Post by Stallit 2 de Halfo on Oct 31, 2007 23:42:44 GMT
Found this interesting piece of history about the first know illegal broadcast in Ireland, by James Connolly's ICA in the GPO..... First I heard of it!!!!
""Ireland has a very strong history of free radio. The first station known to broadcast illegally was in 1916 belive it or not . The station was set up by James Connolly and the Irish Citzen Army during the easter rising , when Ireland declared independance from the British empire . It wasn't the same as radio as we know it today. But with the resorses available at the time it was very effective, the British had laid seige on Dublin The capital city which the rebels had taken over. So all the news that could reach the outside world was controled by the ocupying British forces, leaving the rebels open to total massacare and the world wouldn't have learned of any thing untill it was all over. On easter monday when the rising took place , one of the first objectives was to take control of the school of wireless telegraphy at the corner of O'Connell street and lower Abbey street , where there was a ships transmitter that had been put out of action at the begining of the war . the transmitter was got into working order and an aerial was erected on the roof , but this had to be done under sniper fire from the british, and the operation took some time .
On tuesday the station began transmitting communiques over the names of Connolly ,Pearse and plunkett , with news that the Irish Republic had been proclaimed in Dublin and that its forces had captured the center of the city . The station went on sending out its bulitins in morse code and the message got to America . The Hearst's New York American had the headline REVOLUTION IN IRELAND , SAYS CHIPER CABLE , and the sun had REVOLT IN IRELAND .This was a considerable time before the official news came through from London .
On Wednesday transmissions became impossible and the transmitter was caried across the road in an upturned table under heavy fire from British troops , to the G.P.O where it must of perished in the fire when the G.P.O burnt down when the rising was crushed. The main leaders of the rising including James Connolly were executed by the British , except for Devalera because he was an American citizen , and he went on to form the Irish free state some years later . Due to the fact that James Connolly had been executed, many of his ideas were lost and the citezens army were dispanded so the future of Irish politics became more republican than socialist . And because of this Ireland through the next 50 years became a state dominated by the catholic church , so we got rid of the british rule and replaced it with Rome. "
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""Ireland has a very strong history of free radio. The first station known to broadcast illegally was in 1916 belive it or not . The station was set up by James Connolly and the Irish Citzen Army during the easter rising , when Ireland declared independance from the British empire . It wasn't the same as radio as we know it today. But with the resorses available at the time it was very effective, the British had laid seige on Dublin The capital city which the rebels had taken over. So all the news that could reach the outside world was controled by the ocupying British forces, leaving the rebels open to total massacare and the world wouldn't have learned of any thing untill it was all over. On easter monday when the rising took place , one of the first objectives was to take control of the school of wireless telegraphy at the corner of O'Connell street and lower Abbey street , where there was a ships transmitter that had been put out of action at the begining of the war . the transmitter was got into working order and an aerial was erected on the roof , but this had to be done under sniper fire from the british, and the operation took some time .
On tuesday the station began transmitting communiques over the names of Connolly ,Pearse and plunkett , with news that the Irish Republic had been proclaimed in Dublin and that its forces had captured the center of the city . The station went on sending out its bulitins in morse code and the message got to America . The Hearst's New York American had the headline REVOLUTION IN IRELAND , SAYS CHIPER CABLE , and the sun had REVOLT IN IRELAND .This was a considerable time before the official news came through from London .
On Wednesday transmissions became impossible and the transmitter was caried across the road in an upturned table under heavy fire from British troops , to the G.P.O where it must of perished in the fire when the G.P.O burnt down when the rising was crushed. The main leaders of the rising including James Connolly were executed by the British , except for Devalera because he was an American citizen , and he went on to form the Irish free state some years later . Due to the fact that James Connolly had been executed, many of his ideas were lost and the citezens army were dispanded so the future of Irish politics became more republican than socialist . And because of this Ireland through the next 50 years became a state dominated by the catholic church , so we got rid of the british rule and replaced it with Rome. "
www.dojo.ie/active/bomb.htm
