whats your favourite Wolfe Tones song ?

[Meridian]

I probably should have said republicanism but fair point

I wasn't have a pop at you, it's just that way of referring to them seems to be the rage at the moment

 

[Meridian]

Let the people sing.
If you don't like it don't give it attention.

One of the biggest acts ever at EP and it wasn't down to people saying don't listen to them.

Young people are learning their history.
Also young people are now seeing what's going on in Gaza and see the relating to what the Irish people suffered back then.
Some songs are written about people pre troubles and 80's.

There are 2 sides to every story and usually the truth is elsewhere.
It would be best for them to learn that.
Oh and how did that Gaza thing kick off again ?

 

[Stacky]

Let the people sing.
If you don't like it don't give it attention.

One of the biggest acts ever at EP and it wasn't down to people saying don't listen to them.

Young people are learning their history.
Also young people are now seeing what's going on in Gaza and see the relating to what the Irish people suffered back then.
Some songs are written about people pre troubles and 80's.

The Good Friday Agreement settled all of that back in 1998 via consent of people on both sides of the island.

The Middle East has been in wars and turmoil since the time of when Jesus was in short pants.

 

[flyingspud]

I would've said Sean South of Garryowen, but there's one line that grinds my gears..."and the leader was a Limerick man, Sean South of Garryowen".

WTF? It's a verified historical fact that, because South was a great GAA player, he was brought over the border into Cork and played balls in a righteous attempt to usurp the evil empires of Kilkenny and Kerry.

Sean South would have been some craic at parties.
Penned a series of frankly unhinged letters to the papers ranting about Hollywood movies with more than a whiff of anti Semitism, was a full on right wing Catholic religious nutcase even by the standards of the times. If he was alive now, he'd be definitely in the conspiracy theorist camp.

 

[Corkiness]

Sean South would have been some craic at parties.
Penned a series of frankly unhinged letters to the papers ranting about Hollywood movies with more than a whiff of anti Semitism, was a full on right wing Catholic religious nutcase even by the standards of the times. If he was alive now, he'd be definitely in the conspiracy theorist camp.

True. The sad thing about Hollywood is that they're starting to apply diversity quotas at the exact time they're becoming less and less relevant.

Imagine if quotas had been a thing in the Golden Age...a few Jews would've maybe had a chance at the big time. (I'm a dreamer, I know.)

 

[Meridian]

The Good Friday Agreement settled all of that back in 1998 via consent of people on both sides of the island.

The Middle East has been in wars and turmoil since the time of when Jesus was in short pants.

Indeed, except for one shower of republican scum.

 

[Meridian]

Former IRA man in Cavan defends republican lyrics | NorthernSound

Tom McNulkty said those who lived without peace appreciate it the most.

www.northernsound.ie

SF/IRA = Scum.
Wolftones down there with them, as they have benefited financially from terrorism.

 

[El Guapo]

I would've said Sean South of Garryowen, but there's one line that grinds my gears..."and the leader was a Limerick man, Sean South of Garryowen".

WTF? It's a verified historical fact that, because South was a great GAA player, he was brought over the border into Cork and played balls in a righteous attempt to usurp the evil empires of Kilkenny and Kerry.

There is a brilliant TG4 documentary on Sean South.

He was a complete nutter. Absolute religious fanatic. Used to fuck off into the Limerick countryside for weeks on end living off the land and used insist on wearing a kind of Irish kilt that literally nobody else wore like a Scottish kilt without tartan.

He was so bloody Conservative that his hobby was going into the cinema with a torch to break up couples from fondling in the dark.

He quoted fascist writings a lot in his letters and definetly thought "well at least they got the trains running on time", meanwhile the fella who actually led the raid on the RUC barracks was Sean Garland a hardcore Marxist who became leader of the workers party and got involved with the KGB.

you couldn't make it up. two boys must've been like Statler and Waldorf

I don't know if that's on the TG4 player but well worth checking out

 

[flyingspud]

It's true what they say, never meet your heroes.

 

[dukeroyale]

There is a brilliant TG4 documentary on Sean South.

He was a complete nutter. Absolute religious fanatic. Used to fuck off into the Limerick countryside for weeks on end living off the land and used insist on wearing a kind of Irish kilt that literally nobody else wore like a Scottish kilt without tartan.

He was so bloody Conservative that his hobby was going into the cinema with a torch to break up couples from fondling in the dark.

He quoted fascist writings a lot in his letters and definetly thought "well at least they got the trains running on time", meanwhile the fella who actually led the raid on the RUC barracks was Sean Garland a hardcore Marxist who became leader of the workers party and got involved with the KGB.

you couldn't make it up. two boys must've been like Statler and Waldorf

I don't know if that's on the TG4 player but well worth checking out

any idea what that doc is called? would a seán south search on the tg4 player be enough?

i remember reading about him but ultra conservative but the rest of your post makes him out to be completely insane

as an aside, my ex’s dad, a marxist swede, couldn’t wrap his mind around the irish republican (blowing things up for ireland) and the irish nationalist (politicking for ireland) and both aiming for the same result while being completely different ideologies.

we’re a strange breed.