Posted on 03/16/2006 6:26:58 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite
It's after midnight here in Ireland, so..
Irish eyes?
He;s a PATIENT!
Wasn't sure about the spelling and I rarely remember to use spell check.
LOL! Very cute!
Whats new in SC?
More about Major General James Napper Tandy (1740-1803)
(Source: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE IRISH STRUGGLE
http://www.freespeech.org/republicansf/1798.htm)
"On the day Castlebar was liberated, August 27, 1798, James Napper Tandy sailed from Dunkerque with 270 French grenadiers and a large quantity of weapons, powder and artillery, on board the corvette Anacréon, reputed to be the fastest vessel in the French navy. They landed near Burtonport, County Donegal on September 16, but on hearing of Humbert’s defeat at Ballinamuck, they withdrew. On September 21, the Captain landed Tandy at Bergen in Norway, from where, en route to France by land, he arrived in Hamburg, then a neutral State, on November 22. There Tandy was arrested and protracted extradition proceedings followed. The British arrogantly demanded that he be handed over for trial. Eventually, Tandy was extradited on October 1, 1799. French retribution was swift. They recalled their chargé d’affaires and consul in Hamburg immediately. Hamburg’s representatives in France were given 24 hours to quit their residences and eight days to leave the country. Napper Tandy was sentenced to death at Lifford court, and May 4, 1801 was fixed as the day of execution. A reprieve was granted until May 28 and on May 12 his execution was postponed indefinitely."
From: http://www.iol.ie/~fagann/1798/fr&is.htm
"On the day Castlebar was liberated, August 27, 1798, James Napper Tandy sailed from Dunkerque with 270 French grenadiers and a large quantity of weapons, powder and artillery, on board the corvette Anacréon, reputed to be the fastest vessel in the French navy. They landed near Burtonport, County Donegal on September 16, but on hearing of Humbert’s defeat at Ballinamuck, they withdrew. On September 21, the Captain landed Tandy at Bergen in Norway, from where, en route to France by land, he arrived in Hamburg, then a neutral State, on November 22.
There Tandy was arrested and protracted extradition proceedings followed. The British arrogantly demanded that he be handed over for trial. Eventually, Tandy was extradited on October 1, 1799. French retribution was swift. They recalled their chargé d’affaires and consul in Hamburg immediately. Hamburg’s representatives in France were given 24 hours to quit their residences and eight days to leave the country.
This all coincided with the return of Napoléon Bonaparte from Egypt and his assumption of power as First Consul of France.
A letter from the Senate of Hamburg which set out their reasons for the extradition was returned unopened. They then communicated personally with Bonaparte, whose reply was devastating, and which he published for the edification of the public.
"You have violated hospitality, a thing that would not happen among barbarous hordes of the desert."
He promptly ordered trade sanctions which were not lifted until April 1801, on payment of a fine of 4,500,000 Francs.
Napper Tandy was sentenced to death at Lifford court, and May 4, 1801 was fixed as the day of execution. A reprieve was granted until May 28 and on May 12 his execution was postponed indefinitely.
By 1802 the long war between France and England was coming to an end, and negotiations for peace were under way.
Lord Cornwallis, the Lord Lieutenant who had taken personal command against General Humbert’s army in 1798 was the chief British negotiator and Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoléon was the chief French negotiator
The Peace Treaty of Amiens, 1802, is another significant date in European history. Its signing was delayed when the First Consul instructed his brother to demand that the British comply with one further condition – "General James Napper Tandy must be released from prison and restored ‘au sein de la France’ – to the bosum of France."
On the night of Sunday, March 7, 1802, Tandy was quietly released and put on board a ship for France. On March 14 he landed in Bordeaux to military and civic receptions. The Treaty of Ameins was signed on March 27."
From: http://www.iol.ie/~fagann/1798/chronolo.htm
"CORBET, WILLIAM: Soldier. Born at Ballythomas, County Cork, on 17th August, 1779. In 1798, while a student at Trinity College, he, with Robert Emmet and 18 others, was expelled for treasonable activities. He went to Paris and, with the rank of captain, formed part of the small French expedition which sailed from Dunkirk in September 1798 under Napper Tandy with arms and ammunition for Ireland. Landing on the Donegal coast and hearing there of General Humbert's defeat at Ballinamuck, they re-embarked and arrived at Hamburg on their journey back to France. Through the information of the English spy Samuel Turner, they were arrested by the senate of that city, which handed them over to the British consul who had them conveyed to Kilmainham prison in Dublin. Napoleon inveighed strongly against the action of the senate and inflicted on it a fine of four and a half million francs. (In 1807 Corbet published at Paris a brochure entitled The Conduct of the Senate at Hamburg revealed.)"
