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stairnaheireann · 7 months
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#OTD in 1919 – An unofficial government policy of reprisals began in Fermoy, Co Cork.
Two hundred British soldiers looted and burned several commercial buildings in the town, after 23 Cork Volunteers, under the leadership of Liam Lynch, augmented by Mick Mansfield and George Lennon of Waterford attacked members of the Royal Shropshire Light Infantry en route to services at the Wesleyan Church. Four soldiers were reportedly wounded, one fatally. Fifteen rifles were captured. Lynch…
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seachranaidhe · 2 years
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mapsontheweb · 9 months
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Stances of IRA divisions on the Anglo-Irish treaty, which ended the Irish War of Independence.
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For background, what made the treaty so controversial was the fact that it gave Ireland partial independence as a dominion (akin to Canada at the time), where politicians still had to swear loyalty to the crown. As well as effectively guaranteeing the partition of the island, and the creation of Northern Ireland.
Many within the IRA rejected these compromises and wanted to keep fighting for complete freedom, causing a civil war between pro-treaty and anti-factions. This was eventually won by the pro-treaty side with British support, with the pro-treaty IRA going on to become the new Irish military.
The anti-treaty faction was driven underground, but continued to wage a low-level insurgency against both Britain and the new Irish government until the 60s, when they split again into communist and nationalist factions. The latter of which became known as the Provisional IRA, and obviously experienced a huge "revival" during the Troubles.
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callsigns-haze · 3 months
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Loves Revolution
Chapter 1
Pairing: Bradley Bradshaw (as Micheal Collins) x Jake Seresin (as Harry Boland) x OC! Madison Cassidy
Word count: 3.2K
A/n: This is the first post to my new series so please be nice! I'm going to try to make this into a series so please show this story a bit of love and reblog!
Summary: Bradley, Jake and Maddie have been friends for many years ongoing. Bradley from Cork and Jake and Madison from the troubled Dublin, have been close for life. Now fighting in the 1916 Easter rising and the ongoing history to the Treaty and the independence of Ireland their story lives on...
History: Bradley (represents) :Michael Collins (October 16, 1890 – August 22, 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier, and politician who was a key role in the early twentieth-century campaign for Irish independence. During the Irish Civil War, he served as Director of Intelligence for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and as a government minister in the self-proclaimed Irish Republic. From January 1922, he was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State, and from July till his death in an ambush in August 1922, he was Commander-in-Chief of the National Army.
Jake (represents) :Harry Boland (April 27, 1887 – August 1, 1922) was an Irish republican politician who led the Irish Republican Brotherhood from 1919 to 1920. From 1918 until 1922, he was a Teachta Dála (TD).He was elected as the MP for Roscommon South in the 1918 general election, but, like other Sinn Féin candidates, he did not serve in the British House of Commons, instead sitting as a TD in the First Dáil. Boland was elected to the second Dáil as a TD for Mayo South-Roscommon South in the 1921 general election. He was re-elected as an anti-Treaty candidate in 1922, but he perished two months later during the Irish Civil War.
History :The Easter Rising (Irish: Éir Amach na Cásca), often known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurgency in Ireland in April 1916 during Easter Week. While the United Kingdom was waging the First World War, Irish republicans started the Rising against British control in Ireland with the goal of establishing an independent Irish Republic. It was Ireland's greatest important insurrection since the 1798 rebellion and the first armed battle of the Irish revolutionary period. Beginning in May 1916, sixteen of the Rising's leaders were executed. The executions' nature, as well as following political developments, eventually contributed to an upsurge in popular support for Irish independence.
Warning: Mentions of gun use, ptsd, mentions of death, mentions of shooting, flirting, mentions of abuse, description of dead body, death, blood
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Year 1916, Easter
"Sir, we got the General Post Office surrounded, Sir! We believe that inside are De Valera, Macdonagh, Clark, Connolly and a lot of other rebellions, sir!" One of the funny dressed British soldiers replies to their head commander, with hand at forehead, ready for a salute. This is how the English planned it all along, for the most important rebellions to be stuck at one place, surrounded with no escape.
"So we have the G.P.O, good, very good, but what about O'Connells street, Stevens green, The Liffey and the four courts?" The head commander asked the young man who still held his hand above his head, not moving an inch. "The areas are empty, sir! Either captured or escaped but the rest are at the G.P.O, sir!"
