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Why would an Irish person wear a poppy ?

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  • #1052
    sparksfly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭sparksfly


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Would never wear one, it's a British tradition, not an Irish one.

    Other countries including Britain honour Irish traditions, cant see a problem.


  • #1053
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Gas characters , our Number One Band.

    24/12/1998

    "On November 11, in the Belgian village of Messines, a bloody battlefield of World War 1, the Irish State formally honored the quarter of a million Irish who served - and the 50,000 who died - in the British forces. A monument was unveiled by the Irish President, Mrs. McAleese, in the presence of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the king and queen of Belgium. "The Irish Times" wrote, "In the village square the pipers of the band of the Royal Irish Regiment, once the Ulster Defence Regiment so detested by nationalists, swapped tunes with the Army Number One band with which it had merged for the occasion."


  • #1054
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,401 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    sparksfly wrote: »
    Other countries including Britain honour Irish traditions, cant see a problem.


    Sure wear one then if you want to but I won't be and wouldn't support anyone collecting for it either.


  • #1055
    whatsthetime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭whatsthetime


    I would not wear one even if in England.


  • #1056
    The Idyl Race
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭The Idyl Race


    gurramok wrote: »



    Is that a denial, sidestep or what?

    No, I'm calling you an unreliable source as to what the RBL in the Republic of Ireland does with its money.


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  • #1057
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,539 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    sparksfly wrote: »
    Other countries including Britain honour Irish traditions,
    yeah, traditions. not giving money to or remembering murderers, world wars 1 and 2 aside money raised does go to those who were involved in recent conflicts who deserve nothing from us, let their own look after them.
    sparksfly wrote: »
    cant see a problem.
    well the fact that the money raised is going to murderers from either britains current conflicts or those who murdered irish people in the name of (queen and country) is rather a big problem i would suggest.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #1058
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    end of the road wrote: »
    yeah, traditions. not giving money to or remembering murderers, world wars 1 and 2 aside money raised does go to those who were involved in recent conflicts who deserve nothing from us, let their own look after them.

    well the fact that the money raised is going to murderers from either britains current conflicts or those who murdered irish people in the name of (queen and country) is rather a big problem i would suggest.

    do you wear the Lilly?

    I am still waiting for someone to tell me how they would define James McCormick and Peter Barnes.


  • #1059
    Border-Rat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 921 ✭✭✭Border-Rat


    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    No, I doubt if any of it goes to to pira,cira,rira,inla,uvf,uff,rhc.:mad:

    British terrorists instigated that conflict, then proceeded to kill the majority of civilians in it. Yet you support them. :rolleyes:


  • #1060
    An Coilean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭An Coilean


    summerskin wrote: »
    Ah but we won. That's what matters. Funny how people praise Russia for using the same policy in ww2 but criticise the British...

    Ya, Funny how defending your own country is seen in a different light to invading someone elses for nothing more than to satisfy imperalist expansionism.

    In the Boer war, who played the role of Russia and who the Nazies in your little analogy again?


  • #1061
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Border-Rat wrote: »
    British terrorists instigated that conflict, then proceeded to kill the majority of civilians in it. Yet you support them. :rolleyes:

    Not according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles


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  • #1062
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    An Coilean wrote: »
    Ya, Funny how defending your own country is seen in a different light to invading someone elses for nothing more than to satisfy imperalist expansionism.

    In the Boer war, who played the role of Russia and who the Nazies in your little analogy again?

    The Boers were the Nazis, the British the Russians?

    I'm not too sure that is a good analogy. Despite the sympathy they are entitled to due to the brutal tactics used by the military, the Boers weren't exactly missionaries and, in case you hadn't noticed, were colonialists themselves.

    It was, after all, the Boers who went on to invent Apartheid.

    As I said in an earlier thread, most of Britain's wars were against the French, Spanish and other imperial nations, relatively few were actually against the natives of the countries they colonised.

    It is interesting to read about how the various european empires came about, it wasn't just a bunch of nasty europeans invading and enslaving the locals (well, it was in the case of the Spanish) a lot of it was about trade and treaties.


  • #1063
    The Idyl Race
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭The Idyl Race


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Not according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles

    Damn you and your pesky facts! :D


  • #1064
    Lelantos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Lelantos


    Fratton Fred wrote: »

    do you wear the Lilly?

