Them Waherfurd lads love being different
In actual fact bud, there wasn’t a majority for it in terms of % though I’m quite sure that the likes of Fagan has thoughts on the impact of uncontested constituencies.
Some similarities between that vote and the Brexit one in terms of how people view it though. Provos and the likes took their (retrospective) endorsement of 1916 and the future WOI as an absolute because of the 1918 GE. Subsequent elections didn’t matter apparently. It put SF in the slow lane for decades as they were paralyzed into a blinkered view that this was the ultimate expression of democracy, ever. Similarly UK politicians right now are paralyzed by the Brexit vote and it will put Britain into the slow lane for years to come if they don’t cop on.
Limerick West
Elected: Cornelius Collins (Sinn Féin)
Known as Con, he was arrested ahead of the Rising as part of the Aud gun-running.
Elected to the first three Dáils, Collins shares with only one other TD that he contested and was elected in three general elections unopposed by any other candidates.
We’ll vote for any Collins we can get our hand on in West Limerick.
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The result of the democratic vote was a win for an Irish Republic
In the Bureau of Military History papers one of the Waterford SF contributors described Waterford as the most imperialist city on the island after Belfast. It was also staunchly Redmondite, John Redmond having been
MP for the city since 1890. Waterford elected a Redmond until 1952. The elections and by elections in Waterford in 1917 and 1918 were also very violent affairs. Redmonite mobs roamed the city beating up Sinn Feiners and the Volunteers had to be bussed in to try and protect voters and ballot boxes.
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@anon61878697 Any relation to Robert Beasley?
Kerry East
Elected: Piaras Beaslai (Sinn Féin)
He was born Percy Beazley in 1881 in Liverpool. His father was the editor of the Catholic Times and were an old Kerry family of English origin.
He was a journalist and writer of poems, plays and a single novel who knew James Joyce, but he also protested against the Playboy of the Western World.
Beaslai was a member of the Irish Volunteers and was involved in the IRB, fighting in the Four Courts area during the Rising.
He was pro-Treaty during the Civil War and was chosen by Michael Collins’ family to be his biographer.
He had a poem on the leaving cert iirc
Even The Daily Mail journos are starting to see sense.
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Daily Mail proprietors starting to slowly ease themselves away from any responsibility.
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He’s a left winger, always been on the New Labour spectrum.
They changed editor. Dacre is gone and the new guy was actually a Remainer.
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New editor now. Dacre is retired.
My nigger
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Aboy the Xav boy
Seem like an absolute car crash in Brussels today. The EU not giving the Brits an inch (or 2.54cm as we should be saying if we are to truly embrace our inner Europeans).
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I know. Why do you think the proprietors did that???
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Nor should they.
Not an unfair observation.