They're all where they were supposed to be, all in one place, no room to escape and they'll give in to this nonsense, they had no way to continue fighting against the British or loyal Irish. The undertakers or loyal Irish were against the rebellions, fighting against them at this very moment, all they had to do now is give themselves up to the English.
"Are there any women inside, lieutenant?" Any innocent woman that had been stuck inside the G.P.O that had been inside the building for the past five days, did not deserve the faith they may face in several minutes from now. The soldiers aligned outside of the building will not hesitate to kill anyone on the inside but the women didn't deserve it.
"There's women of aid and very little volunteers, sir! We believe that one of the fellow female friends of De Valera's help is inside the building. Her parents put her off name Madison Cassidy, but to the public she's known as 'Maddie', sir!" A woman so apparently known to the public but how? No woman that the commander has heard of went by that name or was 'known to the public', no woman has ever had the might or power to be so known in the streets of Dublin or the county of Leinster. "What do you mean 'known to the public', lieutenant?" "She's a public speaker, sir!"
A female public speaker? And that was apparently known to people. Absurd. An absolute absurdity. Some young girl, that he has never heard of decided to become a public speaker. What a joke! She should be scrubbing the dishes, washing the linen, taking care of the kids or cooking and not wasting her time over public speeches. And who would even listen to her? Some sort of female, trying to put her thought into a speech that is apparently supposed to motivate people to do something.
And she believes that's gonna work, but like the lieutenant mentioned, she did work with De Valera. "Bring her to me, nobody lay a finger upon her, understood?" "Yes sir!"
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The gun shots echoed in your ears. It was a sensation as if your ears were violently and rapidly ringing, due to the awful noises that have been haunting your brain for the past five days. You've been in the G.P.O for so long and at this point, it felt like you haven't left in centuries.
You're hiding behind a big, destructed pillar at the moment, leaning your back against it, catching your breath. There was no way out, there was English all around the grand building and mostly everything inside was burning and what didn't make it better is the roof, it's too weak to hold more racket. Even if the English didn't manage to get you guys out, the roof looked like it was only gonna last two more days before swallowing all of you.
"Maddie!" Bradley's voice, called out as the rebel has been looking for you. Him and Jake have been shooting from further up front of the building and now you were unsure if to answer. You couldn't fight more, even though it was written in your blood to fight for the right of being an independent country. But now Leinster, Munster, Connaught and Ulster should forgive you but you've had enough.
"I'm here!" You call out from behind the pillar, Bradley immediately runs over to you, diving behind the pillar like you did as a shelter from not getting shot.
"We're giving up," he told you, those baby cow eyes never dropping your gaze, not even for a second. "What?" You couldn't believe it. You guys destroyed Dublin. The streets of your hometown were in ruins from this rebellion, just so you could give up. That was bloody nonsense.
"They got us surrounded, we have no choice but to give in." "Bradle-" He cut you off, he knew you'd argue or do some sort of disagreement but there was no other way. "I know Maddie, but we had a meeting upstairs and there's nothing we can do they have the four courts and Stevens green and the rest. We have to make it out alive and this is not a step towards that."
You look over the pillar to see men on your side fighting, tired wrecked and most likely depressed. They're not going to make it out alive if we don't give up but if we do they'll probably be shot, either way.
"BRADSHAW!" De Valera calls out, with his old, crispy sharp voice. Sounds like a snob but is the chief, the man everyone listens to and who is leading your group forward. He had to go, you wonder how or when they're going to give up but he lays a soft, delicate, quick kiss on your cheek and gets up and runs towards Jake to help. Jake looks like he had enough.
The building's broken architecture, dust has covered his body and he looks wrecked. He looked over at Bradley running and quickly yanked him behind to a standing pillar up front of the G.P.O. The military has brought in machine guns, full loads and everyone crouches down with full might trying not to get shot. You all were going to die, you knew it. Either shot now or shot later is how you're all going to end, just each had to decide what's best for themselves.
For a full ten minutes of nonstop shooting, the military guns stopped, waiting for a reaction out of the rebellion group. They were going to give up now, you knew it. Dev and the rest ran over to a soldier and wrapped a white flag around his shotgun and told him to head up front.
