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Mick

@mickthetaig.bsky.social

I am from South Down, North of Ireland. Writer and Fenian. https://www.instagram.com/mickthetaig

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Conor McCabe@conormccabe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I think you can a sense of the current lack of availability of Connolly's writings when just two years of his complete journalism comes to over 300 pages and 145,000 words (with notes).

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Mick@mickthetaig.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A Chara, do not despair! Do not cry!All is not lost.The spirit of the San Patricios is with us. Let it guide us on our fight to liberate mankind from Anglo American savagery! In the name of life and love! Adelante!

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Mick@mickthetaig.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I drew a picture based on a dream I had one night of a gigantic statue of the death of Cú Chulainn much like the African Renaissance Monument in Senegal.

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cris@ilchinealach.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Season 2 of Blowback is a history of the Cuban Revolution and the US' attempts to sabotage it. Episode 4 describes Castro appearing at the UN, visiting Harlem. It brings a lot of different sources together, this paragraph doesn't do it justice, but it is so moving. Blowback only good podcast

On September 24,the atmosphere in Fidel's room at the Hotel Theresa was electric, a small room buzzing with the energy of a young revolution. It was cramped with Cuban guerrillas, youth who had descended from the Sierra Maestra mountains less than two years earlier. At 34, Fidel himself was a whirlwind of motion; his famous beard and olive-green fatigues radiated a restless energy. The room, cluttered with drafts of his upcoming UN speech and scattered news cables, served as a makeshift headquarters. Across from him sat Malcolm X,35, who, in a sharp suit and with an equally commanding presence, embodied the increasingly militant Black liberation movement within the United States. The encounter was a profound, if brief, exchange between two men who recognized the mirror of their struggles in one another, a shared fight for what Fidel would later call,two days later, in his historic four-hour-long UN speech,"the full human dignity" of all oppressed people. Only a few Black journalists were permitted inside, where Fidel, speaking in English, expressed his admiration for the resilience of African Americans."I admire this," he said."Your people live here and are faced with this propaganda all the time, and yet, they understand. This is very interesting."Malcolm X's reply was succinct and powerful:"There are twenty million of us, and we always understand." As he left the hotel, facing a throng of hostile journalists asking about his sympathies for the Cubans, Malcolm X defiantly replied "Please don't tell us who should be our friends, and who should be our enemies".
Mick@mickthetaig.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Kris Kristofferson is one of the rare cases that after his death stories surfaced claiming he was a beautiful human being and also incredibly based and possibly also my father.