Irish People Poppy Watch

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Tassotti

My great grandfather died at ypres in 1915

RIP. Your grandfather was a hero.

[anon61878697]

I didn’t realize Kilkenny had so many unionists.

[Tassotti]

Great grand Uncle Tassotti, his brother went missing on the Western front in 1916 at 17 year of age, was never seen again. Blown to smithereens

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Tassotti

Great grand Uncle Tassotti, his brother went missing on the Western front in 1916 at 17 year of age, was never seen again. Blown to smithereens

My own grandfather survived.

[Breaking_my_balls]

@anon61878697

Manchester didn’t have lands confiscated from the indigenous people and redistributed to foreigners. Didn’t have their parliament taken from them and moved to another country. There wasn’t a genocide carried out against them. Didn’t lose half its population in a 5 year period. Didn’t have coercive penal laws render on them until the vast majority had nothing but a mudhut and dirt to live on. Didn’t have 300 years of another country trying wipe out their culture, language and religion.

Large chunks of urban Irish may have had a muddled sense of being Irish… But the majority, the country people, they knew what they were. Their songs and their stories reminded them as did the big houses they had to look at every day.

The church, the middle class shopocracy and the gutter snipe politicians might have sold their lot for few crumbs from John Bull. But the ordinary people always remained Irish… In Munster anyway

Hon to fuck, superb internetting. Every word you said there is 100%, unreal from the Mary I History Department. Hon Maura Cronin, Hon Liam Irwin, Hon Deirdre Mac, even that lickspittle Chambers, they made some job of you

[Tassotti]

I was thinking about it last night, trying to imagine the fear, imagining myself at 17 out there, clueless and frightened

[glenshane]

Dammit we’ll free Ireland yet.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Ok , lay off the smithers quips

[Cicero_Dandi]

@GeoffreyBoycott

My own grandfather survived.

Of course he did, he dodged the draft.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Because he dodged

[Breaking_my_balls]

Typical fucking Brits. Itching for a fight until Fritz gives em bags of it and all of a sudden they’re alone and frightened. Tommy didn’t like it up him

[Matty_Hislop]

@anon61878697

Large chunks of urban Irish may have had a muddled sense of being Irish… But the majority, the country people, they knew what they were. Their songs and their stories reminded them as did the big houses they had to look at every day.

The church, the middle class shopocracy and the gutter snipe politicians might have sold their lot for few crumbs from John Bull. But the ordinary people always remained Irish… In Munster anyway

And now the big bad Brits are gone you can worship and grovel at the feet of JP McManus instead.

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Cicero_Dandi

Of course he did, he dodged the draft.

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Because he dodged

Your boss got there first Smithers.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

You left an open goal you woman beater

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Cicero_Dandi

Of course he did, he dodged the draft.

What draft? You need to brush up on your military history.

[Breaking_my_balls]

The Brits are gas. There was a show about Shell Shock on BBC 2 just there, some thick Para telling us how he suffered so badly from PTSD after some battle in the Falklands. Shaking and trembling and crying telling us about how his friend Tommy was blown to bits in front of him by some greasy Argie. FFS…what were ye doing there in the first place ye cunts. They were upset Diego didn’t just fuck off home to Buenos Aires when they landed on.

[glenshane]

@Breaking_my_balls

after some battle in the Falklands.

The Malvinas

[Breaking_my_balls]

I was paraphrasing the Para.

[glenshane]

I suspected as much, important to educate @Tassotti though

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Breaking_my_balls

The Brits are gas. There was a show about Shell Shock on BBC 2 just there, some thick Para telling us how he suffered so badly from PTSD after some battle in the Falklands. Shaking and trembling and crying telling us about how his friend Tommy was blown to bits in front of him by some greasy Argie. FFS…what were ye doing there in the first place ye cunts. They were upset Diego didn’t just fuck off home to Buenos Aires when they landed on.

Liberating British Overseas Territory.