Three Irish vets in the British army in 1916 describe their feelings after learning of the Easter Rising.
Easter 1916 Rising - Ireland and the Great War - RT Libraries and Archives
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"I don't think Martin McGuinness necessarily intended to kill anyone while in the IRA." factual
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!
they were hero's one and all and deserve the same respect as those who died in the GPO.Originally Posted by Apple bastard
Be fair. Not everyone got the chance to shoot unarmed cops.
"Our revenge will be the slaughter of their children."
Yes indeed, it is symptomatic of "pathetic cowering" people everywhere to volunteer to fight in one of the greatest wars in human history, and be prepared to do it again if necessary.
You're a gobsh*te, plain and simple.
Martin is completely against Irish people engaging in political violence.
That's why he thinks they should all have been in British uniform on the Western front.
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.
Said upper class tossers could call upon gombeen, knob polishers like yourself who would gladly execute a poor unfortunate for 'cowardice' if ordered.
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.
You truly are a worthless and craven creature, Meyer.
Perhaps foolish or misguided would be better words if they were willing to go through it twice...
To be honest, and I say this as someone who has two granduncles who fought in that stupid war, I'm getting sick of all of this hype about the thing.
The First World War is possibly the greatest example of a war that should have been avoided, a war that was fought for all the wrong reasons and where there was absoolutely no benefit to anyone gained from the result. It was a colossal tragedy and this new fashion for rememberance seems to be ignoring this point.
I'm bracing myself up for the first of two annual orgies of hypocrasy that I have to endure over here. At least the UK and Ireland only have to put up with it once a year.
As the great warrior poet Ice Cube once said, 'if the day does not require an AK, it is good.'
Yet more historical revisionism by RTE and part of the growing "lets join the commonwealth" campaign as I've highlighted in the Derry passport renaming thread
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