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CABHAIR, Irish Republican Prisoners’ Dependant’s Fund will recognize John Hunt as the 2016 U.S. Honoree. The award will be presented on May 21, 2016 during the annual CABHAIR Testimonial and Republican Reunion at Wynn’s Hotel in Dublin. The award will celebrate John’s life and honor his contributions to the Irish Republican movement.
John Hunt was born in Athea, Co Limerick in 1920. He grew up in a Republican family and became an active member of the local IRA unit. In 1940, John was among 500 men who were rounded up in one day in a general internment order. After speaking several weeks in jail in Cork, they were moved to Tintown Internment Camp at the Curragh.
Because of conditions and indeed the brutality of the Free State soldiers –their former comrades – a decision was taken to burn the camp and on December 14, 1940 half the huts went up in flames. After several months in solitary confinement, John was sentenced to four years and transferred to Mountjoy and from there to Arbour Hill where he spent a year and was again transferred back to the Curragh.
After his release in 1945, John travelled the world because there was no future for him in in Ireland. He finally settled in America where he still lives. As a lifelong Republican, John is a worthy recipient as an honoree and we are honored he agreed to accept the award.
Many of you have supported the families of Irish POWs in the past, and for that, we and they are most grateful. One hundred years after the Easter Rising, there are still Irish Republican prisoners in British and Irish jails and their families need and deserve our support. Please help us support them by taking an ad in the 2016 CABHAIR journal.
Attached is an ad form for CABHAIR 2016 Journal. Ads must be received by May 8th. You can send your payment later but we need your ad copy by May 8th. If you need assistance or have questions, please contact me.
Sincerely,
Maggie Trainor, (845) 492 -7198Sunday April 24th 2016 Centennial Of the 1916 Easter Rising
Glorious sun shone down on
the large crowd that came out for the Easter Commemoration
hosted by Cumann na Saoirse Náisiúnta on Sunday. A piper played
as family members of the late Joe Stynes laid a memorial wreath
as his grave and spoke about his life.
Master of ceremonies Jane Enright opened up the program by
inviting Mairéad Ní Dhubhda and Tomás Abernethy to read Forógra
na Poblachta, which was appropriately followed by a commanding
reading of the Easter Statement from the Republican Movement in
Ireland.
Seosamh Ó Flatharta gave a stirring rendition of Padraig
Pearse’s 1915 Oration at the grave of Ó Donavon Rossa followed
by Gary Delaney who read the compelling document The Irish
Republic.
A representative of the Stynes Family closed out the cemetery
portion of the program with a reading of “The Fenian Faith”
written by the prodigious artist, the late Brian Mor Ó
Baoighill.
Liam Ó Murchú led a group to the grave of the American Civil
War hero and Fenian Leader Col. Thomas Kelly for a short
ceremony. Erica Veil, a direct descendant of Col. Kelly also
spoke about her famous relative and reminded those present that
next year 2017 is the 150th anniversary of Col Kelly's
ascendancy to the leadership of the Fenian Movement worldwide
The program continued at Rory Dolans restaurant where a great
crowd was welcomed by Master of ceremonies Maggie Trainor,who
opened the ceremony and thanked everyone for joining together
with Cumann na Saoırse Náısıúnta for the centenary commemoration
of Easter 1916.
Bridget Ó Farrell led the crowd in a recitation of the
Proclamation of the Irish Republic; following, Tomás Ó
Coısdealbha gave the NIFC’s well received 2016 Easter Message.
After breaking for lunch, the historic “Reading of the Names”
ceremony got under way. One by one, members of the audience came
to the podium to read aloud the names of the patriots of the
1916 Rising,while holding their pictures that were
simultaneously flashed on the large screen. A total of 82
pictures were found for the occasion and it may be that this was
the first occasion when so many pictures of the 1916 patriots
were available for people to participate in a solemn tribute
Following the Reading of the Names, the organizations who
participated in the Rising were also read aloud in historic
fashion.
