IRA History

On this day in Irish republican history. Daily, dated, sourced. 1919 → present. History, not advocacy.

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The IRA traces its roots to the Irish Volunteers, founded 1913 as a nationalist militia in response to the Ulster Volunteer Force.

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@FoxNews Sell outs

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@WallStreetApes Add bacon fat for a little razzle dazzle

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@WallStreetApes 1 parts 151 alcohol 1 parts diesel and 1 part old Tshirt and a flame will fix this problem

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@MarkSalvon708 @IrishUnity Yea you can joke all you want towel head but guess what my shit loaded with you ain’t getting you 72virgins

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@compliantvc Funny how there’s no public record of your net worth because you’re a private business executive. Meanwhile, you’re listed as Europe’s number one Investor How about you release your network to the public you bitch

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16 Aug 1888: #Pharmacist John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola, dies of stomach cancer at the age of 57 in Atlanta, Georgia. Burdened by heavy debts and a severe #morphine addiction resulting from a Civil War sabre wound, he sold off most of his patent rights shortly before his death. Consequently, he passed away unaware that his simple soda fountain tonic would grow into one of the most recognizable global brands in history. #CocaCola #coke #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/QPGRlkxSqE

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Go play in traffic, Pocahontas

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Would you rather give money to billionaires to help them buy another private jet or lower health care costs for millions of Americans?

Trump picked the billionaires.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

@SenWarren How does letting people keep their own money that they earn constitute "giving" them money? What you want to do is take their money and give it to others who did not earning it to buy their votes.

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My real question is how are these migrants from other countries coming to these countries and knowing how to play the system and scam millions of dollars within weeks of being here when the average citizen couldn’t figure out how to do that even if they were given a how to book

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Celtic fans remember 1981 Hunger Strikers 🇮🇪

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Dec 14, 1918. Sinn Féin ran on a promise to declare a republic and skip London entirely. They won 73 of 105 Irish seats, one of the largest landslides in Western Europe that century. 40 winners were in prison on election day

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May 1917. Britain arrested dozens of Sinn Féin leaders over an alleged German plot, widely seen now as invented. It backfired. Sinn Féin went from a fringe party to Ireland's dominant nationalist voice almost overnight.

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A general strike shut the country down. Conscription was never enforced. The Irish Parliamentary Party, which failed to stop it, never recovered.

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Dubliners had blamed the rebels for the city's destruction when the Rising ended. By the fifteenth execution, opinion had reversed completely. George Bernard Shaw called it the killing of prisoners of war.

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May 3, 1916. Patrick Pearse, Thomas Clarke, and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by firing squad at Kilmainham, the first of fifteen executions. Clarke had spent a quarter of his life in prison and told his wife he felt relief, not fear, that night

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August 3, 1916, three months after the Dublin executions ended. Roger Casement, who had tried to smuggle German arms to the rebels before the Rising began, was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London, the only 1916 leader executed outside Ireland.