Tuesday, February 06, 2007
No anthem here
Andrew McCann isn’t pleased at the suggestion that the UK national anthem should not be played at Croke Park.
Michael Shilliday @ 06:39 PM
Matt
I am from England and I agree with what you said ... we do have a duty to demand to know what has been done in our name. Incidentally my late mother was from an Irish family who moved to Yorkshire to take work in the mines. Things did not go well for them in the 20s and the young girls of the family were taken into Barnardos. My mother, in Barnardos as a child, suffered unspeakable abuse. She was very lucky that Suffolk was having its tythe war .. Northumbrian bailliffs brought in to distrain goods from farmers unable to pay the tythe charges.
A farming family fostered two Barnardos girls essentially to get money for their care. The foster father was a veteran of the Gallipoli campaign and the Western Front who came home to learn what homes fit for heros really amounted to.
But having fostered they did not just act as lodgings keepers. For each girl a godmother from the village was appointed. So they had a foster father, a foster mother and a another woman they could go to.
The foster grandfather was a man of few words. He told us as kids about how “King Jarge” visited the Suffolk Regt in France. As the king rode by his horse defecated and one Suffolk shouted out “That abowt sum it up Jarge”. The officers went ballistic trying to find out who had shouted at the king and suggested all he was good for was sh-tting on the people.
I also remember him saying of his Suffolk Punch horses that all lide’s lessons could be learnt from handling them “Get more with a koind wud thin iver yew git with a stick bor”
When he died he was a wealthier man and left money to the children of all his foster daughters.
If he were alive today and at the rugby match .. he would not be singing the anthem (he would be thinking about the anthem for doomed youth ?)
He was English.
I have made great efforts, over many years, to get to the truth of police no go area protecting the activity of the late Airey Neave.
But I agree your point. Let right be done.
She was very l
Posted by on Feb 07, 2007 @ 09:06 PM