Once the names had been read, and the audience seated, a
poignant video compiled by Tomás Ó Coısdealbha was shown
memorializing the children who lost their lives during the
Rising of Easter week 1916
Upon completion, a moment of silence was observed before the
program continued with Mary Tohill Costello speaking on behalf
of the Centennial Banner Project, a five year project that
commemorates the functioning of the Irish Republic of 1916-1921
Joan Messina approached the podium for a reading of Séamus
Heaney’s “Requiem for the Croppies” followed by Byron Heller who
gave a skillful rendering of Yeats poem “Easter 1916”
Suzanne Heller gave a marvelous delivery of Sėamus Metress's
poem “Ireland's Lost Poet” followed by Peadar Mac Maghnuis who
was asked to come to the podium and conclude the ceremony.
Master of ceremonies Maggie Trainor thanked everyone once again
on behalf of Cumann na Saoırse Náisiúnta for attending the 100th
Commemoration of the Easter Rising. This concluded the ceremony.
Click on the following links to download related videos
(Commemoration P1 at Woodlawn Cemetery) (Commemoration P2 at Rory Dolan's )
(Patsy O'Bradaigh) (Reading of the Names) (Children of the Rising)
“A million dead. A million fled” is Mr. Nicholson’s lead falsehood promoting yet another “Irish Famine” book (Irish Echo, Mar. 16 – 22, page 20).
Is it still too soon
to publicize the truth about Ireland’s Holocaust; now, 171
years after its start? It was no “famine” but a genocide
perpetrated by more than half of Britain’s then-empire army.
Ireland’s abundant food crops were removed at gunpoint by
sixty-seven of Britain’s total army of 130 regiments. They
marched Ireland's crops to the nearest port for export to
England and world markets, thus murdering some five million
innocents. It is shocking that The Irish Echo would allocate
a full page to a promotion of the old falsehood. The
offending book claims to be taking the Irish side; so did
Tony Blair in 1997 when his “apology to the Irish” was read
by Irish actor Gabriel Byrne at the Millstreet, Co. Cork
"famine" commemoration. Blair "apologized" that Britain
was “standing by” while Ireland starved. Deploying
sixty-seven army regiments to remove Ireland’s food crops is
not “standing by.” The perpetration of genocide is action;
not “standing by.” Also, the failure of one crop among many
is a setback, not life-threatening.
“Irish famine” slanders the murdered starvelings and
conceals genocide. It suggests, falsely, that “they fell
into a lethal rap of their own making by growing only one
failure-prone crop.” The genocidal robbery of Ireland's food
crops was “legal;” English landlords then claimed ownership
of some 90% of Irish land and practically all produced
thereon. The constabulary (Britain’s eyes and ears in
Ireland) were the first line of removal. When the producers
resisted, the constabulary notified the county militia
(landlords’ private army). When combined forces met
resistance they summoned the nearest British army garrison.
The three forces combined never failed to extract the food
crops. Ireland’s hundreds of identified mass graves
constitute silent testimony to the effect of the food
removal. The landlords are long-gone; bought out and
repatriated to England; nearly all between 1900 and 1910.
It is distressing that The Irish Echo would publish Mr.
Nicholson’s blatant cover-up. He misrepresents the writings
of Liam Flaherty and Walter Macken who quite explicitly
detailed the core fact that Nicholson conceals; the food
removal by the British army. If we expect to ever end
genocide as government policy we must expose genocide, not
continue to conceal it.The facts are available since 1995 in
my “Mass Graves of Ireland; 1845-1850” pamphlet that was
also distributed to 15,000 attendees of the Millstreet event
mentioned above. My www.irishholocaust.org expands
on the pamphlet. Click repeatedly on its map to see which
regiment starved your relatives.
While “famine” writers soon abandoned some 90% of their
falsehoods (e.g.; “no food was exported while Ireland
starved”), they started a new one: “It was the rich Irish
starving the poor Irish.” So I compiled “the definitive
study;” a book that just had its third printing (2nd Dublin
one). Its data are from incontrovertible sources; Britain’s
National Archives, Parliamentary Papers, Ordnance Survey of
Ireland, etc. Its title; “Ireland 1845-1850; the Perfect
Holocaust, and Who Kept it ‘Perfect’.” All proceeds go
toward installation of memorials over Holocaust mass graves
in Ireland. ("Holocaust" from written records starting in
1847.) E-Book later this year.
Christopher Fogarty
