Limerickflowers

I included this song ''Avondale'' on my latest episode of Land of the Golden Sunset, written by Dominic Behan (c 1958), I have added another verse as a reference to Kitty O'Shea

Avondale by James Kenny | BandLab Added another verse to this Dominic Behan song | Listen to music from James Kenny and follow their creative process on BandLab.

Michael Cusack would recall how both Pat Nally and himself while walking through the Phoenix Park in Dublin seeing only a handful of people playing sports in the park so depressed them, that they agreed it was time to "make an effort to preserve the physical strength of our race." Nally organised a National Athletics Sports meeting in County Mayo in September 1879 which was a success, with Cusack organising a similar event in Dublin the following April.

The Fenians 1867, James Stephens, Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt The period in Ireland between 1867-1891

So distressingly obvious was the callousness of the Westminster government to the horrors of the famine and so inhumane its policy, in declaring that the millions should perish rather than the corn market should be ‘’disturbed’’ by the action of the state, that coroners juries in several places, impanelled in the cases of famine victims, found on their verdict, on oath, ‘’Wilful murder against Lord John Russell’’ (the Premier) and his fellow cabinet ministers.

The Young Ireland Leaders 1846-1848 The Period during the famine of 1845-49 when Young Irelanders yearned for freedom

Just added an original song ''Ballyneety's ablaze'' to this episode, hope you like !

The Treaty of Limerick 1691, Patrick Sarsfield and General Ginkell Evolution of the Irish from Biblical times

Thomas Francis Meagher was born in Waterford in 1823. He joined the abortive Tipperary uprising with Smith O’Brien in 1848. He was captured and sentenced to hang, but was reprieved and sentenced to life in the penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land. He helped to plan the escape, to New York of John Mitchel. He practiced as a lawyer in the United States courts. In the American Civil War, he was commissioned a Brigadier-General of Volunteers in the New York 69th Union Army.

The Young Ireland Leaders 1846-1848 The Period during the famine of 1845-49 when Young Irelanders yearned for freedom

Young Ireland was a political and cultural movement in the 1840’s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform. Grouped around the Dublin weekly newspaper ‘’The Nation’’ it disagreed with Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association, from which it separated in 1847.
In 1848, an unsuccessful insurrection was mounted by the Young Irelanders. Their leaders were well educated and included all religions. Who like the patriots of 1798, were wholly concerned with justice for the Catholic population who had recently achieved emancipation.

The Young Ireland Leaders 1846-1848 The Period during the famine of 1845-49 when Young Irelanders yearned for freedom

On 27th July 1846, the Young Ireland leaders refused to sign Daniel O'Connell's test and walked out. This action led to two bitterly opposed and hostile parties, choosing different approaches in their efforts to try and overcome the hated, Act of Union.

The Unfortunate Great Irish Hunger 1845-1849 The period in Ireland after Catholic Emancipation when Millions of people died and emigrated

I have added an original song to this episode ''Jean Joseph Amable Humbert''
go on, give it a listen, for the halibut!

Lord Edward Fitzgerald, General Jean Humbert, General Charles Cornwallis and the 1798 rebellion in Ireland. Evolution of the Irish from Biblical times

This episode includes as the outro, a new song entitled ''What a shame'' have a listen and I hope you like it.

The Unfortunate Great Irish Hunger 1845-1849 The period in Ireland after Catholic Emancipation when Millions of people died and emigrated

I have reviewed and added an original song, written and performed by yours truly, to this episode. The song is entitled Tyrone and Tyrconnell.

Hugh O’Neill and Red Hugh O’Donnell take on the might of England in 1590’s During these wars, the Norman Earls, were at the head and to the fore of every rebellion. The English complained and said they were worse than the Irish rebels and were constantly stirring up trouble.

''Daniel O’Connell laid down the proposition, ‘’Ireland cannot fight England’’ above all he knew that there remained, at the worst, to an oppressed people unable to match their oppressors in a military struggle, the grand policy of passive resistance, by which the weak can drag down the haughty and the strong''

Daniel O’ Connell, the Liberator, Lord Castlereagh and ‘’duelling’’ the Code of Honour Evolution of the Irish from Biblical Times

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