So thats where the Revolution went...

[Casually Red]

If that's what it says, it's absolute bollocks. They wrote no Musical. I saw the whole Play.

(I also saw the lead actor(another ex-Prisoner)'s actual bollocks a lot of the time. There was a local Citizen who had brought her motley crew of red-headed nippers (all girls) along. They were sat on the front row, about three feet away frtom the actors. All the kids burst into fits of giggles when yer man's blanket was torn from him.)

As I said, Laurence McKeown spent 71 days on Hunger Strike himself. The idea he would insult the memory of his dead Comrades with some half-arsed Musical is risible.

TBH I'm surprised at CR posting that. Unless he knows something I don't?

As its a live play and not a dvd you saw it's quite likely the singing had been ditched by the time it made it down to it you . It received pretty negative commentary . Most of the singing was done by cruncher O'Neill. The man who infamously changed the words at the end of Joe McDonnell to " nothing has been lost and now we've won "

 

[Casually Red]

So were the Guevara-Lynch's

So we're the Mcguinnesses

And the mcmurroughs

 

[Casually Red]

That narrows it down to 20 years then.

Btw, just been talking to a local SF Councillor. I asked him about the 'Strictly' thing. He said the 1916 logo was on all their literature this year but the Strictly thing was definitely not a 1916 event. Laughed at the suggestion. I quoted the blurb I read. He said there must be some mistake, as surely to God nobody would knowingly say the two could be connected.

I quoted the FB page I had seen and have now sent him the link to it. I would imagine the text will be duly edited. So it should be.

Well they may start editing that massive big professionally printed billboard they have out the front of my gaff . And that other massive big one they have under the railway arch at the camlough road . Haven't been near Dromintee or Jonesboro yet but I suspect the place is plastered in them .

'twas no spotty teenager on Facebook responsible for that lot . That cost money, and it took a number of party activists to erect them at prominent locations . That was local head office .

 

[Casually Red]

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.

It's already happened, history has happened 20 years ago. The Belfast agreement was the political death of republican separatism at its ideological core . It's just that some people will die of old age before they ever admit it . 90 odd years on and FF and FG still won't admit it so there's no reason to expect any different from the shinners and whoever else supported that debacle .

As Alaistar Campbell, who was at the very heart of the whole thing observed in his memoirs, the shinners were too clever to admit to their supporters they'd lost, and the unionists were too stupid to tell theirs they'd won .

 

[Casually Red]

anyway , moving on . Have to say this is an absolutely shite pile of drivel on the subject from one of my favourite journalists . Woeful stuff and doubly disappointing given the source.

Is the history of Ireland's struggle for independence being twisted?

 

[LiamO]

As its a live play and not a dvd you saw it's quite likely the singing had been ditched by the time it made it down to it you . It received pretty negative commentary . Most of the singing was done by cruncher O'Neill. The man who infamously changed the words at the end of Joe McDonnell to " nothing has been lost and now we've won "

So first it was a Musical (with all the implications of an all-singing, all-dancing singalongahungerstrike)?

Now it becomes a Play with some singing/songs in it?

1. Which, specifically, are you claiming it was?

2. Post up some links/reviews of the singingalong extravaganza.

I'll get a number for Laurence himself and I'll ask him.

 

[LiamO]

Well they may start editing that massive big professionally printed billboard they have out the front of my gaff . And that other massive big one they have under the railway arch at the camlough road . Haven't been near Dromintee or Jonesboro yet but I suspect the place is plastered in them .

'twas no spotty teenager on Facebook responsible for that lot . That cost money, and it took a number of party activists to erect them at prominent locations . That was local head office .

What he said, specifically, was...

He said the 1916 logo was on all their literature this year but the Strictly thing was definitely not a 1916 event.

Why is that difficult for you to comprehend? Oh, because you don't want to.

 

[coley]

I don't quibble with that at all . Never a truer word spoken . And I learned to live with the horrible , awful knowledge of that a very long time ago .

How old you Casually Red?

 

[coley]

anyway , moving on . Have to say this is an absolutely shite pile of drivel on the subject from one of my favourite journalists . Woeful stuff and doubly disappointing given the source.

Is the history of Ireland's struggle for independence being twisted?

Watching a programme tonight "India's frontier railways" some if the ideas expressed ( we are all one people) gives a lot of food for thought.

 

[coley]

anyway , moving on . Have to say this is an absolutely shite pile of drivel on the subject from one of my favourite journalists . Woeful stuff and doubly disappointing given the source.

Is the history of Ireland's struggle for independence being twisted?

Actually thought it a good,thought provoking article, but the end,? Ireland being one if the few European democracies to last a more than a hundred years? Another 7 years yet?
And if it does, where will it claim its foundations from?
Not the EU

 

[LiamO]

So first it was a Musical (with all the implications of an all-singing, all-dancing singalongahungerstrike)?

Now it becomes a Play with some singing/songs in it?

1. Which, specifically, are you claiming it was?

2. Post up some links/reviews of the singingalong extravaganza.

I'll get a number for Laurence himself and I'll ask him.

Taps watch Casually Red

I have no idea if this thing you desccribed ever existed. I do know I can find no reference to it and also that every single person I have mentioned it to looked at me like I had two heads for even asking. Back it up or STFU.

 

[LiamO]

As its a live play and not a dvd you saw it's quite likely the singing had been ditched by the time it made it down to it you . It received pretty negative commentary . Most of the singing was done by cruncher O'Neill.

So post up some of this 'negative commentary'. Or was it all side-of-the-mouth, need-to-know, high-stool nudge-nudgery?

And just for clarity. You are saying there is a DVD? Where? Is it a secret, underground DVD? Who made it? Who published it? Who saw it? Who told you about it? Have you seen it?

I suspect you are either a) talking out of your hole or b) repeating something with a minute grain of truth in it, but completely distorted.