1/ At the top of Belfast’s #OrmeauRoad toward #Forestside. You’ll pass through an area called ‘Galwally’ it’s from the Irish ‘An Gallbhaile’ meaning the 'foreigners' townland' this marked the location of Anglo-Norman John de Courcy's fortified #Motte at Belvoir Forest Park.

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2/ I travel along east at Lios na Searrach (Lisnasharragh) the ‘ringfort of the foals’ I pass Cluain Daimh (Clonduff) a meadow for the oxen.
Beyond that the old, now ruin of the church of Knockcolumkill, Cnoc Cholm Cille (hill of St Colmcille) who visited the site in 6th Century.

🚨1/#Unionisms stormtroopers and their 'reign of terror'. A story of the 'Ulster Volunteer Force' in police uniform that morphed into the 'birth of the B-men' and the creation of #UlsterSpecials in 1920 coming up soon in this thread..... 2/ British PM David Lloyd George agreed to create an armed special constabulary in the north in 1920 and that recruitment begin in asap, but in reality it merely formalised the already illegal Protestant militia's stocking the cities, villages and hamlets of Ulster. Some of the

1/#Partition 1921-During the negotiations Lloyd George's private sec. civil servant Tom Jones, made some stunning revelations in his private diaries. Known as "T.J" he was Deputy Secretary to four Prime Ministers, he was known as the "keeper of a thousand secrets" he revealed 2/..some interesting unpublished comments during his vital roles as go between‘ between Lloyd George and the leaders of the Irish delegation then and later published in three volumes as Whitehall Diary between 1969 & 1971.
He said Lloyd Georgre had put it to James Craig that

#Incoming- One of the first #fakenews propaganda stories was concocted by the British in Ireland. It’s caught on camera and emanates from Waterford 1920-courtesy of PATHÉ news during the Tan war. This was for a British audience at home in Blighty #FalseFlagStory...Stayed tuned.. "No One Can Insult Are Flag" screams the caption of events around Armitice Day 1920 in Dungarvan, Waterford. Shown in cinemas across Britain it encapsulates for their home audience a false narrative about Ireland-a sort of modern day Pathe news Cambridge Analytica. What happened?

Will be posting up some interesting stuff on the formation of the UVF.... busting a few myths to boot..stay tuned. Here’s a teaser.. the photo has a distant building or tower in the background-anyone know what it is.?