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    #62
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    La Fenetre wrote: »
    There is much less of a divide and discrimination between so called rural and urban Northern Ireland than there is in the Republic. It's certainly not as much of a mono city culture and mentality that the Republic has become.

    Tell that to (London)Derry folk who's roads to Belfast & Dublin are shyte


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    #63
    Ozymandiaz
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    1916 this, 1916 that, the heroes of 1916, etc etc etc Ad nauseam . . . . .

    But the real 1916 'elephant in the room' commemoration is always left out!

    The Somme
    Irish lives lost on an industrial scale in The Great War that same year.
    Not that it's broadcast to loudly > in the lead up to 2016...
    Rubbish. The really real elephant in the room is the fact that more civilians died in the 1916 rebellion than armed combatants. Who was shooting them and why? At least the people who were killed at the Somme were armed and could defend themselves, as too were the rebels and military in 1916. But civilians were unarmed, and more of them were killed than the combined number of rebels and crown forces during Easter week 1916.


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    #64
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    Ozymandiaz wrote: »
    Rubbish. The really real elephant in the room is the fact that more civilians died in the 1916 rebellion than armed combatants. Who was shooting them and why? At least the people who were killed at the Somme were armed and could defend themselves, as too were the rebels and military in 1916. But civilians were unarmed, and more of them were killed than the combined number of rebels and crown forces during Easter week 1916.

    It was a packed city and war broke out completely by surprise. Added to that the dirt poor risking life and limb to loot shops right in between the two sets of belligerents and its no surprise they fell in large number.


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