What do our Northern brethren think of the 1916 commemorations?

[Rufus T Firefly]

Armagh Harps Social Club was filled to capacity last night to hear the respected historian Dr Eamon Phoenix give a lecture about the background and the events leading up to the Easter Rising. Wonderful presentation and evening. 

[muppet]

Celebrating what? A partitioned island with no sovereignty or independence,the southern part of which is crapping itself in case the country it allegedly gained freedom from,leaves the EU?

Do not see anything to celebrate,mirror image of the Carson Covenant shite a couple of years ago,another glorious failure.Now if these commemorations focussec on the abject legacy failures and charted a way forward then some good might emanate from them

You booked your hotel for Easter 2017 didn't you?

[OgraAnDun]

The men and women who fought and died in 1916 did so for Ireland - Derry and Cork, Dublin and Belfast, Newry and Galway, and every other town, village and townland I haven't named. To ask the 'northern brethren' of their thoughts on the 1916 commemorations (are these 'Northerners' not Irish too?)  is an insult first of all to anyone living north of the border - as if the opinions of someone in Crossmaglen are different to those of someone in Castleblaney - and secondly to the very people the commemorations are about.

[naka]

The celebrations  in the 26 are conveniently forgetting the north,
We are like the  errant brother at the family wedding( hopefully no one mentions him)

[armaghniac]

According to Tony the errant relative isn't too keen in the family anyway, but prefers the blow in crowd.