This is the sign of the rebellions giving up. This was the sign to signify that you guys had enough. One by one they leave the building and you get up from behind the fallen pillar and run to the exit. The second you reach behind De Valera, Bradshaw and Seresin you could tell they were going to give up and this was the end for them.
You stand behind them as the English General calls out orders, "FOUR STEPS FORWARD!" You all do as told. "DROP YOUR WEAPONS!" Anyone who held a gun or anything of that sort does as they're told. "NOW, TWO STEPS BACK!" And that was the last order till the round up.
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An English General was calling out English rebellion names, one by one, dragging them out of the crowd by his ugly cane. "McDonagh. Thomas Clark." Both were dragged out of the crowd by the bloody officer. Each name was dragged out in his tongue and then the actionist was dragged out of the group, except one injured man, Connolly, who was lying down due to a leg wound and instead he was just kicked and carried away on the cloth stretcher.
"Get up, you Fenian swine. Now who else am I missing?" The general murmurs are loud enough for you to hear. He looks up and down the crowd and lays his gaze upon you. "Cassidy!" He calls out your second name and dragged you with his cane forward. Beside you stood the rest of your friends just like before and called out one more name before leaving. "De Valera!"
At that Bradley grunted and pulled a bit forward but Jake got a grip of him and pulled him back. "Brad, if we wanna make out of this shit hole alive, I'm sorry to say but we can't do anything about this," Jake says as he watches the officers drag you and Dev away. And murmurs lowly below his breath, "We can't do anything now."
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They dragged you out of your cell. Death by the firing squad, you can see it so clearly now. Your own fellow friends, the 'Loyal Irish' are about to shoot you and cost you your life in just minutes.
As they drag you through the halls that are dim with no light, you expect happy memories to come but your mind stays dark and blank. You were dragged up as far as the outside where on the floor all you saw was blood from the last corpse that was shot and too heavy and invaluable to carry so just dragged like a worthless shit.
You were lined up against the wooden wall and you looked over to the soldier that was supposed to put a bag over your head but instead said, "Pray." That simple four letter word was a suggestion, a way that god would forgive you but the soldiers were gonna be pissed off more because you were catholic not some prodestant like the English tried, but you still say your prayers as a command. You do the sign of the holy cross and pray.
"I confess to almighty God and to you my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do.
Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever- Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.
Amen."
And at that the same male officer who just two minutes back, barked at you to pray, gets handed a sack. The sack that was about to be thrown over your head, before one of the fellow Irish citizens on behalf of the English shoots you.
You wanted to scream but nobody would listen. You wanted to run but you wouldn't get far. You wanted to tell Jake and Bradley that you cared about them. You wanted Dublin and all of Ireland to be free again. At that thought the sack was thrown over your head and the big bang of the guns stopped your thinking for all….
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'The fact that l was born in America might save my hide. Either way, I am ready for what comes. The Irish Republic is a dream no longer. It is daily sealed by the lifeblood of those who proclaimed it. And every one of us they shoot brings more people to our side.They cannot imprison us forever. And from the day of our release, Bradley, we must act as if the Republic is a fact. We defeat the British Empire by ignoring it. Now I hear the payers of our beloved friends, Macdonagh, Clark, Cassidy, each of them ended their last speech with Amen and to us that will stand for peace, yet so we shall still try to make it our peace and remember the men and woman in a way that no one ever has.'
That was the first and last letter from Dev and the way that your second name stood out to Bradley was significant. He loved the way you cringed when he said your full name and you crinkled your nose, which caused him to laugh uncontreablly, but now that's all gone.
"She's dead, Jake, they shot her," Bradley, tries not to break apart on the prison steps as he lets those words leave his mouth. The young woman that he admired, fought with was now easily put six feet underground due to a bullet. Such a short, beautiful life of a lady, wasted due to a firing squad.
"She died like she wished, Brad, she wanted to fight for her country and die trying," Jake lets out as he can't stop thinking about you just standing there, waiting for the bullet to pierce your skin. He wanted to cry, scream but he couldn't, not here or now. Bradley was the same he wanted to choke the next guard he saw because there's a chance that it was their bullet that hit you.
"She didn't deserve it, Jake. Not her. She fought but we dragged her into this." "We may have involved her into this, but nobody deserves this faith, Brad. Absolutely nobody."
