#Irish revolutionary

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1807 – Birth of James Fintan Lalor in Raheen, Co Laois.

“Any man who tells you that an act of armed resistance—even if offered by 10 men armed with stones—any man who tells you that such an act of resistance is premature, imprudent or dangerous— any and every such man should at once be spurned, spat at. For remark you this and recollect it, that somewhere, and somehow, and by somebody a beginning must be made, and that the first act of resistance is…

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#History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish Confederation #Irish History #Irish revolutionary #James Fintan Lalor #Journalist #Laois County Council #Portlaoise #Young Ireland

[playitagin]

1922 – Cathal Brugha

Cathal Brugha (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkahəlˠ ˈbˠɾˠuː]; born Charles William St John Burgess; 18 July 1874 – 7 July 1922) was an Irish republican politician who served as Minister for Defence from 1919 to 1922, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann in January 1919, the first president of Dáil Éireann from January 1919 to April 1919 and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army from 1917 to 1919. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1918 to 1922.[1]

He was active in the Easter Rising, the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, and was the first Ceann Comhairle (chairman) of Dáil Éireann as well as the president of Dáil Éireann, the then title of the head of government.

On 28 June 1922, Brugha was appointed commandant of the forces in O'Connell Street. The outbreak of the Irish Civil War ensued in the first week of July when Free State forces commenced shelling of the anti-treaty positions.

Most of the anti-Treaty fighters under Oscar Traynor escaped from O'Connell Street when the buildings they were holding caught fire, leaving Brugha in command of a small rearguard. On 5 July 1922, he ordered his men to surrender, but refused to do so himself. In Thomas Lane he then approached the Free State troops, brandishing a revolver and sustained a bullet wound to the leg which 'severed a major artery causing him to bleed to death'. He died on 7 July, eleven days before his 48th birthday.

#Jul.7.1922 #date of death #Cathal Brugha #Irish revolutionary #politician #history today

[starlightseraph]

“he’s literally me”

no, he’s literally a scrawny middle-aged white man and probably british.

#david tennant #hugh laurie #peter capaldi #christopher eccleston #matt smith #john simm #honourable mentions: #robert sean leonard #brent spiner #they’re close enough #and david and peter are scottish #so their british-ness is debatable #sorry my irish revolutionary is showing #anyways #doctor who #good omens #house md #dead poets society #star trek #starlightseraph’s brainrot

[lily-s-world]

Queer people, and I can't say this loud enough, deserve silly romcoms with bad writing. We deserve Hallmark level movies and the big budget ones, too. We deserve all the types of romance media that have been available for straight people since the beginning of time.

What we don't deserve is that this media be held to a completely different quality standard that all its counterparts. That this media be criticized by the things that are ignored in others.

Not all pieces of queer media need to be a revolutionary piece of art. They are allowed to just exist and be enjoyable.

#lilyrambles #this was triggered by someone praising irish wish from netflix and completely destroying red white and royal blue #like??? #one is better than the other and is not the one with lindsay lohan #but because is queer they expected a revolutionary film #red white and royal blue #rwrb #queer media #heartstopper #one last stop #lgbtq #romcom #romance media #queer movies #lgbt media #our flag means death

[cruelsister-moved2]

anyway nationalism is a stupid fucking idea to try and base a liberation movement on and the state of 1srael and the republic of ireland are two great examples of what happens when you do

#and don't take it from me take it from the generations of irish & jewish revolutionaries who warned as much

[lulu-cat-princess]

If the free (insert country of choice) hashtag existed in when the ghosts where alive:

Humphrey: Free Netherlands

Kitty: Free New York, Free Massachusetts, Free New Hampshire, Free New Jersey, Free Pennsylvania, Free Delaware, Free Virginia, Free North and South Carolina, Free Georgia, Free Connecticut

Thomas: Free countries that is under Napoleon’s Rule, Free Ireland, Free countries that are Spanish colonies in North and South America, Free Brazil

Fanny: Free Ireland, Free India

The captain: Free countries that are under German and Japanese control, Free India

Pat: Free East Germany

Julian: Free Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

#bbc ghosts #colonisation #american revolutionary war #Eighty Years' War #Irish Rebellion of 1798 #ussr #ireland #India #napoleonic wars #ww2 #Baltic Way #east germany

[loki-zen]

incidentally will be forever fascinated to know how that one black Revolutionary War soldier got my (extremely rare) surname but i can’t exactly post about it on tumblr without doxxing myself

