RTE Great War series- "1916 was a stab in the back" (media clips)

[Podolski]

Interesting clip.

Shows the calibre of Irishman that did join up to fight in WW1. Pathetic cowering little west brits.

And to think that Mary McAleese thinks that these excuses for Irishmen deserve to be commemorated every year!

Ha!

Many of them were young, naive and idealistic. They were fed flagrant propaganda about the plight of fellow Roman Catholics in little Belgium being brutalised and murdered by the nasty Huns, and their leaders from the Catholic church to John Redmond encouraged them to go on the promise that they were fighting for Home Rule.

This included people like Tom Barry who was in Mesopotamia (Iraq) when he read in a month old newspaper that there had been a rebellion in Dublin. When he returned home he joined the IRA and major role in the struggle for Independence in West Cork. Are you calling Tom Barry and others like him "pathetic cowering little west brits"?

[PaulMeyer]

That statement typifies the problem with right wing, imperialist, military fetishists like you.

The horrendously wasteful, mechanised slaughter of WW1 was neither 'great' nor necessary. It was mostly duped and frightened working classes slaughtering each other on the whims of incompetent upper class tossers.

Do yourself and indeed all of us a favour and buy a big fat fuc*ing dictionary, then look up "Great", you utter, utter plank. Oh, and while you're at the bookshop, assuming you know where one is, invest in a decent history of the "Great" War, one that doesn't pander to the simplistic schoolboy-Marxist stereotypes you're so fond of.

Said upper class tossers could call upon gombeen, knob polishers like yourself who would gladly execute a poor unfortunate for 'cowardice' if ordered.

Got the boxed set of BLackadder Goes Forth for Christmas did you?

WW1 achieved nothing but the laying of the foundations for WW2 and a century of turmoil in the middle east. More 'great' achievements of British foreign policy.

Indeed, WW1 was entirely the fault of the British, I'm surprised anyone else even turned up really. Honestly you're so right! why couldn't the greatest statesmen of Europe see in 1914 what was going to happen a quarter of a century later? I mean it's just so glaringly obvious, to a luminary like yourself anyway!

You truly are a worthless and craven creature, Meyer.

I wonder what you mean by that, no I really do, you seem to speak a variation of English in which words have entirely different meanings to those I'm used to. I've pointed out "great", but what do "Worthless" and "Craven" mean in your dialect then? And how do they apply to me, a person you've never met? Better throw in a thesaurus while you're at it, you need all the help you can get.

[hiberniate]

I was going to post here but Meyer has said it all with his last post.

[merle haggard]

they were hero's one and all and deserve the same respect as those who died in the GPO.

no they wernt . And they deserve the same respect as they showed to the people in the GPO . Damn all , they regarded the rebels as traitorsand made that clear. Hired British lickspittles

[merle haggard]

Many of them were young, naive and idealistic. They were fed flagrant propaganda about the plight of fellow Roman Catholics in little Belgium being brutalised and murdered by the nasty Huns, and their leaders from the Catholic church to John Redmond encouraged them to go on the promise that they were fighting for Home Rule.

This included people like Tom Barry who was in Mesopotamia (Iraq) when he read in a month old newspaper that there had been a rebellion in Dublin. When he returned home he joined the IRA and major role in the struggle for Independence in West Cork. Are you calling Tom Barry and others like him "pathetic cowering little west brits"?

was this the same tom barry who had those giving references for British army recruitment executed ? The same tom barry who was personally leading riots on the streets of dublin against any public display of the poppy in the 20s and 30s?
I think hed have taken the view that those who stuck by the imperial propaganda were exactly that

[Mr Crowley]

Do yourself and indeed all of us a favour and buy a big fat fuc*ing dictionary, then look up "Great", you utter, utter plank. Oh, and while you're at the bookshop, assuming you know where one is, invest in a decent history of the "Great" War, one that doesn't pander to the simplistic schoolboy-Marxist stereotypes you're so fond of.

Calm down Melchie. We know what you meant, you're a right wing militaria, war porn fetishist; an institutionalised British apologist.

You're the type of scum who would have gunned down civilians without question, if ordered. The empire, that you feel duty bound to apologise for was founded and maintained through terror willingly applied by your ilk.

Give me one good reason for the slaughter of millions that occured in WW1.

Got the boxed set of BLackadder Goes Forth for Christmas did you?

That's pathetic Darling.

Indeed, WW1 was entirely the fault of the British, I'm surprised anyone else even turned up really. Honestly you're so right! why couldn't the greatest statesmen of Europe see in 1914 what was going to happen a quarter of a century later? I mean it's just so glaringly obvious, to a luminary like yourself anyway!

I never claimed the war was the fault of the British; it was the aftermath to which I referred. The Versailles Treaty and the Anglo French grasping in the Middle East paved the way for WW2, the holocaust and the turmoil of the middle east. You must be so proud.

I wonder what you mean by that, no I really do, you seem to speak a variation of English in which words have entirely different meanings to those I'm used to. I've pointed out "great", but what do "Worthless" and "Craven" mean in your dialect then? And how do they apply to me, a person you've never met? Better throw in a thesaurus while you're at it, you need all the help you can get.

You are an apologist for British imperialist terror, Melchie. That makes you a craven creature imo; some kind of a wee Gollum mourning the loss of the precious empire. You are worthless in that you have no positive value to humanity. You and your ilk are but a malignant mass of poisoned protoplasm.