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Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the [...] read our review » -
“I loathe Ireland and the Irish.”
In the Irish Times, Brian Cosgrove takes up temporary residence in An Irishman’s Diary in the hope that, with the lifting of European copyright restrictions on James Joyce’s major works, a greater familiarity with Joyce’s ”sometimes ruthless realism” may change the nature of the “annual Edwardian charade” that is Bloomsday. From the Irish Times The devastating cultural effects [...] read our review » -
A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] read our review »
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Flags flying from lamposts are the outward signs of people who are insecure of their identity OR are put there by people who need to justify their non-existance in life. That goes for Union Flags, Ulster Flags, Tricolours or Palestinian flags. The Middle East conflict is very complex and doesn’t need any Uncle Andy or Wee Seamie here to abuse either side and further complicate it. These flags have ruined the Cavehill/Westland Roads and I know people from both communities who don’t want them. Likewise the Irish flag is being flown by some misguided youths in parts of Lurgan & Ballymena as a status symbol. The Union Flag is abused and flaunted by Unionist Councils here as ‘one over on the Taigs’ and please don’t tell me otherwise. The whole scenario is pathetic.
People of one colonist project supporting another. I fail to see what the hoopla is about.
LURIG,
“The Union Flag is abused and flaunted by Unionist Councils here as ‘one over on the Taigs’ and please don’t tell me otherwise. The whole scenario is pathetic.”
“But it’s our culture!” she protested, while reaching for the Petri dish.
And NO flag is better than one or two. Flags create disagreement and animosity. Anyone who needs a flag is an individual in sore need of a life.
“Anyone who needs a flag is an individual in sore need of a life.”
Big Maggie,
What about a pirate flag? My son has a few.
Does he need counselling before this gets out of hand?
Interesting this……..
“According to a 2007 University of Ulster report, Northern Ireland has the highest proportion of bigoted people in the Western world.The statistics show that more than 90 per cent of racist attacks occur in loyalist areas. This is more complex, however, than their avowed identification with a “British” identity. Housing allocation is also a factor.”
But sure is it any wonder when folk of Northern Ireland hold such views as this today……
“When the Ulster-Scots came they planned on settling, but the Gaelic Irish just didn’t want them there, because the Gaelic Irish were sectarian racist bigots. Fortunately in this day and age we don’t have settler problems, we have immigration ones where the poor come and go, all depending on which region within the EU gives the best return for them.
So don’t label Ulster’s settlers in with these EU nomads, bigot!”
Jaypers, Welcome to Northern Ireland……not!
Concerned mother,
“What about a pirate flag? My son has a few.”
Let’s take it one at a time, shall we? A pirate flag is a flag none the less, and should be approached with caution. It’s sometimes referred to as the “Jolly Roger”. Plainly this is a misnomer; often a rogering can be enjoyable—as hubby and I have proven to our satisfaction on many occasions—but sometimes not. The problem arises when your son returns home with Keira Knightley in tow and announces his engagement as a result of a jolly roger. At this point the term “jolly” will take on a whole new meaning, as several MLAs who’ve visited the Caribbean on expenses can attest to.
“My son has a few.”
Don’t they all? Is this every day or at the weekend? Right now I’m having to cope with my eldest grandson having a few of a Friday night. Pretty it is not.
He is only nine….was worried about his affiliation to the “Black PIg” … Racism AND Swine Fever…
Ulster is my homelad-Yes thank you we do understand flags in Carnlough.Your entitled to come down on Easter Sunday or around internment in August and observe tricolours,starry ploughs etc being flown with dignity not erected for no apparent sectarian reason or left to rot for months on end.
An interesting little article….
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/1102
Jeez RS – I actually read all of that article – started off interestingly enough then descended into rant before long before climaxing in a explosion of Irish Republican sloganeering/catchphrasing……..no wonder you liked it!….was it written for the W.B. Feile perhaps?
Demo, I’d say you didn’t like it just because it makes for uncomfortable reading !
Thanks for the offer Carnlough, but I’ll give it a miss. The village used to be a nice place before the shinners took over. Not long now till the Londonderry Arms Hotel gets reworded.
Ulster’s your homeland
The people who now come to Ulsters shores are not settlers, if they were they would be accepted……When the Ulster-Scots came they planned on settling, but the Gaelic Irish just didn’t want them there, because the Gaelic Irish were sectarian racist bigots….
Historically, you’re an idiot. Nevertheless, the Romanians can learn an important from lesson from your people – they should re-brand themselves “the Ulster Romanians”.
The Ulster Romanians – One Ninety Fifth of a century of repression at the hands of the Scots and the English – No Surrender! Support the Ulster Romanians