Showing posts with label Commemoration speeches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commemoration speeches. Show all posts
TPQ features a report from the site Ardoyne Republican about the weekend march in Belfast to commemorate Henry Joy McCracken. The march was organised by the Republican Network for Unity. The report also contains the address delivered by Martin Óg Meehan.
Yesterday afternoon, (Sunday 31st August) the Republican Network for Unity held a successful and dignified march commemoration in Belfast for Irish Revolutionary; Henry-Joy McCracken (1797-1798). In bright sunshine, hundreds of marchers made their way through North Belfast to honour Henry-Joy on his birthday.
Yesterday afternoon, (Sunday 31st August) the Republican Network for Unity held a successful and dignified march commemoration in Belfast for Irish Revolutionary; Henry-Joy McCracken (1797-1798). In bright sunshine, hundreds of marchers made their way through North Belfast to honour Henry-Joy on his birthday.
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| Henry-Joy McCracken (1767-1798) |
Sean Doyle of the Wicklow 1981 Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee, with an address he delivered at the Billy Byrne Monument, Wicklow Town on the 11th May 2013.
As hunger strike has been one of our much recourse for justice through the centuries against British occupation’s relentless quest to criminalise our freedom struggle it reminds me of the poem “The King’s Threshold” by W.B.Yeats:
As hunger strike has been one of our much recourse for justice through the centuries against British occupation’s relentless quest to criminalise our freedom struggle it reminds me of the poem “The King’s Threshold” by W.B.Yeats:
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