Singing in.
The wind that shakes the barley is a classic movie too. (There’s a 1916 movie being made for next year)
Fao @Rocko can we get a IRA/RA/Republican prefix please? This board should have had one long ago.
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IN, Up the Ra:pint:
Vol. Distended Tóin Rua anseo.
Here’s some wock and woll as gaeilge that Pearse and Clarke would have loved.
My little leg-eens can’t stay still during this one.
Get out and get some sun, you fucking layabout.
in, the I , the I
In. From Brian Boruma to Mairead Farrell.
I walked to tesco earlier to get food for my tea. I had chicken filled with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon with an assortment of veg on the side. I’m having a yellow snack now with a cuppa coffee… i.e your staple republican dinner.
In.
I’d say if the Volunteers had come calling for you back in the day you would have been too busy, going for a chinese with your ma or whatever the equivalent was in those days.
Good one. The fact that I look after the women in my life would have been greatly admired by the movement, particularly by the brave women of Cumman na mban.
Signing in
Where on that map was the Irish Rugby Football Union regiment of the British Army stationed?
I’m in.
West Limerick represented by Cpt Con Colbert (F Company, 4th Bat)
Up Victor, up Queensland, but most importantly, up the Raaaa
http://www.irishecho.com.au/2015/04/06/ipswich-street-named-after-hunger-striker/34030
An Irish-born councillor in the Queensland town of Ipswich has defended naming a local street after IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, who died in the Maze prison in 1981.
Under Queensland state law, councils have the right to name streets in newly built divisions.
Victor Attwood was born in Dublin in 1956 and moved to Australia with his family a decade later. When he became a councillor for division three in Ipswich, he had to provide street names for a new subdivision in Collingwood Park.
One of these is Sands Court.
“You often get developers coming in who want streets named particular ways but I never let them,” Mr Attwood told the Irish Echo.
“I name the streets after who I want, rather than after trees or bushes or flowers or whatever they want.
“When I picked that name, I deliberately picked him because I knew he was the most famous of the hunger strikers, particularly in Australia.
http://www.irishecho.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sandscourt-300x241.jpg“I thought ‘Will I get some pushback on this; will I get a lot of people complaining?’ but I never have. But I don’t think a lot of people realise who the street is called after … I just wanted to show people that the whole thing took over 700 years of fighting for … freedom,” said Mr Attwood.
Sands Court is not the only street in the subdivision that is named after an Irish person.
There is also Tone Drive (after rebel hero Wolfe Tone), De Valera St (Eamon De Valera), Collins St (Michael Collins), Macswiney St (Terence MacSwiney, who died while on hunger strike in Brixton prison in 1920), and Guerin Court (after journalist Veronica Guerin who was killed by Dublin criminals in 1996).
Mr Attwood has a deep interest in Irish history. “If anyone ever said anything to me I’d just tell them ‘go read your history’,” he said.
“I really admire Collins. If he hadn’t been murdered he would have made sure the terms of the partition agreement were upheld, rather than just ignored, as happened in the North.
“I always liked what Roger Casement did, and even Wolfe Tone back in the 1798 Rebellion. I liked reading about Brian Boru when I was a kid and I liked reading about the Rising. Some family members were involved in the War of Independence and then the Civil War,” said Mr Attwood.
He says Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams got a warm reception in Brisbane in 1999.
“When the peace negotiations were on, Jim Soorley, who was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, hosted a reception for Adams and you couldn’t scratch yourself there was that many people there all wanting to meet him and shake his hand and tell him to keep up the fight,” said Mr Attwood.
[QUOTE=“Chucks Nwoko, post: 1118972, member: 2812”]Up Victor, up Queensland, but most importantly, up the Raaaa
http://www.irishecho.com.au/2015/04/06/ipswich-street-named-after-hunger-striker/34030
An Irish-born councillor in the Queensland town of Ipswich has defended naming a local street after IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, who died in the Maze prison in 1981.
Under Queensland state law, councils have the right to name streets in newly built divisions.
Victor Attwood was born in Dublin in 1956 and moved to Australia with his family a decade later. When he became a councillor for division three in Ipswich, he had to provide street names for a new subdivision in Collingwood Park.
One of these is Sands Court.
“You often get developers coming in who want streets named particular ways but I never let them,” Mr Attwood told the Irish Echo.
“I name the streets after who I want, rather than after trees or bushes or flowers or whatever they want.
