Quote from: T Fearon on April 14, 2016, 03:56:15 PM
This essay could easily have been written by a unionist expressing how he is unloved or not identified with or by real British people.
Semi-related this, but an interesting blog post from 2012 by Darach MacDonald on the feelings of Ulster Protestants who were marooned (similar to how nationalists were in the north) on the southern side of the border post-partition: http://darachmac.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/trapped-by-border-ulster-protestants-in.html
Many of east Donegal's Ulster-Scots community still identify as British, either solely or primarily. Notable members of this community include Basil McCrea, Willie Hay (DUP) and Maurice Devenney.
Quote from: OgraAnDun on April 14, 2016, 03:59:14 PM
Anyone from Ulster or the 6C that gets offended by the term 'Nordie' or 'Northener' needs to catch themselves on and have a look at which part of the country their county lies in. A lot of people consider Cavan/Monaghan/Donegal people as northerners anyway - because Ulster is in the north of the country.
The trouble comes with some gobshites calling you 'British' or (almost as bad) 'Northern Irish'. A lot of these people subscribe to the modern revisionist view of Irish history and are more interested in furthering the cause of a neutered and PC world than educating themselves about the plight of 6 County Catholics and doing something about it. Don't you know that waving flags (apart from rainbow flags) is uncool?
Just to be clear, I wasn't saying it offended me. Just that it made me feel a bit different. Have a read of the entirety of Brolly's piece for some examples of the nastier abuse some northern GAA players have had to endure, and that's from within an overtly-nationalist, 32-county body: http://www.derryjournal.com/news/columnists/brolly-s-bites-north-men-south-men-comrades-all-my-arse-1-3674549
Quote from: Beffs on April 14, 2016, 09:54:01 PM
So what? How often does PR's party pull him up on everything he says?
Gerry Adams made some pretty idiotic comments during the recent election on economic matters. They made him look a right twit. Did his party make a song and dance about them? Did they draw even more attention to them, in their mad rush to repudiate them? Like hell they did. They just ignored them and hoped the fuss would die down in time. As do all political parties, when one of their own does or says something incredibly thick.
Taking one stupid comment of one politician, as being indicative of what 4 million people think, is very narrow minded.
But nobody did that. I was clearly referring to those partitionists who react with hostility or incredulousness to northerners articulating their experiences.