Just how "republican " were the "men of '16 " ?

[Apjp]

Exactly. No vision, no manifesto, just Brits out and we'll cobble a country together afterwards.

Have you even read it? I'm guessing your just a ***** cos if you have read it there's no way you could say that. The only document of the time or since worth treasuring.

[Sam Lord]

Exactly. No vision, no manifesto, just Brits out and we'll cobble a country together afterwards.

I think the democratic programme of the 1st Dail could be taken as a fair idea of what the vision was.


http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Democr...irst_D%C3%A1il

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

A more appropriate question might be 'how Irish is Lapsed Methodist'...?

[fluffybiscuits]

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...se-494790.html

This is a bizzare report. I used this a few years back to 'ignite' conversation on another site Its a story about Robert Emmets corpse and the necrophilic feelings of Padraig Pearse towards it. Im just airing it as I was reminded earlier by someone about this story! (Please note this is not tr0lling I did that on other sites!) . Its from the Indo so you know yerselves ...