#the surname exists p much solely in one area of england #which all recorded immigrants to america of that surname emigrated from #my aunt was able to make contact with several US families of the name but not all of them #the americans outnumber us significantly at this point #you know like the irish #iirc from when i poked around a while back the union soldier probably has living descendants who may not be visibly black #you know what i am now doubting my memory #and think i might have got the wars mixed up again #for union soldier read soldier for America in the Revolutionary War #anyway the point was i could only get as far as his grandkids or something but there were enough of them that the odds seemed good

[tiarnanabhfainni]

weird to be on twitter and see someone using a historian’s research to defend a position that you know the historian would disagree with, because the historian themselves told you that they were worried that would happen :/

#draft-clearing #idk what this is about but i can guess #probably 'irish revolutionaries were racist in the 20s so it's my god given right to be racist now'

[queen-mabs-revenge]

never been busier organising literally I'd say 85% of days this month have been events, actions, or planning for them and without that level of work I think I'd be going fully insane watching the news, but my fuck my brain is straight up pudding

#i feel like the revolutionary side of me is firing on all cylinders #but uhhhhhh everything else is a bit of a shambles #which look whatever this is a crisis moment and the work needs to be done #building networks of action for pressuring industrial action against complicit Irish companies & services #and the *response* holy shit seeing the pieces fall into place for people #when you talk about the Belgian transportation unions striking against the war machine #bring up the history of Dunnes workers striking against apartheid South Africa #people's eyes light up like fuck yeah that makes sense #the protests are getting dire - just endless recountings of the horror #yes we mourn the dead but we fight like hell for the living #and the fight is not gonna be a graveyard of protests and vigils #we have to shut it down

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1866 – Birth of Irish revolutionary and patriot, Maud Gonne MacBride, near Farnham, Surrey, England.

Maud Gonne was an Irish revolutionary, suffragette, actress and a romantic muse for William Butler Yeats, as well as the mother to Nobel Peace Prize-winner, Sean MacBride. Maud Gonne was born near Farnham, Surrey, England. She founded the Irish Nationalist group, Inghinidhe na hÉireann (The Daughters of Ireland). She had a relationship with poet, William Butler Yeats and was the inspiration for…

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#A Servant of the Queen #Abbey Theatre #Cathleen ni Houlihan #Dublin #England #Farnham #Glasnevin Cemetery #Inghinidhe na hEireann #Irish revolutionary #Iseult #John MacBride #Major John MacBride #Maude Gonne MacBride #Sean MacBride #The Daughters of Ireland #William Butler Yeats

[banrionceallach]

#I hear the brits are having an Extremely Normal Time of it right now #Here have a quote from an Irish Revolutionary & Socialist

[newhistorybooks]

"Featuring impressive new scholarship on the global dimensions of the Irish Revolution, Mannion and McGarry provide much needed coherence to this emergent but still diffuse and underdeveloped aspect of the historiography, resulting in a cutting-edge reader on a critical theme that currently lacks a single dedicated volume. Most impressively, The Irish Revolution features many neglected or virtually unknown international influences and comparative case studies, including Algerian, Egyptian, Korean, Panamanian, and African-American contexts, making it a novel contribution to our understanding of the international dimensions of anti-colonial (and colonial) discourses, networks, and responses to Irish events."

#uwlibraries #history books #irish history #revolutionary history #20th century

[dullahandyke]

Also the parting glass and grace r rlly similar songs and they never fail to punch me in the gut

#the parting glass is a traditional pub end of the night departure song and its very sombre #and grace is abt an irish revolutionary who was sentenced to death #and seven hours before he died his fiance came to the jail and was married to him #just ueeeeeeee

[acrossthewavesoftime]

Hello friend, this is the statement to which I referred (messily) in my tags. I hope that the quality of the image is legible…I had to do a hasty copy from a Google doc. Also please forgive the sloppy keyword highlights—I found the item while searching for the name of the river that runs past our street, the Kennebec.

It’s hilarious how little Graves cares for Turner’s malarkey!

My brains were a little addled last night, I am sorry for having missed the account you meant (despite you having clearly stated which one it was)! Thank you for sending the images along, the quality is excellent.

I had not read it before, and have to admit, could not suppress an amused snort.

