T.S.Flynn's Blog – September 2026 Archive (21)

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The Boys Were Back in Town Phil Lynott, the Quality Street Gang and Manchester's Pub Culture

By Tim Flynn (T.S. Flynn)

Most people think Phil Lynott's story begins in Dublin.

In reality, part of it begins in Manchester.

Long before Thin Lizzy filled concert halls around the world, long…

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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 29, 2026 at 7:48pm — No Comments

What Grace O'Malley Can Teach Her Children Today

By Westport House - Alabaster Statue of Grace O'Malley (Granuaile) (1530-1603) by Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=122557070

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Grace O'Malley (Gráinne Mhaol), the sixteenth-century Irish chieftain, trader and naval commander whose life continues to inspire new generations.…

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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 29, 2026 at 7:06pm — No Comments

The Doctor of the Republic Kathleen Lynn and the Politics of Compassion

Kathleen Lynn and the Politics of Compassion

By Tim Flynn (T.S. Flynn)

History tends to remember revolutions through their soldiers, generals and politicians. We remember those who seized buildings, proclaimed republics and challenged governments. Yet some of the most important figures in the struggle for Irish freedom…

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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 29, 2026 at 7:00pm — No Comments

The Rebel Girl: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Irish-American Tradition of Dissent

By Tim Flynn (T.S. Flynn)

Few women occupied centre stage in American radical politics quite like Elizabeth Gurley…

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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 29, 2026 at 6:49pm — No Comments

Daniel O'Connell and the Road to Irish Unity

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Daniel O'Connell's statue in the gardens of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne. The Great Liberator's ideas travelled further than he ever did, accompanying generations of Irish emigrants and helping shape democratic traditions across…

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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 29, 2026 at 6:30pm — No Comments

From Connemara to Cape Barren: The Shared Soil of Irish-Aboriginal Activism



By T.S. Flynn
The historic global narrative of the Irish diaspora—the "Wild Geese"—frequently highlights survival or integration into Western establishments. It routinely overlooks a far more radical chapter: the intersection of Irish and First Nations histories in the Australian outback. This shared landscape gave…
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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 25, 2026 at 1:45pm — No Comments

The Shadow of the Crown, the Bread of the Republic: Unmasking Reynolds, the IRA’s Auxiliary Spy

History is an unsparing taskmaster, particularly when charting the murky waters of Anglo-Irish allegiance. As an author who has spent years unearthing the uncomfortable truths of this shared history—most notably during the composition of my novel, Part an Irishman—I have long been drawn to those individuals who inhabited the perilous…
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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 25, 2026 at 11:44am — No Comments

The Real Tommy Shelby: How John Wren Ruled Melbourne’s Working-Class Underground

By Tim Flynn (T.S. Flynn)
Long before global television audiences became captivated by the cinematic exploits of the Peaky Blinders in…
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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 25, 2026 at 12:55am — No Comments

The Pulpit of Defiance: Archbishop Mannix and the Conscription Wars

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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 25, 2026 at 12:28am — No Comments

From the Calton to Chimorra: Tommy Flynn and the Glasgow Vanguard in Spain

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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 24, 2026 at 11:30pm — No Comments

The Vanguard of the Domain: Irish Rebels and the ‘One Big Union’

By Tim Flynn (T.S. Flynn)
While the armed stand-off on George Street proved that Queensland's state authorities could make the federal military machine blink, the true danger to the British Empire lay not in the corridors of parliament, but on the radical street…
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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 24, 2026 at 11:00pm — No Comments

THE GENTLEMEN REBELS OF ’98: HOW THE BRUTAL ISOLATION OF NORFOLK ISLAND FORGED AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY

BY TIM FLYNN.
When the British Crown established its secondary penal colony on Norfolk Island—a jagged volcanic speck…
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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 23, 2026 at 6:30pm — No Comments

The Connemara Convictions: A Case for the Belated Recognition of a Land League Patriot By Tim Flynn

In the vast, often turbulent chronicle of Ireland’s nineteenth-century agrarian agitation, the ledger of history has long favored names of parliamentary stature. We routinely weigh the legacies of Charles Stewart Parnell or Michael Davitt, whose constitutional campaigns shook the foundations of Westminster. Yet, the…
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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 23, 2026 at 12:30pm — No Comments

The Fraying of the Common Ground: Why a victory of The UK Reform Party would Impact the Irish Diaspora in the UK

The wild geese are flight-tested, but nothing in our modern history prepares the diaspora for the morning after the Reform Party wins a UK general election. For decades, the Irish in Britain and those watching from the old country have adapted to the predictable pendulum of British politics—Tory to…
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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 22, 2026 at 4:00pm — No Comments

The George Street Standoff: When Queensland’s Police Stood Down the Australian Army By T.S. Flynn

In the sweltering late November heat of 1917, the Commonwealth of Australia came within a trigger-finger of civil warfare. A platoon of the Australian Army, acting under executive federal command, marched through Brisbane to face a bristling perimeter of armed officers from the…
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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 21, 2026 at 7:28pm — No Comments

The Alchemy of Reunification: Why a Border Poll Is About More Than Arithmetic By Tim Flynn (T.S. Flynn)

The Alchemy of Reunification: Why a Border Poll Is About More Than Arithmetic

By Tim Flynn (T.S. Flynn)
For much of the last century, the question of Irish reunification was debated through the language of history, identity, and allegiance. Nationalists spoke of unfinished business; unionists spoke of…
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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 17, 2026 at 3:00pm — No Comments

The Pits, the Parish, and the Premier: Andy Burnham and the Triumph of the Lancashire Irish

The arrival of Andy Burnham at 10 Downing Street represents more than a…
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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 15, 2026 at 3:00pm — No Comments

The Fire of Erin in the Coalfields: How an Irish-Lancastrian Accent Explains the Beautiful, Messy Truth of Modern Identity By T.S. Flynn

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The Fire of Erin in the Coalfields: How an Irish-Lancastrian Accent Explains the Beautiful, Messy Truth of Modern Identity

By T.S. Flynn

Growing up in Ashton-in-Makerfield during the 1970s and 1980s, you didn't need a passport to visit Ireland. You simply needed to step inside the Brian Boru Irish Club on a…

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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 14, 2026 at 7:58pm — No Comments

The Fire of Erin in the Coalfields: How Ashton-in-Makerfield Preserved an Irish Identity by Tim Flynn

The Brian Boru Club and Irish Political Identity

At the centre of this story stands the historic Brian Boru Irish Club, founded in the late nineteenth century by members of Ashton’s Irish community. The club traces its origins to around 1889, with evidence of activity from the mid-1880s, and is widely regarded as one of the oldest surviving Irish clubs in Britain.

Named after…

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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 14, 2026 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Rebel Sounds: How the Children of the Irish Diaspora Built the Sound of Modern Britain

While Thatcher's government demonised Irish identity through state-sanctioned paranoia, the children of immigrants were quietly staging a hostile takeover of the British charts. From the punk vitriol of Johnny Rotten to the ethereal subversion of Kate Bush, this is the story of how the displaced sons and daughters of the Irish Underground…

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Added by T.S.Flynn on September 13, 2026 at 6:30pm — No Comments

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