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The Republic is 70 years old today

  • 18-04-2019 01:06PM
    #1
    Church on Tuesday
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    Remarkable in a way how relatively young the Republic is, fascinating footage from the event:


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  • #2
    Dravokivich
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    Is he trying to stop himself from saying "Error" ?


  • #3
    kneemos
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    Pension age.


  • #4
    Church on Tuesday
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Pension age.

    70 years young sure


  • #5
    Your Face
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    All that's showing is 'an error occurred'

    Ha


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    ¡Viva la República!


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  • #7
    Rubberchikken
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    yehaw


  • #8
    janfebmar
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    Decades of mass emigration to England followed, with church sex abuse, Magdalene laundries, discrimination, babies in unmarked graves etc rife here.


  • #9
    Atoms for Peace
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    Sham republic for the most part, what ever revolutionary spirit that the Brits didn't kill was soon stamped out by the counter revolutionaries of CnaG and buried by Dev and McQuaid.


  • #10
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    janfebmar wrote: »
    Decades of mass emigration to England followed, with church sex abuse, Magdalene laundries, discrimination, babies in unmarked graves etc rife here.
    And why exactly are you still here?


  • #11
    klaaaz
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    The republic ain't complete, that's why it's not widely celebrated


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  • #12
    janfebmar
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    klaaaz wrote: »
    The republic ain't complete, that's why it's not widely celebrated

    Nothing to do with the housing crises, homelessness, the corruption, the fact so many Irish had to emigrate or suffer, the fact our national debt is so high etc? Maybe people are too tired having to commute long distances to dork in vehicles burdened with high vets?


  • #13
    beertons
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    I'd blow out 70 candles, but I don't have the lungs for it any more.


  • #14
    JupiterKid
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    Becoming a Republic in 1949 was essentially a formality. We were a Republic in all but name after the 1920s.


  • #15
    Capt'n Midnight
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    janfebmar wrote: »
    Decades of mass emigration to England followed, with church sex abuse, Magdalene laundries, discrimination, babies in unmarked graves etc rife here.
    Because things were so much better on the other side of the border ?


  • #16
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    Sham republic for the most part, what ever revolutionary spirit that the Brits didn't kill was soon stamped out by the counter revolutionaries of CnaG and buried by Dev and McQuaid.

    The poor outside the tent get fcuked anyway so what's the point


  • #17
    Phileas Frog
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Becoming a Republic in 1949 was essentially a formality. We were a Republic in all but name after the 1920s.

    Other than still having a King of course...


  • #18
    RobbingBandit
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    Athens and Rome would be disgusted by the representation of their ideals this circus of a nation has exhibited. We need an age of enlightenment to set things right but the vast majority of brass knecks in charge would escape the guillotine.


  • #19
    janfebmar
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Because things were so much better on the other side of the border ?

    According to the 2001 census, around 850,000 people in Britain were born in Ireland. So it is fair to assume those 850,000 found things better enough on that side of the border to sacrifice leaving their homeland, friends and family.

    So much here was brushed under the carpet. Only yesterday, in the Mother & baby home, Cork: only 64 of 900-plus baby graves found.


  • #20
    amcalester
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    janfebmar wrote: »
    According to the 2001 census, around 850,000 people in Britain were born in Ireland. So it is fair to assume those 850,000 found things better enough on that side of the border to sacrifice leaving their homeland, friends and family.

    Post hoc ergo proptor hoc


  • #21
    klaaaz
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    janfebmar wrote: »
    According to the 2001 census, around 850,000 people in Britain were born in Ireland. So it is fair to assume those 850,000 found things better enough on that side of the border to sacrifice leaving their homeland, friends and family.

    After suffering ethnic cleansing from their homeland as a direct consequence of centuries of British rule


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  • #22
    Marengo
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    janfebmar wrote: »
    Decades of mass emigration to England followed, with church sex abuse, Magdalene laundries, discrimination, babies in unmarked graves etc rife here.

    All true but why do people always look at the negatives.

    Democracy established. No left or right wing dictatorships. 70 years of peace in the 26 counties. Problems and poverty but overall a country with a strong middle class and a first world country. Much achievement in sport and the arts.


  • #23
    Church on Tuesday
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Because things were so much better on the other side of the border ?

    Yup.

    Plot twist: it really really wasn't.

    Northern Ireland was pretty dire after partition and would mostly remain so.

    The Republic of Ireland would thrive under the Lemass government and NI largely stagnated.

    Now of course, Irish society was still devoutly religious; the church would exert more and more control over the general populace and subsequent governments would largely facilitate a boom/boost modus operandi but we can still celebrate the many achievements of a Republic as another poster here has pointed out.

    We live in a different age now and that can only be a good thing; when the men and women of 1916 proclaimed a Republic most, if not all, of their ideals failed to come to pass.

    I'd like to think that we now, as a young, progressive and ambitious determined society are more aligned to those ideals, learn from the mistakes of the past and write or own passage in history books to come.


  • #24
    Duckworth_Luas
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    janfebmar wrote: »
    According to the 2001 census, around 850,000 people in Britain were born in Ireland. So it is fair to assume those 850,000 found things better enough on that side of the border to sacrifice leaving their homeland, friends and family.

    So much here was brushed under the carpet. Only yesterday, in the Mother & baby home, Cork: only 64 of 900-plus baby graves found.
    Ah look, it's regular rereg gigno/japer/maryishere back after another ban. A one subject poster, with that subject being to vilify Ireland and glorify his beloved Britannia.

    Even if that figure was true, and given your posting history I doubt it, by 2013 only 400K Irish born people lived in Britain, with 300K British born people living in Ireland.

    So a far higher born proportion of the Irish population are British in origin than the other way around.

    So by your logic Ireland is a better place to live then.


  • #25
    markodaly
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    A very mixed legacy to say the least. Some goods things to be said, but also many bad things as well.


  • #26
    refusetolose
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    i see they're celebrating it well in Creggan tonight


  • #27
    refusetolose
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    https://twitter.com/AMMGMedia/status/1119021379997917187


  • #28
    refusetolose
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    dont know how true this is

    https://twitter.com/EmilieHagan52/status/1119021860300251141


  • #29
    Church on Tuesday
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    refusetolose wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/AMMGMedia/status/1119021379997917187

    If that is true, then that is unbelievably sad.

    The repercussions of a very complicated history.


  • #30
    refusetolose
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    https://twitter.com/PSNIDCSDistrict/status/1119023697594068992


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  • #31
    expectationlost
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    https://twitter.com/LeonaONeill1/status/1119027003854868481


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