Today we read and briefly chat about  Cú Chulainn's wise and famous Instructions To The High King. Part of a tradition of Irish Wisdom Literature dating from Celtic times and written down in manuscript form by medieval monks. ideals of the society as they were handed down to the generations and tells what was expected of authorities in return for the acceptance of their authority. follow me on Spotify for more irish rebel content here https://spoti.fi/3D2SjD9 check out my book coaching service for debut authors here https://bit.ly/3EHyLFz 

Excerpt from The Word in Flames - Essays in  Literature and Revolution free e-book at https://davelordanwriterdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/the-word-in-flames-3-3.pdf Liam O'Flaherty (Irish: Liam Ó Flaithearta ; 28 August 1896 – 7 September 1984) was an Irish novelist and short-story writer, and one of the foremost socialist writers in the first part of the 20th century, writing about the common people's experience and from their perspective.Dave Lordan Creativity

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William Allingham (19 March 1824 – 18 November 1889) was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. Follow Dave Lordan Creativity on Spotify for more irish rebel content here https://spoti.fi/3D2SjD9 check out my book coaching service for debut authors here https://bit.ly/3EHyLFz

Today we read and briefly chat about The City by Eva Gore Booth (1870-1926). Eva is one of the great irish rebel  thinkers of the 20th century, tho she is very nearly forgotten now save for the work of a few academic feminists keeping her memory alive. She was a leading Suffragette, Pacifist, and radical Trade Unionist. Like William Blake before her, she was a theological poet above all and saw the tragedy of our species as deriving from our ultimately suicidal separation from (and our murderous antagonism towards) the natural world. In Eva's case it is certainly true that they don't make them like they used to - there is simply no equal to her in Irish literature or public life and has not been for the century since she died in the arms of her life-long lover Esther Roper in 1926. Follow Dave Lordan Creativity on Spotify for more irish rebel content here https://spoti.fi/3D2SjD9 check out my book coaching service for debut authors here https://bit.ly/3EHyLFz

Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh;[2] 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member (and leader in the Maze prison)[3] of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. follow Dave Lordan on Spotify for more irish rebel content here https://spoti.fi/3D2SjD9 check out my book coaching service for debut authors here https://bit.ly/3EHyLFz

Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth (22 May 1870 – 30 June 1926) was an Irish poet,[1] theologian, and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. She was born at Lissadell House, County Sligo, the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, later known as the Countess Markievicz. Follow Dave Lordan on Spotify for more irish rebel content here https://spoti.fi/3D2SjD9 check out my book coaching service for debut authors here https://bit.ly/3EHyLFz

SHAPES & SIGNS #deliriumtremens #junkie #alcy #visionary #poetry by James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan (Irish: Séamus Ó Mangáin; 1 May 1803, Dublin – 20 June 1849), was an Irish poet. Mangan was troubled, eccentric, and an alcoholic. He died early from cholera. After his death, Mangan was hailed as Ireland's first national poet and admired by writers such as James Joyce and William Butler Yeats. follow me on Spotify for more irish rebel content here https://spoti.fi/3D2SjD9 check out my book coaching service for debut authors here https://bit.ly/3EHyLFz

Today we read and chat a little about 'A response to the threat against poetry' written circa 1250 AD by Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe, a chief Bard of The O Neills, who lost his temper with a messenger from the Pope who had been sent to tell Irish poets to shut-up. Just like now, there was absolutely no chance of the Irish, especially our poets, shutting up! follow me on Spotify for more irish rebel content here https://spoti.fi/3D2SjD9 check out my book coaching service for debut authors here https://bit.ly/3EHyLFz