
Was he as forgotten as you and your pal Bruton think he was I wonder?
Many streets or memorials named after him outside of his home?
There’s one in Cork anyway.
There was a Redmond Bridge in Waterford until 1987, and a Redmond was a TD in Waterford until 1952. From then until 1992 the Redmondite Fg faction in Waterford elected a TD.
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There are Redmond Streets in Cork City and Fermoy.
There’s a Redmond Court in Kilbarrack.
All nice, not a patch on something in the Capital city of this country.
Perhaps, but for an allegedly forgotten figure in history, a bumptious charisma free parliamentarian, Westminster fixated politician, who spectacularly misjudged the tide of history it’s not bad.
Is there something funny about Kilbarrack, fee paying school boy?