1916 Celebrations

[Hardy]

Off topic - Have a few friends from overseas visiting Ireland during Easter week. Is there anything going on in Dublin related to the rising? Obviously taking them to Kilmainham jail.

This seems to be the big one.

List of events here

[T Fearon]

http://www.irishnews.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/2016/03/08/news/absurd-to-ask-any-unionist-to-attend-1916-commemorations-442079/?param=ds12rif76F

Get your mates to read this,to see how farcical it all is,before taking them anywhere!

[Rossfan]

So one eejits writes a letter to a paper and the whole thing has to be cancelled??

[T Fearon]

Cork man,do you dispute the veracity of what he says?

[Saffrongael]

A see Sinn Fein are selling commemorative "bonds" , complete with Bobby Storeys signature 

http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/sinn-fein-hijacking-1916-commemorations-with-sale-of-bonds-34519765.html

[deiseach]

Is Maurice Fitzgerald of Shanbally the same Maurice Fitzgerald of Shanbally who ran in the 2007 general election in Cork South-Central? The same Maurice Fitzgerald who got 30 votes? Even advocates of rate-payers democracy would struggle to conjure up a mandate from that.

[redzone]

What can I expect to see on Easter Sunday if I make a family day out of it

[T Fearon]

Whether he is or isn't the same Maurice,do you dispute what he says in the letter?

[Farrandeelin]

Whether he is or isn't the same Maurice,do you dispute what he says in the letter?

I dispute the Unionists are not dead against a United Ireland bit.

[T Fearon]

And do you think the independence of a part of Ireland has been even moderately well managed since 1916?

[armaghniac]

And do you think the independence of a part of Ireland has been even moderately well managed since 1916?

Yes, it has been moderately well managed.

[Rossfan]

And do you think the independence of a part of Ireland has been even moderately well managed since 1916?

Yes, it has been moderately well managed.

Agreed. No more than that and no worse than France or UK or a string of other Countries.
That floor is always sending letters to the Irish News running down the 26 Cos.
If it's as bad as he says you'd wonder why he still lives in it.

[T Fearon]

Probably for the same reason that thousands of disgruntled nationalists (many of them on this thread) are content to live in the North.

[deiseach]

Whether he is or isn't the same Maurice,do you dispute what he says in the letter?

Apart from the headline part - I'd agree it is absurd to be asking Arlene Foster to be involved in the celebrations - the letter is a farrago of nonsense.

And yes, I said 'celebrations'. An obituary for RB McDowell noted his belief that "the history of Ireland was the history of the British presence". As far as he and his ilk were concerned, there is no Irish nation separate from the other people in these islands. And before the Easter Rising, this would be a valid opinion. After it, it's claptrap. For standing up to the bully who had always maintained a monopoly on violence to maintain its hegemony, the men and women of 1916 should be celebrated.

[Walter Cronc]

Off topic - Have a few friends from overseas visiting Ireland during Easter week. Is there anything going on in Dublin related to the rising? Obviously taking them to Kilmainham jail.

This seems to be the big one.

List of events here

Cheers Hardy