Since you were asking, I don't know Mr. Turner (do you happen to know more about him?), but I readily believe his account of Samuel Graves. That sounds pretty on-brand for him, at least the version of himself he chose to show while in his capacity of Commander of the North American Station. Graves' potty mouth was so well-known it even ended up in a satirical play:

From: The Fall of British Tyranny: or, American Liberty Triumphant, a Tragi-Comedy by John Leacock, 1776. ...And that's only one excerpt.

Other accounts and even satirical depictions of the time paint the picture of a dour, impulsive man who disliked almost everybody, could hold a grudge and was, rather infamously, despite his age still able to throw a punch.

You called him "totally unhinged with anger", and I would say that to some extent, he was; when he was writing letters in a more rational and reflected frame of mind than during his interview with Mr. Turner however, his foul mood is explained by his many trials to get the British government to help him out with manpower and materials he was desperately lacking to make some sort of meaningful contribution towards quashing the rebellion. It does not excuse his poor behaviour, but it at least explains what caused him to act the way he did, seeing as he knew the British public would hold him personally responsible rather than the government, which doubtlessly angered him.

By now, and having researched Graves for a while, I am convinced that Graves thought 'ruling by fear', if you will, would on the one hand perhaps scare the rebels to some extent and dissuade them from any illicit activities for fear of his person, and on the other win him the instant respect of the army officials. Given that even satirical descriptions concede that he was tall, if also of a, to use a period expression, fuller habit, with a distinct accent and a perpetually glum facial expression, his outward appearance seems to have been ideal for the role he decided to play.

To some extent, his plan worked; only regarding the British Army, alas, and not the rebels who cared little about him beyond every now and then calling him a "common pyrate" or some such. On the British side at least, Henry Clinton, notoriously high-strung and aware of his social anxiety, confessed in a letter to William Howe that he wished to act on a plan without the Admiral's knowledge "for I dreaded Jefferiny [sic]", in reference to Graves's personal secretary, George Gefferina. One can only imagine how great Clinton's fear of Graves himself may have been.

Interestingly, all other accounts I have of Graves, not Graves, the Naval Officer, but Graves, the Private Citizen, evidence that his personality was the polar opposite from what he showed of himself in public. If anything, he comes across as a rather open-minded and kindly person, who was generous, particularly towards people less fortunate than himself, loved to care for the children in his family and showed a surprising deal of respect and endorsement of what at the time were termed Bluestocking ideas, to the point he supported his niece's best friend, who as a teen was in constant trouble with her parents on account of defying their wish to get married as she had, as she was quite open in stating, no romantic or other interest in men.

I am always a little sad that Graves' softer, perhaps even more interesting and authentic side is so little well-known; he has, however, brought that upon himself.

#thanks for letting me ramble on about graves! #and captain dawson almost certainly was another irish crony #coincidentally he came from castle DAWSON guess how the local very influential landowning family was called #for whom graves' father had been the local reverend #despite calling himself 'british' (quote) graves cultivated a circle of almost exclusively irish intimates in boston #samuel graves #ask #ask reply #pentecostwaite #british history #history #american revolution #naval history #american revolutionary war #18th century

[dejahisashmom]

The Headless Horseman: the Halloween Truth behind Irving's Tale - Historic Mysteries

The Headless Horseman: the Halloween Truth behind Irving’s Tale – Historic Mysteries

Author’s Note: Happy Halloween!!! https://www.historicmysteries.com/horseman/

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#12th century #American Revolutionary War #British army #Brom Van Brunt #Celtic #Crom Dubh #Dullaghan #Dullahan #Durahan #Dutch #Dutchess Katrina Van Tassel #Ghouls #Headless Horseman #Hessian Soldier #Holland #Hudson River #Ichabod Crane #Ireland #Irish #Kinderhook #New York #Tarrytown #Tom Mison #Washington Irving #Wild Huntsman #Witches

[a-nam]

I love reading reviews for books I like the ppl are like "it's about someone who is realising how disconnected they are from the people around them" like yeah:) I picked up on the theme too

#its specially in the context of Irish generational trauma #takes place in dublin/wexford late 90s #the guys dad and all his relatives were in the revolutionary and civil wars #and when he grows up there's still war but its out of sight out of mind #in the book hes a member of one of the worst political parties in Ireland and hes an old man enforcing encredibly catholic anti female laws #hes also a bad husband and father #but when i read him im like hes just like me i also feel incredinly isolated in myself and divorced from the consequences of my actions #i hate him i love him i cry for him if he was real i would assassinate him #so many people are still like him but his type is no longer as mainstream i hope