Wesley Dolan.

@1Dunbogue @Muinchille @osheaf01 @aigne_aighne @mysticwond55871 @mooreholmes24 It's an interesting piece of history that is (admittedly) disputed. historyireland.com/leaving-the-co…

@WesleyDolan @Muinchille @osheaf01 @aigne_aighne @mysticwond55871 @mooreholmes24 Drive us out of the commonwealth What's that about?

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬: 𝐀 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 The Easter Rising was a failed terrorist insurgency and it ought to be remembered as such. It was a futile and hopeless insurrection that resulted in disaster, destruction and death for so many involved.  Shamefully, Irish extremists have reinterpreted and exploited the “Rising” to inspire a legacy of Republican blood sacrifice and armed struggle which has plagued this island for over 100 years. The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), responsible for the “Rising,”were far from heroes, saints and role models. They were a small group of socialist elitist fanatics who sought to physically impose their radical ideology on Ireland despite the wishes of a moderate constitutional majority. An example of their marginal status is the fact that over 200,000 Irishmen voluntarily signed up to the British war effort, whereas less than 1,300 took part in the IRB’s infamous insurrection. Which do you think was a greater reflection of Irish society as whole? The “Rising” terrorists misjudged that more Irish men and women would support them in their military campaign as it unfolded. However, the dismal numbers that turned out on Easter Monday, which had originally meant to be Easter Sunday but for the confiscation of imported illegal arms and arrest of Roger Casement on Good Friday, meant that the entire mission was doomed to fail - and fail it did. Within a week the radicals had surrendered and they were imprisoned awaiting trial. The swift, abrupt and fierce response by the British Army generated support for the weaker and amateur insurrectionists. So too did the hasty trial and execution of the main plotters. But ultimately, the “Rising” would sew the seeds for future conflicts in Ireland, including the War of Independence, the Irish Civil War and even the modern Troubles. The truth of the Easter Rising is now substituted for Republican legend and romanticism. The failed insurrectionists are elevated into Irish folklore and memorialised in such a way that reinterprets their radical terrorism as something to be inspired by. Terrorists are now viewed as founding fathers of the state even though an independent Republic would not be realised for over 40 years after the “Rising,” and when it came to pass it would look nothing like the socialist state James Connolly and Patrick Pearse envisaged. Every year at Easter, aspects of Irish society revisit the outdated and irrelevant victim-story which wrongly asserts the British as evil oppressors, while at the same time proclaiming extremists as saint-like revolutionaries.  In a baptism of anti-British hate, new generations are indoctrinated into a divisive, anti-British, victimhood mindset justifying the physical force tradition within Irish Republicanism and providing cover for the heinous, immoral and discriminatory killing sprees that Republican extremists have engaged in for over a century. The Easter Rising should be remembered, not for its success, but for its failure. Not for its romanticism but for its horror. It marks a major moment when the gun was first fired to answer the Irish question at the start of the 20th Century. Its legacy and impact on this island is not one to be proud of. The failed insurrection has been used to justify every IRA terrorist campaign since which have claimed the lives of so many innocent people.  Remember the Easter Rising but remember it for the right reasons.

@Muinchille @osheaf01 @aigne_aighne @mysticwond55871 @mooreholmes24 @1Dunbogue Maybe they are still wary of us because of the old Fenian invasion.

@WesleyDolan @osheaf01 @aigne_aighne @mysticwond55871 @mooreholmes24 @1Dunbogue They certainly do have a class system. The place is like Northern Ireland but with French Catholics and even more rabid secularists. They even have Orange halls.

@Muinchille @osheaf01 @aigne_aighne @mysticwond55871 @mooreholmes24 @1Dunbogue Neither have I but I do know that they helped to drive us out of the Commonwealth.

@WesleyDolan @osheaf01 @aigne_aighne @mysticwond55871 @mooreholmes24 @1Dunbogue That lad has never been to Canada...

@osheaf01 @aigne_aighne @mysticwond55871 @mooreholmes24 @1Dunbogue @Muinchille The idea of a foreign British monarch would be repugnant. I'll take the I.R.A. over that any day of the week.

@WesleyDolan @aigne_aighne @mysticwond55871 @mooreholmes24 @1Dunbogue @Muinchille But had Home Rule been enacted and implemented and, in my counterfactual, we were living in a similar state to Canada - King Charles of Ireland, the Commonwealth - but no class system (there's no equivalent in Canada) - in a United Ireland, would that really be intolerable 4 u?

@Aldamir To be fair, that Milo is always looking for attention like a hyper-active toddler spewing hot takes.

Again Northern Ireland is the future, not the past…

@aigne_aighne I must confess that I did enjoy it at the time. But times change.

@aigne_aighne One is reminded that Linehan's big calling card is Paddywhackery humour that was pitched to a British audience. His disdain for this country seems to be rooted in that mindset.

Why are courts making decisions of what is essentially public policy?

@Darren_Mooney Proof that there was too much TV until the streaming bubble popped.

No, part of the “30 Rock”-esque surrealness of “Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler” is that it ran three seasons and the final season was, in part, a prequel to “V for Vendetta”, a comic that has never been in DC continuity.

making a movie about the Irish war of independence or civil war but with a twist (the twist is it’s not about two brothers)

In 2019, Simon Harris and Co made us completely dependent on international relations for our oil consumption. Again, that was the beginning of the "worsening". Our current predicament is, in no small part, the result of successive government policy

@Muinchille The Late Late really should have ended with Gay's retirement. The fact that it's staggering on is a testament to the stagnant culture of RTÉ.

The orphaned children of Gaybo are back...

@arisroussinos I imagine that Woolf instinctively regarded an Irish Catholic as her social and cultural inferior.

The strange thing in this is that, apart from being the better writer, Joyce was also objectively better educated than Woolf

@fitzfromdublin It needs Sting in a codpiece.

Looked like absolute dogshit

@eoinyk I suspect that Schama is holding a Zionist grudge against Ireland and the Irish.

And he's blocked me. For calling out his nonsense claim

@aigne_aighne Oh dear. The Audrey Hepburn version is better anyway.

@aigne_aighne What was the film?

@Muinchille There is definitely a whiff of Zionist bitterness there.

And where did you last see your marbles, Simon?

@jasonomahony Urquhart pointing out that not Prince Charles has no powerbase once he's been booted off the throne is an entertainingly brutal reality check.

Loved this scene.