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Galaxy Quest (1999) (✚)

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Galaxy quest is a very personal family matter. And I'm now just finding out about this video. You're welcome.

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NEVER SURRENDER: A GALAXY QUEST DOCUMENTARY

The cult following

For a Star Trek parody

A surprise success

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I’m reading a diary kept by one of the dudes in the donner party and there’s one page where he must have spilt his bottle of ink because there’s a light stain? and as someone who often spills bottles of ink, the way it’s wiped off looks SO similar to when I try to wipe up a mistake but it’s making me so sad.. he just wanted to make sure he didn’t ruin his page but like. IMAGINE for a moment: having nothing to eat but cattle hides, stuck underneath 9 ft of snow, just trying to record facts of what happened as any sort of explanation for when someone (hopefully) comes across his dead body later, and knocking over his ink because the cold and hunger is making him clumsy? And having the desperate reflex to fix one (1) thing in such a terrible situation, that he just gives up trying to ration out the ink and sweep it all off the page with his sleeve? Because if he can’t even keep the facts of his own demise straight, how could he possibly think he’d ever get out of that mountaintop?

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#OTD in 1919 – Two members of Royal Irish Constabulary are shot dead by Irish Volunteers including Seán Treacy and Dan Breen in an ambush at Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary.

At Soloheadbeg the war began, And the next was heard the song Of the rescue of Seán Hogan At the Station of Knocklong. On the same day, the first Dáil was meeting, an ambush takes place at Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary that is now seen as being the opening skirmish in the War of Independence. An unauthorised attack led by Seán Treacy and Dan Breen resulted in the deaths of two RIC constables, James…

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BRIAN FRIEL AND JOHN B KEANE

I have noticed a number of blogs indicating that the artist responsible for this set of sculptures was/is John Coll but they may be confused as he was responsible for the statue of Patrick Kavanagh on the Grand Canal at Baggot Street

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Baltimore - Release News

Icon Film Distribution and Eclipse Pictures announce the official UK & Ireland release date of BALTIMORE on 22 MARCH 2024 “A chilling and expertly constructed work” LITTLE WHITE LIES “Played with a compelling mix of ferocity, focus and conscience by Imogen Poots” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER BALTIMORE Written and directed by Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor (Desperate Optimists) Produced by David…

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Riesenbeck International siegreich bei der Longines Global Champions League-Etappe von Cannes

Christian Kukuk vom siegreichen Team Riesenbeck International (Foto: Archiv) Riesenbeck International mit Philipp Schulze Topphoff und Christian Kukuk auf dem Siegerpodest in Cannes New York Empire nach Runde 1 in Führung Nach der ersten Runde der Global Champions League lagen die New York Empire Powered by Lugano Diamonds mit 0 Fehlerpunkten und der schnellsten Zeit in Führung. Denis Lynch und…

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Rainbow main RRL fictional United Irish committee part 2 of 2... wall of lore text on the lineup under the cut

Part 1

Captain James "Jim" Wilkes - the leader of a military cell (UI cell within the army -- these really existed and the government was very worried about them), a devoted reformer who offered to form a UI cell from interested parties among his men roughly two hours after his regiment was stationed on Lord Durham's land. Useful for providing information about what nonsense the forces of law and order are going to pull next

Edward Perry - deceased narrative haunter of a dead leader of a cell which focused on assassination. He was Rearden's close friend before dying of The Fever while awaiting trial in prison and Rearden is still obsessed with him

William Rearden - former British Army rifleman and the committee's main tactician. Like his friend Whittaker, he lets others do his dirty work for him, but he also trains UI who wish to learn how to imitate, at least, his terrifying skill with a rifle. He owns a linen company, &c

Lady Maria Whittaker - an Englishwoman who clawed her way up from being the impoverished daughter of a Jacobite exile to being an information broker who terrorises reformers and reactionaries indiscriminately. Whether or not she's even loyal to this committee in particular is up for debate. She is a Gentlewoman™️

