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S M Sigerson
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Author THE ASSASSINATION OF MICHAEL COLLINS: What Happened at Béal na mBláth? amazon.com/dp/1493784714 #IrishHistory #WritingCommunity #Ireland #History #IrishResearch #Gaeilge Ta Gaeilge agam.
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S M Sigerson @bealnamblath.bsky.social · Jun 26
Tim Pat Coogan calls this #book "a valuable contribution": 'The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth?' Paperback or Kindle here: goo.gl/a0tgOr All other ebook formats here: smashwords.com/books/view/4...
OR ASK yr local bookshop
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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ELA! Taylor Swift doou US$ 5 milhões para ajudar vítimas dos furacões Milton e Helene a reconstruírem suas comunidades, além de fornecer alimentos essenciais, água e suprimentos.
October 9, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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catebridget.bsky.social
i included this in my syllabi this year
anti-AI “credo” I have a religious exemption from using all generative “A.I.” I am not a member of the Silicon Valley sect. Their beliefs and practices are an affront to my sensibilities. The tech is trained on stolen intellectual property. The output is riddled with mistakes, and it is incapable of comprehending the weight of its errors. It is not even an “it.” But sometimes, it is filtered and massaged by unaccountable human sweatshop workers and bad actors. I am not required to use “A.I.” any more than I am required to join Amway, buy black market rhino horn, or attend the Fyre Festival. As a human, I have a duty and right to limit my carbon and water footprint and protect my fellow human. As a union worker, I have a duty and right to oppose tech that is used to threaten workers or cheapen our product. As a tech consumer, I have a duty and right to oppose scams that lower the quality of our tools. As a scholar, I have a duty and right to oppose anti-intellectualism. As a taxpayer, I have a duty and right to oppose the misallocation of public funds and data. As a grown up, I have a duty and right to protect young people from predators. As a person with a conscience, I am appalled at the decadent disregard for user safety, the callous dismissal of responsibility for lives ruined and slaughtered. My religion is related to my identity, geography, and family, making it an irrelevant accident of birth. What matters is that I was born. I have an exemption from their digital rapture, their cultural austerity, their intellectual poverty. I practice wholesome hedonism and First Do No Harm. CS 12/9/2025
January 21, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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The real reasons Michael Collins signed the #Treaty21
“The Treaty of Limerick is wiped out.. The Union is wiped out..
Complete ntl freedom is ours & nobody but ourselves can prevent it."
wp.me/p43kwx-ea
#Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar #IrishResearch
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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UK gvt generously supports #GazaGenocide ; & has imprisoned without trial for over a year, people who speak out against it.
These prisoners of conscience are now on #HungerStrike .
WRITE your MP or other gvt reps wherever you are.
December 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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🎄 “While we seek mirth & beauty, & music light & gay,
There are frail forms fainting at the door.
Tho their voices are silent, their pleading faces say,
O hard times, come again no more...”
youtu.be/E1AvAcCA7tg
🇵🇸 #AIRLIFTGazaFOODnow #UNPeacekeeperstoGazaNOW #STOPGazaGenocide
December 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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🎄 "A Michael Collins Christmas" wp.me/p43KWx-9r
Collins was determined to regale his closest associates with holiday cheer, in the best hotel in Dublin, at the height of the #TanWar . #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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🎄 #OTD “The 12 Days of Christmas”
Holiday too short? In olden days, 25th Dec was only the START of festivities!
Here's what those English carols are talking about: youtu.be/0t61a2jATgs
#StStephensDay #12DaysofChristmas #Holidays #NewYears
December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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#Christmas 1916 #Irish prisoners interned without trial following the #EasterRising released. Among them are Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith
#Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar
December 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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“To me it would have been a criminal act to refuse to allow the #Irish Nation to give its opinion.. whether [to] accept [the AngloIrishTreaty1921 ] or resume hostilities.”
wp.me/p43KWx-68 # #Treaty21 #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar #IrishResearch
December 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
bealnamblath.bsky.social
@lizlyricfm.bsky.social 👏👏👏THANKS so much for taking on Vivaldi 🎻. A big fave of mine. Always wanted to know more about his life & career.
And THANKS for being on Bluesky! 🦋🙏
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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#OTD 6 Dec 1921
#AngloIrishTreaty1921 is signed just after 2am, to be submitted to the people of #Ireland for approval.
