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Voices from the grave

  • 26-10-2010 10:30pm
    #1
    johnthemull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭


    Watching voices from the grave on RTE.
    Brilliant.
    Really really excellent.


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  • #2
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    I switched over to Vincent, very reluctantly (cos his show is live), but I saw an hour of it and it WAS brilliant.. Gonna watch it in full again on the player.. Well done to those involved..


  • #3
    johnthemull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭johnthemull


    Had a lot of time for him.
    So many so called terrorists green and orange
    had so much more courage
    than the gombeens that
    sucked the life out of the south


  • #4
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    johnthemull wrote: »
    Had a lot of time for him.
    So many so called terrorists green and orange
    had so much more courage
    than the gombeens that
    sucked the life out of the south

    I wouldn't paint him as a saint even towards the end, but he wasn't stupid. The real stand-out moment of the whole programme for me was Gerry Adams at David Ervine's funeral, really showed how stupid the whole thing was.

    Well done to the makers. Not a lot in it I didn't know before but it was well put together.


  • #5
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Well he's dead a few years now, but I remember him talking a lot of sense, even though him and Gary MacMichael were effectively the political wing of the unionist paramilitary groups.... Similar to Adams and McGuinness...

    But he was (singularly) the one unionist I could actually listen to..


  • #6
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Gerry adams has no dignity at all. Why he could not just give the man his last wish to stay away from his funeral. Never mind his organising and killing of people.


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  • #7
    Seanohea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭Seanohea


    I thought it was brilliant, very well put together. It's a pity a program like this gets very little promotion, where it's hard to avoid reality tv crap lately.


  • #8
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    Great programme. Lucky I caught it, rarely switch the tv on anymore for reasons mentioned by Seanohea


  • #9
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Seanohea wrote: »
    I thought it was brilliant, very well put together. It's a pity a program like this gets very little promotion, where it's hard to avoid reality tv crap lately.

    Only reason I knew about it was because it was mentioned on Ceefax where my dad read about it.


  • #10
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    It was discussed on Pat Kenny's radio show last Thursday.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #11
    Lorcan78
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭Lorcan78


    Has anybody recorded and uploaded this onto the net ? might there be a link ?


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  • #12
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    RTE player?


  • #13
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1083488

    cmon lads, yiz are not trying hard enough.. gonna get a look at this in full again later..


  • #14
    Lorcan78
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭Lorcan78


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1083488

    cmon lads, yiz are not trying hard enough.. gonna get a look at this in full again later..


    I live outside Ireland so this link is not worth a bollox to me , but thanks anyway for trying .


  • #15
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,984 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    I came across this completely by accident last night, and I thought it was brilliant.

    The fact that most, if not all of it, came from the horses mouths, made it all the better. No sensationalism, or one sidedness, just pure facts.

    The stuff about the years of secret talks before the peace process, and the loyalists targeting republicans to force them into the talks was a real eye opener for me.

    Not saying we should dwell on the past, but RTE's money would be better spent on things like this than on most of the other stuff they produce.


  • #16
    Flimbos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Flimbos


    It was a fascinating, brilliantly made documentary and a great idea, hopefully more interviews will take place like this (recorded on the basis that it will not be aired until after the person's death) - could reveal a lot.

    Having said that, we can't take everything that was said as fact, it is the testimony/ opinions of the people interviewed.


  • #17
    golfball37
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,869 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Flimbos wrote: »
    It was a fascinating, brilliantly made documentary and a great idea, hopefully more interviews will take place like this (recorded on the basis that it will not be aired until after the person's death) - could reveal a lot.

    Having said that, we can't take everything that was said as fact, it is the testimony/ opinions of the people interviewed.

    Thats exactly what the opening credits stipulated. This was neither right or wrong but it was what THEY saw through THEIR eyes.

    Brendan Hughes is worthy of respect too, had no idea he was a worthwhile sort. Down here we'd always assume the IRA were all bad eggs but some of his ideas and campaigns were really similar to Collins back in the day.

    great programme


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