Orangemen

Racist Filth, basically. No other name will do. where this group have been you find only strife and
violence. They have exported themselves to other parts of the world too, and are  the authors of the Know Nothings and the Klu Klux Klan.
These were the people who ruled Northern Ireland after 1690, and they did so with impunity, using violence, fear and overt racism from 1795 to 1970 or so. The British put them in Northern Ireland with this aim in mind.


Ulster was the most populated, Catholic and Gaelic part of Ireland. It was the site of the great Linen Industry and St Patrick's seat and was very resistant to British interference. After the Battle of the Boyne in 1690  and the final defeat of the last bastion of rebellion in Ireland, Penal Law was imposed. Catholics were banned from property ownership in their own country.


Protestant Scots were 'Planted' in Northern Ireland to take over. They killed and persecuted the Irish until they were whittled down from what was an equal presence to a much lesser one.
Then in 1795 a stage managed 'battle' took place wherein these Protestants armed themselves with guns and set up an ambush, then lured Catholics into what was a  Protestant area called 'The Diamond' in the belief that a rescue was needed. These unarmed people were just ambushed and shot, thirty died.
After this 'Victory' the untouched Protestants set up the order of Orangemen, based on the Freemasonry Lodge system. They were both backed and armed by Industrialists, large Farmers, and the Conservatives in Britain.
They burned Catholic churches - and put thousands of people out of their homes along with the enforcing the British racist second class rules on Catholics. They sent blacklegs to areas where revolts against harsh landlords were taking place, one being the Infamous Boycott in Co. Mayo.




The Orangemen and their financial and political supporters  stage managed so much 'Trouble' in Ireland.
They set up The Ulster Volunteers, The Unionist Party; and the UDA;  they opposed Irish home rule by 'All Means Necessary'.
Their allies defamed the Irish every time public sympathy leaned towards the them. Portraying Irish people as near animals, setting up situations of abuse to make retaliation certain and then using outcomes to justify their ensuing brutality and violent response.
Edward Carson, the Protestant Ulsterman is Feted for setting up Northern Ireland as it is today. He even has a statue at Stormont and a March every year in his honour. He had a state funeral.


Another thing he also did was prosecute the Irishman Oscar Wilde for homosexuality. This was a blatant piece of anti-Irish propaganda, as feeling ran high in Irelands' favour as Wilde and others were very popular in English Society; sympathy for the 'Irish Question' was high. (Carson later regretted what he'd done, and said he too had been a puppet of the Tories)


The IRA was a response to the Orangemen, and they brought the fight as so called 'Terrorists' to Britain after another upsurge in anti Catholic feeling and killings happened again in Northern Ireland, and reached a peak in the late sixties, and the modern 'Troubles' began. (Begun after another time of Irish Popularity in Britain)
Well it goes on and on, covertly and overtly -  the men with money, the City of London and the Conservatives have ensured that Ireland and its wealth remains under British control. No way they would have kept going like this for hundreds of years if somebody wasn't making money out of it.


Ireland has been called Britain's Vietnam. What was the issue in the 1600's? Supposedly it was because Ireland didn't want to be Protestant. Yeah, right.


Tiocfaidh ár lá - Our day will come

Trevelyan

The Fields of Athenry

Pete St. John

By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young girl calling
Micheal they are taking you away
For you stole Trevelyan's corn
So the young might see the morn.
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.

Low lie the Fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing we had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.

By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young man calling
Nothing matters Mary when you're free,
Against the Famine and the Crown
I rebelled they ran me down
Now you must raise our child with dignity.

Low lie the Fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing we had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.

By a lonely harbour wall
She watched the last star falling
As that prison ship sailed out against the sky
Sure she'll wait and hope and pray
For her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.

Low lie the Fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing we had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.

This song pretty much sums it up. It has grown and grown in popularity since Pete St. John wrote it in the 1970’s. It has become the Second Irish Anthem. The West of Ireland’s main Famine walk to the boats for those that still had the strength, led them through Galway to Galway Bay to board the coffin ships.  Fittingly, Athenry is in Galway. The famine may well be the reason for the song Galway Bay being so popular abroad; as the West saw many more migrants leave than the rest of the country.

Charles Edward Trevelyan, was a senior British civil servant in the administration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Dublin Castle. During the height of the famine Trevelyan deliberately dragged his feet in disbursing direct government food and monetary aid to the Irish; supposedly due to his strident belief in laissez faire economics and the free hand of the market. This wasn’t true; it was just his excuse. His real reasons were made clear in a letter to an Irish peer, The 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer. Trevelyan described the famine as an "effective mechanism for reducing surplus population" as well as "the judgement of God". At this time, The Irish had been dispossessed of their land and worked as tenant farmers for imposed British Landlords. They had to grow Corn for their landlords and themselves survived on Potatoes. When a Blight killed the potatoes over a number of harvests, the population starved while Britain continued, with force, to still take the Corn harvest.  Trevelyan said "Our measures must proceed with as little disturbance as possible of the ordinary course of private trade, which must ever be the chief resource for the subsistence of the people, but, coûte que coûte (at any cost), the people must not, under any circumstances, be allowed to starve.” Then shortly after saying this; famine relief was shut down by him on 21^st July 1846, in the second year of the potato blight, when it was critically needed. Obviously one million dead at a very, very conservative estimate,(many people say it was three to four million, but nobody counted the dead) and one million at least emigrated or deported, wasn’t seen as starving Ireland. The Famine was and is, called ‘The Great Hunger’.

