Well that military parade was shit, and probably the low point of the whole commemorations, which on the whole seem to have been pretty well handled, largely because it avoided a lot of that old shite.
We got a load of our rather diverse primary school kids to come up with their own updated version of the proclamation, which generally featured a lot more in the way of hugs and acceptance of diversity, than calls to arms.
We issued a bunch of stamps, which commemorated the 1916 signatories, but also the first person shot in the rising (a dublin catholic policeman standing outside dublin castle.) He was literally one of a handful of armed people in dublin castle, because everyone was at the Easter Races at Fairyhouse.
There were stamps commemorating o'connell, parnell and redmond. there was another one for a 2 year old child killed in the rising to commemorate all the dead children, and a stamp to commemorate two brothers, one who died in the GPO, and one who died in the Somme.
So basically you get the idea. Everyone pleased that we have our own country, everyone slightly embarrassed by the weirdos and lunatics that brought it about. But then again the english were flat out evil, and everything was really complicated, and it was a long time ago, so lets not get too excited.
and lets all be glad that we're not living under the iron boot of some fucking inbred etonian drug addled deviant, or bending the knee to some ageing weirdo who married her cousin.
We got a load of our rather diverse primary school kids to come up with their own updated version of the proclamation, which generally featured a lot more in the way of hugs and acceptance of diversity, than calls to arms.
We issued a bunch of stamps, which commemorated the 1916 signatories, but also the first person shot in the rising (a dublin catholic policeman standing outside dublin castle.) He was literally one of a handful of armed people in dublin castle, because everyone was at the Easter Races at Fairyhouse.
There were stamps commemorating o'connell, parnell and redmond. there was another one for a 2 year old child killed in the rising to commemorate all the dead children, and a stamp to commemorate two brothers, one who died in the GPO, and one who died in the Somme.
So basically you get the idea. Everyone pleased that we have our own country, everyone slightly embarrassed by the weirdos and lunatics that brought it about. But then again the english were flat out evil, and everything was really complicated, and it was a long time ago, so lets not get too excited.
and lets all be glad that we're not living under the iron boot of some fucking inbred etonian drug addled deviant, or bending the knee to some ageing weirdo who married her cousin.
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