beware the surrendering masses

by tom barry Mon Mar 24, 2003 00:31

On the twentieth day of November,
The day that the Tans left Macroom.
They were loaded in two Crossley tenders
Not knowing that they'd meet their doom.

But when they came to Kilmichael
They suddenly came to a stop
For they met with the boys of the column
Who made a clean sweep of the lot.

Then over the hills went the echo
the peal of the rifle and gun
The flames from the lorries gave tidings
That the boys from Kilmichael had won.

So here's to the boys of Kilmichael
Those brave lads so gallant and true
Who fought 'neath the green flag of Erin
And conquered the red, white and blue.

by tom barry Mon Mar 24, 2003 00:27

Funny thing is that the Brits themselves have never had any problem using cunning "ruses" to deceive the enemy ....

Remember Kilmichael ?
"The volunteers suffered three casualties, Pat Deasey, Kilmacsimon, Michael McCarthy, Dunmanway, and Jim O'Sullivan, Rossmore. All three were killed by a number of Auxilaries who had pretended to surrender during the battle."

http://www.irlnet.com/aprn/archive/2000/November30/30hist.html

by hunter Mon Mar 24, 2003 00:25

sorry that image is just too disturbing to contemplate - i pity Celia.

by tom barry Sun Mar 23, 2003 23:22

The rat must be stripped naked for all to see ....

by Wild Irishman Sun Mar 23, 2003 22:59

It's not fair to anoraks. Should we have a campaign to prevent rats from wearing them?

by tom barry Sun Mar 23, 2003 22:24

What a pity that a rat in an anorak has sold out my legacy to the Irish people ......

by tom barry Sun Mar 23, 2003 22:23

I have always been a firm believer in
The Law of Unexpected Iraq Blowback

"For me it began in Mesopotamia now called Irak[sic].” It was there, he recalled, “in the land of the Arabs, then a battle-ground between the two Imperialistic armies of Britain and Turkey that I awoke to the echo of guns being fired in the capital of my own country, Ireland. . . . It was a rude awakening, guns being fired at members of my own race by soldiers of the same army in which I was serving."

Barry was an NCO in Britain's takeover of Iraq in World War One when he learned of the Irish rebellion in 1916. Back home afterwards, he used his British military training and experience in Iraq to efficiently manufacture an underground army that would lethally harass his trainers. Barry proved Collins correct for having expected that training a new generation of Irish insurgents would be easier than imagined:

"Sure,” Collins had predicted, “won't His Majesty's Government train them for me?"

Their mayhem of nationalism would lead to anti-imperial violence coming home to the British Isles and inspire violent insurgency over the world and the ensuing century. Britain's invasion of Iraq carried one heck of an unplanned blowback.

http://www.nowarblog.org/archives/000389.html

by tom barry Sun Mar 23, 2003 22:16

Yes they are as bad as the boys from Kilmichael ....