Only Our Rivers Run Free! Podcast
1) Internment - 9th August 1971
.......at 3am on Monday 9th August 1971 thousands of British soldiers raided homes in nationalist homes across the 6 counties, 340 men were arrested, brought to interrogation centre’s and eventually t...Show More
2) 1921-71 Truce to Turmoil
.......the Truce of 1921 left Ireland divided, civil war in the 26 counties, sectarian slaughter in the 6; what did we learn from history in 1971 when ‘armed struggle’ returned to the streets!
3) 1921- 1971
Truce to Turmoil
4) Pandemic has left its scars 2021
........2019-21 has been the years of the Pandemic-COVID!But throughout history events have shaped the world, we look back and marvel at how the world developed ?
5) Partition was destined to divide, and to fail!
.......the birth of the ‘NI’ statelet in 1921, born in violence it has been a dysfunctional society for a century, a cesspit of sectarian bigotry and hatred, it has run its course!
6) No place for sectarian bigotry in the 21st century
........Rangers football club are an institution imbedded in sectarian bigotry. A few weeks ago they won the league title for first time in a decade and 20,000 celebrated in the Centre of Glasgow, it ...Show More
7) No glass of ours was raised to a Queen
.......’Phil the Greek’ passed recently, born in Corfu to Greek royalty he became a large part of the British monarchy, we look at this archaic form of life in the 21st century!
8) Bobby Sands - ‘our revenge will be the laughter of our children’!
........40 yrs ago on the 5th May Bobby Sands died on hunger strike, he was 27. His death changed everything, hie election as MP propelled the republican movement into electoral intervention which in ...Show More
9) The Tuam baby scandal and a brother I never knew!
The Tuam baby home scandal, a stain on our past! Also a tale of a brother I never knew who died at 2 before I was born!
10) Charles Patrick Tully - Celtic
........the darling of Belfast and Glasgow, Charlie Tully was a football genius with both Belfast Celtic and Glasgow Celtic! In barren times for Celtic in the 50’s Tully lit up the field with his play...Show More