However when I read the repulsive revisionism of Chris Donnelly this morning I asked myself why are these people so insistent in tarnishing the name of Bobby by dragging it into something no one in their right mind would have given their life for?
To quote Donnelly:
the political and electoral legacy of the hunger strike he led was the 'rise of Sinn Féin, the Anglo-Irish Agreement and political talks that led to the ceasefires.
I take it that the Anglo-Irish Agreement he refers to was the GFA which was in fact the 1973 Sunningdale Agreement repackaged and sold as the GFA.
As for the 'rise of Sinn Féin', who would give their lives so that Sinn Féin would one day replace the SDLP in the North and FF/FG in the South? Which is yet to happen because they've achieved nothing else other than the hope that someday the perfidious British would keep their word on agreeing to a referendum on Irish Unity. Even that couldn't be viewed as an achievement as it had also been contained in the Sunningdale Agreement of 1973.
'Political talks' has to mean the Hume/Adams talks, because if there had been talks with the British then it would have been they who did all the talking and Sinn Féin would have just listened.
Donnelly referred to Bobby as a 'personality from the conflict' (sweet fuck!). Then he claimed that 'only Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams would be viewed by the broad Republican community as equals in terms of historical status.'
McGuinness and Adams took a once proud movement, which Bobby loved and died for, from his Republican socialist ideals to fawning over the most repugnant aspect of British imperialism, the British Royals, attending the coronation of the British King, who still claims sovereignty over the northern six counties of our country and standing in solemn silence at British war commemorations.
Let's not also forget the numerous times they apologised for the actions of the IRA, in particular the assassination of the notorious paedophile Mountbatten.
Sinn Féin would tell us that no one has the right to speak for the dead, yet they go on and brazenly use the dead, such as Bobby Sands, to sell the betrayal of everything those brave men and women died for.
The 32-County Socialist Republic Bobby and his comrades, both inside and outside the prisons, died for is no longer spoken of by Sinn Féiners.
They now speak of this 'New Ireland', which seems to be the anglicisation of 'Éire Nua' and nothing more, as they can't say what this 'New Ireland' actually is.
Sure, don't we know how Unionists feel about anything remotely Irish, in particular the Gaelic language . . .
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Thomas Dixie Elliot is a Derry artist and a former H Block Blanketman. Follow Dixie Elliot on Twitter @IsMise_Dixie |
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