Devi Chandrasekhar - young linguist from what is today Tamil Nadu, on a tour of Europe in order to learn several more languages. Naturally, she does translations and negotiations, having been absorbed into the committee by virtue of boarding with the Hoyles during her stay in Ireland

Patrick Dolan - another Defender leader, a sort of godfather to Eoin O'Donnell's Defender lodge. He acts as another mediator between the Defenders and the committee, though he stays more in the background than Breen does. He makes his money being a slightly more well off tenant farmer

Samuel "Sammy" Gowan - proud member of the growing urban Catholic middle class originally from Co. Armagh. He's a good lad but no one is actually sure where his money comes from and he's been spending a weird amount of time around the army barracks lately... and what was that the barman at the Medusa said about seeing him coming in with that fencible fella to point out other UI? It's just not like him -- I'm sure it's nothing, though :)

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going to a work christmas party on my dr breen shit, on my patrick mcgoohan shit

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SCi Fi classics Revisited :Galaxy Quest

For the second sci fi classic Iam revisiting is a personal favorite as well as being beloved by many sci fi fans ,the 1999 film Galaxy Quest

The film follows the cast of the show Galaxy Quest,,a classic scifi TV show ,whose careers have kind of washed up and now mostly make cash by going to conventions and making personal appearences , when they are enlisted by an alien race known as the Thermians to save their people ,as they think they are real space heroes

OK the Premise is great ,but what I love about the film is itdoesnt coast on the premise ,it explores it.Like the obvious joke of the film ,is "What if the castof Star Trek where contacted by aliens who thought Star Trek was real",and while Trek is the obvious inspiration what works about the film is its a bit more then just a Trek parody .I see the film as a story of a bunch of actors becoming the heroes they are seen tobe and a love letter to the positive aspects of fandom.(Alao dont know where to put this but my favorite little refrence in the film is not to Star Trek,but to A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare,as the lead character of the the show within the film is Commander Peter Quincey Taggert,named after Peter Quince ,the leader of a group of actors )

The filmis masterful in something I think is lacking in modern comedy ,the characters are funny, the situationslead to humor,but there is a heart to the story and the situation does have stakes .Part of that is the film really sells normal people in this sci fiworld,both in the writing (Like I love that they explain why the Thermians look humanoid ,they use translators and devices to appear humanoid when they are actually octopus like cretures ) but allso the effects.The film had the best of the best of that time,ILM for the visual effects and Stan Winston for the Creatures ,tomake the science fiction elements feel real.Alsofilm is fullofgreat set pieces

The cast helps make the movie ,aa the filmhas a calvacade of great performers and all work eachother beautifullly and all get their time to shine .I'm gonna devide the cast into sections

The Villain :Sarris is a severely underrated villain in my oppinion,in that he is the most serious character in the film ,a sadistic brutal warlord .Played by the late great Robin Sachs,I lovehis performance cause he is COVERED in makeup to make him the insectoid lizard cyborg beast ,and yet he feeels very natural ,with Sachs bringing tolife just this malicious monster and I adore his voice ,they way he barks most of his lines is effective.I also like that apart from really two moments ,he is played straight and not really comedically (With one of his comedic moments being fairly dark ).my favorite moment is when he finds out the group are actors and 1.He lets out this amused yet malicious chuckle 2.Forces our lead character Jason to confess to the Thermian leader Mathasar the truth and just softly says"He doesnt understand.Explain as if he were a child ".

The Thermians :The Thermians are a race of aliens that have mistooken the old Galaxy Quest TV show for historical documents ,and are so inspired that it has united theirpeople and modled their civilization on its ideals .I think what makes the Thermians work is their goofyness is sincere ,they are sweet goodhearted people who are just a little offfrom humans,and a lot of praise can be put at their actors ,with Jed Resse as Teb being particularly funny (Who has the funniest scene in the movie when a teleporter goes wrong) ,theres a sweet love story between Missi Pyle as Laliari and one of the heroes Fred ,PAtrick Breen as Queleik has a truly heartwarming relationship with Alexander Dane ,and Enrico Colantoni is so funny yet so lovable as the Thermian leader Mathasar,he is one of my favorite parts of the film.Also you get Rainn Wilson in his film debut.....Notmuch to say,just fun tosee him

