Limerickflowers

04/08/2021

I included this song ''Avondale'' on my latest episode of Land of the Golden Sunset, written by Dominic Behan (c 1958), I have added another verse as a reference to Kitty O'Shea

Added another verse to this Dominic Behan song | Listen to music from James Kenny and follow their creative process on BandLab.

04/08/2021

Michael Cusack would recall how both Pat Nally and himself while walking through the Phoenix Park in Dublin seeing only a handful of people playing sports in the park so depressed them, that they agreed it was time to "make an effort to preserve the physical strength of our race." Nally organised a National Athletics Sports meeting in County Mayo in September 1879 which was a success, with Cusack organising a similar event in Dublin the following April.

The period in Ireland between 1867-1891

02/08/2021

So distressingly obvious was the callousness of the Westminster government to the horrors of the famine and so inhumane its policy, in declaring that the millions should perish rather than the corn market should be ‘’disturbed’’ by the action of the state, that coroners juries in several places, impanelled in the cases of famine victims, found on their verdict, on oath, ‘’Wilful murder against Lord John Russell’’ (the Premier) and his fellow cabinet ministers.

The Period during the famine of 1845-49 when Young Irelanders yearned for freedom

27/07/2021

Just added an original song ''Ballyneety's ablaze'' to this episode, hope you like !

Evolution of the Irish from Biblical times

13/07/2021

Thomas Francis Meagher was born in Waterford in 1823. He joined the abortive Tipperary uprising with Smith O’Brien in 1848. He was captured and sentenced to hang, but was reprieved and sentenced to life in the penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land. He helped to plan the escape, to New York of John Mitchel. He practiced as a lawyer in the United States courts. In the American Civil War, he was commissioned a Brigadier-General of Volunteers in the New York 69th Union Army.

The Period during the famine of 1845-49 when Young Irelanders yearned for freedom

07/07/2021

Young Ireland was a political and cultural movement in the 1840’s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform. Grouped around the Dublin weekly newspaper ‘’The Nation’’ it disagreed with Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association, from which it separated in 1847.
In 1848, an unsuccessful insurrection was mounted by the Young Irelanders. Their leaders were well educated and included all religions. Who like the patriots of 1798, were wholly concerned with justice for the Catholic population who had recently achieved emancipation.

The Period during the famine of 1845-49 when Young Irelanders yearned for freedom

04/07/2021

On 27th July 1846, the Young Ireland leaders refused to sign Daniel O'Connell's test and walked out. This action led to two bitterly opposed and hostile parties, choosing different approaches in their efforts to try and overcome the hated, Act of Union.

The period in Ireland after Catholic Emancipation when Millions of people died and emigrated

27/06/2021

I have added an original song to this episode ''Jean Joseph Amable Humbert''
go on, give it a listen, for the halibut!

Evolution of the Irish from Biblical times

19/06/2021

This episode includes as the outro, a new song entitled ''What a shame'' have a listen and I hope you like it.

The period in Ireland after Catholic Emancipation when Millions of people died and emigrated

14/06/2021

I have reviewed and added an original song, written and performed by yours truly, to this episode. The song is entitled Tyrone and Tyrconnell.

During these wars, the Norman Earls, were at the head and to the fore of every rebellion. The English complained and said they were worse than the Irish rebels and were constantly stirring up trouble.

12/06/2021

''Daniel O’Connell laid down the proposition, ‘’Ireland cannot fight England’’ above all he knew that there remained, at the worst, to an oppressed people unable to match their oppressors in a military struggle, the grand policy of passive resistance, by which the weak can drag down the haughty and the strong''

Evolution of the Irish from Biblical Times

07/06/2021

Thank you

The Land of The Golden Sunset Podcast

03/06/2021

Following his last appearance in parliament, and describing himself "oppressed with grief", his "physical power departed", O'Connell travelled on a pilgrimage to Rome. He died, age 71, on 15th May 1847 in Genoa, Italy . In accord with his last wishes, O'Connell's heart was buried in Rome at Sant'Agata dei Goti, then the chapel of the Irish College, and the remainder of his body was interred in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin

Evolution of the Irish from Biblical Times

26/05/2021

efore the Act of Union, the city of Dublin enjoyed a very successful social life among the upper classes, such as Doctors, Lawyers and Merchants and in particular the Castle set. They all enjoyed the sporting tournaments such as cricket, lawn tennis and croquet, which was invented in Dublin. Croquet originated from a game Irish locals used to play called ‘Crookey’ in 1834
This episode includes an original song entitled ''Daniel the Liberator''

Evolution of the Irish from Biblical Times

23/05/2021

Consistent with the position he had taken publicly in relation to rebellions of 1798 and 1803, O'Connell focused upon parliamentary representation and popular, but peaceful, demonstration to induce change. "No political change", he offered, "is worth the shedding of a single drop of human blood".
This episode also includes an original song entitled ''Daniel the Liberator''

Evolution of the Irish from Biblical Times

19/05/2021

I have added a title song to this episode review... written and performed by your truly

How the Melesians ruled Ireland for one thousand years

14/05/2021

Sir Jonah Barrington (1756-1834) describes the closing scene of the Irish Parliament in 1800, in graphic details, as follows; ‘’The Commons House of Parliament, on the last evening, afforded the melancholy example of an independent people, betrayed, divided, sold and as a state annihilated. British clerks and officers, were smuggled into her parliament, to vote away, the constitution of a country, to which they were strangers and in which they had neither interest or connection.

