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    Unification is now the elephant in the room; if a referendum is good enough for the English cvunts and our Caledonian colleagues, then we Irish should be permitted our say. A united Ireland is the only sensible option - der kleine Englander economic model cannot function properly without a hard border - and in reality no nationalist Catholic in the six counties could ever again put themselves under the yoke of British injustice and forsake the safety and protection of the ECJ.

    Time to change: the tricolour has to fly over Stormont with the Blue & Gold of the EU.

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    Agreed.

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    Will put this link in a couple of threads i listened to it last night very good documentary .

    Reporting Terror: 50 Years Behind the Headlines
    Archive on 4

    Peter Taylor reflects on his 50 year career reporting terrorism.

    When Peter Taylor stepped nervously onto a plane in 1967, bound for the Middle East, he had no idea it was to be the start of a journalistic mission he would still be pursuing fifty years later.

    BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Reporting Terror: 50 Years Behind the Headlines
    Fascists dress in black and go around telling people what to do, whereas priests... more drink!

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    It must be awful to be Irish. I feel sorry for them

    http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...ss-england.pdf

    The majority of the families who live in cellars are almost everywhere of Irish origin. In short, the Irish have, as Dr. Kay says, discovered the minimum of the necessities of life, and are now making the English workers acquainted with it. Filth and drunkenness, too, they have brought with them. The lack of cleanliness, which is not so injurious in the country, where population is scattered, and which is the Irishman's second nature, becomes terrifying and gravely dangerous through its concentration here in the great cities. The Milesian deposits all garbage and filth before his house door here, as he was accustomed to do at home, and so accumulates the pools and dirt-heaps which disfigure the working- people's quarters and poison the air. He builds a pig-sty against the house wall as he did at home, and if he is prevented from doing this, he lets the pig sleep in the room with himself. This new and unnatural method of cattle-raising in cities is wholly of Irish origin. The Irishman loves his pig as the Arab his horse, with the difference that he sells it when it is fat enough to kill. Otherwise, he eats and sleeps with it, his children play with it, ride upon it, roll in the dirt with it, as any one may see a thousand times repeated in all the great towns of England. The filth and comfortlessness that prevail in the houses themselves it is impossible to describe. The Irishman is unaccustomed to the presence of furniture; a heap of straw, a few rags, utterly beyond use as clothing, suffice for his nightly couch. A piece of wood, a broken chair, an old chest for a table, more he needs not; a tea-kettle, a few pots and dishes, equip his kitchen, which is also his sleeping and living room. When he is in want of fuel, everything combustible within his reach, chairs, door-posts, mouldings, flooring, finds its way up the chimney. Moreover, why should he need much room? At home in his mud-cabin there was only one room for all domestic purposes; more than one room his family does not need in England. So the custom of crowding many persons into a single room, now so universal, has been chiefly implanted by the Irish immigration. And since the poor devil must have one enjoyment, and society has shut him out of all others, he betakes himself to the drinking of spirits. Drink is the only thing which makes the Irishman's life worth having, drink and his cheery care-free temperament; so he revels in drink to the point of the most bestial drunkenness. The southern facile character of the Irishman, his crudity, which places him but little above the savage, his contempt for all humane enjoyments, in which his very crudeness makes him incapable of sharing, his filth and poverty, all favour drunkenness. The temptation is great, he cannot resist it, and so when he has money he gets rid of it down his throat. What else should he do? How can society blame him when it places him in a position in which he almost of necessity becomes a drunkard; when it leaves him to himself, to his savagery?


    .... and they have no respect for sausages.

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    Although you live in Wales, you're English aren't you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT View Post
    Although you live in Wales, you're English aren't you?
    What an awful thing to say about a person ! You are very unkind.

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    Not at all.
    There are many English living in South Wales, escapees.

    Most Welsh people regard the Irish as cousins in the Celtic group of nations, and as a rule, are supportive of them as a people, while you see fit to denigrate them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    Most Welsh people regard the Irish as cousins in the Celtic group of nations, and as a rule, are supportive of them as a people, while you see fit to denigrate them.
    The gentleman who wrote the piece I quoted was German. A certain Mr Friedrich Engels.

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    You liked it enough to quote it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT View Post
    You liked it enough to quote it.
    It is not a question of "liking" rather one of education. Too many on this forum express political views without much knowledge of anything. I felt incapable of discussing politics until I knew what I was talking about and in order to be able to do that I read Marx and Engels. I have read Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book" as well.

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    Engels' rant is as descriptive of Londoners at the time, as his opinions of the immigrant Irish were, who could only "do in Rome" as the poverty stricken Londoners did.

    Bear in mind that the Irish immigrants he saw in England were there as a result of the English engineered potato famine in Ireland, which they saw as a direct result of Irish peasant farming methods rather than English machination.

    Besides, both Engels and Marx were blatant racist and religious bigots, Marx, the son of Jewish parents became anti-Semitic, never having had a job in his life, but was supported by Engels the son of a wealthy German industrialist.

    Although they formulated the beginnings of socialism, they were a pair of elitists, not socialists sharing in the burdens of the masses.
    “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? John 10:34.

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    I am not seeking to promote the views of Friedrich Engels. I am just showing that I am conversant with them.

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    A new round of talks between Northern Ireland's parties has begun in an effort to strike a deal for the restoration of devolved government.

    It is understood that officials from the five main parties met at Stormont Castle to consider the schedule for the next two weeks.
    The parties missed last week's deadline for forming a power-sharing executive.

    The UK and Irish governments want the talks to include regular round-table meetings.
    The two governments have described it as "an intensive process to drive progress".

    Stormont party officials meet to agree talks schedule - BBC News

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    UK and Ireland premiere of Paisley and McGuinness film set for Belfast

    The movie version of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness’s unlikely alliance will have its UK and Ireland premiere in Belfast next month. Actor Timothy Spall who plays Ian Paisley and Colm Meaney who plays Martin McGuinness will be in attendance along with director Nick Hamm to take part in a Q and A following the screening.

    The film is presented by Belfast Film Festival and Movie House Cinemas and will take place on Thursday, May 4 at 7pm. Penned by Ulster writer Colin Bateman, this dramatisation of the events precedes the historic 2006 St Andrews Agreement. The Journey is a fictional account of the negotiations between the two political adversaries that transpired, not in some hallowed hall but, rather, in a minivan traversing the Scottish countryside. The charismatic Meaney and Spall embody these two political figures as real live people, with all their tics and foibles – and show us how these mortal enemies came to see each other’s human sides.










    UK and Ireland premiere of Paisley and McGuinness film set for Belfast - Derry Journal

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    Quote Originally Posted by snakeeyes
    and show us how these mortal enemies came to see each other’s human sides.
    ... and to appreciate that they are both dead and not killing innocent people anymore.

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    Fwkn English twat.

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    I am not English and I suspect that most people are happy knowing that these two murderous men are no longer alive.

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    So who brought the peace process forward in Ireland?

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    Bill Clinton

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    And his cigar...

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    Do I get a prize for correctly answering the question. And for moving this thread forward.

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    Yes , your Irish passport is on it's way ,

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    He's a lucky man.

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