Mickey Rourke's IRA tattoo

Countermoon · 28-01-2009 02:13PM

The_Edge wrote: »

:rolleyes:

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Rourke
2) I captured that from the DVD myself. Same Tattoo can be seen on his arm here. (Although, he may of had it altered since the film, same tattoo non the less)

3) It says "Tiocfaidh ár lá".....it may as well say IRA.

And yes, I do believe Arnold Schwarzenegger is an actual Cyberdyne Systems Model T-101

1) Wikipedia is not proof - it doesn't have a picture or even a quote. It just says "he has one" - I can edit that page and say he doesn't.

2) It's a MOVIE!! This isn't a pic of him out in public with his tattoo - it was a fake tattoo for the MOVIE! A fictional film is not proof of reality.

3) ...but it doesn't say IRA. And it was only for the movie, so it's still irrelevant.

Standard Toaster · 28-01-2009 03:59PM

Jesus, this is getting petty. I couldn't give a ****e what he has tattooed on his arm to be honest.

Countermoon wrote:

1) Wikipedia is not proof - it doesn't have a picture or even a quote. It just says "he has one" - I can edit that page and say he doesn't.

It was the first link I got on Google. Feel free to see the 101 other references to him having an IRA tattoo.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mickey-Rourke

...although he has an IRA symbol tattooed on his left forearm.

http://www.screenrush.co.uk/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=2699.html

He courted controversy by saying he donated part of his salary from 1989's "Francesco" (in which he portrayed St. Francis of Assisi) to the IRA,...

http://www.thechancer.ie/category/mickey-rourke/

Celebrating Mickey Rourke’s Oscar nomination (additional congrats to In Bruges’ Martin Mc Donagh and Best Live Action Short Nominee New Boy) let’s take a moment to remember Mickey’s formidable contribution to Irish cinema - 1987 IRA hitman on the run ‘classic’ A Prayer For The Dying. The Times’ Donald Clarke recently touched upon the matter in an interview with the once and future Pope Of Greenwich Village himself:
In 1987 he played an IRA man in Mike Hodges’s iffy thriller A Prayer for the Dying and began to identify himself with the Provos. It is said that he got an IRA tattoo and that he donated his income from a later film to “the cause”.
“Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,” he says, wagging his head wryly. “I am not talking about that. Hey, I can’t even hear what you are asking me. What’s that? Look, I got carried away in a role. I was immature and got carried away with the research. I was advised not to do it by Richard Harris. He said it would be trouble and I should have listened to him. Look, if I was doing a cowboy and Indian film, I would have researched that. It was just very bad timing. I look back and think: yeah, I should have listened to Richard Harris.”

http://www.showbizireland.com/news/june01/06-rourke01.shtml
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20061105/ai_n16828738
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2009/0109/1231405971958.html

Etc, etc

Countermoon wrote:

2) It's a MOVIE!! This isn't a pic of him out in public with his tattoo - it was a fake tattoo for the MOVIE! A fictional film is not proof of reality.

It is a real tattoo for a fictional film.

Pic

I think even you can tell that's a recent pic of him. You mean to tell me he's still got his 'fake tattoo' on his forearm 20years later??

Countermoon wrote:

3) ...but it doesn't say IRA. And it was only for the movie, so it's still irrelevant.

Who said the tattoo said IRA?? It's an IRA tattoo....a tattoo he had done while shooting a film where he plays an IRA bomber.

He's a gobshíte for getting it and even he admits that when asked.

Uzername123 · 30-01-2009 12:58AM

The old 'The Brits were worst' argument doesn't alleviate any of the abhorrence of the actions of the provos.

US foreign policy towards the middle east is undoubtedly responsible for much of its ills. Does that condone 9/11?

If a high profile actor in hollywood had a symbol of a palestinian militant group tattooed on his or her person they would be harshly criticized. In this case, it was the IRA, which is fine because they're christian, white and western.

S.I.R · 30-01-2009 11:24AM

Uzername123 wrote: »

The old 'The Brits were worst' argument doesn't alleviate any of the abhorrence of the actions of the provos.

US foreign policy towards the middle east is undoubtedly responsible for much of its ills. Does that condone 9/11?

If a high profile actor in hollywood had a symbol of a palestinian militant group tattooed on his or her person they would be harshly criticized. In this case, it was the IRA, which is fine because they're christian, white and western.

high profile ??

he couldn't get a job the last few years after he went off the rails... he got this lucky break now he's god ??

Jasus, theres hope for us all now... Namely myself. :rolleyes:

Davedubh · 31-01-2009 02:18PM

petrochemical wrote: »

The "lack of basic human rights" is a bullsht myth. The catholics and the protestants coexisted peacefully until Bernadette Devlin & co. started spouting hate and creating trouble out of thin air. There was some preference in housing and jobs and some gerrymandering in elections but nothing that couldn't have been resolved peacefully. The IRA are, and were, scumbag gangsters who brutally tortured and murdered countless innocent people, and ruined peoples lives, and all for nothing. And you dare to support them?

Also most Irish were happy to consider themselves British until 1916. Many gladly went off and fought in WW1. Indeed many went in WW2 also, out of a retained loyalty. By 1916 the people of Ireland were considered part of the Empire, and were by no means "immorally enslaved".

**** you,orange ****.

dr.bollocko · 31-01-2009 02:19PM

Davedubh wrote: »

**** you,orange ****.

Banned.

