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"Descendants of 1916 leaders"

  • 22-05-2012 9:25pm
    #1
    trishasaffron
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭


    Jaysus. We're now in the fourth and fifth generation of descendants! Why on earth should great-grand children ( or even nieces or nephews) be given all the air time and front seats at every bloody commemorative event.

    At this rate and with the size of Irish families there'll be more people who ARE descendants than those who aren't!


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  • #2
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Well if they shouldn't get the front seats who should?


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I didn't even know they were given special privileges.
    Source?


  • #4
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    If you insist on commemorating them, why would you not make their families a priority?


  • #5
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    My great grandaddy times 20 was the pope.

    You don't see me in the front seat of mass every week.


  • #6
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Whenever these threads come around I think of my great grandfather Jimmy ,standing shoulder to shoulder with Connoly and Pearse and him spraying bullets all over the place ....sniff ....sniff ...wipes tear from eye






    ^ Total lie that.


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  • #7
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Everyones great granddad fought in the 1916 Rising :pac:

    Its a bit like the 100,000 that were at Thomand Park to see Munster beat the All Blacks.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    phasers wrote: »
    Well if they shouldn't get the front seats who should?

    Tom Hanks.


  • #9
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    My next door neighbors dad fought with Collins...


  • #10
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    My next door neighbors dad fought with Collins...
    Did he win ?


  • #11
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    My grandad's cousin was Dan Breen.

    He didn't like him.

    Something of a "troublemaker", apparently.


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  • #12
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    My Great,great uncle Willy fought in 1916, he stood shoulder to shoulder with nine other British soldiers in the yard in Kilmainham Jail.He always reckoned he played an important part in Irish history.

    He also named his four sons Willy, he was forever known as the man with five Willys...





    Entirely possible the above is untrue


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