What is astonishing, is that Trevelyan is seen as a respectable man by British History. He was a ‘Good’ civil servant according to their records and history books. The facts do stand for themselves; He wasn’t misguided, he was a Racist who had the power to make people suffer.  

He was Knighted for his service to the Crown.

Trevelyan’s Birthday 2^nd April 1807, was a black day indeed for Ireland. Ireland should make either his birthday or the 21^st July (1846) - the day he decreed that Ireland would starve; a national day of mourning for the untold millions we lost to The Great Hunger.

Éirinn go Brách - Ireland Forever

Irish

Seems like all the world has an idea of what it means to be Irish, which mostly includes being irresponsible, a good laugh; enjoying a drink, being a bit thick; or an IRA supporter?

There is no border between England and Ireland; in fact there was more of a border within the country itself - north and south than with the rest of the UK. Why is there no border? Well, it was a problem when Britain needed cheap labour, (the poor bastards couldn’t afford a passport) or more soldiers for whatever war Britain was fighting; free movement was granted. Britain over hundreds of years stamped out and ‘destroyed’ Irish Identity in Ireland; only to have it be spread across the world in one form or another.

Ireland still isn’t free. It is still partitioned; it’s just that everybody chooses to ‘not mention’ it anymore.  This is a British Media tactic to shame the Irish once more into submission, and its working.

Ireland is a country that has been forcibly subdued and destroyed over and over by a British Imperialist conqueror; and finally almost won freedom after the 1916 Easter Rising; only to be sold out by the Church. Then later again to have the Good Friday agreement, where Ireland still loses, and the six counties still are not returned, and everyone else says it’s all sorted. Vested City interests support the Unionists in keeping the six counties British; along with the helpful Protestant Tory voting alliances also being maintained.

The Irish are a noble and literate race that still exists despite genocide by deliberate starvation; despite vilification and demonization by Britain, the country that says it is the fairest in the world. That same country, accepted our immigrants happily; immigrants that built Britain while our own was kept from us by them.  Was it on purpose? It seems so. Mick’s were cheap; had no power. Good Old Paddy. Half of Wellington’s troops (and officers) that defeated Napoleon were Irish, and then a few years later he stood by while a million Irish people then died from hunger, while Britain took Irish crops to fund the Industrial Revolution.  Wellington was Irish too, but denied it, it seems, in an effort to fit into British Society. At least a million Irish People left Ireland then in coffin ships; The Irish identity since has consisted of being an Immigrant.

Ireland has colonised the world in a way that no other has, we came to work, to just survive; and ended up staying because there was still no real home to return to. St Patrick’s day began to be celebrated everywhere except in Ireland where it, and wearing green, and being educated; was banned on punishment of Death by the British.  We do however have a National Identity, and it is known the world over. No whining about not knowing who we are. We know who we are. We work; we survive; we never give up; and we value humanity.

Ireland has spent centuries in slavery to Britain, but unlike the Jews, we have not been documented as wandering. No; we’ve been ignored. We were just the Paddies. Britain made sure there was no sympathy or respect for us in the world. Britain made sure our reputation went before us, we were stupid, workshy and criminal. Ireland, the country of Saints and Scholars who re-educated Europe (including Britain) after the dark ages, was renamed by Britain as one of ignorance and filth; while the wealth of the country was siphoned off by the British. When industry took over in Britain, Ireland was then mostly ignored; it was a place Britain had impoverished, and still owned vast areas of land, which they continue to hold today. Ireland plodded on, still being drained of its vital wealth and unable to help itself; it struggled for years, a place that people left; until the EU came.

Here we are in 2016, The financial crisis is easing a bit, but the anniversary of the 1916 rising is almost upon us; what do we now think about Ireland?  The people are seeking freedoms; are shaking off the chains of the church, once an ally in the early days of British occupation; then becoming itself a traitor to the cause for freedom. Britain and the City of London needs to hand back its ownership of much of the country to the Irish State. It also needs to release the six counties.

Ireland needs to be whole again in so many ways.  Really reclaim its full past, one of deep ancient mysteries and wonderful mythology; of great thinkers and writers; of laughter and love of life and the spirit of humanity. For it to be fully acknowledged in the country that imbued its lost sons and daughters with the courage to be Irish, wherever they were in the world. A world that kept Ireland alive in our hearts; until we could claim it again with our hands.

Ireland Free at last, will be a Nation once again.  Britain is a shameful and hostile interloper in Northern Ireland. Leave.