The Crew:I love themain performers here.This is not only a great ensamble of actors ,its a great group of characters.This was not the only film to do the "Actor turned hero "type story (Fight Night comes to mind ),but what I think makes this stand apart is its not just about them being heroes ,it isabout them realizing their work mattersto people and them patching up relationships with eachother.Our main character is Jason Nesmith ,played by Tim Allen in what I think is his best role .Jason,wo played the Commander on the show , is a guy who can be egotsit and can showboat for the fans ,but is actually a lonely guy who has alienated hisformer castmates and has particularly strained relationships with Gwen and Alexander ,and Allan while still getting funny scenes gets toshow offhis dramtic skills ,particularly the scene where he confesses to Mathasar .Gwen DeMarco is played by sci fi legend Sigourney Wever ,really getting to show off her comedic capabilities and I swear she gets some ofthe funniest lines.ALexander Dane is possibly the most memorable character ,due to a brillaint performance by the late great Alan Rickman (In one of his best performances ) as a rather bitter Shakesperian actor who has come to resent being associated with this silly sci fi show ,and in particular,sick and tired of hearing his catchphrase "By Grabthars Hammer " said all the time ,he is dryly funny and yet gets a truly emotional subplot .Tony Shaloub is fantastic as Fred Kwan ,this mellow chill dude who takes all the weird space stuff in stride ,and even falls in love with an alien .The always awesome Sam Rockwell plays Guy Fleegman the second funniest of the main crew ,a guy who was a crewmember who was killed by one monster in one episode ....And he is damn proud of it ,cause he is a fan of the show but that also means he's the most trope savvy which gives him an existential crisis due to being the "Expendable " crew member .Finally we have Daryl Mitchell as Tommy Webber ,who was on the show as a kid .He has some great jokes ,and being the pilot there are some funny moments there

One last character to touch on is Justin Long (In his film debut ) as a Galaxy Quest fan , who also ends up helping save the day

So I have been praising the film a lot ,do I think its perfect ?No ,but my only problemis a nitpick and that is there are too many fake outsnear the end and by end Sarris is just a snarling bad guy,wouldve liked some banter

Overall this is 1.A great comedy 2.An enjoyable sci fi film 3.A wonderful exploration of fandom .If you havent seen this movie,SEE IT

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Galaxy Quest (1999) (✚)

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Hellsing Commentary 10 Notes

This commentary is done by Taliesin Jaffe, the voice director and lead script adapter of Hellsing, Patrick Seitz, voice of Luke Valentine and partial script adapter of the latter episodes of Hellsing Ultimate, and Jonathan Klein, the producer for both Hellsing anime. Direct quotes may vary in accuracy, as these are written down from audio without transcripts. I also didn't write down every joke or piece of trivia because I feel like people who watch the commentaries should get to have some nice surprises for stuff that isn't covered here.

-Most of Hellsing's cast were teens or very early twenties when they started with the series. Patrick Seitz was 21 and just out of Catholic school, "And I remember thinking 'A show about vampires and they swear a lot? Gosh, this is-' I had no idea what anime was gonna have in store for me."

-Luke Valentine's original, immediate character notes for voice casting in 2001 were "Luke Valentine. Male, mid-20s, the older of the two Valentine brothers. Slightly effeminate, but serious."

-Only four people have worked on Hellsing scripts: Taliesin Jaffe, Patrick Seitz, Mike McFarland, and John Breen during the original TV series. Jonathan Klein "threw a few lines into the peanut gallery," and was responsible for the "End of the line, Alfred" from Jan Valentine in the original TV series, because he wanted Jan to call Walter "Alfred" at least once.

-Taliesin was "praying" that he could use a different VA for Girlycard, though he respects why they didn't let him. "I had a plan, I can't talk about it, but I had a plan. But, this worked better, I will admit."

