www.thepensivequill.com/2026/09/1916... “The twenty-six-county administration seem to have developed a habit of selectively not recognising individuals and organisations who fought an empire for a week at Easter 1916”- Caoimhin O’Muraile #CumannnamBan #WomensLeague #IrishCitizenArmy #IrishVolunteers
1916 🪶 The Forgotten Heroes
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September 24, 2026 at 5:44 PM
www.thepensivequill.com/2026/09/1916... “The twenty-six-county administration seem to have developed a habit of selectively not recognising individuals and organisations who fought an empire for a week at Easter 1916”- Caoimhin O’Muraile #CumannnamBan #WomensLeague #IrishCitizenArmy #IrishVolunteers
Women of the #IrishVolunteers were routinely denied military pensions granted men for comparable service in the #WoI War of Independence #AngloIrishWar / Tan War
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#IWD #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay
#LanamBan #CumannamBan
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#IWD #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay
#LanamBan #CumannamBan
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March 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Women of the #IrishVolunteers were routinely denied military pensions granted men for comparable service in the #WoI War of Independence #AngloIrishWar / Tan War
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#IWD #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay
#LanamBan #CumannamBan
#LáIdirnáisiúntanamBan
#IrishHistory #History
#IrishResearch
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#IWD #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay
#LanamBan #CumannamBan
#LáIdirnáisiúntanamBan
#IrishHistory #History
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A gathering of #IrishVolunteers who were on hunger strike together in 1918 during the #IrishRevolution
My great grandfather, William, Liam, McGinley is in the back right. He was a tailor whose family traveled from Omagh to Dublin, then Glasgow, and back to Dublin in time to join the volunteers!
My great grandfather, William, Liam, McGinley is in the back right. He was a tailor whose family traveled from Omagh to Dublin, then Glasgow, and back to Dublin in time to join the volunteers!
November 25, 2024 at 10:56 PM
A gathering of #IrishVolunteers who were on hunger strike together in 1918 during the #IrishRevolution
My great grandfather, William, Liam, McGinley is in the back right. He was a tailor whose family traveled from Omagh to Dublin, then Glasgow, and back to Dublin in time to join the volunteers!
My great grandfather, William, Liam, McGinley is in the back right. He was a tailor whose family traveled from Omagh to Dublin, then Glasgow, and back to Dublin in time to join the volunteers!
This is the difference between #IrishVolunteers in the #WarofIdependence vs political assassinations aimed at subverting democracy and cheating the public of their political choice: wp.me/p43KWx-cm #IrishResearch #Ireland #IrishHistory #MichaelCollins
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Michael Collins’ “Squad”: “No man shot without full proof of his guilt”
Discussions about the history of Ireland tend to be fraught with political debate. Sometimes with moral debate; sometimes with politics masquerading as moral debate. While killings before …
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March 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is the difference between #IrishVolunteers in the #WarofIdependence vs political assassinations aimed at subverting democracy and cheating the public of their political choice: wp.me/p43KWx-cm #IrishResearch #Ireland #IrishHistory #MichaelCollins
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#OTD 1919 #IrishVolunteers first opened fire on British colonial occupation forces, opening #Ireland 's #WarofIndependence or #TanWarIreland
Read Dan Breen's own account of how this came about: wp.me/p43KWx-5K #History #IrishHistory #Dail #Ireland
Read Dan Breen's own account of how this came about: wp.me/p43KWx-5K #History #IrishHistory #Dail #Ireland
Soloheadbeg: the shot heard round the world
January 21 marks the anniversary of the Soloheadbeg raid: first action of Ireland’s War of Independence. Volunteers Dan Breen, Sean Treacy, & Seamus Robinson of Tipperary took a momentous…
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January 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#OTD 1919 #IrishVolunteers first opened fire on British colonial occupation forces, opening #Ireland 's #WarofIndependence or #TanWarIreland
Read Dan Breen's own account of how this came about: wp.me/p43KWx-5K #History #IrishHistory #Dail #Ireland
Read Dan Breen's own account of how this came about: wp.me/p43KWx-5K #History #IrishHistory #Dail #Ireland
Desperate to defeat #SinnFéin & the #IrishVolunteers, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1916 #MartialLaw was declared in #Dublin. Officers with no legal training arranged kangaroo courts that executed civilians. Whitehall sought to bury the transcripts as they showed systemic negligence.
April 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Desperate to defeat #SinnFéin & the #IrishVolunteers, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1916 #MartialLaw was declared in #Dublin. Officers with no legal training arranged kangaroo courts that executed civilians. Whitehall sought to bury the transcripts as they showed systemic negligence.