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Bobby Sands - see Mod Note in OP.

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  • #122
    BloodyBill
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭BloodyBill


    corks finest wrote: »
    This explains a lot,one of his posts I copied and pasted,

    Where does it all stop. I think it's a terrible idea to commemorate. The Kilmichael ambush is on the back and that was a piece of carnage that is still fought over by historians today. Theres Protestants in west Cork with a completely different set of memories and beliefs to the Republican ones. Are we going to commemorate their missing family members from 1920to23

    Why would you copy one of my posts. Why go to the bother.? Its creepy. You're a Republican, I'm not. You dont go and try and win over the audience. I guarantee you the majority on here agree with you. Your facts wouldnt be my facts though. I think the armed Republican movement was a disaster and achieved diddly squat


  • #123
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    BloodyBill wrote: »
    Why would you copy one of my posts. Why go to the bother.? Its creepy. You're a Republican, I'm not. You dont go and try and win over the audience. I guarantee you the majority on here agree with you. Your facts wouldnt be my facts though. I think the armed Republican movement was a disaster and achieved diddly squat

    I'm not arguing or looking for likes ,we each are entitled to our own opinion some from reading books , others from experience , cant all be on the same wavelength, and just let's agree to disagree?
    I like boards and enjoy reading different posts each day, don't want to upset anyone as I'm sure you're the same
    Religion and politics always causes a stir, so let's leave it at that, no need to fall out.


  • #124
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,728 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Better suited to AH, these kinds of tiresome threads generate more heat than light.


  • #125
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Better suited to AH, these kinds of tiresome threads generate more heat than light.

    If you consider"tiresome" I despair, talking about an Irishman who made the supreme sacrifice for his beliefs,were the 1916 executions, Terrence Mcswiney s death's etc also "tiresome,"?
    It's part of our history and anyone irrespective of their politics who purposely gave their life fire a political goal) belief deserves to be remembered,,,,,,,,,,,not be hidden


  • #126
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Better suited to AH, these kinds of tiresome threads generate more heat than light.

    Well go to the AH threads then


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  • #127
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Better suited to AH, these kinds of tiresome threads generate more heat than light.

    Hard to generate light on a sombre, serious part of our history,I suggest,but yes it brings passion to the surface as it's complex,but personally I felt Bobby Sands needed to be remembered,not conveniently forgotten about , guy


  • #128
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    corks finest wrote: »
    Hard to generate light on a sombre, serious part of our history,I suggest,but yes it brings passion to the surface as it's complex,but personally I felt Bobby Sands needed to be remembered,not conveniently forgotten about , guy
    No problem with remembering him the same way we will remember Billy Wright Dominic McGlinchey and all the other gangsters


  • #129
    Fuascailteoir
    Registered Users Posts: 584 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    Edgware wrote: »
    No problem with remembering him the same way we will remember Billy Wright Dominic McGlinchey and all the other gangsters

    That is throwing your lot in with Maggie's failed 1970s policies. A lot of people moved on including Thatcher herself


  • #130
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Fuascailteoir wrote: »
    That is throwing your lot in with Maggie's failed 1970s policies. A lot of people moved on including Thatcher herself

    Dont worry we will remember Maggies pals in the Paras, Black Watch etc also. There was scum on both sides


  • #131
    antgal23
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭antgal23


    Edgware wrote: »
    No problem with remembering him the same way we will remember Billy Wright Dominic McGlinchey and all the other gangsters

    Billy Wright! W da F would we remember him?


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  • #132
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    antgal23 wrote: »
    Billy Wright! W da F would we remember him?
    Remember not commemorate. Same applies to Sands and co


  • #133
    antgal23
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭antgal23


    Edgware wrote: »
    Remember not commemorate. Same applies to Sands and co

    Personal choice

    I remember what Wright did as I lived in the area

    I'll commemorate Bobby Sands for what he believed in


  • #134
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    antgal23 wrote: »
    Personal choice

    I remember what Wright did as I lived in the area

    I'll commemorate Bobby Sands for what he believed in

    Off with you but any dirtbird who plants bombs has done nothing worth commemorating


  • #135
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    antgal23 wrote: »
    Personal choice

    I remember what Wright did as I lived in the area

    I'll commemorate Bobby Sands for what he believed in

    As I always will, and not forgetting Martin Hurson and Patsy O'Hara's anniversaries soon


  • #136
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Edgware wrote: »
    Off with you but any dirtbird who plants bombs has done nothing worth commemorating

    Freedom of every republic worldwide wasn't won by keyboard warriors, who conveniently forget the reason they can comment publicly on any subject they care to,
    Is that people did the dirty work for them first day


  • #137
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    What about those who can be easily identified and thus are reluctant to post in a thread such as this. Anyway, as I'm sick of saying this thread is more suited for AH and if it stays open much longer I for one will be leaving the History & Heritage forum.

    ****



  • #138
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    were the IRA not a pain in the hole to people of the north once they became organised? pushin their weight around in their own communities etc?


  • #139
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,663 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Mod Note:
    As this thread seems to be drifting beyond the History's charter and more into AH/Current affairs the thread will be closed.


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