If Collins had lived...

El Siglo wrote: »

Collins is dead, if he was alive he wouldn't have recognised the place. Same goes for DeValera and all of the other old conservative sectarian gools in Glasnevin. Personally, if the actual revolutionaries who tried to found the Irish Republic were still alive, Pearse et al. I think they'd be pretty disgusted with everything. The fact that the only thing that has changed has been the flag and passports, that we're more or less getting fucked over by the same kinds of cunts today as we were in their time.
I'm reminded by the Connolly's famous quote:
“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs”.
Evocative as it might sound and no doubt we'll here the revisionists come in and disregard this as the notions of a romantic socialist terrorist, but Connolly said this over 90 years ago and it still has some resonance today. We only broke economic union with Britain in 1979 and even then we ended up joining the EMU, we're still ruled by bankers, just look at NAMA and the banks guarantee.