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Secret Dublin police files       printable version
01 Jun 2015 filed by editor - Editorial

The secret files from Dublin’s Metropolitan police show an eerie insight into the mindsets of both the police and government authorities of the time.

Men and women who then were pushing for Ireland's independence were tagged as “extremists” and as “suspects”.

The documents also refer to Defence of the Realm—a British law introduced by the British government in 1914 to give special powers to the authorities in Ireland. At that time, after the beginning of the war between Britain and Germany, the British government feared a revolution in Ireland with German support. After the Easter Rising (1917) against British rule in Ireland, the Act was used to arrest and put in prison many people who had supported the rising for independence.

There are some people who care about what they do. You are either one of them or not. Those who are, they watch with compassion that does not rule out anything.

Empires do not and cannot last because they rely on the containment and not the freedom of those they enslave to construct  and furhet their empire.


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