He was on newstalk discussing the hypocrisy of the GGA. Probably better that it is coming from a gahliban member as he isn’t biased against them
Rouse doesn’t hold back when putting them in their place, you love to see it.
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I decided to be a home town hero and go into a local small bookshop today. A couple of books tickled my West Brit fancy including the latest John Redmond biography and a book on Victorian Dublin but I ended up settling on Colum Kenny’s Arthur Griffith biography.
50 pages in here now and it’s a challenging read. Each chapter seems to open with Griffith’s upbringing but quickly jumps forward. He has brought up James Joyce’s writings about Griffith over and over again, telling us that Joyce was the author of Ulysses. I checked the index there and in the first 39 pages Ulysses is mentioned no less than 8 times but even still we get the line on page 39 “James Joyce, author of Ulysses, perhaps the most famous novel of the 20th century”. Are there no editors anymore?
Anyway, have you read it or any of Kenny’s other things @Fagan_ODowd? Seems well researched in fairness and I‘ve enjoyed some of the snippets so far. I had never heard this:
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No pal, sorry
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Is the Portillo show any good? Probably has been discussed elsewhere?
Was talking to my nephew the other night, he said it was ok.
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He’s Clares greatest hero from the war of independence
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The lads Charlie Flanagan wanted to honour.
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Quite a life story. Follow the Twitter thread
There could be a good series to be made about the diehard revolutionaries of the time who had an international outlook. Ernie O’Malley…
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A gripping account of the Rineen ambush in Clare.
They’ve a meitheal of work done on this locally for the 100th anniversary
Great read