SF accuses FF of bid to commemorate William the Conqueror

yagan · 21-05-2025 10:23PM

Interestingly to add onto the complexity of trade betwixt Ireland and the rest of Europe the research dig near Rush in Co Dublin is yielding some nice Roman finds in recent days. It feel apt that there's a new container port going in at nearby Bremore head, maybe call it the Roman Port, or Port Europa?

Anyway tis nonsense to kick up about the Normans. I doubt many from the north of the country would be a aware how common Norman surnames are in the southeast. Is everyone called Marshall supposed to cower now?

Besides the Normans married in, unlike the later Tudor and later Cromwellian planters.

Ironically if my reading memory serves me right the roundheads in the English Civil war used the imported Norman heritage of the English throne (yes I know Charles was a Stuart) as an anti monarchy cry!

Irony.

Economics101 · 21-05-2025 10:25PM

You could almost construct a script for a Monty Python film from much of this thread: "What have the Normans ever done for us?"

Grayson · 22-05-2025 06:22AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123472935#Comment_123472935

I think there's a couple of them voting Reform.

paul71 · 22-05-2025 08:10AM

Utterly Bizare, a political party in Ireland criticising another policical party about a French viking who invaded England, yet never set foot or in even thought about Ireland. Dead 80 years before an unrelated Welsh/French viking even set foot on this Ireland. And somehow the bizzare conclusion drawn by some people is an opinion French conqueror of England is anti Irish unity? The desire to find something to be outraged by is comical.

Charles Babbage · 22-05-2025 09:34AM

Why are we supposed to commemorating William the Conqueror anyway? Europe is full of important historical figures who affected countries other than Ireland. Why is James Browne promoting this instead of building houses?

StormForce13 · 22-05-2025 11:42AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123473909#Comment_123473909

Snoddy is the fake news bunny who is claiming that "we" are commemorating William the Bastard. What's actually happing is that "Ireland’s Norman heritage will be celebrated in 2027 as part of a European-wide initiative to celebrate the Normans' impact on Western Civilisation."

As the Irish Times explains - their impact on Irish society is incalculable. Language, laws and the landscape were all transformed by the lads from Normandy - heck they may even have taught Snoddy's ancestors how to play the tin whistle.

Anyone genuinely interested in learning about The Normans rather than swallowing Snoddy's revisionist bilge is urged to watch an outstanding BBC series called The Normans, narrated by Robert Bartlett, which is one of the best documentaries that I have ever seen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Normans_%28TV_series%29