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TexasProgresive

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31. What you say is true, however...

Mon Nov 25, 2019, 12:01 AM

Nov 2019

I think Morgan Llywelyn began with the sinking of the Titanic as a metaphor for the weakness of the British domination of the Irish people, and ending with the execution of the leaders of the rising. The Easter Monday rising like the sinking of the Titanic - a glorious beginning that ended in disaster. So as you said, "The end was the start of so much." From the blood of these leaders executed after a secret trial with no defense allowed erupted Irish outrage that was not present prior. The last line in the book is:
November 22,1916
H.M.S. BRITANNIC, SISTER SHIP OF
TITANIC, SINKS IN THE AEGEAN

3 May: Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas Clarke
4 May: Joseph Plunkett, William Pearse, Edward Daly and Michael O'Hanrahan
5 May: John MacBride
8 May: Éamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Seán Heuston and Con Colbert
12 May: James Connolly and Seán Mac Diarmada

BTW- I am zero% Irish but kiss me anyway.

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