The Executions - 100 years ago today

[Mister Anderson]

Thomas Kent:
Born in 1865, Kent was arrested at his home in Castlelyons, Co. Cork following a raid by the Royal Irish Constabulary on 22 April 1916, during which his brother Richard was fatally wounded. It had been his intention to travel to Dublin to participate in the Rising, but when the mobilisation order for the Irish Volunteers was cancelled on Easter Sunday he assumed that the Rising had been postponed, leading him to stay at home. He was executed at Cork Detention Barracks on 9 May 1916 following a court martial. In 1966 the railway station in Cork was renamed Kent Station in his honour.

Thomas Kent believed a republic ‘morally superior to monarchy’

Historian tells commemoration Kent had a strong sense of duty informed by his family








Irish patriot Thomas Kent believed a republic was morally superior to a monarchy, a 1916 Rising commemorative event in Cork was told on Saturday.

University College Cork historian Gabriel Doherty said because of this belief Kent had no hesitancy in making the ultimate sacrifice in the pursuit of the Irish Republic.

Mr Doherty said Kent was notable for a number of qualities, including his steadfast support for causes in the face of official hostility and his courage in the face of adversity, both inspired by his belief in the need for a republic.

Mr Doherty said the courage of Kent and his brothers and their elderly mother was never more sorely tested than when the RIC called to their house inCastlelyons in East Cork in the early hours of May 2nd 1916, following the Easter Rising in Dublin and they refused to surrender.

“And in this crisis hour, when the dream of an Irish Republic itself seemed to the world to have been immolated in the burning ruins of Dublin’s GPO ...... one Cork family, responded to the challenge to submit to British rule, to British might, by saying, quite literally: ‘We will die before we surrender.’



They renamed a bridge in Fermoy in his honor last week. They held commemorations at the site of his execution in at the Old prison today. Sadly I missed it.

[Forrest]

Thomas Kent believed a republic ‘morally superior to monarchy’

Historian tells commemoration Kent had a strong sense of duty informed by his family








Irish patriot Thomas Kent believed a republic was morally superior to a monarchy, a 1916 Rising commemorative event in Cork was told on Saturday.

University College Cork historian Gabriel Doherty said because of this belief Kent had no hesitancy in making the ultimate sacrifice in the pursuit of the Irish Republic.

Mr Doherty said Kent was notable for a number of qualities, including his steadfast support for causes in the face of official hostility and his courage in the face of adversity, both inspired by his belief in the need for a republic.

Mr Doherty said the courage of Kent and his brothers and their elderly mother was never more sorely tested than when the RIC called to their house inCastlelyons in East Cork in the early hours of May 2nd 1916, following the Easter Rising in Dublin and they refused to surrender.

“And in this crisis hour, when the dream of an Irish Republic itself seemed to the world to have been immolated in the burning ruins of Dublin’s GPO ...... one Cork family, responded to the challenge to submit to British rule, to British might, by saying, quite literally: ‘We will die before we surrender.’

They renamed a bridge in Fermoy in his honor last week. They held commemorations at the site of his execution in at the Old prison today. Sadly I missed it.

Interesting thread Forrest. I like how you added names on the appropriate dates

On a no way related note this is also the year that Einstein published the finalized version of general relativity.

Mister Anderson, thanks for the additional information on Thomas Kent. It is appreciated.
I heard that the East Link Bridge was renamed the Tom Clarke Bridge on the anniversary of his execution.

I found this clip on Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0

[Mister Anderson]

Mister Anderson, thanks for the additional information on Thomas Kent. It is appreciated.
I heard that the East Link Bridge was renamed the Tom Clarke Bridge on the anniversary of his execution.

I found this clip on Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0

Excellent link Forrest. I've spent the better part of the evening clicking through their youtube channel. Brilliantly done, a fresh new perspective on some tricky subject matters.


Muchas Gracias.

[Dalton23]

[Dalton23]

Excellent link Forrest. I've spent the better part of the evening clicking through their youtube channel. Brilliantly done, a fresh new perspective on some tricky subject matters.


Muchas Gracias.

[Forrest]

Seán MacDiarmada:
Born in 1884 in Leitrim, MacDiarmada emigrated to Glasgow in 1900, and from there to Belfast in 1902. A member of the Gaelic League, he was acquainted with Bulmer Hobson. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1906 while still in Belfast, later transferring to Dublin in 1908 where he assumed managerial responsibility for the I. R. B. newspaper Irish Freedom in 1910. Although MacDiarmada was afflicted with polio in 1912, he was appointed as a member of the provisional committee of Irish Volunteers from 1913, and was subsequently drafted onto the military committee of the I. R. B. in 1915. During the Rising MacDiarmada served in the G. P. O. He was executed on 12 May 1916.

James Connolly (1868-1916):
Born in Edinburgh in 1868, Connolly was first introduced to Ireland as a member of the British Army. Despite returning to Scotland, the strong Irish presence in Edinburgh stimulated Connolly’s growing interest in Irish politics in the mid 1890s, leading to his emigration to Dublin in 1896 where he founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party. He spent much of the first decade of the twentieth century in America, he returned to Ireland to campaign for worker’s rights with James Larkin. A firm believer in the perils of sectarian division, Connolly campaigned tirelessly against religious bigotry. In 1913, Connolly was one of the founders of the Irish Citizen Army. During the Easter Rising he was appointed Commandant-General of the Dublin forces, leading the group that occupied the General Post Office. Unable to stand to during his execution due to wounds received during the Rising, Connolly was executed while sitting down on 12 May 1916. He was the last of the leaders to be executed.

[Forrest]

Roger Casement: Born in 1864 in Dublin, Casement was knighted for his services to the British consulate. He campaigned tirelessly to expose the cruelty inflicted on native workers in the Belgian Congo in 1904, and again in Brazil from 1911-1912, causing an international sensation with his reportage. Casement had become a member of the Gaelic League in 1904, beginning at that time to write nationalist articles under the pseudonym ‘Seán Bhean Bhocht’. He retired from the British consular service in 1913, after which he joined the Irish Volunteers. Casement was despatched to Germany on account of his experience to raise an Irish Brigade from Irish prisoners of war. He was captured in Kerry on Good Friday 1916, a couple of days before the Rising, having returned to Ireland in a German U-Boat. Casement was imprisoned in Pentonville Gaol in London, where he was tried on charges of High Treason. He was hanged on 3 August 1916, the only member of the Rising to be executed outside of Ireland.

[emmasweet]

Interesting thread,sir F I didn't know u were history teacher

[tombarry1916]

I could comment on nearly every post!


But then I got a grip!!


But I want to say this.


OP, An excellent thread.


I'm glad Emma got a mention as well (even if it was not the intention of the thread.)


We are all Irish men on this island full stop end of story. No mater what your allegiances or identity.


Michael Stone was a fucking murdering nut.


A bit like Gerry Adams ordering all those murders only having someone else do his dirty work for him.


But Michael Stone will never maybe have a chance to be our Taoiseach.

How exactly do you differentiate the men of 1916 to the PIRA? Morally and historically they sought the same objective, through the same methods. Absurdest mental gymnastics.

[Bongo]

I dont think this thread should be allowed. It is glorifying terrorists.
Now some might say they where not terrorists but having said that some people in Ireland do view them as terrorists because the IRA is a terrorist organisation.

Either way this is a escort forum and i feel that this thread has no place here whatsoever.