tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post9017728868286597525..comments2024-03-28T09:41:55.119+00:00Comments on TPQ: Dropped By DeferralAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-41976301574983119632020-01-12T21:27:24.252+00:002020-01-12T21:27:24.252+00:00North and South it's as the poet WH Auden wrot...North and South it's as the poet WH Auden wrote in The Age of Anxiety (1947): <br /><br /><i>“We would rather be ruined than changed.”</i><br /><br />It's not so much that people fear the unknown it's more, or so it seems, that they fear the loss of the familiar.Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-50157864631094941532020-01-12T19:32:05.716+00:002020-01-12T19:32:05.716+00:00Anthony,
“It is difficult to free fools from the...Anthony, <br /><br />“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” - Voltaire<br />Eoghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944611614493961109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-34264828461531144232020-01-12T16:44:53.592+00:002020-01-12T16:44:53.592+00:00Eoghan, AM,
Billy McKee said something in the sa...Eoghan, AM, <br /><br />Billy McKee said something in the same vein "the whole country needs overhauled with honest men and I don't know where you're going to get them."Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029656112153509987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-4289631218089671252020-01-12T16:41:25.172+00:002020-01-12T16:41:25.172+00:00Eoghan - that is a great quote from O'Malley. ...Eoghan - that is a great quote from O'Malley. <br />Systemic change would seem to be needed but who can we trust to make it?<br />There is nothing in Ireland worth a toss. We don't even have a party that could promote left reformism. The Labour Party are diabolical. And you don't need me to tell you anything about SF. The radical left is fractious and we saw how some of them behaved AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8673764635992620662020-01-12T14:58:19.323+00:002020-01-12T14:58:19.323+00:00Anthony,
I agree the Greens in government turned ...Anthony,<br /><br />I agree the Greens in government turned out to be useless. <br /><br />But what can you do?<br /><br />Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.<br /><br />So, maybe you can’t fight City Hall.<br /><br />You can only shit on the steps and run like hell. <br /><br />And, of course, write the truth as you see it like Mr. O’Malley did:<br /><br />“I have the bad and Eoghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944611614493961109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-66257635051341423642020-01-12T13:15:14.038+00:002020-01-12T13:15:14.038+00:00AM, I understand, sometimes I take things too lite...AM, I understand, sometimes I take things too literally. Should've pondered over the meaning of the word.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029656112153509987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-9118501518965085662020-01-12T13:11:09.467+00:002020-01-12T13:11:09.467+00:00Simon - I meant revolutionaries in the sense of pa...Simon - I meant revolutionaries in the sense of party people. They never succeed. And when they do they immediately start repression. I didn't see Alex or Pepe in the mode of revolutionaries but solid republican activists betrayed by the party revolutionaries who became career men and women. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-45382644758845607122020-01-12T12:04:14.887+00:002020-01-12T12:04:14.887+00:00AM, surely your meant "politicians" as y...AM, surely your meant "politicians" as your final word. The real "revolutionaries" are the ones in the obituaries. Not saying you should agree necessarily with their actions but they were driven by a passion for justice and not selfishness. Their whole being dedicated to an ideology that shuns selfishness. Too many politicians are selfish. The unselfish get neglected. This isnSimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029656112153509987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-57309127503287345902020-01-12T11:53:39.460+00:002020-01-12T11:53:39.460+00:00Simon, the Greens were pretty much useless in gove...Simon, the Greens were pretty much useless in government. Worse than useless even. <br />Fine Gael did some good things with marriage equality and Repeal the 8th and Labour sailed on that Liberal ship to mask its sinking of the traditional left economy boat. But there things had come of time and would have happened anyway unless the Church was in power.