So thats where the Revolution went...
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Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Will most people not go to Dublin? My cousins said don't bother coming to cross we'll all be in dub.
GAA Strictly sounds hilarious tbf - I can see the look of horror on my granddaddy's face
SF got their fingernails in the bandwagon and clinging on for dear life eh?
GAA Strictly sounds hilarious tbf - I can see the look of horror on my granddaddy's face
SF got their fingernails in the bandwagon and clinging on for dear life eh?
chilango
Ha! Ha! Armageddon
Not really. A GAA Club 'Strictly' is very parochial, in fact some Parishes have two clubs around here. SF would probably be the only organised structure that covers the whole of south Armagh. So they can deliver across the area, rather than a small pocket. Still more a bit naff though.
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Oh I see, it's one big event rather than lots of local ones. Doesn't seem entirely, I don't know, appropriate to the centennial anniversary of the easter rising but then again why the hell not? South Armagh has been plenty solemn in it's time.
Now I'm off to Facebook for the strictly gossip unless you're going to tell us here
In fairness to Comemoration Committee (who are not all Shinners by any means) there are all sorts of events planned - cultural, sporting and political.
They've just announced the 'Patrick Rankin Centenary Cycle' - a 100 mile bike ride from Newry to Dublin and back to commemorate a Newry man who cycled to Dublin to join the Rising.
I think it's basically an attempt to meet people where they are at socially rather than confining it to 'serious' activities. But still and all...
They've just announced the 'Patrick Rankin Centenary Cycle' - a 100 mile bike ride from Newry to Dublin and back to commemorate a Newry man who cycled to Dublin to join the Rising.
I think it's basically an attempt to meet people where they are at socially rather than confining it to 'serious' activities. But still and all...
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sleaterkinney
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Or the DUP!.
coley
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Wrong sonny Jim,can't stand the PIRA but the likes of Adams & Co, shouldn't even be mentioned in a thread remembering the '16' and as for Sands? he might have been a murderous sod but he died believing, his shade will be puking daily at what his Movement and it's glorious leaders have descended to.
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
"As part of the centenary events to commemorate the Easter Rising, Newry and Armagh Sinn Féin will be holding a 1916 themed Strictly event in Jonesborough on Saturday, February 6th.
Couples from right across the constituency have been shaking, jumping and jiving all winter in order to claim victory at what promises to be a fantastic event."
I look at this and I am torn. It's a far cry from the traditional images of defiance that would have epitomised the struggle back in the day, isn't it?
A little background...
Many GAA clubs (the lifeblood of communities across rural Ireland) have done 'Strictly' as a community event/fundraiser in recent years. Couples (usually not RL couples) train for months for the big night and the spectacle and hilarity has been top class. Many of the promotional videos I have seen have been brilliant and very funny.Some have been like mini-movies with scores of people in them. Money raised has varied from £10-50,000 per club.
Now our local Sinn Féin Ard Comhairle has decided to get in on the act to both raise funds and celebrate our communities. It's a far cry from Ballad bands in smoky pubs that's for sure.
I admit I am torn. One part of me says "WTF?", the other says fair play to them.
I suppose any celebration of community is welcome and why should cultural/artistic celebrations and expressions be limited to traditional ones? Whether it's 'Strictly' or 'X-Factor' or anything else, it's a legimate expression of popular culture and will certainly make for an entertaining night's craic. Plus I suppose 'Strictly' is something that crosses generational boundaries.
But still... but then...
Liam old mate. IMHO it's crass, idiotic , inane and disrespectful . I've got no problem at all with the shinners doing a strictly event either as a fundraiser or just for a bit of Craic . But to lump it in with commemorating 1916 is just bollocks .
They should carry on with the event by all means, it's their business . But they should unhook it from 1916 simply because it's got nothing to do. Even remotely, with 1916 . It's utterly tacky and demeans it . Strips it of all meaning . It's the active promotion of inanity in place of proper and dignified remembrance and reflection . Which is what the centenary is supposed to be
about . It's idiot stuff , pure and simple.
And before anyone accuses me ..not saying you..of routine shinner bashing it would be my reaction to anyone doing it.
They're idiots with a major lack of self awareness . Another example of a plot lost long ago .
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
Actually I was going to suggest something similar myself . It's in the same ballpark pretty much .
I anticipate they'll get some serious stick over this as it happens . Not that they'll pay a blind bit of Scientology cult notice . Way too far down the rabbit hole at this stage .
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
"As part of the centenary events to commemorate the Easter Rising, Newry and Armagh Sinn Féin will be holding a 1916 themed Strictly event in Jonesborough
How the fuck do you have a 1916 themed jiveathon ? Will there be a routine were one person is tied blindfolded to a chair, surrounded by 8 jiving partners, who point at him and shout bang at the end and he falls over ?
I mean wtf ?
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Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
I clean forgot. The shinners have already treated us to the delight of " Hunger strike..the musical " . I shit you not .
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Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
The proper title of this musical extravaganza was " the laughter of our children " . But it was a musical about the hunger strikes nonetheless . I have no idea whether it had a routine were busby berkeley style babes wafted around the stage with strategically placed bin lids or not, because I didn't go .
And nor did anyone else with an ounce of self awareness .
And nor did anyone else with an ounce of self awareness .
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
What "movement" ? The pasa doble ?
Keeping " the movement " front and centre of all things when they've abandoned any sort of struggle equates to just plastering the words " sinn fein " on anything that moves , or doesn't move . For no reason other than party interest .
They jacked rejection of the state in years ago . They are part and parcel of the British state now . Wrapping that up with some outdated empty rhetoric of struggle doesn't change it. Strictly events is what it's about now. The only "struggle" they're involved in now is how to get their big fat arse into that sequinned dress .
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
Indeed he was . He was resisting the foreign military occupation of his country . Just as ordinary people like him were in 1916 . It pretty much goes with the territory . As it does with militarily occupying someone else's country .
coley
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You lost, your lot sold out, a lot of people, good and bad, died for nothing,. Live with it.
"Sonny Jim"?
How old are you?Nobody, certainly not you or me, can or will ever know what Bobby Sands might have thought as an older man. Conjecture seems somewhat pointless and it is just plain silly that every Tom, Dick & Harry claims him for their 'side'.
Just. Plain. Silly.
Please stop.
That is a view. Not an unpopular one in some quarters but a somewhat absolutist contortion IMO
History will eventually show the ripple out. You and I are unlikely to be alive to see it.
coley
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Conjecture?"Sonny Jim"?
Nobody, certainly not you or me, can or will ever know what Bobby Sands might have thought as an older man. Conjecture seems somewhat pointless and it is just plain silly that every Tom, Dick & Harry claims him for their 'side'.
Just. Plain. Silly.
Please stop.
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Awww. coley only liked it cos he thought it was.
Nuff said,
coley
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I was quite happy to have seen the conclusion of OP banner, personally I'm more than happy to see the fighting over and hopefully politics will decide the future of the 6 counties.
I can find no reference at all to this and confess I have never heard of it. Can you enlighten me?
There was a Play (written by Laurence McKeown & Brian Campbell) of that name. I saw it. In Ti Chulainn more than 10 years ago.
There was no frivolity involved.
There was a good splash of dark humour as you would expect from two ex-Blanketmen (One of whom spent 71 days on Hunger Strike).
I agree. So why do you find the cheap shot of 'You lost. your mob sold out' necessary.
Come on now, Marra. That was a passing aside.
it can hardly compare with what you posted, can it? Seriously
I would not disagree with you here, hence the thread.
I find it hard to comprehend how it got approved in an organisation so obsessed with controlling every public utterance of their representatives.
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