Year 1918, May
"They let us out of jail so we can do our best to be put inside again," Bradley smirked as the two got of the train that has brought them out of prison sights into town. Shirt drive but freedom for the first time in two years. Final peace with no officers at your back or stupid cells and jail uniforms.
"Don't you see a certain paradox in that?" Jake looked over at his companion in a short shock and repeated. "Paradox." At that Bradley crumbles the piece of paper that he was reading and states like some dictionary. "A contradiction. An immovable force meets an immovable object kind of thing."
The two of them continue walking forward and see a young bride and groom saying their goodbyes to their family as the town was too small for them and they wished to see the world, explore. It brought sadness in both of the men's hearts thinking both about the lovely lady in their past. And sadly the main word of that sentence was past, because whatever hopes they had for her were over now.
"Look, isn't that a lovely picture?" It truly was. It's the kind of picture everyone wishes for and desires at heart. "Maybe we should settle down." Probably a smart thing. To find love in this hopeless place may have made it easier the get through in life and focus on the main goals in a different perspective. In a love kind of way. "Just the two of us?" The other friend joked causing the two to laugh.
"And him." Says Bradley while Jake looks to him in pure confusion. "Who?" Jake had no clue who his fellow friend was referring to and you could easily tell that by the expression on Jake's face. Bradley simply points at the car with two men standing outside. Tom and Sean the men they've fought the Easter Rising with. The two, were friends with Jake and Bradley and somehow we're still not chickened out to help them.
"How are you?" Bradley asks giving Tom a hug as the two have not seen each other since the line up. Tom smiles up at him, since he falls rather short in height and pats Bradley shoulders. "Well, as best as a rebel can be." With those words leaving his mouth, Tom turns to Jake giving him an equal hug as Sean quickly hugs Bradley. "Get in you two, we got a show to attend!"
"How did they know we we're here already?" Bradley wonders looking over his shoulder to find two of the loyal Irish that have been following him and Jake even since the two of them have left jail and entered the not so free freedom. They were gonna get chased down on every step they make every. Any plan will be tracked and this is not what freedom is supposed to be about.
"They know what we eat for breakfast Bradley. This is the bare minimum of their poxy power," answered Sean while driving on a country side road, filled with branches everywhere and no actual pathways for pedestrians. It was a quite Irish road; nothing close to being straight, it was filled by potholes and indents and it wouldn't even be defined as a road, it was just a bunch of loose gravel.
"Well there's only one answer to that. We find out what they eat for breakfast!" Bradley exclaims as Jake looked at his friend in pure confusion and a bit of terror. The terror of how had he managed to survive with the lad for so long. The two years in prison together and many years of friendship before that. People would call him mad if they seen that he survived that long with the crazy brunette. "You're a mad fucker, Bradley," Jake said shaking his head side to side.
"Yeah, but I'm the mad fuck you hang out with," said the brunette, laying his baby cow eyes upon his friends, spring green ones. The two of them are close. They've always been that way but some bond that they have will never be broken. No such thing on this world can interrupt their friendship.
"So are the two of you looking for anyone out the old leading squad?" Asked Sean, with a hint of suspense in his voice. Was there really anyone from the old leading squad left that wasn't shot, hung or killed in any kind of way. Bradley looked over his shoulder to see that the loyal Irish were still behind them, hunting them down like hawks for their pray, right on their heals, step by step behind them. "Well, who can we look for? Either shot or some other cruel way of getting put down into the poxy earth!" Said Jake as he was sitting down, in a kind of slouch, hand behind his head, leaning back with his old fashion cap over his eyes to block out the Irish sun that was barely ever showing at times.
"Ah, Maddie made a big fit out of it a whole while back. Pissed her off, it did! Several speeches and annoying the British that they bloody had to have a full law talk with her but she won!"
Maddie? As in their Maddie? Madison Cassidy? The woman that the two grew up with and who sadly lost her life to the firing squad in 1916? That can't be right. She gott shot, just like the rest. Full prayer ending and mad shit like tha'. This didn't make sense. It didn't add up. "As in our Maddie?" Exclaimed Bradley, thinking he's mistaken, he saw his dear friend get dragged out the line up and heard about her shooting. "Yeah. Don't you guys know Maddie? Madison Cassidy? She worked with De Valera, yeah she still does all the speech things." Answered Tom , expecting the two men to have met the young, independent, confident woman.
