So basically as per usual the British media have blew it out of proportion.
So in your view, these girls singing this song was more a deliberate and outward celebration of Irish radicalism and IRA terrorist tactics with roots in the Jacobite rebellion? Rather than just girls singing rowdy Irish songs in a purely ignorant fashion?
Have you spent much time over in Ireland?GSTK used to have an anti Jacobite lyric during the rebellion.
Singing up the RA is poor taste and yeah I think shows a certain ignorance
Have you spent much time over in Ireland?
Have you spent much time over in Ireland?
GSTK used to have an anti Jacobite lyric during the rebellion.
Singing up the RA is poor taste and yeah I think shows a certain ignorance
Pretty much, it wasn't the most sensible of choices but the Liverpool fans sang worse at Rangers last night
What are you on about? The troubles are as distant for many people now as the irish war of independence
I know not what you mean…Seriously alien to me as I don’t carry the burden of religion, oppression and history. Other than Being a man in a woman’s world!We have our fair share of Scottish football fans on here interested in Sunday League who'll get all outraged yet would happily join in singing about being up to their knees in people's blood.
Do you agree it’s at least in poor taste?
Is it OK to sing IRA songs because it happened a few years ago but not OK to have historical statues up of a slave trader from hundreds of years ago?
Well if it's pro ira they weren't the nicest people.If a song or a statue is meant to pay tribute to an evil person from the past then it’s bullshit. Is that what you think this dressing room celebration was all about?
The country has gardens of remembrance for IRA members - the Queen even laid flowers at the one in Dublin.Well if it's pro ira they weren't the nicest people.
Well if it's pro ira they weren't the nicest people.
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When it originated there wasn't really any distinction between them. The entire organisation was hell bent on using whatever means necessary, including terrorism and murder, to achieve their aims.
It’s a banger tbf"....here we go again...."
The song initially makes me uncomfortable but idk the connotations have changed then fair enough.
I think the world has had enough about English people's opinions on Ireland.
Yep at Glasnevin, people need to understand the difference between the IRA of the war of independence and the PIRA of the troublesThe country has gardens of remembrance for IRA members - the Queen even laid flowers at the one in Dublin.
The backlash is embarrassing.This thread says a lot. Some pretty clear undercurrent of anti-British sentiment going on.
Regardless of your views of what went on years ago, it's embarrassing.
Regardless of your views of what went on years ago, it's embarrassing.
I think most folk would agree with that, but there will always be cunts on either side in the vocal minority who stir it up and shit like this doesn't help. Really in the same way all Muslims aren't bad people but the radicalised ones and their far right nutter counterparts will mean hatred there continues too. I guess we have to live with it bit doesn't mean we have to like it.Irish heritage here too, and I've got to say that I really don't care for that song.
I'll be honest and say that I didn't know the full history of it, but then neither will a lot of people, so they are going to find it distasteful.
My personal opinion is that if nothing else the demographics, politics, and geography, mean that Ireland will be reunited one day, and I'd very much like to see that.
However, in the meantime I wish that everyone accepted the shit that every side has done to each other in the past, and found a way to move past it.
Easier to say than do, I know, but that's what needs to happen. A certain amount of sensitivity to each other's feelings might help with things.
I think most folk would agree with that, but there will always be cunts on either side in the vocal minority who stir it up and shit like this doesn't help. Really in the same way all Muslims aren't bad people but the radicalised ones and their far right nutter counterparts will mean hatred there continues too. I guess we have to live with it bit doesn't mean we have to like it.
The backlash is embarrassing.
Ever sung Rule Britannia?
Yes I’m sure you’ve never done either in your whole lifeNope-also never sung GSTQ/GSTK.
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