tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post6897782528690535999..comments2024-03-23T10:20:15.689+00:00Comments on Léargas: WRITE ON MA!Máirtín Ó Muilleoirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088662505129211196noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-82860196204462568642009-08-20T12:21:11.013+01:002009-08-20T12:21:11.013+01:00great post cara and always a joy to read. hope all...great post cara and always a joy to read. hope all well with you and yours, my wee Seán is thriving.<br /><br />best from Limerick from exiled dub.<br /><br />Gerry Kgerry Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-2108908505278316912009-08-10T02:42:02.716+01:002009-08-10T02:42:02.716+01:00Gerry that is a story, I don't know how to com...Gerry that is a story, I don't know how to comment on this. I just like to say how I stand behind the The 1971 Ballymurphy Massacre Committee and the just cause, a entity of real action for advancing the principle to the bring the British Army to Justice for the 9th and 11th of August 1971 killings. I join you in commemorating the victims of the Ballymurphy Massacre. In Operation Demetrius What they did not include was a single Loyalist. Although the UVF had begun the killing and bombing, this organisation was left untouched, as were other violent Loyalist,such was internment.Timothy Doughertynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-14462996491977694002009-08-09T21:57:42.853+01:002009-08-09T21:57:42.853+01:00thanks for sharing that...me and my hubby just hom...thanks for sharing that...me and my hubby just home from our first féile trip...such dedication to making sure that families participate,made me think of how republican women today are still putting family first. If only the dublin government would read the consitution and cherish each child equally..go raibh míle do na dhaoine cairdiúl i gculturlann,..lean leis do blog a chara!nikki ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14828313622928888024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-56737164825243739442009-08-09T15:22:53.659+01:002009-08-09T15:22:53.659+01:00Thank's for posting that report Gerry. It trul...Thank's for posting that report Gerry. It truly is a shocking reminder of what people had to endure at the hands of the unionist state and the british army.<br /><br />By writing that report, your mother shows why the British just could not defeat the Irish people anywhere in Ireland and that is because they clubbed together.<br /><br />As she said, 200 neigbours got up and came out. They were witness to the events.<br /><br />In peace-time the systemic mechanisms of division kick in again.<br /><br />Democracy is the name of the game now. And politics is the art of achieving the impossible.Michealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02310793974335095318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-44589393745538023142009-08-09T10:37:05.852+01:002009-08-09T10:37:05.852+01:00Gerry
Please do us a favour and stop talking abou...Gerry<br /><br />Please do us a favour and stop talking about maybe doing deals with FG or supporting a Coalition Government it is doing untold damage in Dubin.You need to be talking about working with progressive movements and getting the left vote from Labour , there are many in that party not happy with thier lot. Concentrate on 2 things, Working people politics and Unity.No More talk about Coalition PleasePaul Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-70845031180751047472009-08-09T00:21:56.499+01:002009-08-09T00:21:56.499+01:00Hi Gerry, Your mom sounded like a wonderful women ...Hi Gerry, Your mom sounded like a wonderful women who was not intimidated by the brits and I loved the fact that she wrote about the proclamation being damaged. Not only did the bastards destroy your homes they then tried to say it was caused by the B specials. May they all burn in eternity. E.F.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-81966470538502931002009-08-08T20:03:43.208+01:002009-08-08T20:03:43.208+01:00Mr. Adams,
That post was heartbreaking.
I imagin...Mr. Adams,<br /><br />That post was heartbreaking.<br /><br />I imagine that statement was difficult for you to read.<br /><br />Your mom must have been a very brave and strong woman. I'm sure you have wonderful memories of her.Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02507850705045896273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-45040931694221949792009-08-08T19:02:24.278+01:002009-08-08T19:02:24.278+01:00Thanks for sharing that with us Gerry. It serves a...Thanks for sharing that with us Gerry. It serves as a simely reminder of the huge sacrifices made by the women, especially the mothers, in bringing us to where we are today. They were tough times Gerry and those letters are the proof of it.<br />It reminds me of the poem Patrick Pearse wrote the night before his execution by firing squad.<br />His brother Willie was executed some days later.<br /><br /> The Mother <br /><br />I do not grudge them: Lord, I do not grudge<br />My two strong sons that I have seen go out<br />To break their strength and die, they and a few,<br />In bloody protest for a glorious thing,<br />They shall be spoken of among their people,<br />The generations shall remember them,<br />And call them blessed;<br />But I will speak their names to my own heart<br />In the long nights;<br />The little names that were familiar once<br />Round my dead hearth.<br />Lord, thou art hard on mothers:<br />We suffer in their coming and their going;<br />And tho' I grudge them not, I weary, weary<br />Of the long sorrow - And yet I have my joy:<br />My sons were faithful, and they fought.<br /> -- Patrick H. Pearse<br /><br />Says it all really, Gerry.Mr Realitynoreply@blogger.com