This shook the two men inside. They've heard and believed for the last two years the woman that the two of them shared interest for had died, cruelly, due to the firing squad. "We thought she died!" Jake said, he's still shocked. Once he heard that she is alive, he quickly sat up from his slouched position, rubbed his hands down his face and fixed his flat hat. "Nah, they wouldn't manage to put her down that easily!"
"We heard she got shot by the firing squad after the G.P.O!" This is what they have believed and hearing the news that she's been alive the whole time doesn't quite add up to the two men. "Nah, she's alive mate!"
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werewolfetone · 7 months
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Do you watch Peaky Blinders? I tried searching your blog and nothing came up (unless tumblr is working correctly as always) so I was curious. I was never keen on their portrayal of the anti-treaty ira, and i know they take some liberties with historical characters
No I don't :( my dad keeps trying to convince me to watch it but I've just never gotten around to it
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24th December 1973 🗓️ : Event - United States Congress The U.S. Congress granted home rule to Washington, D.C., allowing the residents to elect their own mayor and a city council. "The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Senators and representatives are chosen through..."
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aoawarfare · 3 months
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Cumann na mBan and the Irish Civil War
Despite the many challenges facing them, women were not passive observers of the Irish War of Independence or the Irish Civil War. Many women joined Cumann na mBan, a nationalist organization that worked closely with Sinn Fein and the IRA to achieve an independent Ireland. Cumann na mBan would be the first organization to reject the treaty and provide the anti-treaty side with its iron and…
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I’ll have you know that civil war only really took place in the UK, in the part of Ireland they wouldn’t give back.
The Troubles was not the first Civil War within Ireland. The War of Independence was largely fought on the soil of the Republic. Thus I said "on and off over the last century" (granted, it's 2023 now so it's been a bit over a century since, so I could have been more precise). And that's not even getting into the "Irish Civil War" which was also fought within the Republic. While it was a conflict between pro and anti-treaty forces it was inarguably a result of the conflict that proceeded it and the lasting influence of British rule in both Northern Ireland and the Republic.
Northern Ireland is a part of Ireland, that was a very central fucking part of the conflict, my guy.
I'm well aware The Troubles took place in Northern Ireland, you know, where one of my family members (who was a civilian!) was brutally murdered by British Armed Forces for the crime of witnessing them murder his boss, an innocent man they suspected of being in the IRA.
How does this at all change the statement I made on that post?
I'm assuming you actually know all this and are just being an asshole who's trying to do a "gotchya" (???)
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#OTD in 1892 – Birth of Tom Maguire, an Irish republican who held the rank of Commandant-General in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.
Tom Maguire was an Irish republican who held the rank of commandant-general in the Western Command of the IRA and led the South Mayo flying column.   On 18 September 1920, the Mayo Brigade was reorganised, it was split up into four separate brigades. Tom Maguire was appointed commander of the South Mayo one.   On 3 May 1921, Maguire led an ambush on an RIC patrol in Tourmakeady, Co Mayo,…
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something something trade offer
I receive: 26 counties
you receive: 6 counties and the Anti-Treaty IRA for some reason
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Vintage newspaper headline circa 1920′s. Even after the declared cease-fire in the Irish War of Independence & the subsequent signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty in Dec 1921 Michael Collins ordered the IRA in the north to carry out bomb & gun attacks on Protestant civilians & Unionist targets in Northern Ireland in an attempt to destabilize the newly founded country. Apart from civilian murders, historic buildings such as Shane’s Castle & Antrim Castle were destroyed in IRA arson attacks in May 1922.
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Loves Revolution
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Pairing: Bradley Bradshaw (as Micheal Collins) x Jake Seresin (as Harry Boland) x OC! Madison Cassidy
Word count: 500words
A/n: This is the first post to my new series so please be nice! I'm going to try to make this into a series so please show this story a bit of love and reblog!
Summary: Bradley, Jake and Maddie have been friends for many years ongoing. Bradley from Cork and Jake and Madison from the troubled Dublin, have been close for life. Now fighting in the 1916 Easter rising and the ongoing history to the Treaty and the independence of Ireland their story lives on.