-Taliesin and Jonathan occasionally talk at convention panels about how "We almost lost our jobs, uh, basically, 'cause Taliesin- and I mean, Taliesin was right to stick to his guns-"

Taliesin: "I was younger and angrier."

Jonathan: "Yes, when the Japanese told us 'No, its Arucard' and we said 'No, its not! Its Alucard!' and they said 'No, you have to dub it as Arucard,' and we were like- Taliesin was like 'No. I'm not doing it! I'm not-' And meanwhile, like, the Geneon producers were like 'If- if you don't want to do it...we could have somebody else work on the show.'"

Taliesin: "I was- I was kinda doing the 'Fine.'"

Patrick: "His name wasn't Dracura."

Jonathan: "You know, that was the whole-! So we had- so, I'm sure we've mentioned this before, but I'll do it again- we said 'Okay, just ask Mr. Hirano, the mangaka, why he went with Arucard instead of Alucard, since it's supposed to be Dracula spelled backwards.'"

Taliesin: "He didn't write back."

Jonathan: "No no, that was the whole thing! They were afraid to ask him, because they were afraid he would be distracted from writing Hellsing. 'Cause he was still- this was early on in the series, and they didn't want- Young King Ours was like 'No no, he has to be working on Hellsing!'"

Patrick: "A question from America, this is gonna throw off his whole groove!"

Jonathan: "So I think the answer, they answered it by fax -for people who don't know what a fax machine is, different times- we got, like, a thermal fax that said: 'Its Dracura spelled backwards.'"

Taliesin: "I believe my exact- I believe my response to that was somewhere around- (very loud frustrated yell) and then that was, uh- "

Jonathan: "Oh of course, and the irony is, the vindication was when in like, 2005, when we finally got to have dinner with Mr. Hirano at Anime Expo, and Taliesin was like, nudging me, he's elbowing me in the gut, saying 'Ask him, ask him.' And I'm like 'Okay, okay, Mr. Hirano, I'm really sorry I have to ask you this, we really are honored to have been working on your show, and that you've chosen us, again, to do the dub- why is it Arucard? And, and not Alucard?' And he said 'Oh, I'm sorry, I don't know how to spell things in English, please feel free to correct everything I made a mistake about.' and you were, like, staring at the Geneon producers-"

Taliesin: "I was trying to burn a hole through the Geneon producers."

-Patrick pulled up the Major's "I love war" speech and watched it in order to bring back the Major's muse when he was writing OVA 10.

-Taliesin has only cut one line due to being offended, that being when Mike McFarland was helping him write Jan Valentine.

-During the same dinner with Hirano, Taliesin and Jonathan asked what he wanted out of the dub, what he wanted them to do, "And he said, and I believe in English: 'Make it cool.' Like, he was like 'Cool. I want cool! I don't care how you do it, make it cool.'"

-Taliesin states "I believe in adapting for parents. I think if like, your parents or your older brother or your, your dad can come in the room and go 'What- what's this?' (with interest) then we've succeeded...and even better if they come in and their first reaction is not 'This is foreign.'"

-Jonathan agrees and says that "It just- the way it (Hellsing) plays, the way it works, is just not your typical anime. It doesn't have any of the anime archetypes in there, that you typically find in most anime." Patrick chips in with "Seras isn't running late to a meeting with like, her schoolbag and toast in her mouth."

-Taliesin states "You will see that there is a direct correlation between Seras and Alucard- their origins, and the way that they are- like, that relationship makes sense and is a big part of what this show is about, was Dracula recognizing himself in someone else, who...has a similar origin, a modern version of it, but...wasn't crushed by it. He found someone stronger than him and turned her into a vampire. And it's a really fascinating story from that direction. And there's other themes going on here, but that's a big one for me."

-Patrick and Taliesin both talk about how they'd rather have characters be "true to themselves rather than true to the material."

-There was some discussion on whether or not Walter knew that he was evil, and Taliesin thinks that he wasn't and was being "subconsciously manipulated by his younger self."

-As of the OVA 10 commentary, Taliesin had a tumblr.

