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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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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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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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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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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
bride white rose55

Love in the time of combat (part 2)

waving the white flag of surrenderI cede the battle and the war cessation of all hostility ensuescessation of all passion ensured unwarned and unwarmeddecimated and disarmed

2 comments    love poetry poem
Photo: Sinéad Moore and Mairéad Farrell in the yard at Armagh Gaol73

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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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
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The 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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Civilized Man - the poem

  civilized man knows how to live civilized man knows how to give he sets up a world he can control with violence, terror and no soul   he takes what he wants because he can with guns and bombs and power...

12 comments    life religion poetry
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