History: Bradley (represents) :Michael Collins (October 16, 1890 – August 22, 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier, and politician who was a key role in the early twentieth-century campaign for Irish independence. During the Irish Civil War, he served as Director of Intelligence for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and as a government minister in the self-proclaimed Irish Republic. From January 1922, he was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State, and from July till his death in an ambush in August 1922, he was Commander-in-Chief of the National Army.
Jake (represents) :Harry Boland (April 27, 1887 – August 1, 1922) was an Irish republican politician who led the Irish Republican Brotherhood from 1919 to 1920. From 1918 until 1922, he was a Teachta Dála (TD).He was elected as the MP for Roscommon South in the 1918 general election, but, like other Sinn Féin candidates, he did not serve in the British House of Commons, instead sitting as a TD in the First Dáil. Boland was elected to the second Dáil as a TD for Mayo South-Roscommon South in the 1921 general election. He was re-elected as an anti-Treaty candidate in 1922, but he perished two months later during the Irish Civil War.
History :The Easter Rising (Irish: Éir Amach na Cásca), often known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurgency in Ireland in April 1916 during Easter Week. While the United Kingdom was waging the First World War, Irish republicans started the Rising against British control in Ireland with the goal of establishing an independent Irish Republic. It was Ireland's greatest important insurrection since the 1798 rebellion and the first armed battle of the Irish revolutionary period. Beginning in May 1916, sixteen of the Rising's leaders were executed. The executions' nature, as well as following political developments, eventually contributed to an upsurge in popular support for Irish independence.
Warning: Mentions of gun use, ptsd, mentions of death, mentions of shooting, flirting, mentions of abuse, description of dead body, death, blood
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"Sir, we got the General Post Office surrounded, Sir! We believe that inside are De Valera, Macdonagh, Clark, Connolly and a lot of other rebellions, sir!" One of the funny dressed British soldiers replies to their head commander, with hand at forehead, ready for a salute. This is how the English planned it all along, for the most important rebellions to be stuck at one place, surrounded with no escape.
"So we have the G.P.O, good, very good, but what about O'Connells street, Stevens green, The Liffey and the four courts?" The head commander asked the young man who still held his hand above his head, not moving an inch. "The areas are empty, sir! Either captured or escaped but the rest are at the G.P.O, sir!"
They're all where they were supposed to be, all in one place, no room to escape and they'll give in to this nonsense, they had no way to continue fighting against the British or loyal Irish. The undertakers or loyal Irish were against the rebellions, fighting against them at this very moment, all they had to do now is give themselves up to the English.
"Are there any women inside, lieutenant?" Any innocent woman that had been stuck inside the G.P.O that had been inside the building for the past five days, did not deserve the faith they may face in several minutes from now. The soldiers aligned outside of the building will not hesitate to kill anyone on the inside but the women didn't deserve it.
"There's women of aid and very little volunteers, sir! We believe that one of the fellow female friends of De Valera's help is inside the building. Her parents put her off name Madison Cassidy, but to the public she's known as 'Maddie', sir!" A woman so apparently known to the public but how? No woman that the commander has heard of went by that name or was 'known to the public', no woman has ever had the might or power to be so known in the streets of Dublin or the county of Leinster. "What do you mean 'known to the public', lieutenant?" "She's a public speaker, sir!"
A female public speaker? And that was apparently known to people. Absurd. An absolute absurdity. Some young girl, that he has never heard of decided to become a public speaker. What a joke! She should be scrubbing the dishes, washing the linen, taking care of the kids or cooking and not wasting her time over public speeches. And who would even listen to her? Some sort of female, trying to put her thought into a speech that is apparently supposed to motivate people to do something.
And she believes that's gonna work, but like the lieutenant mentioned, she did work with De Valera. "Bring her to me, nobody lay a finger upon her, understood?" "Yes sir!"
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Between the Shadow and the Soul
Chapter 14
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My name is Thomas Shelby. And today, I’m going to kill a man. Today is Derby Day… and the murder will take place this afternoon at the Epsom races… It may be that I am able to escape after the killing. The odds are not good. Which is why I’m writing this letter. I have been forced by agents of the crown to carry out this murder and in the event of my own death I want the following facts to be known. My family are innocent of any involvement.
