🔲 #SaveTheAssemblyRooms
It was Belfast's very own Thomas McCabe who would prevent the slave trade getting a commercial foothold in Ireland.

This enlightened Presbyterian radical and republican thinker espoused the ideals of #abolitionism and #Equality for all.

McCabe and his…

'Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join
Each wanting his head on the back of a coin;

If the Irish had sense they'd drowned both in the Boyne!
And partition thrown into the ocean.

The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between England and me....'

Excellent feature by author Viet Thanh Nguyen on the student protests in the US
zeteo.com/p/a-student-re…

“Irish Patriots” saying anything about the #BillOfShame today?

Have they ever?

No? Didn’t think so.

Are/were too many of their bedfellows/supporters/directors British Crown Forces maybe??

Solidarity with Four presenters have begun legal action against the BBC on grounds of sex and age discrimination and equal pay. ⁦NUJ⁩ ⁦NUJ Belfast & District Branch⁩ ⁦derrynorthwestnuj⁩ ⁦NIC ICTU⁩ ⁦BelfastTradesCouncil⁩ ⁦Craigavon TC⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

“The goal of this was to remove incriminating documents from former colonies in the months before each one became independent.
Documents that might embarrass or damage the British government, police & military were either secretly removed or destroyed.” theconversation.com/operation-lega…

The new Troubles Legacy Act, which takes effect in Northern Ireland today, is a 'complete affront to justice', Amnesty International has said. Read more here: jrnl.ie/6368579t

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In the late 80's in North London as a teenager I waited outside The Crown bar in Cricklewood with fellow Irish @ 7am looking for a days work, 'call-on'. I rarely got picked.
Distant memories we tend to forget, I don't. Grinding hard days of migration, poverty and insecurity.

#Belfast Dock St. renamed 'Dockers' Corner' commemorates the men who waited every morning to be picked or not for hard dangerous backbreaking work unloading the ships.
This humiliating process of 'decasualisation' ended in 1972. Increased mechanisation phased it out
#MayDay2024

My article in today’s The Irish News on why no historian should have anything to do with the British government’s “independent public history” project, a charade that is intrinsically linked to the reviled British Legacy Act. irishnews.com/opinion/no-his…

A very, very gentle reminder.

A democratic, peaceful and constitutional way to remove the land border on the island of Ireland - for good - is there.

A legitimate option/choice too often avoided, denied, deferred.

Beyond irresponsible at this stage.

Brits.are masters at hiding historical crimes, especially in Ireland.
It's alway about them never their victims.

'We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. OUR INTERESTS are ETERNAL & PERPETUAL and in those interests it is OUR DUTY TO FOLLOW'
-Palmerston 1848

Let’s have a monument to Henry Joy in High Street where he was born & later executed in 1798. Rename High Street McCracken Street after Mary Ann & her brother Henry Joy. They’ve been written out of our civic spaces & history.

Seán Napier Republicanism will truly succeed when it has huge numbers of protestants in it's ranks and lead positions once again

Feels to me like a rabble of emboldened far right fascists have been ‘tolerated’ for quite some time. #NoPasaran

Seán Napier BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK
Life is too short

Never heard a peep out these great patriots defending Ireland in my day whilst the north exploded into conflict & mayhem.
#NoPasarán

Amazing. Irish history is being told - the hidden Ireland is emerging, finding the light of day for the world to see.