Friday, May 18, 2012

Cuz The Green Owl Says : "Hoot Hoot ! Give The Brits The Boot !!!"


RADIO REBEL GAEL PRESENTS : The Green Owl !

FEAT. NEW Music & Guest Musicians; Joey Bracken of ATHENRYE (Dublin/Canary Islands), & Brendan Power of THE KILMAINE SAINTS (Pennsylvania),


And lots of classics, and new tunes by Ciaran Murphy, Derek Warfield, Sean Keane, Richie Kavanaugh, Kathleen Largey, Charlie & The Bhoys, Sharon Shannon, Tommy Sands, The Players Brigade, The Druids, The Flying Column, Battering Ram, Cruachan, Neck, Dervish, Black 47, Spirit of Freedom, The Irish Rovers, The Tossers, Bluestack,


And much more….

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Comhrá: Dónal Donnelly - Episode:11, TG4



Comhra is kind of set up like a jovial talk show, this episode I saw the other night had a special guest , Donal Donnelly, Tyrone native , Mayor of Dundrum, author of autobiographical novel, “Prisoner 1082: Escape From Crumlin Road, Europe’s Alcatraz  and former IRA volunteer, who played a part in the Border Campaign of 1956-1962, also dubbed “Operation Harvest”.

Dónal Donnelly made the National News when he escaped from Crumlin Road Jail (often known as “British Alcatraz”) on December 26th, 1960,  St. Stephen’s Day. He had been arrested at the age of 18,  for allegedly bombing B-Specials drill halls and IRA membership. The authorities were unable to convict him for the alleged explosions due to lack of evidence (what else is new, these bastards never have any evidence, all of their so-called “trials” are based on gossip, hearsay, and the testimony of informants and/or that of the RUC/PSNI), so that charge was dropped in 1958, so he was convicted for IRA membership and given a 10 year sentence.

The  national news reported that over 12,000 R.U.C and B-Specials collaborated in the hunt for IRA wanted man, Donal Donnelly, in the biggest recorded manhunt in Irish history. In his autobiography, he details his escape and what led him to join the IRA and the deplorable conditions of “Europe’s Alcatraz”. It also gets into his involvement as a teenager in the election campaign of 1955, in which two IRA POWs were elected while behind the wire. They were Phillip Clarke, MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, and Tom Mitchell, Dubliner and Bricklayer, who ran as an Independent Republican and whom would later support Bernadette Devlin’s 1969 Mid Ulster by-election campaign.

F***k the BBC, F***k RTE !  TG4 continues to be my favorite TV station ! What other TV channel would have all this Fenian history!?!



-- Rory Dubhdara, Radio Rebel Gael

Monday, May 14, 2012

Danny McNamee : Another Victim of British "Justice"

Éagóir: Danny McNamee - Episode: 3 TG4



I know its beginning to sound like I am secretly working for TG4 as their advertising man, yet again I watched something on this Cork based TV channel that was really good. This episode of “Eagoir” I saw last night is about another innocent Irishman , framed for a crime he never committed, without a shred of evidence to back the British accusations who claimed that Danny McNamee was the “mad bomber” behind the Hyde Park and Regent’s Park Bombings that rocked London on July 20th 1982.

One week before his wedding, on August 16th,1986, Danny was arrested at his home in Crossmaglen and taken to England. He was branded as a “master bomber” and sent to HM Prison Whitemoor in England for his alleged role in the Hyde Park Bombings.

The band , Pink Floyd, made reference to these bombings in their song, “The Gunner’s Dream”, on their album “The Final Cut”.

One of the lines goes:

"You can relax, on both sides of the tracks, and maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control".