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Irish man from Tyrone ☘️🇮🇪 (Couldn’t recover my old account so had to start again) #Think32

[Marc Gray @Warren1Point]

Imagine declaring Noel Little as a good man? What sort of idiot pretends there were good terrorists

[Aodh Mór Uí Néill- Thee Uí Néill @AodhMorONeill]

Interesting comments from Prof O’Leary, at the time time of 🇩🇪 Unity..

- W.🇩🇪 was poorer than Southern 🇮🇪now
- E.🇩🇪 was significantly poorer than the 6 counties.
- Economic Question for Pro Unity is settled in favour of 🇮🇪 Unity.
- About whether folk are willing.
- Achievable!

[CQ’s @CQs_1987]

Neville has come alive…the difference in his reaction to Utd Vs City scoring…🤷🏻‍♂️

[Pelham @Resist_05]

“Palestine was hardly Britain’s to give away”…

~ President John F Kennedy 🇺🇸

[Aodh Mór Uí Néill- Thee Uí Néill @AodhMorONeill]

What a beautiful instrument & national symbol of Ireland! Of the 2k that John Egan made in 1820, only 37 remain around the 🌎 now, this one in Ireland, so I think we can assume it is too rare to be played sadly. Harp making has been a profession in Ireland for over a millennium

[Irish Border Poll @irishborderpoll]

The North just doesn’t work. End of story. It’s a waste of time.

Have a border poll, end Partition and get Reunification done.

[Art @Art93319672]

@BritainElects @wethinkpolling "While the rest of the country was facing Covid restrictions and a cost-of-living crisis, the government was getting through 1,433 bottles from its wine cellar, and replenishing the stocks with a net spend of more than £100,000 over the three years from 2019-22." WhatsApp Tories

[Aodh Mór Uí Néill- Thee Uí Néill @AodhMorONeill]

@MarkWilson1980 Thought of the day….you sir are a deluded fool.

- Loyalists killed the 1st Catholic, Protestant, RUC and Brit Soldier.
- Loyalists planted the 1st 13 Bombs
- Ian Paisley and the DUP paid for the first bomb (power station) to blame the IRA.
- 🇬🇧 spooks bombed Monaghan &Dublin

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

The horrific pictures from the Israeli attack on UN-run Fakhura School. A protected building. Over 50 dead.

Biden, Bliken, Trudeau, Scholz, Von der Leyen, Sunak, Starmer- you should all join your leader Netanyahu in The Hague.

[The Irish News @irish_news]

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has been told “to stop using people as bargaining chips” after indicating it is unlikely his party’s Stormont boycott will end this year
https://t.co/Lk1CCJoU75

[Sam McBride @SJAMcBride]

Vulnerable people face going blind and losing teeth because of Stormont’s failures - and still nobody will make the minor change to fix it. This involves more than 200,000 people and is a shocking emblem of NI's broken system.
➡️https://t.co/XardBCSmCM
https://t.co/XardBCSmCM

[Common Cents @Reunify32]

Look at the body language and listen to the aggression in Micheál Martin’s voice when he’s called out for his “good” IRA hypocrisy. A spoofer of the highest order.

[The Irish News @irish_news]

Brian Feeney: "The north is a place apart from Britain... part of the island of Ireland. That’s how everyone else in the world sees it"

https://t.co/P2nxh7R1jx

[Belfast Live @BelfastLive]

DUP proposal to light up Belfast City Hall in Israel colours fails https://t.co/o8vzeszqiv

[The 1798 Belfast & Dublin Walking Tours @1798walkingtour]

◾️The Shaftesbury family ended up owning the bed & banks of Lough Neagh in the 1600's, after doing a deal with Ulster's very own murder machine Sir Arthur Chichester. The Shaftesburys have been shafting & extracting the wealth of the lough ever since.

To begin with, Chichester et al basically exterminated all those who lived along the Lough, it flowed red with the blood of the Gael long before it was polluted with green algae.

🟢 In a frequently cited despatch from Sir Arthur Chichester himself, when he raided across Lough Neagh into east Tyrone in 1601 he claimed:

“We have burned and destroyed along the Lough even within four miles of Dungannon, where we killed man, woman, child, horse, beast and whatever we found..'