And while some of them may be guilty of other things I have not shared details of this mission with any of them and no company assets were used. Agents of the crown have joined forces with the pro-treaty Fenians to arrange this murder. I believe the Government intend to falsely blame the anti-treaty IRA. Therefore, the bullet I fire this afternoon will be the starting gun for Civil War in Ireland. The man I have been instructed to kill is Field Marshall Russell, formerly a Black and Tan commander, who committed many atrocities in the county of Cork. There is no remorse in my heart at the prospect of his death. However, the conspiracy behind the killing is cause for international concern. Such is the gravity of my secret mission that after I have served my purpose, I believe they intend to kill me.
I therefore want to name a particular individual in this letter. The agent who has initiated and orchestrated this crime is Major Chester Campbell of the British Secret Intelligence Service. He chose me for this dirty business as an act of vengeance, prompted by a hatred of long standing. In the event of my death, it is imperative he be brought to justice. If you are reading this, then I am dead already. I hope that living, as you do, in a truly free country, you will be able to make the above facts known to the world.
Yours sincerely, Thomas Shelby.’
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At five months pregnant Eva looked the same until she turned around. Scared the hell out of people who didn’t know she was pregnant.
May Carleton had sputtered an apology when she last saw her.
“Oh great, I get to meet the King and I’m fat.” Eva complained even if she looked perfectly lovely in a deep rose dress that went well with the deep burgundy of Tommy’s tie.
“It’ll be a great follow up after the last Derby we went to, love, and this time our picture will be on all the papers.” he kisses her temple knowing how she gets when he ruins her lipstick.
“Fucking great, Tommy, now my relatives back home will see how fat I am and remember that I have helped unseat heads of state I meet.” she jokes. Eva had put the fear of God in Solomons by making him lose all the profit they had made with the two shipments. This coupled with Tommy’s bluff had made Sabini lose the war.
“They’ll see you meeting a head of state who you aren’t overthrowing, Evie, that will shock them more than you not telling them you’re pregnant.” Tommy played with a stray curl in her long hair. He liked her long locks, especially when her hair spread behind her like a dark halo when they fucked.
“What did you tell Campbell that made him panic when he saw the horse’s name, Evie?” he asks her as he looks at her smug smile in the vanity mirror.
“That he’d be shot to death by a woman in a phone booth today.” She said sweetly putting on her lucky golden earrings ---blessed by some witchwoman in Oaxaca. “He raped Polly and now Polly is going to kill him like I saw in March. I’ll make sure she isn’t caught.”
“I’d kill him myself if you’d have told me sooner.”
“It took me weeks to get the truth out of Polly, I doubt she would’ve allowed me to tell you sooner.” she put on her second earring and sighed. “Grace will be at the derby, in a last-ditch attempt to ask you to run away to Paris or some bullshit.”
“Why does everyone want to run away to France?.” he avoids the Grace part and goes straight to the France part. Leave it to him to try to get her to forget about the two women who want him so desperately that they are willing to wreck his marriage.
“Tommy.” she says almost annoyed.
“I don’t have feelings for her, Evie, I had been in love with the idea of her, a Grace that wasn’t real.” that feels too genuine to be a lie, but her husband was a very good liar seeing how he fooled Alfie Solomons this morning. “I love the mother of my children and the very real woman who keeps a hand grenade pin as a keepsake.”
He gives her the pin and she put it back into its locked box. The box contained the very essence of Eva’s soul, but to anyone else it was just sentimental garbage locked with the key she wore as a necklace.
Tommy’s bluff couldn’t have been possible without him snooping in her wooden box of sentimental garbage. Although he wonders when does Eva plan on letting him read the visions she had in a desert pilgrimage in 1917. The little leather book had things that terrified her.
“Did May Carleton doing exactly that made you realize that or did you finally arrive to that conclusion yourself?” Eva asked knowing this could set off another round of arguments and Tommy wanted to end his life with his marriage intact it seemed.
“Poor May Carleton, falling for a man who doesn’t exist. At least she admitted defeat with all the grace and dignity a woman should have.” Eva was still pissed that it took her calling Tommy to let her know he was married. And it took one visit with a gift basket for them to become sort of friends. Eva has always been friendly, and May had her uses as did the universe's wish for them to remain allies.
Eva hates that the universe wants her to be a good person. She has to be sweet and kind and never let the women who make her blood boil with rage be her enemies in truth. Eva may have the gift of prophecy, but the universe cursed her to be a better person than she is.
