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Going to try and source that
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Where is the exhibition?
It’s in the Fitzgerald’s park museum, says it in the post,
It would involve visiting Cork and humming de banks as you stroll down the Mardyke
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I will send the juniors so
Sorry boy just saw this, excuse me, Fitzgeralds park ( opposite main gates of UCC, no 8 bus from town
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Get your hands on a copy of this?
Sonny Murray’s account of commanding an I.R.A. company between 1916 - 1921 is very gripping.
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Have a lash off it thanks
One in Fitzgeralds park yes afaik
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This was a great thread
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Was listening to Eamon Funphys podcast today and Disrmaid Ferriter on to talk about the treaty
Ferriter suggested that the general public mood was more pro treaty than politicians debating it, as the close vote demonstrated
Anyone here who is well versed in this time period be able to offer any opinion on Ferriters view
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The average person didn’t want 16. Had little interest in the WOI and were happy to have the Treaty and get on with it. There was no revolution in Ireland. The land question was settled for the rural types and the middle classes built their little empires politically and economically elsewhere.
The Irish are a gutless enough people. The WOI is blown out of proportion… A few counties in Munster and a few culchies in Dublin.
I’d say a straight out vote for independence wouldn’t have got the near unanimous majority we think. Candidates in 1919 were mostly elected unopposed. We would have had a fair few windy cunts like the Scots in recent years.
I’d say it would have lost.
Basically the hurling championship except with guns
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