In my youth, my role model patriots were James Larkin (mainly because of his strong working-class credentials as well as the fact that his parents hailed from here) James Connolly and John Mitchel. Where repression, discrimination and exclusion dominate, one tends towards the extremes.
Month: January 2011
Emigration 1950s and 2011
The involuntary emigration of tens of thousands of our fittest, best-educated, most qualified and most enterprising of our youth, has sadly resumed.
Perhaps we ought to reflect on that of an earlier generation.
Water Street Electors 1946
Joe McCaigue and Gerry Montague wrote here recently on Guestbook, reminiscing on the residents of Water Street in days gone by.
They might be interested in this Electoral List dating from 1946.