Saturday, July 15th, 2023

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3:22p	Могучий старик https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Keating Daniel Keating (Irish: Dónal Céitinn, 2 January 1902 – 2 October 2007) was a lifelong Irish republican and former president of the Republican Sinn Féin. At the time of his death, he was Ireland's oldest man and the last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence. Until his death he refused to accept a state pension because he considered the 26-county Republic of Ireland an illegitimate state which usurped the 1916 Irish Republic. In 2002, he refused the state's standard €2,500 award to centenarians from President Mary McAleese. (1 Comment | Comment on this)
4:57p	Up Went Nelson In Old Dublin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson's_Pillar Reactions among the general public were relatively light-hearted, typified by the numerous songs inspired by the incident. These included the immensely popular "Up Went Nelson", set to the tune of "John Brown's Body" and performed by a group of Belfast schoolteachers, which remained at the top of the Irish charts for eight weeks. An American newspaper reported that the mood in the city was one of gaiety, with shouts of "Nelson has lost his last battle!" Some accounts relate that the Irish President, Éamon de Valera, phoned The Irish Press to suggest the headline: "British Admiral Leaves Dublin By Air". (2 Comments | Comment on this)

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