Evolution of the Irish from Biblical Times

09/05/2021

On the 5th May 1800, Henry Grattan said ‘’Rely on it that Ireland, like every enslaved country, will be made to pay for its subjugation. Robbery and taxes ever follow conquest; the country that looses her liberty looses her revenues’’

Evolution of the Irish from Biblical Times

28/04/2021

Ireland, up to this Act of Union, was legally an independent nation; the King being represented in Ireland by a Lord Lieutenant who controlled the Irish executive; who in turn controlled the patronage i.e. peerages, placemen and pensions. Now the government of Westminster exercised control over all.

Evolution of the Irish from Biblical Times

24/04/2021

Michael Dwyer arrived in Sydney on 14th of February 1806 on the Tellicherry and was given free settler status. He was accompanied by his wife Mary and their eldest children and also by his companions, Hugh 'Vesty' Byrne and Martin Burke, along with Arthur Devlin and John Mernagh. He was given a grant of 40.5 ha (100 acres) of land on Cabramatta Creek in Sydney.

The Evolution of the Irish from Biblical times

16/04/2021

Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh disregarded the first trial acquittal of Michael Dwyer. William Bligh (1754 –1817) was an officer of the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. The Mutiny on the Bounty occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; after being set adrift in Bounty's launch by the mutineers, Bligh and his loyal men all reached Timor alive, after a journey of 3,618 nautical miles.

The Evolution of the Irish from Biblical times

13/04/2021

All of Emmet’s friends now urged him to escape, but he insisted on remaining, refusing to disclose his reasons. But it was soon discovered that the daughter of John Philpot Curran, the eminent barrister and Robert Emmet were lovers. He wanted to say farewell to his sweetheart, Sarah Curran and this delay cost him his life.

The Evolution of the Irish from Biblical times

09/04/2021

The United Irishmen knew, from the evidence of some of their members, that William Orr had not administered the oath on the occasion alleged. They also had the evidence of another eye-witness, Jamie Hope. The soldier witness, Hugh Wheatly, perjured himself and it was proved he was of bad character. The person who did tender the oath was a well known member of the Society, William McKeever, who subsequently escaped to America.

The Evolution of the Irish from Biblical times

04/04/2021

Lord Byron said, after the death of John Philpot Curran, "I have heard that man speak more poetry than I have seen written", and, in a letter to Thomas Moore, 1 October 1821, "I feel, as your poor Curran said, before his death, 'a mountain of lead upon my heart, which I believe to be constitutional, and that nothing will remove it but the same remedy.'"

The Evolution of the Irish from Biblical times

29/03/2021

Richard R. Madden (1798 - 1886) was an Irish doctor, writer, historian and member of the United Irishmen, suggests that the Peep o’Day Boys were composed of both Protestants and Presbyterians while the Defenders originally consisted of Catholics. The Peep o’ Day Boys so-called on account of the nature of their attacks, between dusk and dawn, on the homes of their Catholic neighbours in search of arms. The title "Defenders" arose on account of the resistance of Catholics to these aggressions.

Evolution of the Irish From Biblical Times

24/03/2021

Pamela de Genlis, born Stéphanie Caroline Anne Syms (1773-1831) and known as "Pamela". Her origins are uncertain, but she was described as an adopted daughter of Félicité de Genlis; it is usually assumed that she was an unacknowledged daughter of Madame de Genlis and Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans. However, there is a tradition in Fogo, Newfoundland, that she was the illegitimate daughter of an English naval officer, was taken to England and ended up in the Genlis household.

Evolution of the Irish From Biblical Times

19/03/2021

''I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand.
Saying, how is dear old Ireland, and how does she stand.
She’s the most distressful country, that ever yet was seen.
For they ‘re hanging men and woman, for the wearing of the green''

Evolution of the Irish From Biblical Times

17/03/2021

Patrick and his entourage landed near Dublin in what is now Bray, but a hostile crowd compelled them to re-embark, the holy men took their boat further along the coast to skerries but failed to put ashore and headed North for several days, eventually landing near Strangford Loch, in the year 432, when Patrick was aged forty-seven.

07/03/2021

Reached 1200 downloads.........Thank you all

Most of the stories in this series of podcasts are indisputable truths on the evolution of the Irish. However, all history of ancient times is to a greater or lesser extent hearsay, since the method of passing on the stories before writing began, was to in...