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iamBullivantMartin McGuinness died on 21st March 2017. He was a former IRA commander and Sinn Fein political leader who helped negotiate peace in Northern Ireland after decades of sectarian violence, and became a senior official in its power-sharing government.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MartinMcGuinness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MartinMcGuinness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IRA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SinnFein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SinnFein</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NorthernIreland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthernIreland</a>

iamBullivantThe first unveiling of the Irish Tricolour by Thomas Francis Meagher at 33 the Mall in Waterford city took place on 7th March 1848. Meagher was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. It was not until the Easter Rising of 1916, when it was raised above Dublin's General Post Office by Gearóid O'Sullivan, that the tricolour came to be regarded as the national flag.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishTricolour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishTricolour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ThomasFrancisMeagher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThomasFrancisMeagher</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Waterford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Waterford</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantGrace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett was born on 4th March 1888. She was an Irish artist and cartoonist who was active in the Republican movement. She married her fiancé Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol only a few hours before he was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EasterRising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EasterRising</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/GraceGifford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GraceGifford</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JosephPlunkett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JosephPlunkett</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Kilmainham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kilmainham</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dublin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantEmmet’s Proclamation of the Provisional Government to the People of Ireland, his Speech from the Dock, and his sacrificial end on the gallows inspired later generations of Irish republicans. Patrick Pearse, who in 1916 was again to proclaim a provisional government in Dublin, declared Emmet's attempt "not a failure, but a triumph for that deathless thing we call Irish Nationality". 2/2<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RobertEmmet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertEmmet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dublin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantRugadh Robert Emmet ar an 4ú Márta 1778 i mBaile Átha Cliath.Robert Emmet was born on 4th March 1778 in Dublin. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt to overthrow the British Crown and Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, and to establish a nationally representative government. 1/2<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RobertEmmet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertEmmet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dublin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantHis death provoked strong anti-British, pro-Irish republican reactions around the world. The Iranian government renamed Winston Churchill Boulevard, the location of the British Embassy in Tehran, to Bobby Sands Street. This forced the embassy to move its entrance door to Ferdowsi Street to avoid using Bobby Sands Street on its letterhead. 2/2<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BobbySands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BobbySands</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HungerStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HungerStrike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LongKesh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LongKesh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HBlocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HBlocks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantCuireadh tús le stailc ocrais Phoblachtach na hÉireann 1981 nuair a dhiúltaigh Bobby Sands bia ar 1 Márta 1981.The 1981 Irish Republican hunger strike started with Bobby Sands (Roibeárd Ó Seachnasaigh) refusing food on 1st March 1981. During Sands' strike, he was elected to the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block candidate. Sands died on 5th May 1981 in the Maze's prison hospital after 66 days on hunger strike, aged 27. 1/<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BobbySands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BobbySands</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LongKesh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LongKesh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantThe police failed to identify individuals of significance to the investigation, disinformation was put out by the media, misleading evidence was given to the inquest and when an official inquiry was requested, the request was ignored. 2/2<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WeaverStreetMassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeaverStreetMassacre</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Belfast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Belfast</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantOn 13 February 1922 the Weaver Street Massacre took place in Weaver Street, Belfast. A bomb thrown into a group of Catholic children playing in the street killed six and injuring twenty. The Special Constabulary and police are both implicated in colluding with the bombers. Forensic evidence was misrepresented and not properly secured, witness statements were not collected. 1/2<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WeaverStreetMassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeaverStreetMassacre</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Belfast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Belfast</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantFourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers, and some were shot while trying to help the wounded. 2/2<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BloodySunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BloodySunday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Bogside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bogside</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Derry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Derry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantOn 30 January 1972 British soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment shot 26 unarmed civilians during a march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. The march had been organised to protest against the introduction of internment without trial. The massacre became known as 'Bloody Sunday'. 1/2<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BloodySunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BloodySunday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Bogside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bogside</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Derry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Derry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantKevin Barry was born on 20 January 1902. He an 18 year old medical student who was executed in 1920 for his part in an attack upon a British Army supply lorry which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. His execution inflamed nationalist public opinion in Ireland, largely because of his age.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/KevinBarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KevinBarry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishWarOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishWarOfIndependence</a>

iamBullivantOn 16th January 1922 Michael Collins took control of Dublin Castle from the British authorities on behalf of the new Irish Free State.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MichaelCollins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCollins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DublinCastle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DublinCastle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishFreeState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishFreeState</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a>

iamBullivantThe first contingents of the Black and Tans began arriving in Ireland on 7 January 1920. Alongside the Auxiliaries, the Black and Tans went on to commit many of atrocities and terrorise the civilian population in Ireland.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BlackAndTans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackAndTans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishWarofIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishWarofIndependence</a>

iamBullivantON 27th December 1969 Dan Breen died. He was an IRA leader during the War of Independence and the Civil War. Breen was born in Grange, Donohill parish, County Tipperary. His father died when he was six, leaving the family very poor. In January 1927, he became the first anti-Treaty TD to take the Oath of Allegiance and sit in the Dáil Éireann after the establishment of the Irish Free State.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DanBreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DanBreen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishWarofIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishWarofIndependence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishCivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishCivilWar</a>

iamBullivantThey used convents, farms and even flats beside the SS headquarters. When Rome was liberated, 6,425 of O’Flaherty’s escapees were still alive. 2/2<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HughOFlaherty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HughOFlaherty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holocaust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Cork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rome</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Vatican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vatican</a>

iamBullivantHugh O’Flaherty, from Lisrobin, Kiskeam, County Cork, was ordained on 20th December 1925 and posted to the Vatican. Early in the war he visited POW camps and then used Radio Vatican to pass on word of prisoners to their relatives. When Germany occupied Rome in 1943, O’Flaherty and some like-minded friends hid Jews and Allied soldiers from the Nazis. 1/2<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HughOFlaherty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HughOFlaherty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holocaust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Cork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rome</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Vatican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vatican</a>

iamBullivantThe burning of Cork by British forces took place on the night of 11-12 December 1920. It followed an IRA ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol. In retaliation, the Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and British soldiers burned homes near the ambush site, before looting and burning buildings in the centre of Cork. Many civilians reported being beaten, shot at, and robbed by British forces.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Cork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishWarOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishWarOfIndependence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

CarveHerName“I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.”<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 3 Dec 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman to be President of the Republic of Ireland."In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom."<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

iamBullivantOn 6 March 1998 a report was published in The Irish Times confirmed that the Irish nation would be defined in terms of its people, rather than its territory, in the new wording for Article 2 of the Irish Constitution which became effective on 2 December 1999.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishConstitution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

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