🟢 '...The last service from which we returned yesterday was upon Patrick O'Quin, one of the chief men of Tyrone, dwelling within four miles of Dungannon, fearing nothing, but we lighted upon him and killed him, his wife, sons and daughters, servants and followers being many, and burned all to the ground!'

◾️As for Mountjoy, well he was something of a theorist of famine, as well as being its prime creator.

"Mountjoy led the way in scorched earth tactics, as he seemed to have few qualms of conscience about the killing of civilian non-combatants claiming that “even the very best of the Irish people were in their nature little better than devils”. He noted that if fish live in water as rebels do among the people of the countryside, then you dry up the water...

Mountjoy wrote as follows to his fellow Devonian, Sir George Carew, who was using the same tactics against the remnants of resistance among the O'Sullivans and Driscolls after Kinsale:

“Here in Ulster we do continually hunt all their woods, spoil their corn, burn their houses, and kill as many churls as it grieveth me to think it is necessary to do so”.

🟢 His secretary and companion in the field, Fynes Moryson, wrote of these last days of the war in Ulster: “No spectacle was more frequent than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, shamrocks and docks and all things they could rend above ground…"

In summary:

"The slaughter of clergy, women, children, and other defenceless non-combatants who did not carry arms, was perpetrated on a scale hardly paralleled elsewhere in Europe at that time ... Chichester,
Mountjoy and his commanders launched an exceptionally harsh campaign to create famine and decimate the civilian population.

◾️In Ulster, Sir Henry Dowcra, Sir Arthur Chichester and Mountjoy himself acknowledged the exceptional character of the Nine Years War in their many references to the deliberate slaughter of non-combatants ... It may very well be concluded that the post-Kinsale period in Ulster, in the putting down of the fifteen-month resistance campaign, was carried out with unprecedented violence against non-combatants, clergy, women and children, who traditionally were immune in warfare".

In the face of all these facts, one is surely entitled to conclude that no general prohibition of massacre, and no general principle of the immunity of non-combatants, was operative in English culture in the late 16th century. If such principles had been operative, this history could hardly have happened.

The principle of the immunity of non-combatants went back a long way not only in the culture of Europe but also in the culture of Gaelic Ireland.

"The medieval church had promulgated the 'Lex Innocentium' or Law of the Innocents ever since the seventh century; this was particularly focused on women, who were not to be killed, assaulted or abused, and urged all rulers to protect them from such dangers. The law that women should have no part in warfare, attributed to the work of Adamnán at the Synod of Tara 697, was absorbed into Gaelic legal traditions through the Brehon laws"

🟩 For men like Chichester and Mountjoy, there could be no question of a Lex Innocentium, or not one that applied to Ireland. They did on occasion feel the need to give some sort of reason for all the killing.
They did...they believed the Irish were subhuman savages and needed to be exterminated for the greater good.

◾️There are streets named after these despicable tyrants in Belfast.

[The Irish News @irish_news]

Mystery surrounds which political party sent Stephen Nolan a 50th birthday cake
https://t.co/QMPAWg9Sx7

[Aodh Mór Uí Néill- Thee Uí Néill @AodhMorONeill]

This is why Unionism hates it!!! Nothing to do with Graffiti on a wall….😉…this type of organisation and planning is needed as we hurtle towards unity!! From remembering internment of innocent Catholic Civilians to a huge symbol of a proud risen community!! An-mhaith!! 👏🏼🇮🇪

[Aodh Mór Uí Néill- Thee Uí Néill @AodhMorONeill]

Interesting comments from Prof O’Leary, at the time time of 🇩🇪 Unity..

- W.🇩🇪 was poorer than Southern 🇮🇪now
- E.🇩🇪 was significantly poorer than the 6 counties.
- Economic Question for Pro Unity is settled in favour of 🇮🇪 Unity.
- About whether folk are willing.
- Achievable!

[Tom Hennessy @Tomhennessy20]

The great Padraig Coen of 'The Rebel Hearts' plays 'The Lonesome Boatman' beside the Liam Lynch Monument.

[Dr Harold News @DrHaroldNews]

Shoppers urged to beware of online scams after one man paid over €2 billion for a hospital.