<br />The CPI made an interesting statement AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-63709191943089209572020-01-12T09:31:53.026+00:002020-01-12T09:31:53.026+00:00AM, Absolutely. The Greens had so much promise and...AM, Absolutely. The Greens had so much promise and they pissed it all away so people might not believe any party will make a difference. <br /><br />I had just read a few of the annual Quill obituaries and it annoyed me that those mentioned aren't more widely recognised so a bit of despair might have indeed crept in. It came to mind again that some ex-combatants are given top quality PTSD Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029656112153509987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-78802572003395901542020-01-12T08:39:32.486+00:002020-01-12T08:39:32.486+00:00Simon - a sense of weary despair comes through in ...Simon - a sense of weary despair comes through in that comment. Without an opposition that can be believed when it promises to make sweeping changes the status quo will continue. Fine Gael works for too many people, and for those it works for, the people that are failed don't seem to matter. Hope the New Year is good for youAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-74563202678784067662020-01-12T00:24:39.551+00:002020-01-12T00:24:39.551+00:00Commemoration of the RIC is totally up Fine Gael&#...Commemoration of the RIC is totally up Fine Gael's street. Same mindset as that creating the homeless crisis, the health crisis, environmental crises, the fast buck- sink or swim position. It's all anti-citizen.<br /><br />The people voted for them yet can stomach things like landlordism, cronyism, unbearable cost of living in Dublin, an 80 year old homeless woman wandering on O'Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029656112153509987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-59803290535338504942020-01-11T08:31:41.291+00:002020-01-11T08:31:41.291+00:00Or Reserve Police Battalion 101 Or Reserve Police Battalion 101 AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-5587423757698308432020-01-11T08:30:26.161+00:002020-01-11T08:30:26.161+00:00Eoghan thanks for that. It is as false as it is di...Eoghan thanks for that. It is as false as it is dishonest. The English rightly honoured Bert Trautmann but for being a goalkeeper not a member of the Nazi war effort. The Sands suggestions just exposes the lie of it all. The maxim of <b>state what is</b> has to apply. Imagine the Jews commemorating the Kapos on the grounds of their Jewishness but claiming they were only remembering them much likeAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-2091884090242000072020-01-11T08:26:44.091+00:002020-01-11T08:26:44.091+00:00It is not actually. FK, whom I very much like, dra...It is not actually. FK, whom I very much like, draws on an experience far too personal to allow any useful generalisations to be made. If we look through the lens of personal family history, we can justify or excuse anything on the grounds of brother's keeper. The RIC worked in the service of the repressive British state and upheld its writ in Ireland. It was a crucial ally of the Black and AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-21455192155112472062020-01-10T19:39:45.069+00:002020-01-10T19:39:45.069+00:00Niall, or Stormont Nationalists commemorating the ...Niall, or Stormont Nationalists commemorating the SAS. Just wouldn't fit "put that in your Pipe and have a smoke". A measure of their confidence -only over confident. Decent article and a lot of history my younger generation(s) never fathom.kevin o'neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350086677262810323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-82960684862922717272020-01-09T21:47:01.632+00:002020-01-09T21:47:01.632+00:00What a very odd thing to propose.... I can't u...What a very odd thing to propose.... I can't understand the reasoning at all. It is akin to Merkel suggesting commemorating the Gestapo! Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-5466449623235207242020-01-09T00:10:06.983+00:002020-01-09T00:10:06.983+00:00Anthony,
Well stated! Now just for laughs and pub...Anthony,<br /><br />Well stated! Now just for laughs and public theater illumination go make your proposal for the state to remember Bobby Sands in an official commemoration that did not celebrate or condone him. So much for nuance because during the American Civil War brothers fought against each other but who but the most avowed or surreptitious racists would want to pay homage and honor to Eoghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944611614493961109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-87755694984818304412020-01-08T20:41:04.113+00:002020-01-08T20:41:04.113+00:00The best and most naunced writing on this subject ...The best and most naunced writing on this subject is this article by Fearghal Keane who draws on his own (divided) family history from that era.<br /><br />https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fergal-keane-ric-row-threatens-to-drag-us-into-a-dangerous-place-1.4133186Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.com