Who is Ireland's Enemy?

A look at Ireland's history.

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[halsinden]

(continued) so because i was born, by pure happenstance, nearly a century after these troubles in a country not of my chosing - i'm the enemy and deserve hostility?

it's open racism like this that continues the problem. it's sword rattling to this degree that means i have family in belfast who were terrorised because of where & how they were born.

you're solving nothing by posting this sort of rose-scented hatred. congratulations for stopping wounds from healing, on both sides.

so sad.

H

[godbrother10]

@halsinden I resent the moral supperiority that you have taken on and the disgusting accusations that you have labled against me.

I would love to be able to say that the relationship between England and Ireland could be a close and equal one ... but the continued presence of the British State on the Island of Ireland prevents this.

You talk of your loved ones who were "terrorised" in Belfast - well you may well think of the thousands of Irish Nationalists who were terrorised ....

[godbrother10]

(continued) ... in the 6 by the British State. Men and women who were denied the basic democratic rights that the rest of Britain enjoyed.

I dearly wish that it had never had to resort to armed conflict but ... it did ... and it was always going to when peaceful routes were blocked.

You talk of a bomb scare in a central london school - I do not ever recall schools being targetted so this leads to doubts of the validity of your claim - but it was the British state that forced the war ....

[godbrother10]

(continued 2) ... onto the "mainland" ... a bomb in the north meant nothing ... a bomb in london was a "story".

The actions of the Republican movement are parrallel to that of the ANC and other freedom fighters.

I do not appreciate you making me out to be "sword rattler" - I am a dedicated supporter of the peace process - if you'd care to look at my videos you'd see this - I spend much of my time arguing with so-called "dissidents".

I hope you will reevaluate your comments

[halsinden]

@godbrother10 how is it morally superior to feel traumatised by having my life threatened as an 8 year old child? why was a target? what had i done?

my loved ones HAVE been terrorised in belfast. they've been shot at, received death threats, and these (i should add) are minors. schoolkids. none of them had a hand in the history you're dragging up to a point of contemporary blame.

the video you've posted is racist, plain & simple. why can't we work towards peace?

H

[godbrother10]

@halsinden it is morally supeior because you are assuming and making judgments of my character. I work consistantly towards peace - I have no truck with "dissidents" and I am fully behind the Peace Process.

I am not aware of any activity during the conflict in which the Republican movement targetted schools or children - if anything they went to lengths to avoid it

I've had relations terrorised by the British state the British state is still present in Ireland these are truths

[godbrother10]

@doubleduo100 I suggest you look at my video The Great Famine (An Gorta Mor) you'll see that nature may have brought the blight but Britain brought the famine

[IcyIce17]

omg that was so wonderful!!

Amen!

"Go on home british BASTARDS go on home ..HAVE YOU GOT NO FUCKIN HOME OF YOUR OWN??!"

Tiocfaidh bhur la!

♣Éirinn go brách♣

[halsinden]

ah right, well i'm glad that's been cleared up then. that'll be why i (as being a one eighth irish brit) was, with the rest of my few hundred fellow pupils, threatened with a bomb scare in my central london school when i was 8 years old in the 80s. makes perfect sense, you know, since i'd not actually done ANYTHING to the irish nor would i have been humanly capable of because... yep, i was a child. so it justifies the people i knew who died from nailbombs in the same decade - innocent brits.

[savageminstrel]

@doubleduo100 The english did indeed have plenty to do with the famine. They exported food from a country where people were starving, the Irish didnt live on potatoes because the fecking LOVED them, it was all the english left them. The english sat on their hands and refused to help the Irish, claiming "we will do nothing to inhibit the free course of trade"... and let people starve to keep their food prices low. Yet they demanded loyalty from the Irish as if they owed it to them... murderers.

[IAmTheWoodenDoors]

@doubleduo100 That is completely untrue. The Potato famine yes, had nothing to do with England initially, but England continued to export food from Ireland causing two thirds of the island to flee or strave to death. Had it been anywhere in England that had had such a famine they would have recived aid, but the English ignored the starvation of one third of all of Ireland. England tried to make the Irish forget that they were Irish, but failed because at every turn never let them forget.

[IAmTheWoodenDoors]

@doubleduo100 That is completely untrue. The Potato famine yes, had nothing to do with England initially, but England continued to export food from Ireland causing two thirds of the island to flee or strave to death. Had it been anywhere in England that had had such a famine they would have recived aid, but the English ignored the starvation of one third of all of Ireland. England tried to make the Irish forget that they were Irish, but failed because at every turn never let them forget.