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2012: Why is Cork city still so anglicised?
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Rebelheart wrote: »Whom. To the Irish, obviously. You've done a great job proving your Englishness to the English. You have now, finally, entered English civilisation. Now, time to grow out of that need to "prove" something to the English. It's a hangover from a 19th century power dynamic in Ireland.
What drivel
Honestly who writes shit like this
We have more to be worried about that than your rambling. Night :pac:0 -
What drivel
Honestly who writes shit like this
We have more to be worried about that than your rambling. Night :pac:
Goodnight, jaykay74. I can only hope that when you get up tomorrow morning you will receive heaps of 'thanks' for your wonderfully erudite, thoughtful and crisp response. Because it must be fairly crap making obvious thanks whore comments and not being thanked. Codladh sámh.0 -
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Ha ha ha!!! Oh my god you are so funny.Rebelheart wrote: »Whatever about your juvenile post, it's highly improbable that the people who, as you put it, "fought, died and gave great sacrifices to help give us the right to govern ourselves" would be impressed with apologists like you who are quite happy to live in a city which has betrayed the ideals of Irish cultural independence that they fought for. And that's just looking at your horrendously English royalist streetnames, your "lord" mayor and your eagerness to highlight the welcome which your city apparently gave to the British monarch last year.
For all your personal professions of Irishness and republicanism on other fora here, many of which are caustically expressed, it's quite revealing how you can act as an apologist for the royalist culture down there in Cork simply because it is the culture of your local area. That's local tribalism, not Irish republicanism. It's not much different to the troglodytes in Mayo, Tipperary or Kerry who support Flynn, Lowry and O'Donoghue respectively simply because they are "one of their own". Pathetic.
I genuinely can't believe any who posts such utter nonsense could actually be serious. I mean if it was full of the grammatical mistakes of a 5 year old then I might think you were serious, in the naivety of childhood and all that, but since you don't seem to be a kiddie then you just can't be serious, because no adult is that daft. Good job though, I'll bet you are suceeding in annoying some people, not that many though judging from the replies you're getting.
"Live in a City"?? "Your City" "Your this and that" since when was Cork city in W'Cork.
Seems you are unaware of even the most basic geography of this area, Ahhh Bless.
Here to help you with further posts about Cork.
W'Cork is the bit on the left, from around Clonakilty/Macroom onwards.0 -
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Cú Giobach wrote: »Ha ha ha!!! Oh my god you are so funny.
I genuinely can't believe any who posts such utter nonsense could actually be serious. I mean if it was full of the grammatical mistakes of a 5 year old then I might think you were serious, in the naivety of childhood and all that, but since you don't seem to be a kiddie then you just can't be serious, because no adult is that daft. Good job though, I'll bet you are suceeding in annoying some people, not that many though judging from the replies you're getting.
"Live in a City"?? "Your City" "Your this and that" since when was Cork city in W'Cork.
Seems you are unaware of even the most basic geography of this area, Ahhh Bless.
Here to help you with further posts about Cork.
W'Cork is the bit on the left, from around Clonakilty/Macroom onwards.
You're losing the run of yourself there. Too many erratic exclamation and questions marks. Deep breaths. Come back when you've constructed a coherent argument, preferably ad rem. Thank you.0 -
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Cú Giobach wrote: »We'd have to change it to O'Taylor or even better O'Taelor plus give her a transfusion of pure Gaelic blood, so Rebelheart doesn't have a Myocardial Infarction.
Calm down. Deep breaths. Oxygen ==> brain.0 -
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KCAccidental wrote: »Rebelheart did you miss my comprehensive list of changed street names?
Page one my friend.
I'm not sure renaming Victoria street would be a such a tribute to Katie Taylor, since it's about 50 metres long off of a side street.
Thats true, I think that there might be better streets to name after her. To be honest Sonia O Sullivan is a cork woman so maybe we could start with her0 -
KCAccidental wrote: »Rebelheart did you miss my comprehensive list of changed street names?
Page one my friend.
Thank you, KCAccidental. It was one of the more constructive contributions to the thread. May all your children be bishops.
Alas, I was expecting most of the streets of Cork to have a similar spirit, not have entire areas around the place still named after the Famine Queen (apparently they've re-erected some statue honouring that queen in UCC recently), Wellesley and the rest of them.
What with Eoghan Harris and John A. Murphy being the most high profile political commentators from Cork, and your recent Lord Mayor talking enthusiastically about the great "honour" it was to Cork city when the English crown gave the prefix 'Lord' to the mayor's title, and seemingly every second Cork person making a huge deal over the welcome they supposedly gave last year to the latest Queen of England, the place seems to have a distinct disconnect from its own heritage, as opposed to the heritage which the British imposed upon Cork people.0 -
KCAccidental wrote: »Rebelheart did you miss my comprehensive list of changed street names?
Page one my friend.
I'm not sure renaming Victoria street would be a such a tribute to Katie Taylor, since it's about 50 metres long off of a side street.
Thats true, I think that there might be better streets to name after her. To be honest Sonia O Sullivan is a cork woman so maybe we could start with her
Be careful of incurring their wrath - Sonia is from Cobh, not Cork.
Also, this thread is the result of a dare on the PROC. Don't feed the trolls.0 -
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Be careful of incurring their wrath - Sonia is from Cobh, not Cork.
Also, this thread is the result of a dare on the PROC. Don't feed the trolls.
To be honest I don't take much notice of street names. They could name one of them Sesame Street for all care.
But naming a couple after some of our sporting hero's would not be a bad idea.0 -
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Cú Giobach wrote: »
If every battle won by an opponents mistakes was called a "victory" with inverted commas, then books about conflict would be so full of the things as to make them unreadable.
As is most of Irish history. But we've that well covered in another thread. The point is Cork, like Dublin never wanted to be freed! 0 -
As is most of Irish history. But we've that well covered in another thread. The point is Cork, like Dublin never wanted to be freed!
This the people of Cork particularly appreciated and it really brought their loyalty to King and Country right up to uncontrollable fever pitch.
And sure gbee there was no appetite for independence whatsoever, I guess that's why during the 1918 election Sinn Féin won every single seat in the county and city, including electing one the two loyal subjects pictured below, both of whom were Lord Mayors of the Royal City.
Well done by the way for taking over from the other one. ♫ It's the season to be merry, troll la la la la, la la la laaa. ♫0 -
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I'm sure you have evidence of this (quite silly) claim? 
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