Remember the Hunger-Strikers

[DOD]

As IRY's incessant posting of hunger-strike anniversary related press releases seems to have finally put the mods over the edge. I thought I'd get around it by posting one thread to remember, them seeing as the rest of the anniversaries will occur in the next few weeks. To me, they will always be an inspiration. To those with a different view, fair enough, but please try to be respectful and remember that these threads aren't designed for your benefit.

Rest In Peace

[gako]

As IRY's incessant posting of hunger-strike anniversary related press releases seems to have finally put the mods over the edge. I thought I'd get around it by posting one thread to remember, them seeing as the rest of the anniversaries will occur in the next few weeks. To me, they will always be an inspiration. To those with a different view, fair enough, but please try to be respectful and remember that these threads aren't designed for your benefit.

Rest In Peace

And why would"nt ye.
Familys of these men will be remembering their loved ones. Agree or disagree, they where far from criminals. For anyman to look me in the face, and say a crimial could lay down his life for another criminal, --I say i am sorry for you. The spirit of freedom lives on, thanks in many ways to these mens sacrifices.

[inchicore_republican]

If the hunger strikers were criminals then so was any one that fought English rule in this country over the last 800 years.

[pogon]

As IRY's incessant posting of hunger-strike anniversary related press releases seems to have finally put the mods over the edge. I thought I'd get around it by posting one thread to remember, them seeing as the rest of the anniversaries will occur in the next few weeks. To me, they will always be an inspiration. To those with a different view, fair enough, but please try to be respectful and remember that these threads aren't designed for your benefit.

Rest In Peace

In order for there to be some balance on the site we also need threads to remember the many brave protestant paramilitaries who gave their lives for Ulster.

I hope posters on the site will be respectful to their memory.

[Clanrickard]

. Agree or disagree, they where far from criminals. .

They were criminals. All were convicted and setenced. Whatever you think about their hunger strike lets not pretend that they were bastions of morality.

[rockyracoon]

As IRY's incessant posting of hunger-strike anniversary related press releases seems to have finally put the mods over the edge. I thought I'd get around it by posting one thread to remember, them seeing as the rest of the anniversaries will occur in the next few weeks. To me, they will always be an inspiration. To those with a different view, fair enough, but please try to be respectful and remember that these threads aren't designed for your benefit.

Rest In Peace

In order for there to be some balance on the site we also need threads to remember the many brave protestant paramilitaries who gave their lives for Ulster.

I hope posters on the site will be respectful to their memory.

Pogon, the times, they are a changing. I have agree with you on this. Given your previous posts, I never thought I would agree with you on anything. While it is hard for many to contenance giving respect to those who were perceived as enemies, it's about time we actually achieved a level of maturity about this topic and others instead of paying lip service to maturity.

I can give my respect to any person who stands by what they believe. (Although I won't be contributing to a thread on Loyalism/Unionism in such a vein.) Violence in war or any other sphere of human activity is hard to condone and it is never pretty whether considered justified or unjustified. Every conflict has two or more sides and we would be better off trying to understand each other rather than continuing to set the grounds for further conflicts.

So, good luck if you decided to post such a thread, and I hope that posters will give it due consideration and reply in a mature manner. (I already could write posts, almost word for word, from some posters on this site. But you never know. Maybe maturity will break out unexpectedly.)

[rockyracoon]

. Agree or disagree, they where far from criminals. .

They were criminals. All were convicted and setenced. Whatever you think about their hunger strike lets not pretend that they were bastions of morality.

Thanks maggie. But you're not going to be able to write your own history so easily. (What was it Churchill said? He knew history would shine a favourable light on him because he intended to write the history book.) Whatever, one may think about the Hunger-Strikers, they very reason d'etre was to oppose the laws of those whom they percieved to be oppressors. The british knew full well that those they were fighting were opposed to their laws and responded by bringing in the most repressive and draconian "laws" in the world to further oppress the Hunger-Strikers and any who opposed british rule. A british solution to a british problem.

[pogon]

Remember Yvonne Dunlop.

Murdered by Thomas McElwee, October 8th, 1976.

Yvonne Dunlop was burned to death in an incendiary explosion in her shop in Ballymeena, Alley Katz boutique.

Unlike McElwee, no photograph can be found online.

Could anyone come up with one?

I'd be interested in how those eulogising the hunger strikers justify her being burned alive.

[Lomansney]

Annual H-Block Hunger Strike Commemoration
Bundoran, Donegal
Saturday, August 30

Assemble east end at 3 pm

Main speakers:
Dan Hoban
Micheal og Lavelle

[rockyracoon]

Remember Yvonne Dunlop. . .

How about you show a level of maturity. Start you're own thread as you said you were going to do. Or was that just an excuse to give yourself justification for a series of rants?