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Thursday April 19, 2007 00:04 by Kevin Doyle - WSM - personal capacity
“The Burning” – PDF here– is a full length play written about the circumstances surrounding the destruction Captain Jack White’s papers following his death in Broughshane, Co. Antrim in 1946. White, as many people will know, was one of the more well known figures in Irish history that identified with anarchism. The only son of British Boer War hero, Sir George Stuart White (“The Hero Of Ladysmith”), he was assured a bright future in the upper echelons of the British military until his conscience intervened and he resigned his commission. Breaking with family, he gravitated to political activism and the revolutionary left. His baptism of fire was the Great Lockout in Dublin in 1913, where he worked alongside Larkin and Connolly and proposed the idea of the Irish Citizen Army. Of Protestant “stock”, he was active in the fight against imperialism, reserving particular vitriol for the “Orange” state formed in the north of Ireland after partition in 1922. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2thanks for posting that up, both interesting history and good drama - hope it has many perfomances (tho' maybe the Antrim Tourist Board won't fund them!!).
Seriously, a reminder to all our comrades to look after their history. Well done.
I have been searching for any information on Jacks children, (names, DOB, ect).
I am also curious if Jack had any children with his first wife. Please if anyone has this information it would be verry much appriciated as I am trying to construct a family tree and would love this information.