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Tina kore utu Irish Stew

I etahi tau ki muri he mema ahau no te ISPS UK www.ispsuk.org  komiti me i te wa e noho ana ahau i whakaatu i taku hiahia ki te whakatu i tetahi huihuinga ki Belfast. I te timatanga o tera tau i waea mai ratou ki a au ka patai mai mena kei te noho tonu ahau mo tenei na te awhina a ratou i whakarite ahau i te hui,  ko au ano i tiamana, i te hotera Clayton i te marama o Whiringa-a-rangi, na tenei i tino mataku ahau me kii atu! Ko nga turoro hinengaro anake i nga taha e rua o te korero kua tukinotia ki te rongoa antipsychotic kore e tika ana ka mohio kaore au i te mataku i te ra i muri mai mo te hui, i Kelly's Cellars, Jim McCann. He tino waimarie te tutaki ki a ia i te panuitanga o tana pukapuka And the Gates Flew Open, The Burning of Long Kesh e pa ana ki te pakanga o Long Kesh i te tau 1974 i noho a Jim a ko wai te hononga nui rawa atu i a matou me te IRA mai i te aranga o te Aranga. i te tau 1916. Ko te mea kare au i mohio i mua tae noa ki te patai a te tuakana o Kevin Lynch a Ollie ki ahau mo te awhina mo te take i Bedford ko te tuku hau CR (ehara i te CS) ki runga i nga taangata IRA i te pakanga. Kaore pea i te mohiotia i tera wa ka kitea he mate pukupuku te hau, a, ki taku mohio he maha nga taangata kua mate i te mate whakamataku puhoi mai i te wa ano, i kii a Ollie, i to taatau taha. He roopu ratou kei runga Pukamata Kua uru atu ahau: CR Gas Research Group. I te taenga mai o Jim ko ia me tetahi atu tangata tino hoa, i muri i te wehenga atu o te chap ka kii mai a Jim ki ahau ko te Stiff Little Fingers drummer a Jim Reilly! I wheturangitia ahau i muri i te meka. He maha nga korero a Jim ki ahau ehara i taku panui i tana pukapuka tae atu  i taua wa ka mohio nga taangata IRA ehara i te hau CS na te mea kua pa ki a ratou i mua. I tae atu ahau ki Kelly's Cellars i mua, no reira i mohio ahau ko te mea hei kai mo te tina i taua ra ko te tunua Airihi, ka tohe a Jim ki te utu mo tenei, ka oati ahau ki a ia ka tohe tonu ahau ki taku taha na konei matou.

...And the Gates Flew Open, the burning of Long Kesh by Jim McCann
Belfast City drunkard's flight path to Kelly's Cellars

Belfast City Council i awhina awhina i te huarahi ki te haere ki Kelly's Cellars ina kua whai koe i etahi, kei runga ake nei.

Gerald "Ollie" Lynch presenting Jim McCann a copy of the charity peace process story about the search for a missing dog.

Ko Ollie Lynch e whakaatu ana i taku pukapuka ki a Jim McCann, kei raro hoki a Ollie e whakaatu ana i a Jim's i The Grafton Hotel In Bedford.

Gerald "Ollie" Lynch presenting Clive Hathaway Travis a signed copy of Jim McCann's book And the Gates Flew Open, the Burning of Long Kesh about the CR gas attack by us on the PIRA in 1974
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