Could we have bared it? I mean could we have bared that lop-sided, I got away with it, smile as he waltzed round the world saying "I'm President of Ireland ye know!" To gob shites who'd bomb a village for a barrel of oil.
Or the thought of him up there on the platform in 2016 as the crowds commemorating the Easter Rising marched past...
Doesn't bare thinking about. I used to say if you think of the worst thing you could imagine doing in any situation the Brits would go one better. Well applying that formula to SF leadership is a futile exercise.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process.
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* A Structural Analysis of Modern Irish Republicanism: 1969-1973, PhD Thesis, Queen's, (1999).
* Modern Irish Republicanism and the Belfast Agreement: Chickens Coming Home to Roost, or Turkeys Celebrating Christmas? in Aspects of the Belfast Agreement, (2001).
* Provisional Republicanism - Internal Politics, Inequities and Modes of Repression in Republicanism in Modern Ireland, (2003).
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Brian,
I would hazard a guess the people realised they already had one Sinn Fein spoof too many.
Brian,
Could we have bared it? I mean could we have bared that lop-sided, I got away with it, smile as he waltzed round the world saying "I'm President of Ireland ye know!" To gob shites who'd bomb a village for a barrel of oil.
Or the thought of him up there on the platform in 2016 as the crowds commemorating the Easter Rising marched past...
I wonder what he'll come out with next though?
Attend Thatchers funeral...
Dixie.
Doesn't bare thinking about. I used to say if you think of the worst thing you could imagine doing in any situation the Brits would go one better. Well applying that formula to SF leadership is a futile exercise.
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