tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post2019202760576555855..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: Reflections … And Memories ArisingAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-61201107696951315512019-04-17T15:51:35.865+01:002019-04-17T15:51:35.865+01:00Wolfe tone, there are better teachers than me on t...Wolfe tone, there are better teachers than me on this blog. I got educated by accident. One Thursday evening in the leafy suburbs in 2006 <a href="http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu:81/" rel="nofollow"> I discovered a blanket</a> that kept me warm. I would go and print reams of paper re-educating myself, I would read Anthony's thoughts, Tommy McKearney, Tommy Goram...Brendan Hughes, Billy frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-65373482229010541482019-04-16T20:45:30.719+01:002019-04-16T20:45:30.719+01:00Frankie, every day is a school day with you and I ...Frankie, every day is a school day with you and I mean that as a compliment.Wolfe tonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240967708414139476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-87086896109837531192019-04-15T20:36:08.458+01:002019-04-15T20:36:08.458+01:00Barry,
A few day's ago you mentioned you watc...Barry,<br /><br />A few day's ago you mentioned you watched a BBC Four documentary on the British skiffle craze..I haven't watched it yet, I will, although I doubt I will learn anything new, I have been a Rockabilly and listening to Skiffle since I have been 6/7 yrs old (when first heard Hank Williams). If you liked what you heard, check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-25883420053139880802019-04-13T16:31:35.416+01:002019-04-13T16:31:35.416+01:00Hj/Anthony,
How I ended up back on the island and...Hj/Anthony,<br /><br />How I ended up back on the island and ended up living on the Sandy Row isn't complicated. It was July 2016 and I was sitting in a McD's in Birmingham having a coffee (close to 11am). I don't take my laptop out, unless there is a good reason like going to a friends to stream a match and theirs is down. For what ever reason I had it with me and I took a 2p piece frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-90695906522132323712019-04-13T15:55:38.117+01:002019-04-13T15:55:38.117+01:00Frankie
Enjoyed Bill Bragg's docu on the orig...Frankie<br /><br />Enjoyed Bill Bragg's docu on the origins of skiffle on BBC4 last night.Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-52637742092163744702019-04-13T08:47:28.953+01:002019-04-13T08:47:28.953+01:00Frankie - things have been a bit fucked up for you...Frankie - things have been a bit fucked up for you lately. That is not good to hear. Hope it picks up. The vignettes are brilliantly told and insightful. They make for good stories in their own right. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-83392741186261385992019-04-13T07:12:09.673+01:002019-04-13T07:12:09.673+01:00Frankie,
didn't realise you'd been throug...Frankie,<br /><br />didn't realise you'd been through such challenging times of late. Heartened though to hear there were kind & decent people who had your back.<br /><br />(Some of those experiences might make for an interesting article?)Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-52662370814183596622019-04-12T11:09:23.147+01:002019-04-12T11:09:23.147+01:00Barry..
The McDonald piece talks about how the pe...Barry..<br /><br />The McDonald piece talks about how the perception of ethnic cleansing is just that a perception. “<i>and relatives believe, rightly or wrongly, that they were targeted so that they could be driven off the land in the spirit of the Defenders rather than Tone</i><br /><br />The other day when you mention about how I would feel being called a Fenian Bastard.. The woman who frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-38876510499269298482019-04-12T11:06:27.578+01:002019-04-12T11:06:27.578+01:00Hj/
Henry it was O'Grady. My mistake. My old ...Hj/<br /><br />Henry it was O'Grady. My mistake. My old boss (Wexford head) would have put Del Boy and Arfur Daley to shame in the wheelin' and dealin' department. He had the French jumping through hoops, last I heard he went back to the island around 2003/04.. The New Lodge head got framed/set up on a false charge of having a pistol in suspicious circumstances and spent a bit of frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-66006199127489456452019-04-10T22:24:24.817+01:002019-04-10T22:24:24.817+01:00AM/Frankie,
Thanks. I guess we all are learning s...AM/Frankie,<br /><br />Thanks. I guess we all are learning something new about the conflict as days stretch into decades.Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-89248125035092951632019-04-10T20:58:19.615+01:002019-04-10T20:58:19.615+01:00Frankie,
there's another account that comes t...Frankie,<br /><br />there's another account that comes to mind, which I heard from a very reliable source, about Dominic; as a young volunteer himself and a comrade entered a RUC man's home with the intention of killing the cop. The policeman on hearing their entry barricaded himself into the bathroom and stripped out of his uniform ... on breaking in the door and finding him now 'outHenry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-29069755129642903942019-04-10T17:38:46.538+01:002019-04-10T17:38:46.538+01:00Barry - I am sure local animosities came into some...Barry - I am sure local animosities came into some of it but that was a particular rather than a general. Victims groups are listened to but they can only give a perspective based on their experience and lack the power or authority to veto a solution. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-42593959552783898562019-04-10T16:26:33.895+01:002019-04-10T16:26:33.895+01:00Henry McDonald has written in Gunsmoke and Mirrors...Henry McDonald has written in Gunsmoke and Mirrors: How the Provos turned Defeat into Victory (I think) that that the Head of PIRA Northern Command on taking over in 1978 (Martin McGuiness most likely) directed that PIRA intensify the killings of part-time UDR and RUC reservists in border areas in Fermanagh and West Tyrone in order to prevent any power-sharing accommodation between the SDLP and Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-23951026245492723072019-04-10T14:46:09.028+01:002019-04-10T14:46:09.028+01:00Steve/Barry..
