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The 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...

4 comments    education history war
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The 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...

16 comments    politics poetry history
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Thatcher and Terrorism: Lessons in Hypocrisy

various editorials, articles and updates on Mark Thatcher, son of Margaret Thatcher, convicted terrorist. this needs to be read in full; click the link and check it out. - Idunn 8/26/04 ...

7 comments    politics news divorce
Photo: Sinéad Moore and Mairéad Farrell in the yard at Armagh Gaol70

the 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...

6 comments    education women politics
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Operation Condor

...According to recently de-classified files, the U.S. aided and facilitated Condor operations as a matter of secret but routine...

3 comments    education politics war
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I don't suppose any of this is useful

I went soft tonight, remembering... thinking about your hand on my throat your fingers on my face, in my mouth thinking about subtle subjugation how when you touched me, I went suddenlystill, waiting, my...

38 comments    love arts poetry
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botero, dude... a botero tanka

classic matador, wield the brush like a red cape before the bull's eyes. he awaits the coming charge coolly, challenging the beast~ I really like Botero. the thing about his people is that they look...

6 comments    politics arts poetry
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five

five a.m. and I find myself drifting into the heart of darkness too late wary of the messiah who carries his own nails in his pocket

23 comments    god poetry death
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your kind of war - poetry for shrubz

your kind of war, isn't it Mr. Bush? nice thing about Frozen Sparrowz - too frozen for flight burdened by poverty disenfranchised from society bereft of hope numbed by not mattering and held in place by the...

0 comments    politics poetry poem
"Eirene (Peace) bearing Plutus (Wealth), Roman copy after a Greek votive statue by Kephisodotos (ca. 370 BC) which stood on the agora in Athens.'    -Information from Wikimedia 63

Serene Irene

The name Irene comes from Greek mythology. Irene is synonymous for peace itself and the Greek Goddess Irene, also known as Eirene, was generally depicted in sculpture as a lovely young lady.

11 comments    love arts poetry
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