Bloody Sunday 100 years later

LuasSimon

Powerful commemoration by Brendan Glesson in Croke Park this evening 100 years after the Black and Tans shot dead 14 people including players and children at a Gaelic football match in Croke Park . Presently on RTÉ 2 .

Quantum Erasure

Is this the video Stephen Kenny showed before the England match?

Fann Linn

Just mentioned that myself on the GAA thread. As one who goes regularly to matches with my wife and grandchild it's so sad that what started out as an ordinary sporting Sunday for families ended in terror.

PsychoPete

hurler32

Hard to believe Charlie Flanagan and others in Fine Gael wanted to commentate the RIC and Black and Tans earlier this year .

Let the woke self loathing begin.

Plumbthedepths

PsychoPete wrote: »

Yet you took the effort to show how you don't care.

Sir Oxman

I tuned in just before the wreath laying and I can say I have never been so moved in a long time by a commemoration.
A lump in my throat after that piece of music and video and the simple setting at Croke Park

Stacksofwacks

Do these melodramatic presentations drudging up bad memories really help unity on our island?

Stihl waters

Wasn't the dublin goalie on the day involved in the killings that morning iirc, great men of the time, pity what the cowardly British did in retaliation

.anon.

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Let the woke self loathing begin.

Why are people so desperate to shoehorn the word 'woke' into every single thread?

Church on Tuesday

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Do these melodramatic presentations drudging up bad memories really help unity on our island?

Well it's 100 years since the event in which some people went to a football match and never came home which was and still is simply not acceptable.

It's also important not to forget.

RonaVirus

Good to see the organizers don't have West Brits in their ranks. They usually try to qualify what happened at Croke Park by mentioning the justified military actions earlier that day.

.anon.

.anon. wrote: »

Why are people so desperate to shoehorn the word 'woke' into every single thread?

Because that’s what they think they are. Look at the rubbish posted a few up about melodrama.

.anon.

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Because that’s what they think they are. Look at the rubbish posted a few up about melodrama.

Learn a new word, ffs.

RonaVirus

.anon. wrote: »

Learn a new word, ffs.

It is what it is. Can't just make up a new word for it.

WoollyRedHat

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Because that’s what they think they are. Look at the rubbish posted a few up about melodrama.

You're not making any sense, could you please form a coherent argument Reginald? It's like you just woke up.

.anon.

.anon. wrote: »

Learn a new word, ffs.

Poor diddums, it’s just a word. I’m talking about a stinking attitude that all too many people have and you have a word annoying you.

Woke rubbish is exactly what it is. Call it something else if it keeps your blood pressure down but you’ll be wrong.

WoollyRedHat

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

You're not making any sense, could you please form a coherent argument Reginald? It's like you just woke up.

A few posts up. But some ability of thought would have worked out that much.

Poor effort.

WoollyRedHat

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

A few posts up. But some ability of thought would have worked out that much.

Poor effort.

I'd say the same about yours, can you expand on your line of thinking, without resorting to empty cliches? Might make the thread more interesting.

WoollyRedHat

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I'd say the same ab

Same ab?

WoollyRedHat

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Same ab?

I've edited my post, it posted too early , if you could perhaps look again.

Stacksofwacks

bloody talking nonsense to each other

WoollyRedHat

Jesus, can someone at least post the Alan Partridge clip?

Stacksofwacks

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Well it's 100 years since the event in which some people went to a football match and never came home which was and still is simply not acceptable.

It's also important not to forget.

Its nationalist propaganda which is rife within the GAA, did they lay a wreath for the British officials who were murdered in front of their families that morning?

.anon.

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Poor diddums, it’s just a word. I’m talking about a stinking attitude that all too many people have and you have a word annoying you.

Woke rubbish is exactly what it is. Call it something else if it keeps your blood pressure down but you’ll be wrong.

The attitude to which you refer (willful historical ignorance and shoneenism) isn't 'woke'.

Galwayguy35

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Its nationalist propaganda which is rife within the GAA, did they lay a wreath for the British officials who were murdered in front of their families that morning?

Fook them they deserved it.

WoollyRedHat

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Its nationalist propaganda which is rife within the GAA, did they lay a wreath for the British officials who were murdered in front of their families that morning?

Do you understand what nationalist propaganda is? Pure nonsense.

Stacksofwacks

Stacksofwacks wrote: »

Its nationalist propaganda which is rife within the GAA, did they lay a wreath for the British officials who were murdered in front of their families that morning?

The British didn’t even bother laying a wreath for those filthy swines so I don’t see why we should do it for them. They were the enemy.

SeaFields

Very powerful piece that Brendan Gleason did. It kind of seemed fitting it was in an empty stadium.

Plumbthedepths

A good piece by D Ferriter.https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/diarmaid-ferriter-bloody-sunday-1920-changed-british-attitudes-to-ireland-1.4411709