PomBear · 01-09-2009 05:23PM

petrochemical wrote: »

The "lack of basic human rights" is a bullsht myth. The catholics and the protestants coexisted peacefully until Bernadette Devlin & co. started spouting hate and creating trouble out of thin air. There was some preference in housing and jobs and some gerrymandering in elections but nothing that couldn't have been resolved peacefully. The IRA are, and were, scumbag gangsters who brutally tortured and murdered countless innocent people, and ruined peoples lives, and all for nothing. And you dare to support them?

Also most Irish were happy to consider themselves British until 1916. Many gladly went off and fought in WW1. Indeed many went in WW2 also, out of a retained loyalty. By 1916 the people of Ireland were considered part of the Empire, and were by no means "immorally enslaved".

bull**** myth??? Tell that to my 9 year old aunt who died from meningitis from living in absolute squaler of Falls Road during the 60s. What an arrogant non-informed statement. How about the well documented Loyalist and RUC attacks on peaceful civil rights marches such as bloody Sunday?
How about the gerrymandering which was evidently true for a long time in NI? How about internment without trial? How about collusion? How about plastic bullets or mercy kiling from NIs own police force? Many Irish considered themselves Brtitish until 1916? Most Irish people at the time didn't support 1916 for one. Many Irish went to fight in the British Army because there were no jobs elsewhere. They were far from glad when the had to leave their families and risk their lives for a foreign force because there were no jobs elsewhere. Now read a history book or watch a documentary before you make stupid comments again.

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seamus7 · 17-02-2010 02:27PM

How is it that everyone and their granny is a fully suscribed member of the Nelson Mandela fan club, and rightly so, and look upon themselves as lovers and purveyors of freedom yet look down on the irish fight for independece?
The IRA have fought for the same independence, the same freedom, the same equality yet are fleeced as terrorists.
Is it somethine to do with British propoganda?
I was in South Africa in the mid seventies and every night on tv and radio we were subject to the state of affairs in Ireland and how disgraceful the British government treated the freedom fighters of a just cause..yet when I travelled to the UK the media was full of the injust of South Africa. In both countries home news was minimum.
Ireland belongs to the Irish and no matter who or how many try to tell us that it is too difficult a situation to balance. the fact is the fact. Ireland has always been Ireland and belongs to the indigenous - just the same as any country- no matter who invades and stays - and takes over.
South Africa is now, for better or worse, in the hands of the true owners of the beautiful country and Ireland will, eventually,by 'British ' lawful means or by other, be returned to the rightful owners.
tchaidhaid ar la

PomBear wrote: »

bull**** myth??? Tell that to my 9 year old aunt who died from meningitis from living in absolute squaler of Falls Road during the 60s. What an arrogant non-informed statement. How about the well documented Loyalist and RUC attacks on peaceful civil rights marches such as bloody Sunday?
How about the gerrymandering which was evidently true for a long time in NI? How about internment without trial? How about collusion? How about plastic bullets or mercy kiling from NIs own police force? Many Irish considered themselves Brtitish until 1916? Most Irish people at the time didn't support 1916 for one. Many Irish went to fight in the British Army because there were no jobs elsewhere. They were far from glad when the had to leave their families and risk their lives for a foreign force because there were no jobs elsewhere. Now read a history book or watch a documentary before you make stupid comments again.

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WindSock · 17-02-2010 02:33PM

seamus7 wrote: »

tchaidhaid ar la

:eek:

How long does it take to live in a country before you become indigenous?

Darksaga87 · 17-02-2010 02:41PM

Most americans who have irish roots, (IE: thier great grandfather's clock was born in a shed in galway) Belive in the IRA, as they have little to no education about it.

Some nob end added me as a friend on myspce a few years back, because i "was irish and must hate the brits and blow up stuff on a daily basis"... Now this wasnt a kid, it was a 30 year old man who thinks Ireland is worse than Baghdad.

My reply to him was "Do you know what happened in Omagh?"
His lack of a brain promptly began to show "No, what is that?"

That was the end of it......

If your stupid enough to get them letters put onto your un-educated ass, then why not get some Arabic to put along side it too?

seamus7 · 17-02-2010 02:49PM

Mickey Rourke starred in Prayer for the Dying.
During this time he spent months in Eire researching. He knew who the IRA, UDa, UVF etc etc were.
On his admission he states that he understood the complexities but realised that the Irish people were beeing deprived of their native land - he likened this to the atrocities committed by the USA on the native American Indians. On his torso (as on Eric the King) he has a tatoo of a Red Indian chief (not seen in The Wrestler) and on his inner arm he has an IRA tatoo with the message 'tiocfaidh ar la' meaning in Irish 'our day will come'.
The only tatoos missing are of William Wallace, James Connnoly and Nelson Mandela.

sligobhoy67 wrote: »

yes what an idiot for "believing" in a United Irish - sheesh!

kraggy · 17-02-2010 02:56PM

petrochemical wrote: »

The "lack of basic human rights" is a bullsht myth. The catholics and the protestants coexisted peacefully until Bernadette Devlin & co. started spouting hate and creating trouble out of thin air. There was some preference in housing and jobs and some gerrymandering in elections but nothing that couldn't have been resolved peacefully. The IRA are, and were, scumbag gangsters who brutally tortured and murdered countless innocent people, and ruined peoples lives, and all for nothing. And you dare to support them?

Also most Irish were happy to consider themselves British until 1916. Many gladly went off and fought in WW1. Indeed many went in WW2 also, out of a retained loyalty. By 1916 the people of Ireland were considered part of the Empire, and were by no means "immorally enslaved".

You obviously have no clue.

If things were so even in your eyes, then why was our Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, at one stage just 30 minutes away from sending the Irish Army into Derry to help the Catholics?

The Master · 17-02-2010 03:12PM

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Mickey Rourke's IRA tattoo

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