SEANAD LEADER Donie Cassidy said he would bring to the Irish Government a proposal by Labhrás Ó Murchú (FF) that Dublin airport be renamed in honour of the l9l6 Rising leader Tom Clarke. Mr Ó Murchú said Mr Clarke, the first signatory of the Proclamation, had been somewhat forgotten. Renaming the airport would be an ideal way of highlighting his contribution to our aims of freedom. Airports in other republics were named after leading figures such as John F Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle.
The Thomas Clarke Society Dungannon call on you the Irish People to back this Campaign, Tom Clarke was a Revolutionary Irish Figure and played a great roll in 1916, sign this petition to rename the airport.
Nice site and great photos. Check out my friend's Irish history collection at http://www.flickr.com/photos/47955713@N02/show/ some of the stuff were made by Irish Volunteers during their time in Long Kesh and some made by the hunger strikers of 1981. His house is turning into a museum. The guns he has in this collection are all none workable and fully licenced as part of his history collection.
Thanks IRBB reader and RSF Cork for the compliments about the site and the book. Keep an eye on the website as new information goes up every few weeks. The book "The Battle For Limerick City" the first book in Mercier Press's "Military History of the Irish Civil War Series" will be available from late March / early April.
Padraig
Padraig Og , An excellent site and thank you to RSF Cork for posting it on the IRBB where I (and others) were made aware of it. Must also say that your book on Clare Republicanism is the best book on a county history involvment with the RM. Looking forward to the Limerick book!
We have gladly added your site to our link page under Ceangail Cultúrtha (Cultural Links). It is a very interesting and informative and well reserched site.
A chara,
Ive recently put together a website about the War Of Independence in the IRA's 1st Western Division in counties Clare and Galway. The web address is;
Its content includes eyewitness accounts of events, period photographs, history articles, accounts of ambushes and barracks attacks and an interactive map with photographs and diagrams showing where key events took place and the location of war memorials and war graves today.Several other local historians who specialise in the War of Independence and Civil War period are contributing articles to the site.
I would appreciate it it if you would take a look at the website and if appropriate add a link to it on your website.
i have lived in england almost all my life but i have irish parents. i completely support you and the true republican movement. the armed resistance is justified it makes me sick to known that the country that hass been my home for so long is the one oppressing the country of my familys origin. god bless you republican sinn fein and god bless the ra!