Lol, South got a blessing from Bishop Patrick O'Neill of Limerick because he was asked by Catholic clergy to gather information on Jehovah Witnesses who were going door to door in Limerick City trying to convert poorer members of the community via offering some temporal help to those who converted.
Anti Jehovah Witness Action
Anti Jehovah Witness Action
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Seán South cartoon of a Rothschild with the quote:
''Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.”
''Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.”
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Seán South cartoon of a Rothschild with the quote: ''Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.”
Also quoted John Mitchel ''To the small farmers of Ireland''
Above all, let the man amongst you who has no gun, sell his garment, and buy one.
Above all, let the man amongst you who has no gun, sell his garment, and buy one.
Can see some of Seán's writings/drawings in links below
He produced various Irish language publications, illustrating them all himself as well as helping with some Church magazines. He refused payment for anything he published and would get the materials himself, he also never signed his artwork and there's only very few that survive still in possession of the South family. He often stayed up all night doing this work and its said this strained his eyes and why he later had to wear glasses.
Be nice if there was more digitize than what's available
https://www.limerickcity.ie/media/Sean013b.pdf
https://www.limerickcity.ie/Library/LocalStudies/LocalStudiesFiles/S/SeanSouth/
He produced various Irish language publications, illustrating them all himself as well as helping with some Church magazines. He refused payment for anything he published and would get the materials himself, he also never signed his artwork and there's only very few that survive still in possession of the South family. He often stayed up all night doing this work and its said this strained his eyes and why he later had to wear glasses.
Be nice if there was more digitize than what's available
https://www.limerickcity.ie/media/Sean013b.pdf
https://www.limerickcity.ie/Library/LocalStudies/LocalStudiesFiles/S/SeanSouth/
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Read here to see the Irish Brigade led by Sean MacBride who was executed this day in 1916, who fought for the Boers during the Boer War + to see Irish Support for the cause of the Boers in the late 19th/early 20th century. Pictured is The Irish Transvaal…
Dan Breen on his neighbours sitting around a fire cheering at the news of the Boers winning battles against the British during the Boer War
As well Dan Breen noting the impact of evictions at the time
Dan Breen, My Fight for Irish Freedom
As well Dan Breen noting the impact of evictions at the time
Dan Breen, My Fight for Irish Freedom
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Ernie noting the moment himself and others seem to shift to feeling that those in the GPO were right ''The men down there were right, that I felt sure of. They had a purpose which I did not share. But no one had a right to Ireland except the Irish. In the…
Can see a contrast between Dan Breen's rise to a national awakening vs Ernie O'Malleys (see post in reply)
Ernie wasn't really on board until he was caught up in the middle of 1916 and became nationalistic from that event
Dan Breen talks about his teacher Charlie Walshe, a Kerryman who
''gave us the naked facts about the English conquest of Ireland and the manner in which our country was held in bondage. We learned about the Penal Laws, the systematic ruining of Irish trade, the elimination of our native language. He told us also of the ruthless manner in which Irish rebellions had been crushed. By the time we had passed from his class, we were no longer content to grow up ‘happy English children’ as envisaged by the Board of Education. To the end of his days Charlie was in the habit of boasting of his rebel past pupils''
shows some are lucky enough to be educated into the cause, others have to wait for an action of a sort to inspire them to join the cause
Ernie wasn't really on board until he was caught up in the middle of 1916 and became nationalistic from that event
Dan Breen talks about his teacher Charlie Walshe, a Kerryman who
''gave us the naked facts about the English conquest of Ireland and the manner in which our country was held in bondage. We learned about the Penal Laws, the systematic ruining of Irish trade, the elimination of our native language. He told us also of the ruthless manner in which Irish rebellions had been crushed. By the time we had passed from his class, we were no longer content to grow up ‘happy English children’ as envisaged by the Board of Education. To the end of his days Charlie was in the habit of boasting of his rebel past pupils''
shows some are lucky enough to be educated into the cause, others have to wait for an action of a sort to inspire them to join the cause
Pretty funny note about Seán Treacy by Dan Breen
Breen said he looked like a foreigner and when he came over to some farmers house, just before the family were about to say the Rosary before bed, they asked if Seán, thinking he's a foreigner, had any objections to them praying but:
''taking from his pocket a very long beads which was a gift from a Sister of Mercy. Paddy drolly observed: ‘If we are to judge your holiness by the length of your beads, a walking saint of God you must be''
Breen said he looked like a foreigner and when he came over to some farmers house, just before the family were about to say the Rosary before bed, they asked if Seán, thinking he's a foreigner, had any objections to them praying but:
''taking from his pocket a very long beads which was a gift from a Sister of Mercy. Paddy drolly observed: ‘If we are to judge your holiness by the length of your beads, a walking saint of God you must be''
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Ernie taking note on the Loyalist seethe who referred to the Volunteers as ''pro-Germans'' Redmondite reaction interesting too and more extreme with a man calling for them to be hanged as shooting is too good for them.