Steve if I was to ask you for your ...Steve/Barry..<br /><br />Steve if I was to ask you for your perception of either Dominic McGlinchey or Dessie O'Hare..You would tell me “Frankie, O'Hare was ruthless, just ask Don Tidy and McGlinchey was involved in a sectarian murder spree” In late 2000 I was having a pint with my boss, in his bar in the 5th arr. I had just phoned through for a beer delivery for a bar in the 6th, he frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-75501773494816393982019-04-10T13:32:52.537+01:002019-04-10T13:32:52.537+01:00Steve,
I wouldn't worry about calling things ...Steve,<br /><br />I wouldn't worry about calling things wrong on a blog, it's not a knee capping offence (yet?). I've had to hold my hands up loads of times because of perceptions I once held. This is an example. I almost got my jaw broke in an Irish bar in Pairs 1994 by a former Blanketman from the New Lodge when I used a line from the forward of The Dirty War by Dillon that Conorfrankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-58189716959230274492019-04-10T06:46:56.909+01:002019-04-10T06:46:56.909+01:00Steve - I guess we all are subject to that and it ...Steve - I guess we all are subject to that and it is never easy to slam the brakes and go into reverse gear so it is admirable that you did so. You set a very good example for the rest to follow: the blog should not be about ego and fear of losing face. We should feel at ease flipping our view when the evidence is not there to support it or contrary evidence comes along. We sometimes have a AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-24470062785033276632019-04-09T23:06:15.268+01:002019-04-09T23:06:15.268+01:00It is a bit rich for somebody who on the pages of ...It is a bit rich for somebody who on the pages of TPQ publicly supported the call by the late journalist Helen Thomas for Jewish Israelis of Eastern European heritage to go back to Poland to be trading accussations of ethnic cleansing.Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-37051212229409842732019-04-09T22:38:10.051+01:002019-04-09T22:38:10.051+01:00AM/Frankie,
I stand corrected, I am wrong. Perhap...AM/Frankie,<br /><br />I stand corrected, I am wrong. Perhaps emotion got the better of my judgement, I now understand and believe you both to be correct and that war crimes not 'ethnic cleansing' is a more accurate description.Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-73305097335428926612019-04-09T19:34:16.434+01:002019-04-09T19:34:16.434+01:00if only - great read - abou the regiments that car...if only - great read - abou the regiments that carried out the pitchfork killingsAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-34402146285610905822019-04-09T18:03:24.375+01:002019-04-09T18:03:24.375+01:00Steve,
Apart from Kingsmill being a war crime, i...Steve,<br /><br /><br />Apart from Kingsmill being a war crime, it made some people have a reality check. <a href="http://www.irishnews.com/news/2016/06/07/news/unionist-react-angrily-to-ira-ethnic-cleansing-plan-550226/" rel="nofollow"> The Irish News </a> reported that the thinking of the IRA in South Armagh just after Kingsmill was...‘ <i>if there was retaliation for Kingsmill then they frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-78427525484264590962019-04-09T17:40:03.826+01:002019-04-09T17:40:03.826+01:00Steve,
My community did perceive actions taken in...Steve,<br /><br /><i>My community did perceive actions taken in remote border areas against fellow Protestants as ethnic cleansing. Whether they were in uniform or not is a quibble that is not in the equation. </i><br /><br /><br />Forget perceptions. We both live on the same rock and grew up in the same city. I have shown you a few clear cut examples of ethnic cleansing. Show me examples of whenfrankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-5964686661089348152019-04-09T11:29:26.670+01:002019-04-09T11:29:26.670+01:00Don't go dropping your guard just yet Wolfe t!...Don't go dropping your guard just yet Wolfe t! (^_^)Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-2670196704540584352019-04-09T11:23:52.389+01:002019-04-09T11:23:52.389+01:00Everton and Liverpool?Everton and Liverpool?Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-58692016685657977412019-04-09T11:22:35.716+01:002019-04-09T11:22:35.716+01:00Steve R says,
"My community did perceive act...Steve R says,<br /><br />"My community did <i><b>perceive</b></i> actions taken in remote border areas against fellow Protestants as ethnic cleansing."<br /><br />Of that <i>perception</i> I have no doubt and I did acknowledge as much in the lead-in to the piece. <br />However, no broad acceptance of those allegations exists outside of sections of those communities. The charge of ethnicHenry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-21329426099678580272019-04-09T06:34:26.431+01:002019-04-09T06:34:26.431+01:00at various points from all three - and many of the...at various points from all three - and many of them said there was a devil. <br /><br />It is intellectually impossible to sustain the ethnic cleansing narrative. As Frankie said there were war crimes.<br /><br />The only evidence you present is that somebody believes something existed. <br />AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.com