What really has Changed, we now have the Vultures, putting Irish People, out of their Homes, and Farms?? We ask these “Vultures” who are hoarding empty apartments to make them available to Ukrainian refugees, now 5,000 in Ireland and rising to who knows how many, maybe even 80,000. The time is now to be a benefactor. These people are severely traumatised from a war; not to mention the 2 year impact of COVID-19. Fred Bassett moves through centuries to Ukraine and occupation; see comment below

#OTD in 1846 – Ballinlass Evictions. by Stair na hÉireann

This was an incident that highlighted vividly the injustices that Irish tenant farmers suffered during the 19th century. Many tenants were evicted for inability to pay rent, but quite often the evictions were at the ruthless whim of landlords. Over 300 people in the village of Ballinlass, Co Galway are evicted by their landlord.

The 300 inhabitants of the village of Ballinlass were relatively ‘wealthy’ and able to pay their rent. But despite this fact, they were evicted because the landlord, a Mrs Gerrard, intended to establish a grazing farm where the village was situated. Following the eviction, all the housing was destroyed by army and police. The tenants slept in the ruins overnight but the next day, police and army returned to evict them permanently. Their neighbours were not allowed to take them in.

Even the London Times, never a supporter of Irish rights railed against this particular injustice.

‘How often are we to be told that the common law of England sanctions injustice and furnishes the weapons of oppression? How long shall the rights of property in Ireland continue to be the wrongs of poverty and the advancement of the rich be the destruction of the poor?’

Stair na hÉireann | 13th Mar 2022 at 10:00 am | Tags: An Gorta Mor, An t-Ár Mór, Án Ocrás Mór, Ballinlass

OCCUPATION: IRELAND SUFFERED SAME FOR OVER 700 YEARS: Fred Bassett has something important to contribute.

YET 24TH FEBRUARY 2022, RUSSIA (FORMERLY THE USSR) BUT STILL IN THE CONTROL OF EX-KGB MAVERICKS OCCUPIED THE UKRAINE. THE IRONY IS THEY NEVER EXPECTED THE UKRANIANS WOULD HAVE A LEADER OF THE CALIBRE OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMR ZELENSKYY… THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING, LIKE THE IRISH DID, FOR THEIR FREEDOM. THERE IS AN IRONY IN THE PHOTO BELOW. WHO COULD EVER HAVE FORETOLD IN 2018 THAT PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY COULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF SEVEN MEN HOLDING THE TRICOLOUR FOR IRELAND?

IRELAND WE MAY NOT HAVE WEAPONS TO SEND BUT SOMETIMES DIPLOMACY CAN WORK … AND WE HAVE INFLUENCE. ST PATRICK’S DAYS SEES OUR PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD GATHER AND UKRAINE WILL BE TOP OF THE LIST FOR DISCUSSION AND INVOLVEMENT.