Breen , like O'Malley, noting people being carried away by British war propaganda and how many were ready to assist the British war effort
Breen who was in the Volunteers who refused to fight for Britain, would do what he can to disrupt it working his job as a railway-linesman where police were notified by his ''disloyal tendencies''
Breen who was in the Volunteers who refused to fight for Britain, would do what he can to disrupt it working his job as a railway-linesman where police were notified by his ''disloyal tendencies''
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Ernie noting the reactions to people around O'Connell Street to the beginning of the Rising, some with serious faces and others laughing and sniggering. He laughed himself until he read what the Poblacht na hEireann outside the GPO
Breen, again like O'Malley, noting the hostility towards the Volunteers who decided not to fight for Britain
Here, there was a parade with Pearse present in May 1915 where a hostile crowd pelted them with garbage, Breen said he and the lads contemplated firing at them
Here, there was a parade with Pearse present in May 1915 where a hostile crowd pelted them with garbage, Breen said he and the lads contemplated firing at them
Dan Breen on the banning of Hurleys after 1916 after a police officer was struck by one with during a protest organized by Cathal Brugha and Count Plunkett leading to a fatal injury
When Dev was giving a speech, the Volunteers wore their dark green uniforms and Hurleys instead of rifles (as a troll basically)
When Dev was giving a speech, the Volunteers wore their dark green uniforms and Hurleys instead of rifles (as a troll basically)
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Breen, again like O'Malley, noting the hostility towards the Volunteers who decided not to fight for Britain Here, there was a parade with Pearse present in May 1915 where a hostile crowd pelted them with garbage, Breen said he and the lads contemplated…
Post-1916 and during the last great German offensive in WW1 which cause the British Government to pass the conscription act to ''Constript the Irish'' , many were now rushing to the Volunteers as Breen notes ''9/10s of able bodied men between 16-50 became Volunteers''
However, once the armistice came, many the left the volunteers:
''The small number that remained was of more use than a conglomeration of half-hearted soldiers. This select few meant to fight for independence. The others had been thinking only of saving themselves from the trenches of France; they believed, as did the old political leaders, that Ireland’s freedom was not worth the shedding of one drop of blood.''
However, once the armistice came, many the left the volunteers:
''The small number that remained was of more use than a conglomeration of half-hearted soldiers. This select few meant to fight for independence. The others had been thinking only of saving themselves from the trenches of France; they believed, as did the old political leaders, that Ireland’s freedom was not worth the shedding of one drop of blood.''
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'Any man that comes into my house or my country to try to take it over by force, I'm going to kill him and I'll use any and every means to do it and i'm not one bit sorry for it, to any man or God.'
- Dan Breen
Video Credit: West Brit Check
- Dan Breen
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Dan Breen Tribute, One of Ireland's Most Based Men.
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Absolute Chad.
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John Mitchel on how Ireland could have avoided the Famine if O'Connell had launched a rebellion at Clontarf.
‘You little know the history and sore trials and humiliations of this ancient Irish race; ground and trampled first for long ages into the very earth, and then taught - expressly taught - in solemn harangues and even in sermons, that it was their duty to die, and see their children die before their faces, rather than resist their tyrants, as men ought. [...] But I tell you the light has at length come too them; the flowery spring of this year is the dawning of their day; and before the cornfields of Ireland are white for the reaper our eyes shall see the sun flash gloriously, if the heavens be kind to us, on a hundred thousand pikes.’
John Mitchel, United Irishman, 13 May 1848
John Mitchel, United Irishman, 13 May 1848
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‘You little know the history and sore trials and humiliations of this ancient Irish race; ground and trampled first for long ages into the very earth, and then taught - expressly taught - in solemn harangues and even in sermons, that it was their duty to die…
United Irishman collection is here if interested
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:150680
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:150680