Only Our Rivers Run Free! Patrick Mc Menamin
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- History
.......this Podcast reflects on Politics, Current Affairs & History, a bit of Sport & Life in general! The Podcast is an audio version of my weekly article for the Tirconail Tribune, based in Donegal.
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Internment - 9th August 1971
.......at 3am on Monday 9th August 1971 thousands of British soldiers raided homes in nationalist homes across the 6 counties, 340 men were arrested, brought to interrogation centre’s and eventually to Long Kesh, internment had begun!
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1921-71 Truce to Turmoil
.......the Truce of 1921 left Ireland divided, civil war in the 26 counties, sectarian slaughter in the 6; what did we learn from history in 1971 when ‘armed struggle’ returned to the streets!
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Pandemic has left its scars 2021
........2019-21 has been the years of the Pandemic-COVID!But throughout history events have shaped the world, we look back and marvel at how the world developed ?
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Partition was destined to divide, and to fail!
.......the birth of the ‘NI’ statelet in 1921, born in violence it has been a dysfunctional society for a century, a cesspit of sectarian bigotry and hatred, it has run its course!
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No place for sectarian bigotry in the 21st century
........Rangers football club are an institution imbedded in sectarian bigotry. A few weeks ago they won the league title for first time in a decade and 20,000 celebrated in the Centre of Glasgow, it turned into an orgy of sectarian bigotry, drunkenness, violence & hatred, there is no place for it in 2021!