Only Our Rivers Run Free!

Patrick Mc Menamin

.......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.

  1. 08/10/2021

    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!

  2. 07/09/2021

    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!

  3. 07/06/2021

    1921- 1971

    Truce to Turmoil

  4. 06/11/2021

    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 ?

  5. 06/04/2021

    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!

  6. 05/24/2021

    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!

  7. 05/14/2021

    No glass of ours was raised to a Queen

    .......’Phil the Greek’ passed recently, born in Corfu to Greek royalty he became a large part of the British monarchy, we look at this archaic form of life in the 21st century!

  8. 05/06/2021

    Bobby Sands - ‘our revenge will be the laughter of our children’!

    ........40 yrs ago on the 5th May Bobby Sands died on hunger strike, he was 27. His death changed everything, hie election as MP propelled the republican movement into electoral intervention which in 2021 sees SF as the largest political in Ireland, in Govt in the 6 counties and soon to be in power in the Republic! Bobby Sands RIP🌹

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.......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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  • Creator
    Patrick Mc Menamin
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    163
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Patrick Mc Menamin
  • Show Website
    Only Our Rivers Run Free!