Seán Heuston 1916 Society, Dublin.

Seán Heuston 1916 Society, Dublin. The 1916 Societies are an Irish separatist movement founded in 2009 and growing throughout Ireland

The 1916 Societies are an Irish separatist movement founded in 2009 and growing throughout Ireland. WE BELIEVE:

* Constitutional authority resides with the Irish people alone

* The British Government Veto on Irish Unity is without legitimacy

* Dáil Éireann should be restored as the National Parliament of All Ireland

We contend the will of the people is for change in this country – for a Nation

al Republic in line with our democratic rights. We believe our flagship ‘One Ireland One Vote’ initiative – our demand for a single-constituency All-Ireland Referendum on Irish Unity – can realise that end. Britain’s partition of Ireland and ongoing presence in the North is based on conquest, without mandate and usurps the will of the people. All external interference in the democratic process violates Irish sovereignty and should be rejected.

‘One Ireland Vote’ is a means to resolve the constitutional conflict in Ireland. It seeks to end partition, establish a Government of National Unity and rebuild the Sovereign All-Ireland Republic.

NO.4 IN OUR SERIES TO MARK THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CATALPA RESCUE 🇮🇪ROBERT CRANSTONStewartstown, County Tyrone.Robe...
08/09/2026

NO.4 IN OUR SERIES TO MARK THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CATALPA RESCUE 🇮🇪

ROBERT CRANSTON
Stewartstown, County Tyrone.

Robert Cranston was a son of Stewartstown, County Tyrone, a part of Ireland steeped in the history of resistance to British rule. His journey from Tyrone to the ranks of the British Army and ultimately to a British penal colony in Western Australia was anything but conventional.
Robert Cranston joined the British Army as part of the wider Fenian conspiracy to infiltrate the British military and recruit Irish soldiers into the Fenian movement. The objective was to turn Irishmen serving in the British Army against the Crown and bring trained men into the ranks of the Irish Republican Brotherhood for the planned rising to establish an Irish Republic.
For his Fenian activity, Cranston was arrested, convicted and transported to Freemantal prison colony in Western Australia, where he became one of the political prisoners whose imprisonment inspired the audacious Catalpa rescue.
On Easter Monday, 17th of April 1876, Cranston and five fellow Fenians escaped their forced labour details. They raced south by horse-drawn waggons, reached the coast and battled through treacherous seas to board the Catalpa.
When the British gunboat Georgette demanded their surrender, Captain George Anthony refused, pointing to the American flag flying above the ship. The British backed down.
Cranston reached America a free man and continued the republican struggle in exile, working closely with Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. He married Anne Mulgrew, also from Stewartstown, and eventually settled in Philadelphia, where he died in 1914.
The Catalpa Rescue was a daring prison escape organised by John Devoy and John Boyle O' Reilly that humiliated the British colonial authority and rescued six Irish republicans from a living tomb.
Robert Cranston had fought the British Empire from within its own ranks and even while imprisoned thousands of miles from Ireland, refused to surrender the cause of Irish freedom.🇮🇪 ROBERT CRANSTON, TYRONE FENIAN,
IRISH REPUBLICAN, REVOLUTIONARY.


🇮🇪🇵🇸 MACKLEMORE WON’T BE SILENCED🇮🇪🇵🇸Macklemore has shown more courage than countless politicians, footballers and celeb...
08/09/2026

🇮🇪🇵🇸 MACKLEMORE WON’T BE SILENCED🇮🇪🇵🇸

Macklemore has shown more courage than countless politicians, footballers and celebrities by standing publicly with Palestine, its in his Irish blood.

As he said himself,

“I have been so proud of how my Irish brothers and sisters have shown up for the Palestinian people.”

Now the Israeli political pressure machine is coming for him, with demands that he be removed from Ed Sheeran’s US tour because he dared to say “FREE PALESTINE.”

Every attempt to silence criticism of Israel exposes the Zionist lobby and the cowardice of those who refuse to speak.
Macklemore has chosen conscience over career.
Now is the time for the Irish football team to do the same and " Show up for the Palestinian people " and

In a world of pricks like Kenny Cunningham, be a Macklemore.

From Ireland to Palestine — solidarity. 🇮🇪🇵🇸
FREE PALESTINE.

For anyone following our series to mark the 150th anniversary of the Catalpa rescue. One for the diary. On Saturday the ...
08/09/2026

For anyone following our series to mark the 150th anniversary of the Catalpa rescue.

One for the diary.
On Saturday the 19th of September at 1pm in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, the National Graves Association will unveil a monument dedicated to the memory of all the Fenians involved in the rescue.

The National Graves Association are delighted to be working on this project with the Fenian Memorial Committee of America (FMCA) who have done great work in sharing the story of the Catalpa and remembering those involved.

