It’s funny how hatred can live on … there’s still pockets of the country where landlord names or their agent’s names are still despised nearly 160-120 years later… RIC men weren’t really hated in lots of areas of the island.
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Don’t know tbh - irrespective it was awful
No true republican would condone that
Different world then
Yes there were some bastards in the RIC ranks but also there were men just caught in history
My own personal opinion
And being a republican since 16 - now 62 plus
I’ve only met 3 out n out sectarian ppl amongst republican ranks
True republicans are inclusive and definitely not sectarian, I mean our quest for 32 counties means just that inclusivity
You think thugs smashing up a memorial in a cemetery is a “good news story”?
Fucking hell.
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Flipping heck I never heard of this. Deliberately killing kids
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Tall talk out of a man that literally had a nervous breakdown and neglected his duties during Easter Week. A coward that never fired a shot and talking about wading through Irish blood. A fraud with a hell of a lot to answer for when it comes to the Civil War
Fuck Dev
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And even more to answer for afterwards handing the state over to the church
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Absolutely, he proved the Unionists correct. They said in 1914 that “Home Rule was Rome rule” and Dev proved them right. It takes some fuck up to prove that crowd correct but Dev managed it.
A complete weirdo with absolutely no backbone, a coward and a fraud.
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I’m going to sprain my neck from nodding furiously in agreement
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Dev set the country back 100 years the blind bollox
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We are one of the wealthiest countries in Europe 100 years after independence. 
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Exactly. Imagine where we’d be if the bollox hadn’t been a weak religious weirdo who handed the running of the State over to the likes of McQuaid and those bastards in the church
We’d be the greatest country in the world.
It puts what we’ve done since in perspective.
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Maybe it was all part of the journey.
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News to me also
On this day one hundred years ago an incident at Ballygroman House near Ovens in Co. Cork, sparked off a series of killings that would be among the more notorious of the revolutionary period – the infamous ‘Dunmanway Killings.’
After a party of IRA Volunteers arrived at Ballygroman House to seize a car, it appears that some of them attempted to break into the house to find a part which had been removed from the engine. One of this party, Michael O’Neill, was shot and mortally wounded by an occupant of the house, Herbert Woods. The house was owned by the Hornibrook family and in the following days Thomas and Samuel Hornibrook went missing, along with Herbert Woods and Ballygorman House was burned. It seems that an IRA party returned to the house and took them prisoner before executing them at another location.
Over the next two days a further ten Protestant men were killed along the West Cork Bandon Valley. It was alleged that some, or all, of them had a connection with the ‘Protestant Action Group’ and embryonic local militia while others had declared their support for the Provisional Government. Lands were seized as so called ‘Spy Farms’ and Protestants were soon fleeing the Cork area in fear of their lives. Both Free State and Republican authority figures issued strong condemnation promised to guard Protestant people and property. Michael Collins issued a plea to every section of Irishmen to assist in bringing the guilty parties to justice and to protect ‘their fellow citizens who may be in danger of a similar fate’.
The questions as to who was responsible for the killings and whether their motive was sectarian, political or personal is still widely, and sometimes quite hotly debated.
Pictured is Herbert Woods who killed Michael O’Neill and subsequently was executed himself.
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This is a brilliant if slightly controversial (what Irish history book isn’t?) detailing that and other incidents.
Florrie O’Donoghue and Martin Corry the main actors, Sing Sing in Knockraha the execution ground
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I think there was TV3 documentary made about it was there