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69the forgotten protesters
. Silent Grace "It was barely reported that the IRA hunger strikes of the 1980s involved women. Now a new film is to tell their story... ...The 1980/81 hunger strikes were one of the most traumatic...
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72Bernadette Devlin: A Portrait in Rage
link "Bernadette MacAlisky [née Devlin] was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone. She was educated at St.Patrick's Academy, Dungannon and at Queen's University, Belfast where she joined the University...
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76The Irish invade Canada
"We are the Fenian Brotherhood, skilled in the arts of war, And we're going to fight for Ireland, the land we adore, Many battles we...
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62The Plantation of Ireland
With Irish history everything is interconnected to the next thing. In the plantation of Ireland you will see the seeds planted that resulted in the Great Famine*, the partition** of 1921, and the current...
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62The Wind that Shakes the Barley - Semi Film Review in Unpoetry
Jesus wept. nothing civil in civil war's bind arms embraced, empty arms behind brothers, mothers, sisters more sons and daughters, lost to war
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71Constance Markievicz
Part 1: 'Something to Live For' "Constance Gore-Booth was born into a famous Anglo-Irish family on Feb. 4, 1868 at Buckingham Gate, London. Her father, Sir Henry Gore-Booth was an explorer and...
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65Rare film footage of manx and welsh at 1916 Rising Fiftieth Anniversary
"Rare footage of inter-Celtic involvement in the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Easter rising has come to light. The brief item which is accessible off the RTE website shows the Manx and Welsh...
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72The Great Irish Famine
link "...In October, 1846, Trevelyan wrote that the overpopulation of Ireland "being altogether beyond the power of man, the cure has been applied by the direct stroke of an all-wise Providence in a...
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