[QUOTE=“Mark Renton, post: 975509, member: 1796”]John Bruton!! - What an absolute mong- Has he ever heard of the I.R.B,the fenians, United Irishmen, the long list of violent agrarian banditti and their revolts! 19th century Ireland was a vacum of violence and ideology…Not to mention ww1, British propaganda and the threat of conscription! What an utter cunt bag… A bad few days for @Young Ned of the Hill
The Easter Rising damaged the Irish psyche and made people more pro-violence, former Irish leader John Bruton has said.
He was speaking in London at a conference on the 1914 Home Rule Act passed by the British houses of parliament but never enacted.
People must consider the damage to the Irish psyche, Bruton said of the Easter Rising.
“If there hadn’t been the introduction of violence into nationalism in that demonstrably dramatic fashion then there wouldn’t have been a Civil War,” Bruton said.
He also slammed Irish Republican hero Patrick Pearse, saying his bent towards violence had later been used to justify the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
“I read what Pearse had said about violence, he praised the Ulster Volunteers (armed loyalists)…saying this was a great day that they were armed. He couldn’t have been more wrong,” Bruton said.
The event was originally meant to be held at the House of Commons Speaker’s residence, but John Bercow refused to allow Sinn Fein saying they had refused to take their seats in the House of Commons.
Michael Collins, General Eoin O’Duffy, General Richard Mulcahy, Kevin O’Higgins and many other FGers who participated in the Rising and War of Independence are probably rolling in their graves at the good of it. Of course John was the man who nearly wet himself with the excitement of being in the same room as Prince Charles all those years ago.
Ps I’d only be interested in sitting there as they are the best seats in the house in centre court, with a free bar I’d imagine. Otherwise I could take or leave it. Twould be an experience though for sure.
Captained the British Lions, has dined with the Queen, he considers Prince William a friend, Royal Box at Wimbledon - he is the quintessential soup taker.