To date the FMCA have located and installed headstones on the graves of the six Catalpa rescuees as well as Fr. Pat McCabe and Judge John Goff who were centrally involved in arranging the rescue. These memorials are located across the USA including Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Illinois, Minnesota and Massachusetts.

These Fenians came from all walks of life but had one goal in common, the freedom of Ireland. To them we will forever be indebted.

To all you gullible “Oirish paytriots” swallowing Robinson’s poison, you've been played by Israel's puppet, the Brit wit...
08/09/2026

To all you gullible “Oirish paytriots” swallowing Robinson’s poison, you've been played by Israel's puppet, the Brit with the fake name.
Stop being useful idiots.

07/09/2026

The zionists are raging.
FREE PALESTINE
🇮🇪🇵🇸

DUBLIN CLUBS VOTE TO A powerful statement from the grassroots tonight as Dublin clubs voted by a majority to support th...
07/09/2026

DUBLIN CLUBS VOTE TO

A powerful statement from the grassroots tonight as Dublin clubs voted by a majority to support the motion at the Dublin County Board meeting.
Brought forward by St Joseph’s O’Connell Boys, the motion has now passed.
The message could not be clearer, the clubs have spoken, the grassroots have spoken.
Now it’s time for GAA corporate management to listen.
They cannot claim to represent the grassroots while ignoring their democratic voice. Tonight, Dublin clubs have shown that members expect their association to stand by its principles.
Fair play to every Dublin club that stood up, took a position and used its voice.
The grassroots have spoken.
Ath Claith Abú
💙 UP THE DUBS! 💙

No to NATO. No to Trump.
07/09/2026

No to NATO.
No to Trump.

AN OBITUARY FOR CHILDREN THE WORLD DOESN’T CARE ABOUT.Over 100 bodies have been pulled from beneath the rubble in Gaza....
07/09/2026

AN OBITUARY FOR CHILDREN THE WORLD DOESN’T CARE ABOUT.

Over 100 bodies have been pulled from beneath the rubble in Gaza. Around 70 are children, Babies.

UNICEF has recorded at least 21,289 Palestinian children killed in Gaza since October 2023, that figure excludes the thousands yet to be removed from the rubble so that figure will continued to rise.
If you attended the funeral of one murdered Palestinian child every single day, you would still be attending funerals for almost 60 years.
Think about that.
A child’s funeral. Every day. For nearly six decades.
And still the world carries on.
The lies are repeated. The propaganda is amplified. The powerful are protected by the Epstein class. The victims are buried beneath the rubble while those responsible are offered diplomatic cover, political protection and sporting platforms.
This is a failure of humanity.
And Irish football must not become part of it.
The FAI has a choice. Irish footballers have a choice.
They can walk onto the pitch against Israel and help normalise what should never be normalised, or they can refuse to participate.
No football match is worth becoming an facilitator for sportswashing genocide.
Ireland knows occupation, displacement and colonial violence. We know what it means when the world looks away.
So let the message be clear,
FAI — REFUSE TO PLAY.
IRISH PLAYERS — REFUSE TO PLAY.
NO SPORTSWASHING OF GENOCIDE. 🇮🇪

NO. 3 in our series on the 150th anniversary of the Catalpa rescue.THOMAS DARRAGH As we mark the 150th anniversary of th...
07/09/2026

NO. 3 in our series on the 150th anniversary of the Catalpa rescue.
THOMAS DARRAGH

As we mark the 150th anniversary of the Catalpa Rescue, we remember the Fenian prisoners whose courage, resistance and determination became part of Ireland’s long republican struggle for freedom.
Thomas Darragh, born in Broomhall, Co. Wicklow, enlisted in the British Army in 1852. His journey would ultimately take him from the ranks of the British Army into the Fenian movement ans serve the cause of Irish republicanism. Thomas was involved in the Fenian conspiracy to recruit Irishmen within the ranks of the British Army to the Fenian cause for the planned uprising.
Thomas arrested at Fleetwood barracks in 1865, he was court-martialled and sentenced to death, a sentence later commuted to life imprisonment in a British penal colony in Australia. On the10th of January 1868, he arrived in Western Australia aboard the Hougoumont, joining the other Fenian prisoners transported to the far side of the British Empire.

Their imprisonment was intended to break the Fenian movement. Instead, it helped create the circumstances for one of the greatest acts of republican solidarity of the 19th century.
In 1876, the Catalpa Rescue defied British authority and brought six Fenian prisoners to freedom.
The Catalpa escape was an act of defiance against the British Empire and a powerful declaration that Irish republicans would not abandon their own.
Remembering the brave Fenian prisoners, the rescuers and the republican struggle for Irish freedom. 🇮🇪

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