Britian Aplogies

neon_glows

Just curious but has Great Britian ever apologised for anything that happened in Ireland? Have we ever recieved a formal apology for the invasion our country? Apoligies for how prisoners were treated (not just the hunger strikers but think 1916 when they were executed), for the shooting on bloody sunday, or even though britian has reformed its approach to the handling of NI and its people have they still not admitted to wrong doing in the first place and expressed sorrow? And if not what is there point of view.

anladmór

Tony Blair did I think, but tbh what will it achieve? I think the crown should though to all nations mistreated if they haven't already?

K-9

We'd probably have to apologise for a few things too though.

seanybiker

K-9 wrote: »

We'd probably have to apologise for a few things too though.

thats true for sure

Liam Byrne

K-9 wrote: »

We'd probably have to apologise for a few things too though.

+1

Well, strictly speaking "some of us" wouldn't, because a lot of the more despicable actions were taken without our consent or agreement and horrified and disgusted a lot of the Irish people.....

But if the OP is suggesting that somehow Britain as a whole, or their administraton, needs to apologise, then yes, Ireland as a whole should apologise too.

Soldie

Not that I'm aware of, but why should they?

Patrickisperfec

Soldie wrote: »

Not that I'm aware of, but why should they?

are you seirous??
Maybe for letting one million people die and for forcing anther one million to immigrate.

Or maybe for forcing millions off their land and then making them pay to rent it.

Or maybe for forcing everybaody to speak english.

Or maybe just for being a**holes

IHATELIBERTAS

Patrickisperfec wrote: »

are you seirous??
Maybe for letting one million people die and for forcing anther one million to immigrate.

Or maybe for forcing millions off their land and then making them pay to rent it.

Or maybe for forcing everybaody to speak english.

Or maybe just for being a**holes

dont mind that poster mate, people like them only get you down, there the kind of people that are pro-uk at all times and have no concern about the human and cultural genocide which took place in ireland at the hands of the crown. tend to support the BNP as well as being extremely xenephobic.

Soldie

Patrickisperfec wrote: »

are you seirous??
Maybe for letting one million people die and for forcing anther one million to immigrate.

Or maybe for forcing millions off their land and then making them pay to rent it.

Or maybe for forcing everybaody to speak english.

Or maybe just for being a**holes

Or maybe you should expand your knowledge beyond a de Valera style history syllabus.

The reality is that modern-day Brits are guilty of none of the above, so why should they apologise? It'd be a bit arbitrary, to say the least.

K-9

What about the Irish for taking their jobs and stealing their women?

The odd bomb too.

Soldie

IHATELIBERTAS wrote: »

dont mind that poster mate, people like them only get you down, there the kind of people that are pro-uk at all times and have no concern about the human and cultural genocide which took place in ireland at the hands of the crown. tend to support the BNP as well as being extremely xenephobic.

So I'm based in Ireland but I'm a xenophobic BNP-supporter - a minority party, but in spite of that I'm 'pro-UK at all times'. Wait, what?

Patrickisperfec

Soldie wrote: »

Or maybe you should expand your knowledge beyond a de Valera style history syllabus.

The reality is that modern-day Brits are guilty of none of the above, so why should they apologise? It'd be a bit arbitrary, to say the least.

I'm not talking about "modern-day Brits", of course the same people who were knocking about during the famine aren't still alive.

Soldie

K-9 wrote: »

What about the Irish for taking their jobs and stealing their women?

The odd bomb too.

Not to mention Shane MacGowan. :pac:

Patrickisperfec wrote:

I'm not talking about "modern-day Brits", of course the same people who were knocking about during the famine aren't still alive.

Precisely, so what good is an apology from people who had no responsbility whatsoever for what took place?

Patrickisperfec

Soldie wrote: »

Not to mention Shane MacGowan. :pac:



Precisely, so what good is an apology from people who had no responsbility whatsoever for what took place?

Shane MacGowan was born in england to two Irish parents who were forced to move there in search of a job because there were none in Ireland because of British exploitation in the past

Patrickisperfec

Soldie wrote: »

Precisely, so what good is an apology from people who had no responsbility whatsoever for what took place?

so is germany as a country suddenly not responsible for killing millions of jews because Hitler is dead?

Tristram

Someone should apologise for this thread... :pac:

Scofflaw

Well, it's had a page to go somewhere, and it hasn't. Time, gentlemen, please.

cordially,
Scofflaw