“Try not to kill Grace or make her believe you cursed her, please. I have enough on my plate and I’d rather not give Campbell a chance to get his hands on you.” he wags her finger at her and she dismisses it as if it’s a waste of her energy.
So, what if she made Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza and Irene O’Donnal think they were cursed when all she had said was an insult and their name in Nahuatl.
“I’ll be busy threatening Churchill after Polly kills Campbell. It’s going to happen around the time you kill the Field Marshal.” Eva had made a plan. There couldn’t be a witness to his death, and Grace needed leverage against the crown who was suspicious of her and her husband.
“How will he die?”
“Polly will shoot him in a phone booth, like I said, and Churchill will get to hear how he hired a rapist and how I will send President Calles a list of every single British spy in Latin America if he makes me a widow.” She says simply as if that explained everything. “A shame if he doesn’t listen, Florence was such a fun person.”
“What makes you sure the president would kill them all?” Tommy asks as if she hasn’t been clear enough when she told him the bad guys had won.
“Because they are killing all noteworthy rebels, of course they won’t let foreign agents alive.” Eva scoffs and he doesn’t dismiss her fears like he always does. She had that vision of their family, but visions change every moment.
“Churchill will listen to you, Eva.” he doesn’t look too sure about it. “But if he doesn’t make sure this letter reaches New York.” he gives her a letter that gives her the first vision she has seen in months.
“You’ll dig your own grave, but you won’t be the one in it. Two bullets, four men, and two dead who’ll share your grave.” Eva slumps forward in both relief and from the strength of her vision.
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“Thank you, Jeremiah, make sure my husband isn’t aware she is here.” Eva smiles politely and thanks the Jamaican man as he leaves. No matter how much one tried to leave this life, no one ever truly left it.
There were few men in her husband’s gang that would put their loyalty to her over their loyalty to Tommy and Reverend Jeremiah Jesus is one of those men. Right now, Grace has to be kept as far away as possible from Tommy and it's not even because Eva fears her husband might take up the blonde’s offer.
“Are you so willing to throw away a good future for a man who no longer wants you?” Eva had no qualms with treating her badly, not after she was given a chance to leave with her dignity intact.
They offer them champagne, but Eva refuses for the both of them. She knows there are two little beings inside Grace and as much as she hates her, Eva doesn’t feel like ruining her future by letting her consume alcohol today.
“I need to hear it from him. I love him ---” she begins as if she has a legitimate reason to wreck two marriages. Grace was a curious creature. She felt entitled to Tommy even after ruining his relationship with his sister, after causing his brother to be beaten up in prison and then trying to make his dreams crumble while she claimed to love him.
“You say that as if I don’t! Do you really think he would marry for convenience? He asked me to marry him because he loves me and I love him and that is that.” Eva accepts the tonic water and continues. “Tommy actually did things properly, you know, asked my uncle and my grandmother for permission to take me on a date. He took me to the derby two years ago, got me my first dress that wasn’t black for mourning, and right in that hall we had our first kiss.” she points to where the higher paying patrons like them dance to a jazz band. “You know I was willing to leave and die in my home country, but he decided that he’d rather we elope a week after our second date instead of having a proper wedding.”
“You’d do anything to keep him, wouldn’t you.” Grace said as if Tommy was the type to drop everything from his business and his pregnant wife to be with her for ‘love’.
“Do you really think he’d leave with you to raise another man’s children when he could raise his own son in the mansion we’ll move into tomorrow?” Eva keeps her voice at a moderate level even if she feels like screaming at her. “Give me one fucking reason that isn’t your so-called love, and I’ll let Tommy tell you to your face that he doesn’t love you.”
Grace doesn’t say anything and leaves in her anger, no doubt looking for Tommy. Eva pays for the drinks and smiles in triumph; Grace won’t be able to see Tommy as he’s already killing Henry Russell. Lizzie will only be frazzled a little, but nothing a few drinks won’t cure.
“If it isn’t the elusive Mrs. Shelby. For a moment I thought how could an Italian beauty like you could fall so low as to marry a gypsy racketeer?”
Sabini might think himself today’s victor, and Eva has to fight the urge to piss on his parade.
“Mr. Sabini, a pleasure to meet you. I hope you are prepared to lose more than your motorcar this year.”
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