Gerry Adams announces intention to step down next year.
Now there is a complex legacy
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
Just take a look at who his enemies were and achieving complexity looks more like grace.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
His enemies number more than just oppressor brits and obstinate unionists, not to understate what Catholics faced.
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
will be weird to have a post-conflict sinn fein leadership. though i feel like adams sticking around as president so long was a bit of a triumph of ego over political nous from him.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
Maybe so
That said I dunno is what SF are for now. Lairy Moo ain't the calibre.
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
aye i suppose that is true.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
there's a new bio of gerry
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n22/owen-bennett-jones/i-only-want-to-keep-my-hand-in
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
Eamonn Mallie is the Irish times northern correspondent and always worth catching his articles on the personalities. Be surprising if he didn't have a few collections or biographies worth checking out
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
He has memoirs due, just checked his site.
His biography on said site is a little smalltime and luvvie, I wouldn't let it out me off
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
Oglaigh na hEireann announces ceasefire
Presumably all ten of them will be concentrating full time on the drug trade now so.
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
so is that the lot then?
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
Oh god no there's another two or three yet
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
yes based on wikipedia real and continuity are still holding out
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link
is that the "real" IRA or is that the "continuity" IRA? or are they the same thing?
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
which that? oglaigh na hEireann, continuity IRA and real IRA are difft orgs w/difft histories/politics etc -- over time there has been personnel overlap and a sense that, if a place in the ideological array is vacated by one of them (or by someone else) another will move to occupy that place
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
but they remain distinct
if you are a nerd with a magnifying glass
Yeah it's an overlapping kaleidoscope
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
as i seem to recall this is the Real IRA splinter group Oglaigh na hEireann, there was/is also a Continuity IRA splinter group that uses the same name. And yes, there have been collaborations and sharing of members for sure.
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
also iirc the Continuity IRA also styles itself Oglaigh na hEireann
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
As does get this the Irish army
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
Kind of like Amon Duul and Amon Duul II.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
... but with less members.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
If I were starting one I'd go with na Fianna I think
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
XP lol but fair
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
i would call my dissident group IRA Classic
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
Mega-IRA
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
i can't believe it's not ourselves alone
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
can't believe there was an actual real ulster ~freedom fighters~
seriously LADS
― infinity (∞), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
Ach those lads don't mind those biys
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
Hey, freedom to annoy the living hell out of everyone, don't knock it.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvamU4v1rjk
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
Never heard of this crew before
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailtir%C3%AD_na_hAis%C3%A9irghe
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
The party wished to create a fascist one-party state ruled by a leader known as a 'Ceannaire'. Aiséirghe promised full employment, an end to emigration (by making it a criminal offence to leave the country), discrimination against Jews and freemasons and the reconquest of Northern Ireland by the massive conscript army. They also promised to make the use of the English language in public illegal after five years in power[8]The party intended for the state to stay out of World War II until the participants were worn out and then emerge as a world leader.[9]
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
The party intended for the state to stay out of World War II until the participants were worn out and then emerge as a world leader.
This is funny though.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
can’t fault their ambition i guess
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
rope-a-doping geopolitics
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
Wait till they're all asleep then we take over.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
if Hitler had got these lads involved in Barbarossa, there would have been some lightening victories alright!
― calzino, Friday, 9 February 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
mainly for the Red Army tbf!
― calzino, Friday, 9 February 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
"Adolf Hitler said that he aimed to arrange the history of Europe for 1,000 years. But we Irish, it is fated for us to co-operate with arranging the affairs of the world for all eternity!"
Nothing wrong with a bit of patriotism, lads.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
Anyone Oliver j was down with could safely be doused lit and left
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Often a vibe offve Irish language fanatics that stinks of these lads and their ilk imo
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
i’ll be honest i’m having trouble squaring ‘become world leader’ with ‘make it illegal to leave the country’ but i’m sure they had it all worked out
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
Oh twas only emigration holding us back the whole time
If we couldve kept them and forced them into military service or labour what a nation might we have forged
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:04 (six years ago) link
ireland in the 40s was definitely held back by not being socially conservative enough and being far too cosmopolitan and outward looking
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
also too many people speaking the old sacs bearla
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
Just a few more million starved, penned and whipped into misery is all we wanted by god
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
The real enemy was the fucking Christian Brothers industrial schools. But obv picking up the slack from a defeated 6th army against a force bigger than your country might seem pretty sensible when your on very strong shrooms, in the pre countrymeters.info era!
― calzino, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (born Gerald Cunningham[1]; 1910–1991) was an Irish far right politician born in Belfast in present-day Northern Ireland.[2]
He originally worked as a tax clerk in the Department of Finance before resigning when refused leave to improve his Irish.[3]
― omar little, Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:07 (six years ago) link