The second edition of The Irish People, newspaper of Official Sinn Féin and later The Workers' Party, published #OnThisDay 11th May 1973.
Ciarán Bourke died on 10 May 1988. He was one of the original founding members of The Dubliners. He played tin whistle, mouth organ and guitar, as well as singing. Ciarán was responsible for bringing a Gaeilge element to The Dubliners’ music with songs such as “Peggy Lettermore” and “Sé Fáth Mo Bhuartha” being performed as Gaeilge.
2) I asked director Alan Gilsenan why he included footage of the graves of John Hume, Ian Paisley, David Trimble, and Martin McGuinness in 'The Irish Question'
Here's what he said:https://overcast.fm/+AAlMhOFU4mg/43:31
Éamonn Ceannt was executed on 8 May 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol. He was one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of Independence. Michael Mallin, Cornelius “Con” Colbert and Sean Heuston were also executed on the same day.
On 7th May 1981 an estimated 100,000 people attended the funeral of Bobby Sands (Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh) in Belfast. The size of the crowd reflected the impact the hunger strike was having on the Nationalist community in Northern Ireland.
Christy Moore was born on 7 May 1945 in Newbridge County Kildare. His first album, Paddy on the Road was recorded with Dominic Behan in 1969. In 2007 he was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards.
Ordinary Man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIh5dUOz824
Bobby Sands (Robert Gerard Sands - Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh) was born on 9th March 1954 in Dunmurry, County Antrim. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in HM Prison Maze (Long Kesh) in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. He died as a result of the hunger strike on 5 May 1981.
On 4th May 1916 Edward Daly (Éamonn Ó Dálaigh), Michael O’Hanrahan (Mícheál Ó hAnnracháin), William Pearse (Uilliam Seamus Mac Piarais) (brother of Pádraig Pearse) and Joseph Mary Plunkett (Seosamh Máire Pluincéid) were executed by the British occupying forces in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.
Sundays 4th and 11th May: Antiques, Vintage & Collectables Fair at the Pillo Hotel, #Ashbourne (N2), 11am-5:30pm. Don't miss it!
Admission €3.50 || First-day tickets valid for re-entry the following Sunday || Under-16s enter free but must be supervised.
On 29 April 1916 Pádraig Mac Piarais (Pádraig Pearse) ordered the surrender of the rebels bringing to an end the Easter Rising (Éirí Amach na Cásca). Approximately 64 rebels, 132 crown forces, and 230 civilians had been killed. 2,500 people had been wounded and the centre of Dublin had been devastated by the shelling.
On 28 April 1921 a public notice warned the people of Tipperary that 'a civilian with his hands in his pockets is necessarily an object of suspicion … and renders him liable to arrest and, in an emergency, runs the risk of coming under fire.'
Just listened to a fascinating Three Castles Burning podcast with the always excellent Donal Fallon about the Blueshirt and fascism in Ireland in the interwar years. I hadn't realised how big fascism was in Ireland in that period. I must read up about. Any recommendations for good books on the subject would be appreciated.
https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/blueshirt-bluster-the-march-on-dublin
On the 27 April 1921 in Listowel, County Kerry, a proclamation was posted by the military stating that in future reprisals for any outbreak against the lives and property of officials would be taken against the property of selected persons without proof of their implication in the outrage.
Francis Sheehy Skeffington, a pacifist, was murdered by the British forces on 26th April 1916 after being apprehended whilst trying to stop looting during the Easter Uprising. He and Thomas Dickson and Patrick McIntyre, both non-combatant journalists, were executed by firing squad. He was a friend and schoolmate of James Joyce and the real-life model for a character in Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