    I am still waiting for someone to tell me how they would define James McCormick and Peter Barnes.
    Peter Barnes was a half decent winger with City, dunno who McCormick played with ;)


  • #1065
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Lelantos wrote: »
    Peter Barnes was a half decent winger with City, dunno who McCormick played with ;)

    I remember him. He used to "Bomb" down the wing :D


  • #1066
    billybudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    How do you define James McCormick and Peter Barnes?


    As members of the IRA, whats your point?


  • #1067
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    billybudd wrote: »


    As members of the IRA, whats your point?

    They killed innocent people. Are they not murderers?


  • #1068
    billybudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They killed innocent people. Are they not murderers?


    The IRA where never the official army of Ireland.


  • #1069
    The Idyl Race
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭The Idyl Race


    Today is the 25th anniversary of the Poppy Day bombing in Enniskillen: the ultimate expression by some republicans of their hatred of the wearers of the Poppy, but a turning point nonetheless.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/enniskillen_bombing


  • #1070
    Nodin
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They killed innocent people. Are they not murderers?


    Whats that to do with the poppy?


  • #1071
    Rascasse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭Rascasse


    The Idyl Race wrote: »
    Today is the 25th anniversary of the Poppy Day bombing in Enniskillen: the ultimate expression by some republicans of their hatred of the wearers of the Poppy, but a turning point nonetheless.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/enniskillen_bombing

    Or just a good time and place to blow up some protestants 'for Ireland'.


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  • #1072
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    Nodin wrote: »
    Whats that to do with the poppy?
    ask big ears he will tell you


  • #1073
    Rhinocharge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,348 ✭✭✭Rhinocharge


    thecommietommy wrote: »
    After all it's for a foreign army, I don't see anyone wearing an emblem for the French, American, Spanish army. Ok some say it's for charity for injured British soldiers, but surely if they join up it's up to the British govt to properly look after them when they are injured and not pestering people expecting charity ?

    The question should be why not.
    The red poppy symbolises the blood that was spilt in Flanders & was the seen to be the only flower to grow there afterwards.

    Alot of Irish men fought in the Great War & many did not return. The poppy honours their memory, both those whom returned home & those whom sleep there still.
    The poppy was eventually adopted by the British and Canadian Legions as the symbol of remembrance of World War One and a means of raising funds for disabled veterans. An American war volunteer, Moina Michael, helped establish the symbol in the US where the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion also embraced the Red Poppy tradition.
    http://www.worldwar1.com/heritage/rpoppy.htm


  • #1074
    Our man in Havana
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    Just got a huge poppy for the front of my car. Local reactions should be interesting.


  • #1075
    Lelantos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Lelantos


    Nodin wrote: »


    Whats that to do with the poppy?
    Dara O'Brian is not wearing a poppy on the One Show tonite. Guess there isn't a rule forcing people to wear it on BBC


  • #1076
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    Lelantos wrote: »
    Dara O'Brian is not wearing a poppy on the One Show tonite. Guess there isn't a rule forcing people to wear it on BBC
    now you have upset a few of the usual suspects,


  • #1077
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Border-Rat wrote: »
    British terrorists instigated that conflict, then proceeded to kill the majority of civilians in it. Yet you support them. :rolleyes:
    I'm pretty sure that the IRA killed more Catholics than the british forces did.

    BTW, which colour poppy are we talking about? The white one or the red one?


  • #1078
    Chuck Stone
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    getz wrote: »
    now you have upset a few of the usual suspects,

    It'll be interesting to see if the poppy fascists go ape-**** like they do with Jon Snow for not wearing it on the days leading up to Rem/Day.


  • #1079
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,570 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    I don't wear one but I am very grateful for the British saving Ireland from certain invasion in the Second World War Two.


  • #1080
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Lelantos wrote: »
    Dara O'Brian is not wearing a poppy on the One Show tonite. Guess there isn't a rule forcing people to wear it on BBC


    And you're informing me because..............?


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  • #1081
    Nodin
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    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    Just got a huge poppy for the front of my car. Local reactions should be interesting.


    'the unionist is at it again', more than likely.


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