In Michael Collins' own words: “We took as much of the gvt ..out of the hands of the enemy as we could.."
wp.me/p43KWx-iM #IrishHistory #Treaty21
Michael Collins’ assessment – Ireland’s position at the end of the Anglo-Irish War
Characteristically compact, pithy, and to the point, Collins nutshells the national situation with an unsparing overview of its strengths and challenges.   “We took as much of the govern…
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December 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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The machine gunner was one of those physically closest to #MichaelCollins during the fatal ambush.
Would you buy a used car from this face? wp.me/p43KWx-bo
The Assassination of Michael Collins : What Happened at Béal na mBlath? #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishCivilWar
August 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Israel pursuing “scorched earth” policy in #Gaza
youtube.com/shorts/Fn9vUh-yHsY
🇵🇸 #AIRLIFTGazaFOODnow
#UNPeacekeeperstoGazaNOW
to #STOPGazaGenocide #BreakTheSiege
Gaza City bombardment forces mass depopulation | #ajshorts
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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August 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Maybe the only chance left for Michael Collins to prevent imminent national disaster, was to take his life in his hands, into the wild back roads of West Cork; now.
wp.me/p43KWx-id #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar #IrishResearch
Did Michael Collins have to go to West Cork? Diplomacy and provisional governments
If Commander-in-Chief Collins were negotiating peace when he was shot, that is directly connected with the fact that he didn’t have a nice, quiet 10 Downing Street at which to hold his confer…
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August 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
bealnamblath.bsky.social
In the early days of the #IrishCivilWar Michael Collins didn’t have a nice, quiet 10 Downing St for peace talks with anti-Treaty leaders; who couldn't have gone there, as men on the run, at war with gvt. wp.me/p43KWx-id #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History
Did Michael Collins have to go to West Cork? Diplomacy and provisional governments
If Commander-in-Chief Collins were negotiating peace when he was shot, that is directly connected with the fact that he didn’t have a nice, quiet 10 Downing Street at which to hold his confer…
wp.me
August 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
bealnamblath.bsky.social
#OTD 1922 Was the #IrishCivilWar ultimately incited by British gvt agendas to eliminate the #Irish independence movement’s top military leaders?
The Assassination of Michael Collins : What Happened at Béal na mBláth? goo.gl/a0tgOr
#Ireland #IrishHistory #History. #IrishResearch
The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth?
The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth? [Sigerson, S M] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth?
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August 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#OTD 1922: The few basic facts which are undisputed about The Assassination of Michael Collins : What Happened at Béal na mBláth? collinsassassination.wordpress.com/2024/08/21/m... #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar
Michael Collins: His Last Journey
Much controversy continues to surround Commander-in-Chief Collins’ last day on earth.  In these excerpts from “The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Beal na mBlath?&#82…
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August 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The few basic facts which are undisputed about The Assassination of Michael Collins : What Happened at Béal na mBláth? collinsassassination.wordpress.com/2024/08/21/m... #IrishResearch #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar
Michael Collins: His Last Journey
Much controversy continues to surround Commander-in-Chief Collins’ last day on earth.  In these excerpts from “The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Beal na mBlath?&#82…
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August 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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irishhistorians.bsky.social
We are delighted to release the full conference programme for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians. Full details and registration available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...
35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities
The 35th annual Irish conference of historians hosted by the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences & Maynooth University Dept. of History
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August 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Annual #MichaelCollins Commemoration Sunday Aug 24thhttp://www.generalmichaelcollins.com/annual-beal-na-mblath-commemoration-sunday-aug-24th/
#Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar
August 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Looking forward to seeing Sliabh na mBan up close at Tank Fest this weekend. Particularly keen to see if there are any bullet marks on the armour.

This month marks the anniversary of the repatriation of Sonny O'Neill following his capture/wounding in January 1918.
Repatriation document re Prisoner of War Denis O'Neill, June 1918
June 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which set off the American Revolution, we'd like to remind you of our upcoming event "Ireland and America" organised by @joelherman.bsky.social and hosted by PRONI on 15 May from 6:15 - 8:15PM.
A poster for the "Ireland and America: 250th Anniversary Perspectives" event, made up of a collage of drawings and photographs: St Patrick's Day parade, New York (1909) George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Irish Volunteers flag c 1782 © National Museum of Ireland From Irish emigrant poster cartoons courtesy of PRONI From Francis Wheatley, The Dublin Volunteers on College Green, 4th November 1779, courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.
April 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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#OTD 1922 If Michael Collins did NOT order the bombardment of the #FourCourts garrison, who did?
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#IrishCivilWar #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History
Did Dalton shell the Four Courts?
Notices should be served on the armed men in the illegal occupation of the Four Courts and Fowler Hall that night, ordering them to evacuate the buildings and to surrender up all arms and property,…
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June 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM