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Language & Phrases of the NI Peace Process

  • 12-09-2010 12:03am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭


    Mods might wish to move this to History & Heritage as I'm not sure if it fits here on Politics.


    Anyway, this thread is not to get a discussion going as such or create arguments. It's to get people to post phrases or language that was brought up during the NI conflict and Peace Process.
    I think it was an interesting period in our history when language was used as provocatively at times as violence.
    Some of the phrases used were posatively Orwellian.

    I'll start off:
    • securocrats
    • politics of condemnation
    • statelet
    • the troubles


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    One of the best football chants ever, heard at the Irish Cup Final sung by Cliftonville fans at the 1997 Irish Cup Final against Portadown:

    "Cross-border bodies with executive powers!" clap clap clap clap clap clappity clap

    I'd also offer for honourable mention:

    MOPE
    parity of esteem
    and
    hands of history (on some warmongering c unt's shoulders)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    One of the best football chants ever, heard at the Irish Cup Final sung by Cliftonville fans at the 1997 Irish Cup Final against Portadown:

    "Cross-border bodies with executive powers!" clap clap clap clap clap clappity clap

    I'd also offer for honourable mention:

    MOPE
    parity of esteem
    and
    hands of history (on some warmongering c unt's shoulders)

    "Cross-border bodies etc" clap clap etc. That's classic, never heard that before.:D

    For those who think "MOPE" is for the Ministry of Population & Environment of Nepal they'd be mistaken, it stands for Most Oppressed People Ever, I had to look it up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    situation


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