8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
I dedicate a small part of my brain to actively repress the memory of "give of my head peace" at all times.
Ireland election 2016
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I dedicate a small part of my brain to actively repress the memory of "give of my head peace" at all times.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
He's been reformating Mrs Brown's Boys for over 25 years; as radio skits, books, a film with Anjelica Huston, stage, telly - he's a bit of a one trick pony.
That said; I'm interested in next week's programme.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
"It was the '70s".
What's the latest with my boy Enda the K, anyway? In or out?
No idea depending on who's talking we are getting s rotating Taoiseach (that'll make DeV spin) Leo out with the knives, minority govt.
They're only sitting two days between now and Easter so expect this to shamble on till April at the earliest.
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
It's not a shambles, it's great. There is no government
Yeah I was thinking that too. Maybe we can go like Belgium and have no govt for more than a year.
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
Or no govt forever...
...the mask slipped... there is no government and we're doing good without it!
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I would just like to point out that this post turned out to be - just as I suspected - as believable as a FF election promise. Casually tight-arsed.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Only one of that list of candidates got 772 votes, so assuming you aren't taking the piss here, it has to be the digital democracy eccentric with the clothes allergy.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
From the comments thread on that video:
"My uncle used to work for Fianna Fail back then, he and a team of other people went door to door asking for donations for the party. They used to then take the donations and drink them down the pub on a Friday night. He always spoke of this time with great fondness and nostalgia."
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Seriously; you're chiding posters on this thread for not buying into your brand of laddish sexism?
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Starry Wisdom
(almost) all has been revealed in photo d)
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
Seriously; you're chiding posters on this thread for not buying into your brand of laddish sexism?
Well said . He and a few others should have a word with themselves. It's like an episode of On The Buses . It's the 2016 election, not 1976 .
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
He's also an agent of British military intelligence . Which is why Tony Blair gushes about him so profusely. And why his former chief of staff Johnathon Powell , of the ..ahem.." foreign office " ..ahem ahem..still shares platforms with Sinn Fein speakers.
Adams doesnt have ANY politics. He's neither left nor right. He's just Adams.
And your " murdering terrorist " bunkum is a pile of old shite. The entire country is on the verge of honouring the sacrifice of the IRA during Easter week . Your like a pound shop Eoghan Harris banging about that stuff .
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
shurely "the irish volunteers and irish citizen army"
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
Who that week ..along with the IRB, Cumman na mban, na Fianna Eireann, Hibernian rifles..constituted themselves as a single military body, the Irish Republican Army/ Army of the Irish republic .
As underlined by James Connollys assertion of such in his address to his court martial .
Pickman's model
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strangely the first reference to any post-fenian ira in the times came on 12/10/1917 in an article about the death of thomas ashe:
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
When nurse Elizabeth OFarrel , who accompanied Padraig Pearse to the formal surrender in Britain street , ...you can see her feet beside pearse here
was asked the name of the group which was surrendering by a British General, her reply was recorded as " they call themselves the Irish Republican Army..and I think it's a very good name "
Similarly when the British finally captured the South Dublin Union they found the Irish Forces had decorated a blackboard inside with the title Irish Republican Army . And in James Connollys final address, to his court martial, he referred to himself as " James Connolly, Commandant, Army of the Irish Republic ." From the instant the uprising began ...when he took down the Starry Plough from the top of Liberty Hall and replaced it with the revolutionary tricolour...he made no mention of the " Irish Citizen Army " from then on in . For that week they were all one national force, the IRA.
A lot of Irish lefties in particular don't like to be reminded of it, and still cling to this myth the gallant and pure ICA were a force apart...somehow dragged into it by the awful nationalists . That " hold onto your rifles " thing falsely attributed to Connolly was a total invention too. But the myth persists nonetheless .
was asked the name of the group which was surrendering by a British General, her reply was recorded as " they call themselves the Irish Republican Army..and I think it's a very good name "
Similarly when the British finally captured the South Dublin Union they found the Irish Forces had decorated a blackboard inside with the title Irish Republican Army . And in James Connollys final address, to his court martial, he referred to himself as " James Connolly, Commandant, Army of the Irish Republic ." From the instant the uprising began ...when he took down the Starry Plough from the top of Liberty Hall and replaced it with the revolutionary tricolour...he made no mention of the " Irish Citizen Army " from then on in . For that week they were all one national force, the IRA.
A lot of Irish lefties in particular don't like to be reminded of it, and still cling to this myth the gallant and pure ICA were a force apart...somehow dragged into it by the awful nationalists . That " hold onto your rifles " thing falsely attributed to Connolly was a total invention too. But the myth persists nonetheless .
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
makes more sense than dan breen et al suddenly & spontaneously reviving the 1860s name. will have to revisit the books about the risingWhen nurse Elizabeth OFarrel , who accompanied Padraig Pearse to the formal surrender in Britain street , ...you can see her feet beside pearse here
was asked the name of the group which was surrendering by a British General, her reply was recorded as " they call themselves the Irish Republican Army..and I think it's a very good name "
Similarly when the British finally captured the South Dublin Union they found the Irish Forces had decorated a blackboard inside with the title Irish Republican Army . And in James Connollys final address, to his court martial, he referred to himself as " James Connolly, Commandant, Army of the Irish Republic ." From the instant the uprising began ...when he took down the Starry Plough from the top of Liberty Hall and replaced it with the revolutionary tricolour...he made no mention of the " Irish Citizen Army " from then on in . For that week they were all one national force, the IRA.
A lot of Irish lefties in particular don't like to be reminded of it, and still cling to this myth the gallant and pure ICA were a force apart...somehow dragged into it by the awful nationalists . That " hold onto your rifles " thing falsely attributed to Connolly was a total invention too. But the myth persists nonetheless .
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
There's a lot of confusion on the issue, not least due to the fact the initials IRA carry a lot of baggage . But then again the rising itself was referred to by the establishment and media of the time as " the sinn fein rebellion " , despite the fact Sinn Fein at the time had absolutely nothing to do with it.
And it also needs to be remembered the people who planned and led the uprising were all executed shortly afterwards . So naturally enough they had very little to say on the issue .
There's also the issue of the uprising itself being defeated, and the military bodies that played a role in it being scattered to the winds for a period before regrouping . And when they did there's no doubt they settled on the title IRA . And that title was chosen to emphasise the continuity of the struggle that began on Easter week .
But Connollys address to the court martial as military commander of the enterprise is pretty definitive .
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
I love how your demented conspiracy theories pile into Easter rising non sequiturs
In truth I have issues with this celebration. Would the Revolution Pearse tried to bring about be really welcome today.
Also the rising took place in late April yet here we are celebrating in March. Suggesting that our state is fixating on the symbolic Christian date rather than the message some volunteers wanted to spread
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
Neither you nor the state would welcome it . Both of you " have issues " .
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
tbh when i was on an easter comemmoration a few years ago the march to glasnevin from the gpo took place at easter rather than in late april: afaik that's been the case for many, many years.
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
I find it a bit rich to be denounced as demented by a punter who has 2 different user names and pretends to be 2 completely different people . Kicking myself I never spotted this years ago, So glaringly obvious . Actually that's his third name now, he changed it before .
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