-The actress that Taliesin had almost settled on for Integra before Victoria Harwood auditioned ended up playing a younger Integra for both series.

-Taliesin had to read In a Glass Darkly because of "the Carmilla episode" of the original TV series. Taliesin also mentions that he liked Incognito, who "gets a raw deal, all things considered."

-Both Taliesin and Jonathan agreed to work on Hellsing because of a short test-animation clip by the Gonzo animation studios, which included the Major slow-clapping. (Taliesin was "so upset" that he didn't appear in the series.) They emailed each other almost at the same time saying "I want this."

-According to Jonathan, the animation for the original TV series became "really, really bad" by episode four. Although he apparently can't talk about it, Jonathan says that it needed more money, but the money went to another show that was being produced at the same time, and calls it a "robbing Peter to pay Paul" sort of situation.

-Taliesin loves Seras's character arc.

-Casting Walter's two younger voices was a long and complicated process, especially trying to get them to fit together. Ralph Lister "could probably have done young, middle-aged Walter," but then Walter's child form would "hit like a ton of bricks."

-Adapting Heinkel's speech to Walter was tricky because in the original Japanese "she was almost literally saying 'die die die kill kill kill' for this whole damn exchange." They left her doing it at the end "where it's just the tantrum" instead.

-Taliesin would've loved to dub The Dawn and was sad that he didn't get to.

-During the Major's speech to Seras and Integra, Taliesin comments again that "At this point, everyone's trying to commit suicide. Like, everyone's trying to have death by gunfire...Walter is now just trying to like, end everything, the Major's trying to end everything, all the vampires inside -the Captain was trying to, like- everyone's just trying to make it end, everyone's just running into the fire."

-Patrick and Taliesin both pause to wish for Integra's VA to read the phonebook, again.

-Taliesin routinely fucks up his computer search history after about a week working on Hellsing. Patrick laughs and states "I had those moments, where I was like ‘Hi NSA, this is for work, I promise.’" Jonathan quips through his own snickers "We’re working on Hellsing! We're not really...we’re not looking to start the local chapter of the Aryanization, I promise you." Taliesin sighs and agrees ruefully: "Yeah, I occasionally feel like adding messages into my Google search engine, going: 'Just for research, I swear.'"

-During Seras's fight with the Captain, Taliesin briefly considered throwing in a reference to The Monuments Men.

-Taliesin also considered adding a line in the exchange between Walter and the Doctor about Molière, presumably in place of the "Molière? You should be so lucky" line. "I almost had baby Walter actually- I just wanted him to record 'Fuck Molière!' you know, 'Bitch!' And I was almost on the edge of 'Fuck Molière!' but its, uh..."

-Taliesin says that "The women in the Hammer Dracula films are really where Integra comes from."

-Both Patrick and Taliesin are uncertain of where the food the Major eats goes.

-Taliesin threw in a reference to Young Frankenstein in the scene between Doc and Walter, with the "dignity and grace" line.

-Taliesin calls young Walter "still posh, but slightly like- he ends up, the young version of him is not quite as polite, a little sloppy, a little mean, a little...(inhales) just a hair, like, prepubescent punk, is the push, but still from money."

-Back during the original Hellsing TV series, a "giant throne-chair" was made for promotional reasons, which Crispin signed autographs in while in costume during an event. Taliesin kept the chair and Crispin kept the costume, although at the time of commentary Taliesin is considering loaning it semi-permanently to one of two friends.

-Taliesin used to work with the actor who played young Penwood while they were both in junior high school.

-Patrick and Taliesin both compliment Makube's VA on his performance, with Taliesin saying "he's made of slime...No, he's fabulously full of shit."

-Jonathan and Taliesin toss about the theory that Heinkel became a regenerator. "Something happened to her."

-In Integra's exaggerated flashback, Penwood is wearing a Legends of the Galactic Heroes costume.

-Taliesin says that it's nice that Integra has chilled in the 30-year time gap. "Alucard has actually -and we'll get to it when he shows up- he's kind of accepted a new role, for the first time in several hundred years. He's sort of let go of a lot of his pissed-off, and is no longer here to mock god and be angry about what happened to him as a kid."

