The Executions - 100 years ago today

[alcatel]

Interesting thread Forrest.
Mallin was in charge in Stephen's Green where the rebels had dug trenches. This has been questioned by many as the place was surrounded by high buildings. The British put a machine gun on one of the roofs and proceeded to rake the Green with fire, whereupon the rebels forced their way through the front door of the College of Surgeons and took possession.
Mallin was one of the few of the executed who pleaded for his life or put up a defence. It is assumed he did not want to leave his wife and 4 or so children, in poverty, fatherless and without a breadwinner.
Countess M. is often assumed to have been his second in command but I think the exact chain of command is uncertain.

[Dalton23]

Éamonn Ceannt:
Born in Galway in 1881, prior to the Rising Ceannt was an employee of the Dublin Corporation. He was a co-founder of the Irish Volunteers, partaking in the successful Howth gun-running operation of 1914. His involvement in republican activities was complemented by his interest in Irish culture, specifically Irish language and history, although he was also an accomplished Uileann piper. As the commander of the Fourth Battalion of Irish Volunteers during the Rising, he took possession of the South Dublin Union, precursor to the modern-day St. James’s Hospital. He was executed on 8 May 1916.

Michael Mallin:
A silk weaver by trade, Mallin was born in Dublin in 1874. Along with Countess Markievicz, he commanded a small contingent of the Irish Citizen Army, of which he was Chief of Staff, taking possession of St. Stephen’s Green and the Royal College of Surgeons. He was executed on 8 May 1916.
Seán Heuston: Born in 1891, he was responsible for the organisation of Fianna Éireann in Limerick. Along with Con Colbert, Heuston was involved in the education of the schoolboys at Scoil Éanna, organising drill and musketry exercises. A section of the First Battalion of the Volunteers, under the leadership of Heuston, occupied the Mendicity Institute on south of the Liffey, holding out there for two days. He was executed on 8 May 1916. Heuston Railway station in Dublin is named after him.

Con Colbert:
Born in 1888, Colbert was a native of Limerick. Prior to the Easter Rising he had been an active member of the republican movement, joining both Fianna Éireann and the Irish Volunteers. A dedicated pioneer, Colbert was known not to drink or smoke. As the captain of F Company of the Fourth Battalion, Colbert was in command at the Marrowbone Lane distillery when it was surrendered on Sunday, 30 April 1916. His execution took place on 8 May 1916.

Yawn.....

How interesting that 100 years later after this failed grubby rebellion that you a so called Irish man is posting about it. Posting about it using the language of your past masters and rulers the English .

Surely a true Irish man would use gaelic as his spoken language. Especially on such a thread like this
And you have a cheek to call me a hypocrite.

[Dalton23]

Reported that for you



It's what the really nice guy likes to do. Best ignored, but then he throws the toys out of the pram.



Don't waste your time, because it's something you can't get back, and he's not worth the bother.

Tells other posters not to waste there time with me.
At the same time quotes one of my posts looking for a response.

You must be a special kind of stupid

[Dalton23]

Interesting thread Forrest.

[Mister Anderson]

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.

[Forrest]

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.

[Forrest]

Imagine fighting a war you know you cant win, know youll be executed for and 100 years later the place is far worse than when the brits had it? I love to wonder would they do it all over again. I doubt it.Westside.

It must take remarkable courage, belief, and strength of character, to do what they did. It's a different world now, so maybe they wouldn't do it again now, but they died believing in what they did, regardless of the consequences for them.

However, I don't believe Ireland is far worse than when it was occupied by Britain. Partition, and the Civil War, caused an awful lot of problems and the politics of today still shows those problems. Fianna Fail & Fine Gael can't work together as a result.

Interesting thread Forrest.
Mallin was in charge in Stephen's Green where the rebels had dug trenches. This has been questioned by many as the place was surrounded by high buildings. The British put a machine gun on one of the roofs and proceeded to rake the Green with fire, whereupon the rebels forced their way through the front door of the College of Surgeons and took possession.
Mallin was one of the few of the executed who pleaded for his life or put up a defence. It is assumed he did not want to leave his wife and 4 or so children, in poverty, fatherless and without a breadwinner.
Countess M. is often assumed to have been his second in command but I think the exact chain of command is uncertain.

There were a few tactical errors during the rebellion, and taking St Stephen's Green park, and not the surrounding buildings was one of them.
Not taking Trinity College was another error of judgement, but they were very short on support when the Rising started due to the cancellation
of 'manoeuvres' the previous day by Eoin Mac Neill.

[TheBoys]

Issues settled peacefully? Like they have been in the north?
I don't get some people saying the saying the revolution was wrong and how England would have just gave you up. It is fucking ridiculous.

It was wrong, what really was achieved only pain and suffering and loss in innocent lives, Sinn Finn are a Disgrace, crowd of money grabbing assholes, they are fucking ridiculous, they won't take their seats in Parliament yet have ministers in NI carrying out British Austerity, SF are nothing more than Cameron's bitches, so Britain wins, the real rebels must be turning in their graves, The PM throws them a few crumbs and they and SF are as happy as a pig in shite,

[alcatel]

It was wrong, what really was achieved only pain and suffering and loss in innocent lives, Sinn Finn are a Disgrace, crowd of money grabbing assholes, they are fucking ridiculous, they won't take their seats in Parliament yet have ministers in NI carrying out British Austerity, SF are nothing more than Cameron's bitches, so Britain wins, the real rebels must be turning in their graves, The PM throws them a few crumbs and they and SF are as happy as a pig in shite,

It's called politics.
No compromise, makes of Johnnie Everyman an unyielding bigot.

[Dalton23]

It was wrong, what really was achieved only pain and suffering and loss in innocent lives, Sinn Finn are a Disgrace, crowd of money grabbing assholes, they are fucking ridiculous, they won't take their seats in Parliament yet have ministers in NI carrying out British Austerity, SF are nothing more than Cameron's bitches, so Britain wins, the real rebels must be turning in their graves, The PM throws them a few crumbs and they and SF are as happy as a pig in shite,

Sinn Fein/DUP some MLAs call them up north.
The 2 parties hold up the Northern Ireland Assembly for months on end and then make back room deals.

I seen a truck when i was down south last week with a billboard saying " Gerry was in the Ra".