Who is Thomas Kettle

Thomas Michael Kettle (9 February 1880 – 9 September 1916) was an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, war poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Tyrone from 1906 to 1910 at Westminster. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913, then on the outbreak of World War I in 1914 enlisted for service in the British Army, with which he was killed in action on the Western Front in the Autumn of 1916. He was a much admired old comrade of James Joyce, who considered him to be his best friend in Ireland, as well as the likes of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Oliver St. John Gogarty and Robert Wilson Lynd.

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Thomas Kettle Poems

• Parnell
  Tears will betray all pride, but when ye mourn him,
  Be it in soldier wise;
  As for a captain who hath greatly borne him,
  And in the midnight dies....

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Comments about Thomas Kettle

• Ttlastspring: it wasn't a shack, it was a crude lean-to structure with a horizontal log about six feet off the ground to hang the boiling kettle over the fire. since it's closer to the station than to the lodge, shannon has recruited edwin thomas, one of the section men, to mind the fire.
• Harryogilvie3: “chelsea disappointed with former head coach thomas tuchel” like they didn’t just raid brighton’s backroom staff right after taking their manager? pot meet kettle.
• _theregister: register kettle ai-powered chatbots are 2023's hot tech topic, although users report the results they produce are mixed. at best. 0 seconds of 18 minutes, 21 secondsvolume 90%   clockwise from the top left corner is jessica hardcastle, thomas claburn,...
• Thomas_violence: truck on the left got a kettle, a mash tun, a fermenter and a bright tank, saddam was getting ready to make himself some nice west coasts
• Anchartlann: "when we speak of politics as a science we must remember that the word is used with a difference. the characteristic note of a natural science is its ability to predict with mathematical accuracy. such prophetic power cannot be attributed to politics."

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