Cumann na nGedheal Quotes
WE WANT NO REDS HERE! Keep Their Color Off Your Flag Vote for Cumann na nGedheal
The red scare in America and much of Europe was not taken very seriously in Ireland where the internal conflicts over Northern Ireland and trying to build the Irish Free State took most attention of the radicals like Sinn Fein. The most conservative group however ran against the Communists of whom there were just a few in Ireland and they had no organization or program.
Cumann na nGedheal, Society of the Gaels, Irish Revolutionary but conservative Party, Campaign Slogan, 1932
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He was executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. Given to his daughter Nora Connolly on eve of his execution by the British.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
At the time a Boundary Commission was meeting to decide on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in the South pursuant to The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. There was fear that territory near the general border that had been in the Northern provinces might be given to the Free State because there were pockets of Catholics living there. To put pressure on the Commission, the PM called a Snap Election and made this slogan the center of the campaign.
His opponent was Al Gore Sr. whose wife came up with the idea of placing signs underneath the McKeller signs saying, “Think Some More and Vote For Gore!”
The 69th Regiment, the first and original division of the Irish Brigade, has been one of the most decorated and successful American battle units since the Civil War. It was originally formed with Irish Immigrant Volunteers by the authority of the Secretary of War. The Irishmen designed their own regimental battle flag which not only was composed of Irish motifs such as the Harp of Erin, but this was the only text in the red banner but it was in Gaelic. The battle flag could be an Irish Army regimental flag as there is nothing on the flag to identify it with America. Although the flag did not, the brigade did with their blood left on the battlefield of every American war up to today. Ironically, this may be the only national military unit in history who operated with a slogan extolling another country.
Ireland was almost always in a state of rebellion.
Even the President was not spared during the McCarthy era. The red scare was so pervasive, that a lunatic fringe ultra right wing organization could call the President a “communist dupe” and be taken seriously be much of the media who were themselves intimidated and might be accused of being communists at any moment. It was a very low point in America’s history.
He had been exiled to the United States.