-Taliesin noticed how Alucard's red coat probably connects to the coat Van Helsing wore. Being inspired by that generation was also the reason for Alucard's American accent. "Maybe he was like, taking a cue from Quincey, was our justification."

-Jonathan asks again what the Hellsing drinking game would be, and Patrick suggests every time you see glasses before admitting that wouldn't work. Jonathan agrees and says "Nope, we'd be dead of alcohol poisoning in the first five minutes of the thing." Taliesin offers "every time I fuck up (lip-)flap" and Jonathan says they'd still be dead in the first five minutes as they all laugh.

-Taliesin was "very very pleased" with the ending to Hellsing Ultimate. Jonathan asks if he thinks Integra would take Alucard's offer to become a vampire, and both Taliesin and Patrick say yes.

-During the original TV series, Taliesin and a sound engineer were once so mad at "the Japanese for making me do- and the Geneon for making me do something I didn't want to do" that they got "rip-roaring drunk in the booth," and the engineer actually pulled a knife on the owner of the studio for "trying to fuck with the mix...He pulled out -and I won't say which engineer to protect the engineer- but he pulled out a box-cutter and was like 'If you touch my board, I will fucking cut you.' And I was clapping and like, the studio owner pulled out a baseball bat and there was like a tense confrontation. 'Cause it was like 'DO NOT TOUCH THE MIXBOARD. WE ARE BULDING A 51 MIX, YOU ASSHOLES.'"

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Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Jerome Cowan, Elisha Cook Jr. Screenplay: John Huston, based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett. Cinematography: Arthur Edeson. Art direction: Robert M. Haas. Film editing: Thomas Richards. Music: Adolph Deutsch. 

"By gad, sir, you are a character," says Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet), with what Greenstreet's co-star Mary Astor once described as "that evil, hiccupy laugh." He is speaking to Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), who is certainly a character, if decidedly not a man of character. There aren't many other films so full of characters, but so lacking any with what one might call a moral center. Spade, for one, proves that you can be both misogynistic and homophobic -- as if proof of that were needed. Does he do the right thing at the end when he sends Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Astor) up the river? Perhaps, but he does it with such relish that it's hard to ascribe any probity to the act. The Maltese Falcon is one of the greatest examples of hoodwinking the censors of the Production Code, which among other things forbade depictions of homosexuality on screen. But does anyone miss the fact that Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) is meant to be gay,  from his fussy little perm to his teasing fondling of the handle of his umbrella to the scent of gardenia that Spade finds so amusing? And probably only the ignorance of Yiddish on the part of the Catholics in the Breen office allowed Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.) to be called a "gunsel" -- a word that originally meant a young man kept by an older man for sex. Actually, it was Dashiell Hammett who slipped that one by the watchdogs in the original novel; John Huston kept it when he wrote the screenplay, doubtless smiling the sly smile of someone who knows what he's getting away with. Even today, most people probably think like the Breen office and Hammett's editors, that it means a gunman. But Huston also got away with the clear indication that Spade had been having an affair with Iva Archer (Gladys George), the wife of his partner, Miles (Jerome Cowan). And is there anyone who doesn't realize that Spade has slept with Brigid? This was Huston's first feature as a director, and the result of all this Code-dodging, as well as his unwillingness to sentimentalize his characters, made him a formidable directorial force in the years to come, one of the few Hollywood directors who knew how to make movies for adults.

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patrick breen's diary 1846 / henry peglar's papers 1847

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#OTD in 1919 – Two members of Royal Irish Constabulary are shot dead by Irish Volunteers including Seán Treacy and Dan Breen in an ambush at Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary.

At Soloheadbeg the war began, And the next was heard the song Of the rescue of Seán Hogan At the Station of Knocklong. On the same day, the first Dáil was meeting, an ambush takes place at Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary that is now seen as being the opening skirmish in the War of Independence. An unauthorised attack led by Seán Treacy and Dan Breen resulted in the deaths of two RIC constables, James…