Word on the street is that the IRA raided the Ballivor Barracks last night, letโs support our boys defending Ireland from the Crown!
#nsuirishhistory#goawaybrits#Revolution
Check out the project by students at @IrishNsu who've created accounts to tweet the events of the attack on Ballivor Barracks #100yearsago using #nsuirishhistory. I'd keep an eye on @JoeONei88578465 and @JohnDig78353994 in the days ahead....
"Ireland must be herself; not merely a free self-governing state, but authentically the Irish nation, bearing all the majestic marks of her nationhood. That the nation may live, the Irish life, both the inner life and the outer life, must be conserved.''
Pรกdraig Mac Piarais
#onthisday, October 19, 1919, Eamon de Valera visited the twin cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul. He addressed a crowd of 12,500 at the Minneapolis Armory, where โfor twenty minutes the audience stood upon its feet and cheered and waived American and new Irish Republic flags.โ
'The first care of every well-regulated community ought to be to preserve the use of that soil, and the right to freely share in its fruits, to every member of the community, present or prospective - born or unborn.'
James Connolly
Find out how families and communities in every county in Ireland were touched by the upheaval of 1916-1923 with our special Revolution Files subsite (via
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