GARDA AND CONTRACTOR ASSAULT OF RATH LUGH DEFENDERS
TARA DEMONSTRATION CHICAGO IRISH EMBASSY SEPT 22, 2007
I used to say that my interests were sailing, skiing, and scuba diving; but since I met my wife, and she woke the sleeping Irishman in me, my interests have changed radically and completely. I still love my pastimes but my interests are now directed toward Ireland, the land of my forebears. I learned for instance, in 1827 my gg grandfather was “caught” fishing in the Blackwater River, 3 miles North of Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland. In those days, 1800-30 the penalty for poaching, stealing the Kings fish, was immediate death, but the Peelers had to take the criminal in front of the absentee landowner's magistrate first. After being abused, humiliated and forced to carry the two Peelers across the river, to the waiting magistrate, they whipped him like a mule, he killed them both and fled to America; and here I am to speak on his behalf.
Music
I love most music; but do not feed me disco; it gives me a nausea. I grew up in the R & B record shops on the south side.
Movies
Where do I begin...I love movies. How about "Wind That Shakes the Barley" or "The Departed"
Television
Twilight Zone...
Books
I read an awful lot. In addition to my obsession with my library, books that my wife calls “hooey”, I read with a passion, books on Irish history, the African slave trade, and the history of Native Americans, a people whom the Europeans named Indians. Point me to any books on the kidnapping and transportation of the Irish to the colonies of England. Where did all those children go who were taken out of the workhouses?
Heroes
My Great Great Grandfather, Thomas C. Wallace, who came to America in 1827, landed at Prince Edwards Island on a private ship, worked on the first passenger train, a steam engine that went 8 miles an hour and traveled 13 miles on the rails he helped build. He walked to Iowa when the RR was finished, which was Indian Territory in those days. When he passed through Chicago, he noted that there were a few settlers there. He kept going because he was headed for the lead mines in Galena to find work; he came from a coal mining family in the Millstreet area. He built the first log cabin in Dubuque, Iowa, before it was called Iowa, and later built seven more cabins; raised a family of 12 children in the bluffs of Otter Creek Township, 20 miles South of Dubuque, Iowa. In Otter Creek, he and a few other families, founded a community they called “Garryowen”. (think Limerick) In the year of 1835 each of 20 families were assigned the task of hewing one timber beam for the construction of their new church in the spring. When the Indians ran out of food in the winter, Thomas fed them from his root cellar, which he kept full of apples, potatoes and corn. He watched as his friend Blackhawk and his family were slaughtered in what became known as the Blackhawk War. The slaughter lasted about 4 hours and consisted of the army and settlers shooting all of Blackhawk's tribe, his family, as they were traveling to winter with another tribe, the Fox Indians on the Fox River in mid-Illinois. They killed any Blackhawk Indian they found east of the Mississippi River; men, women, children and even their animals. The battle was led by a young officer, Abraham Lincoln.
TRUE IRISH HEROES AND PATRIOTS BURY THEMSELVES 40 FEET BELOW RATH LUGH
(Long Video but well Worth the view.)
The National Monument Act Of Ireland (2004) Gives The Minister Of Environment, John Gromley, The Power To...
"DESTROY ANY NATIONAL MONUMENT FOR ANY REASON".
We do not Recognize this Theft of Ireland’s Resources as Legally Binding, and Consider this a Crime of Treason Against The Irish People World-Wide. Richard Wallace
I live in Chicago and actively support the families of Irish Political Prisoners held in Irish and British jails; am working with the Leonard Peltier support groups; am keenly interested in African American history as it relates to the Irish parallel; am working on a project to annually commemorate the San Patricios in the Chicago Mexican community; have designed a sculpture to memorialize Leonard Peltier; am working on a sculpture to memorialize all American Natives and their imprisonment in their own land; have designed a sculpture to memorialize Pedro Albizu Campos, the famous Puerto Rican Nationalist who died in a U.S. Prison from radiation experimentation.
I am very interested in pointing out, at every opportunity, the parallels with the Native Irish, Native Americans, and African Americans. All three groups have been similarly molested for hundreds of years by the White Anglo Saxon Protestants who have colonized every country they set foot upon: that would be the English. Ireland is their last colony; their last illegal occupation.
(Background By ni-photos.JMCWD.com)
Who I'd like to meet: If I had not already met my wonderful wife, I would still be looking for her; not someone..."herself". On our wedding day, in Dublin, my wife gave me a gift. A poem.
" I have Spread my Dreams under your feet,
Tread softly,
Because you tread on my Dreams."
William Butler Yeats
Good day beautiful soul how are you in this fine moment of infinity, It has been a while since I have been in touch....
Life has been so very strange & colourful of late but now I feel a balance & a re-alignment taking shape... Reality is truly beautiful, how wondrous our world can be, If only we could see right out into infinity for there are no boundaries here....
Thank you my friend for your being & for sharing your energy with me, together we will co-create a new world, a simple world, a beautiful world, one world.... I leave you with this ponderous thought...
*hello there how goes my friend, I bring a song for you for your day....
Keep Faith Wilson Noble
you gotta keep your faith..... oh yes you do... you gotta keep your faith... oh... yes you do...
cause the world is upsides down careful now don't you make a sound you don't want to make him mad..
you gotta keep your faith in momma you gotta keep your faith in oh... everyone you gotta keep your faith in poppa you gotta keep your faith in oh... everyone
said well it's like this once upon a time you never dressed so fine cause clothes have never been your cup of tea well one day we'll see that all our memories are free & all the money in the world.. well it just won't be..
cause the world is upsides down careful now don't you make a sound you don't want to make him mad.......
An bhfuil Gaeilge agat? Cad é mar atá tú? Seán an t-ainm atá orm... Is as Albain, Cá bhfuil tú i do chónaí? Slán agus beannacht leat!!! Síochán leat!!!