“When I picked that name, I deliberately picked him because I knew he was the most famous of the hunger strikers, particularly in Australia.
http://www.irishecho.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sandscourt-300x241.jpg“I thought ‘Will I get some pushback on this; will I get a lot of people complaining?’ but I never have. But I don’t think a lot of people realise who the street is called after … I just wanted to show people that the whole thing took over 700 years of fighting for … freedom,” said Mr Attwood.
Sands Court is not the only street in the subdivision that is named after an Irish person.
There is also Tone Drive (after rebel hero Wolfe Tone), De Valera St (Eamon De Valera), Collins St (Michael Collins), Macswiney St (Terence MacSwiney, who died while on hunger strike in Brixton prison in 1920), and Guerin Court (after journalist Veronica Guerin who was killed by Dublin criminals in 1996).
Mr Attwood has a deep interest in Irish history. “If anyone ever said anything to me I’d just tell them ‘go read your history’,” he said.
“I really admire Collins. If he hadn’t been murdered he would have made sure the terms of the partition agreement were upheld, rather than just ignored, as happened in the North.
“I always liked what Roger Casement did, and even Wolfe Tone back in the 1798 Rebellion. I liked reading about Brian Boru when I was a kid and I liked reading about the Rising. Some family members were involved in the War of Independence and then the Civil War,” said Mr Attwood.
He says Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams got a warm reception in Brisbane in 1999.
“When the peace negotiations were on, Jim Soorley, who was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, hosted a reception for Adams and you couldn’t scratch yourself there was that many people there all wanting to meet him and shake his hand and tell him to keep up the fight,” said Mr Attwood.[/QUOTE]
i shook his hands in 99 in that reception
good old surley sorley
It almost reads like a Waterford Whispers article with it’s questionable quotes (Mr Attwood has a deep interest in Irish history. “If anyone ever said anything to me I’d just tell them ‘go read your history’,” he said.).
I’d love to meet Victor. I bet he’s a complete roaster.
[QUOTE=“Chucks Nwoko, post: 1118972, member: 2812”]Up Victor, up Queensland, but most importantly, up the Raaaa
http://www.irishecho.com.au/2015/04/06/ipswich-street-named-after-hunger-striker/34030
An Irish-born councillor in the Queensland town of Ipswich has defended naming a local street after IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, who died in the Maze prison in 1981.
Under Queensland state law, councils have the right to name streets in newly built divisions.
Victor Attwood was born in Dublin in 1956 and moved to Australia with his family a decade later. When he became a councillor for division three in Ipswich, he had to provide street names for a new subdivision in Collingwood Park.
One of these is Sands Court.
“You often get developers coming in who want streets named particular ways but I never let them,” Mr Attwood told the Irish Echo.
“I name the streets after who I want, rather than after trees or bushes or flowers or whatever they want.
“When I picked that name, I deliberately picked him because I knew he was the most famous of the hunger strikers, particularly in Australia.
http://www.irishecho.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sandscourt-300x241.jpg“I thought ‘Will I get some pushback on this; will I get a lot of people complaining?’ but I never have. But I don’t think a lot of people realise who the street is called after … I just wanted to show people that the whole thing took over 700 years of fighting for … freedom,” said Mr Attwood.
Sands Court is not the only street in the subdivision that is named after an Irish person.
There is also Tone Drive (after rebel hero Wolfe Tone), De Valera St (Eamon De Valera), Collins St (Michael Collins), Macswiney St (Terence MacSwiney, who died while on hunger strike in Brixton prison in 1920), and Guerin Court (after journalist Veronica Guerin who was killed by Dublin criminals in 1996).
Mr Attwood has a deep interest in Irish history. “If anyone ever said anything to me I’d just tell them ‘go read your history’,” he said.
“I really admire Collins. If he hadn’t been murdered he would have made sure the terms of the partition agreement were upheld, rather than just ignored, as happened in the North.
“I always liked what Roger Casement did, and even Wolfe Tone back in the 1798 Rebellion. I liked reading about Brian Boru when I was a kid and I liked reading about the Rising. Some family members were involved in the War of Independence and then the Civil War,” said Mr Attwood.
He says Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams got a warm reception in Brisbane in 1999.
“When the peace negotiations were on, Jim Soorley, who was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, hosted a reception for Adams and you couldn’t scratch yourself there was that many people there all wanting to meet him and shake his hand and tell him to keep up the fight,” said Mr Attwood.[/QUOTE]
Them Aussie cunts wouldnt understand fighting for freedom, they couldnt even vote for it.
they are more free than we are