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Why do some people think that Cork is "the real capital"?

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    #92
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I notice some of the more venomous posts are coming from Dublin posters. Obviously this thread has caused some insecurities to shine up in the pale.


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    #93
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    twowheelsonly wrote: »
    That Straight Road is just that - the longest straight road in Ireland.

    Are there any Gay bars on it ?


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    #94
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,427 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Are there any Gay bars on it ?

    Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff.






    Ba Dum Tish


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    #95
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭Dan_Solo


    Because they're langers.
    Seriously Corkites, if you really think you're the "independent republic of Cork", then please declare that repbulic and I'll gladly vote to let your self-mythologising Michale Collins murdering a55es out of Eire. Got the cojones boy? :P


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    #96
    Richard Noggin
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    Cork has nothing on Dublin-the biggest city with the most people,commerce and culture.

    But most importantly, it's closer to mother Britain.


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    #97
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    because dublin is the most financial and historical place in ireland. while all us dublins were getting slaughtered in the rising the cork cultchies did fuk all i think dublin deserves to be capital


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    #98
    [Deleted User]
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    ricero wrote: »
    because dublin is the most financial and historical place in ireland. while all us dublins were getting slaughtered in the rising the cork cultchies did fuk all i think dublin deserves to be capital

    You do realise that the majority of the people that signed the Proclamation of Independence were not from Dublin, right?

    Thomas J. Clarke - County Tyrone (though he was born on the Isle of Wight, he grew up in Tyrone)
    Seán Mac Diarmada - County Leitrim
    Thomas MacDonagh - County Tipperary
    Pádraig Pearse - Dublin
    Éamonn Ceannt - County Galway
    James Connolly - Scotland
    Joseph Mary Plunkett - Dublin

    So, my point is that without the rest of the country, there would never have been a rising.


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    #99
    ricero
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    You do realise that the majority of the people that signed the Proclamation of Independence were not from Dublin, right?

    yea but the main organizer of the blood sacarafice and rising was from dublin. also the innocent people shot and killed on the streets of dublin were not cultchies they were dubs


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    #100
    [Deleted User]
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    Yet without the help of the other signatories and what they contributed, it wouldn't have mattered a damned what Pearse was saying or doing.


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    #101
    digme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭digme


    Johnny Utah wrote: »
    Discuss
    cause dublin is nothing more than englands bitch. jackeen pale mother fckers


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    #102
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yet without the help of the other signatories and what they contributed, it wouldn't have mattered a damned what Pearse was saying or doing.

    he got the ball rolling what were others doing at the same time ****ing nothing


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    #103
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    ricero wrote: »
    he got the ball rolling what were others doing at the same time ****ing nothing

    What did you contribute?


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    #104
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Ana Wet Tenseness wrote: »
    What did you contribute?

    this was over 80 years ago i was not born ;)


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    #105
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    digme wrote: »
    cause dublin is nothing more than englands bitch. jackeen pale mother fckers

    id rather be englands bitch then avin a cultchie accent, living in the arse hole of nowhere and crying when your team loses an all ireland and having your favorite bands being the saw doctors and clannad :D


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    #106
    digme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭digme


    ricero wrote: »
    this was over 80 years ago i was not born ;)
    excuses....


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    #107
    Bogsnorkler
    Registered Users Posts: 332 ✭✭Bogsnorkler


    War of independence was won in west cork. Yeah, we did **** all.


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    #108
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Bogsnorkler wrote: »
    War of independence was won in west cork. Yeah, we did **** all.

    cause of the civil war


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    #109
    digme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭digme


    west cork best place in the country :)


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    #110
    Paracore
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    ricero wrote: »
    id rather be englands bitch then avin a cultchie accent, living in the arse hole of nowhere and crying when your team loses an all ireland and having your favorite bands being the saw doctors and clannad :D


    I would prefer all of the above to eating my dinner out of a rubbish bin.


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    #111
    Dudess
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    Seriously, are some of ye fucking nine? And that applies to those attacking Dubs too.


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    #112
    digme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭digme


    Dudess wrote: »
    Seriously, are some of ye fucking nine?
    go away granny


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    #113
    ricero
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    its christmas lets stop this bull**** actually why are we even on this its ****ing christmas


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    #114
    digme
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    ricero wrote: »
    its christmas lets stop this bull**** actually why are we even on this its ****ing christmas
    im only taking the piss winding people :)just waiting for the dinner


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    #115
    [Deleted User]
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    Dudess wrote: »
    Seriously, are some of ye fucking nine?

    No, ten is the youngest I'm willing to go.


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    #116
    chillywilly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    twinytwo wrote: »
    After the scum hole dublin has become im glad cork is not the capital;)

    wait just a minute.............Dublin hasn't just become a scum hole, its always been a scum hole :mad:


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    #117
    FISMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭FISMA


    Dublin doesn't know what it is, both historically and the present.

    It has never truly been an "Irish city," synonymous with being Irish. Anyone that travels to Ireland knows to stay out of Dublin if they want to meet Irish people and have an authentic Irish experience.

    Just travel around Dublin. They are so obsessed with their multi-cultural flavor of the day that they have given up the Irish culture. I use the term culture loosely as what they had was not much at all.

    Dubliner's see themselves as Dubliner's first, not Irish. Being Irish is kind of a necessary evil for Dubliner's since they are in Ireland, technically.

    Cork on the other hand is truly Rebel Country. They are fiercely Irish. When there's a revolution, you will not find them at the football match.

    As for Dublin being a real city, please. Anyone that believes this has never been over water.

    Dublin is not big enough to rival a real city: NYC, London, Paris, ... It is not small enough to a tightly-knit city. It's right smack in the middle - kind of like a metro area, not full on city.

    So Cork would be the capital city, in terms of its Latin roots - the head city. Also, as an Irish city, with Irish people, and Irishness at its roots, Cork again is the capital city as it is primarily just that.

    If you define capital as the most populated or the seat of government, then Dublin would have to be capital.

    People in Dublin think the buildings that make them Irish.

    To all the Dubliners, job well done on that gov't. Sure the British wouldn't do a better job themselves!


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    #118
    CDfm
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    ricero wrote: »
    he got the ball rolling what were others doing at the same time ****ing nothing

    Ahem, nobody would have heard of him cept for his oration at O'Donavan Rossa's funeral and where was the bold Jerimiah from Cork.

    The rising may have been in Dublin but was purely symbolic.

    The War of Independence was seperate and lead and run by Corkmen and other country people.Cork was the only place that the British did not have military control over.

    The sentries of Dublin Castle werent even issued with ammunition and there was an arsenal in Trinity College.

    Sorry, but Cork wins out on real military victories.

    The old dog for the hard road and the pup for the pathway.


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    #119
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,241 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Damn south Brits the lot of them.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #120
    andrew163
    Registered Users Posts: 856 ✭✭✭andrew163


    I always thought that the Hill of Tara was the real capital.

    It even has its own motorway nowadays :pac:

    Dubliner's see themselves as Dubliner's first, not Irish. Being Irish is kind of a necessary evil for Dubliner's since they are in Ireland, technically.

    Funny, that was the impression I got from everywhere in Ireland that wasn't Dublin. GAA county first, etc.


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    #121
    rossie1977
    Registered Users Posts: 11,343 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    ricero wrote: »
    id rather be englands bitch then avin a cultchie accent

    when you spend any length of time outside ireland all irish accents sound the same, they just sound irish


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