Hamsterchops wrote: » Never heard it called the "hunger' before now! Not in school, not in college, not anywhere. All references on the internet and reference books call it the Irish Famine (the great famine) primarily caused by potato blight...... Maybe it should be officially renamed?
saabsaab wrote: » Nobody knows who killed him and at this stage we probably never will.
corner of hells wrote: » Its fairly well documented who shot hom.
saabsaab wrote: » Denis ‘Sonny’ O’Neill? There is still debate it was him, there are several other theories on this. Would be interesting to see the British Intelligence files on this. Hard to believe he was shot by a fellow Corkman.
Bambi wrote: » Is that a desperate attempt at a subject change I see?
corks finest wrote: » Civil war affected Cork,Kerry and Munster mostly that's why
jippo nolan wrote: » While many were hiding under there beds!
frosty123 wrote: » Really? how about up north GAA clubs naming medals & awards after ex-provos?? And the state funeral a few years back for Donavan Rossa a man who encouraged terrorist acts & methods.
whisky_galore wrote: » What do you mean, reopening wounds? What wounds? Is this going to spark off WOI or Civil War part deux? All survivors of the WOI are long dead. All I note are people who have never been in the WOI or seen real violence in their lives being offended by and for dead people.
tipptom wrote: » The biggest hoax perpetrated on at least half the world was to make idiots believe that native people eventually fighting back in their own country against British invader terrorism were the terrorists. Look to the British for the gold standard in terrorist acts and methods which included using native paid informers and collaborators for their murder machine.
Zebra3 wrote: » Famine means shortage of food. There was no shortage of food.
Strazdas wrote: » No, I'm challenging your 'Irish physical force nationalism = good, anyone on the opposite side to Irish physical force nationalism = bad' mantra. Who were the good guys and bad guys in the Civil War? That was Irish militant nationalism at war with itself and using tactics as vicious as any oppressor.
katiek102010 wrote: » There was only shortage of potatoes, no other food. It was genocide. It cannot be called anything else
DrumSteve wrote: » I think these sort of events are saying to Unionists, look, were willing to commemorate some aspects of the british while they were here. If we want unity, it has to be a two way street with them. I will say, I don't agree with the Tans getting their day out, probably would have drawn the line at the RIC.
Winning_Stroke wrote: » Ara sure, why not. We should have a statue of Johnny Mad Dog Adair on O'Connell street too.
whisky_galore wrote: » Upcoming Civil War commemoration is going to be a far more interesting prospect. Here's a thing about RIC/DMP commemoration, you don't like it, don't go to it. It's that simple.
saabsaab wrote: » There is a villiage I know of that is rumored to have a ghost figure. Said to be a 'Tan' or 'Auxie' that died there and appears near a corner on the way out of the village. Not said to do a lot but stands and stares.
Lefty Bicek wrote: » It isn't that simple. 'Don't like it, therefore object to it in principle' is a much more decent position to take.
Lefty Bicek wrote: » Put a GS uniform on him, no-one know the difference.
