tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post2151421382432361630..comments2024-03-23T10:20:15.689+00:00Comments on Léargas: A Heroic Leader – Joe McDonnellMáirtín Ó Muilleoirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088662505129211196noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-71538647602358554432010-07-10T19:31:44.343+01:002010-07-10T19:31:44.343+01:00Thanks for putting the other side of the story. Th...Thanks for putting the other side of the story. The Republican record of events is the only valid history of the conflict, in my opinion, because it deals with the micro history. The macro of history is always just a subjective collaboration of academics which never connects with the lives of the individuals that were there and the human reality of the story.<br /><br />History, as told by historians and academics is really an anti-human exercise in state propaganda, designed to read well and sanitise the atrocities of the power-brokers of the time.Michealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02310793974335095318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-52893361335978057942010-07-10T17:26:58.729+01:002010-07-10T17:26:58.729+01:0029 years, 29 years since the hunger strike of 81, ...29 years, 29 years since the hunger strike of 81, most of the hunger strikers had not reached 29 years of age,<br />i have read your blog about JOE Mc DONNELL a few times now, unlike books on this subject you speak in a personal way, a very touching way,<br />some say that the election strenth was build on the sacrifice, this is said to deride SINN FEIN, but i have always found it to be a source of pride, to hear our enemys bring up the hunger strikers, for what ever purpose, means that they will never forget them either,<br />oppression, brit injustice, never stood a chance against those 10, against the movement, against the IRISH.<br />those inside the the H blocks moved a goverment, for the second time in history, goverment policy was removed by those behind the wire,<br />another hunger strike won prisoner rights in 1972, the brit made some mistake when they removed these rights in 1976,<br /><br />while the H blocks today are gone,or empty, other prisoners still do not wear the prison uniform, or crime uniform, this is another testement of the 10,<br /><br />every X for SINN FEIN is the mark of the hunger strikers, the mark of all those who are proud of that 1 simple fact, proud to be IRISH.michaelhenryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02922594308606665908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-13006989870085695672010-07-10T15:13:56.633+01:002010-07-10T15:13:56.633+01:00Another great Belfast man Joe McDonnell, role mode...Another great Belfast man Joe McDonnell, role models , yes and more , I think.<br /> You are right Gerry, they were noble, selfless, decent men and women , and had great dignity in the face of great hardship.<br /> I read something the other day, and had a personal memory of my grandfather come back. As a young lad of no more the 7 or 8 years of , it was a rare thing to meet and talk with my grandfather, he lived on the other side of the country. I recalled him telling me , in a rushed voice , as if it was a very hard thing to get out of his mind.<br /> My grandfather said: I fought the brits and they got me , I tried to fight them ,but there was to many. than he said ? they hurt him bad. This was a hard thing for him to try to tell me and for me to understand, as a child. He fought for Irish independence , and was imprisoned. In 1922 he come to the states and started a new life,.<br /> ‘Understand the Past – And build a Better Future’ It is the likes of Joe McDonnell, committed to opposing oppression and injustice , until the end, that seem to tell the story of a nation.<br /> "He may seem the fool who has given his all, by the wise men of the world; but it was the apparent fools who changed the course of Irish history".~ Patrick PearseTimothy Doughertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03626399091447383952noreply@blogger.com