Plank. You might try using facts. Isn't there a politics.uk for you to bore people with your stupidity? WHy would a brit be on an Irish website talking (out of his arse let it be said) about irish history?Originally Posted by Kalif
After independence most Protestants in the south were made to feel more then unwelcome, some were driven out, most moved north or to the mainland.
As dev said, it was a Catholic country for a Catholic people.
If anyone can find the lyrics in question:
I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums did beat
And the loving English feet they walked all over us
And each and every night when me da' would come home tight
He'd invite the neighbors outside with this chorus
Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra
Come let me hear you tell how you slammed the great Parnell
When you fought them well and truly persecuted
Where are the smears and jeers that you bravely let us hear
When our heros of sixteen were executed
Come tell us how you slew those brave arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows
How you bravely slew each one with your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them poor natives to their marrow
The day is coming fast and the time is here at last
When each yoeman will be cast aside before us
And if there be a need sure my kids will sing God speed
With a verse of two of Steven Beehan's chorus
Because he is a sad loner.Plank. You might try using facts. Isn't there a politics.uk for you to bore people with your stupidity? WHy would a brit be on an Irish website talking (out of his arse let it be said) about irish history?After independence most Protestants in the south were made to feel more then unwelcome, some were driven out, most moved north or to the mainland.
As dev said, it was a Catholic country for a Catholic people.
Thanks everyone for the info.
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Dominic Behan was a prolific and talented song writer (and a good singer too), including the internationally acclaimed "Patriot Game". He also wrote plays and other prose, most notably "Teems of Time". Maybe it was his politics you don't like?
Dominic Behan was a prolific and talented song writer (and a good singer too), including the internationally acclaimed "Patriot Game". He also wrote plays and other prose, most notably "Teems of Time". Maybe it was his politics you don't like?
I said "less talented" not untalented. Actually met him, or rather was in the same company as him, a few times. Irrascible I think is the most apt description! A roaring stickie as I recall.
There is still a Protestant working class, both urban and rural in the Republic, though the information above, particularly in Locke's post is very accurate. There is nothing more I would add to his post.
I was always led to believe that Protestants voted Fine Gael (in rural areas). What about in ubran areas? I am aware of Cllr Trevor Matthews in Dundrum (Fianna Fáil). Labour voters?
Absolute bollocks1After independence most Protestants in the south were made to feel more then unwelcome, some were driven out, most moved north or to the mainland.
As dev said, it was a Catholic country for a Catholic people.
i dread the outcome of these threads...wait for every ugly stereotype to pop up...
for the record the protestant side of my family was (and still is) cork inner city working class. the rc side was (and still is) cork country and wealthly. go figure.
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