From: http://www.iol.ie/~fagann/1798/chronolo.htm
"LIBERTY OR DEATH
NORTHERN ARMY OF AVENGERS
Head Quarters. The first year of Irish Liberty.
GENERAL, JN TANDY,
to his COUNTRYMEN.
UNITED IRISHMEN,
What do I hear? The British Government are dared to speak of concessions! Would you accept of them?
Can you think of entering into a treaty with a British Minister? A Minister too, who has left you at the mercy of an English soldiery, who has laid your cities waste, and massacred inhumanely your best Citizens . . . a Minister, the bane of society, and the scourge of mankind . . . behold, Irishmen . . . he holds in his hand the olive of peace; be aware, his other hand lies concealed armed with a poniard. NO, IRISHMEN, no . . . you shall not be the dupes of his base intrigues. Unable to subdue your courage, he attempts to seduce you, let his efforts be vain.
Horrid crimes have been perpetuated in your country. Your friends have fallen a sacrifice to their devotion for your cause. Their shadows are around you and call aloud for Vengeance.
It is your duty to avenge their death. It is your duty to strike on their blood-cemented thrones the murderers of your friends.
Listen to no proposals, IRISHMEN, wage a war of extermination against your oppressors, the war of Liberty against tyranny, and Liberty shall Triumph.
JN TANDY"
From: http://www.britannica.com/seo/j/james-napper-tandy/
Encylopedia Britannica
"b. 1740, Dublin
d. Aug. 24, 1803, Bordeaux, Fr.
Irish politician, ineffectual revolutionary, and popular hero memorialized in the Irish ballad "The Wearing of the Green"
"In the early 1780s Tandy was an artillery commander in the Irish Volunteers, and in 1791 he helped to form a Dublin branch of the radical Society of United Irishmen. Forced into exile in 1793, he made his way to Philadelphia in 1795 and to Paris in 1798, when the French government made him a general and sent him back to Ireland to raise an army against the British.
On Sept. 16, 1798, he landed at Rutland Island, off the Donegal coast, but abandoned the venture the same day. While returning circuitously to France, he was captured in Hamburg (November 1798), turned over to the British (September 1799), and, at a trial in Ireland, was sentenced to death (April 1800). He was released unconditionally, however, at the demand of Napoleon Bonaparte, and went (March 1802) to Bordeaux to live."
For more about the 1798 Rebellion visit
http://www.iol.ie/~fagann/1798/index.html
You mean NC?
"Brenda, may I come in?" he asks. "I've somethin' to tell ye."
"Of course you can come in, you're always welcome, Tim. But where's my husband?"
"That's what I'm here to be tellin' ye, Brenda. There was an accident down at the Guinness brewery..."
"Oh, God no!" cries Brenda. "Please don't tell me..."
"Sure and I must, Brenda. Your husband Seamus is dead and gone. I'm sorry."
Brenda reached a hand out to her side, found the arm of the rocking chair by the fireplace, pulled the chair to her and collapsed into it. She wept for many minutes. Finally she looked up at Tim. "How did it happen, Tim?"
"It was terrible, Brenda. He fell into a vat of Guinnesss Stout and drowned.""Oh my dear Jesus! But you must tell me true, Tim. Did he at least go quickly?"
"Well, no Brenda......no.""No?""Fact is, he got out three times to pee."
Yes, Arghh!! My bad, Sorry!
As Ronnie Drew would croon out in his inimitable voice...ye warmed the cockles of me heart.
(If you're not familar with Mr. Drew, his voice, albeit a good one and always on key, is a cross between Jimmy Durante and Lee Marvin)
LOL!
LOL, I got the two confused myself a lot before we moved.
In answering your question, nothing much.
I've heard Mary Black sing that.
ROTFLMAO! That one is great!
Hey RelentLess, she's speaking that odd talk again.
LOL! "looking for the green party" LOL
If you keep this up, I'll be singing my rendition of 'The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady!' :-)
Go ahead...lol.
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