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PJ (None) - Posts: 2288 - 15/03/2010 18:17:39    588904

Manfred
County: Derry
Posts: 3

587651 Where is the Parades in Derry tis year

I think it starts in Shipquay street or something like that and it might end near exchange or something because the guildhall square is getting done up?

Orlaith (Derry) - Posts: 4282 - 15/03/2010 18:21:42    588909

Mes Amis

4. He did not demand allegience to any foreign Power.


Think before ye write. and any way in the time of Patrick Rome as in the roman empire were not demanding anything only the directions back to Rome. The Roman Church which I presume you are trying to slight was still only being formed and was not demanding anything either other than the right to exist. So no matter how you look at you only showed your own ignorance here

derryman (Derry) - Posts: 3246 - 15/03/2010 18:37:33    588928

It's a fitting warm up for my birthday!

beer baron (Cavan) - Posts: 3916 - 15/03/2010 18:39:43    588935

oh very good ulsterman when a fool loses an argument his last resort is to throw insults so thank you and dellboy for proving my point i would love to see either one of yous going head to head against a lab rat i dont think yous would stand a chance

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 15/03/2010 18:40:10    588938

ruanua
County: Donegal
Posts: 3122

588258 Where do the "nationalists" stand on the St Patrick issue


1. He was Britsish
2. He was a settler on this island
3. He did not assimilate to existing religous beliefs
4. He did not assiinilate to existing Ecological structures in his treatment of our snakes

5. had our existing sculptures banished to inconspicous parts his christian churches

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 15/03/2010 18:42:47    588941

derryman
County: Derry
Posts: 1184

588350 ruanua
County: Donegal
Posts: 3119

588258 Where do the "nationalists" stand on the St Patrick issue


1. He was Britsish
2. He was a settler on this island
3. He did not assimilate to existing religous beliefs
4. He did not assiinilate to existing Ecological structures in his treatment of our snakes

There are a few more you could add
1. He learned the vernacular
2. He did not take the land or wealth by force
3. He did not introduce any laws to the detriment of the idigenous people.
4. He did not demand allegience to any foreign Power. ..... WHAT'S THAT YELLOW AND WHITE FLAG THEY FLY OVER THE CHURCHES
5. He used the local flora to educate the Indigenous peoples in his Faith.
6. He did not declare the existing faiths as being outlawed and punish those who practised it.

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 15/03/2010 18:45:29    588947

I thought the question was what you are doing for ST PATRICK'S DAY .

mickobronx17 (Mayo) - Posts: 227 - 15/03/2010 19:16:34    588984

I thought that too micko...

Plastic Paddy (Tyrone) - Posts: 664 - 15/03/2010 19:20:47    588994

Dhorse

That has been answered.
and to the best of my knowledge that flag did not exist for some 700 years after Patrick had passed on

derryman (Derry) - Posts: 3246 - 15/03/2010 19:34:07    589015

Plastic Paddy
County: Tyrone
Posts: 632

588205
patrique

Strangely Irish people in Ireland by and large do NOT celebrate St Patrique's day, our beloved French Saint.


I was goin to actually call the title of this thread 'St Patriques Day', but then i thought it would bring too much attention on you.

We know you dont really like being in the lime-light!!



Moi? The lime light?

Never.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 15/03/2010 19:52:02    589056

great to see all the west brits out defending unionists again

32_4_1 (Meath) - Posts: 4211 - 15/03/2010 19:56:34    589062

derryman
County: Derry
Posts: 1186


There are a few more you could add
1. He learned the vernacular
2. He did not take the land or wealth by force
3. He did not introduce any laws to the detriment of the indigenous people.
4. He did not demand allegiance to any foreign Power.
5. He used the local flora to educate the Indigenous peoples in his Faith.
6. He did not declare the existing faiths as being outlawed and punish those who practised it.

Not the typical Englishman that visited these shores I would think



My god, that sounds just like the "Catholic "Old" English" who did most of the fighting against Cromwell. Thousands of them.

Mind you, to complicate things even more, Cromwell was a republican, perhaps "the father of Irish republicanism", so the "Old" English must have been loyalists, loyal to the monarchy.

Do not confuse them with the "new" English who originally joined with Cromwell, before turning against him at a later date.

Irish history is so easy to follow.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 15/03/2010 19:56:43    589063

Dellboypolecat
County: Tyrone
Posts: 10507

588841
Ulsterman
County: Antrim
Posts: 1700

588829
Indeed ogall settlers is a good word. Many of us in the 32 counties are from IRISH folk who have been settled on this island for centuries, how about you? My mother's people were ekeing out a living from the land in Galway when yours were digging tin out of the Cornish mines. I have NO qualms about who or what I am, you seem to. As for hipster YELP YELP YELP YELP..........like Scrappy Doo hanging on to Scooby's legs.


Great post you summed that up well and i would agree fully lol...



Let me get this right. Ulsterman and Dell are from Galway, and we know most of them are Spaniards from the Armada.

Paddy O'Gall is Cornish, a true Celt.

Is that about right?

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 15/03/2010 19:59:11    589067

for some patrique its easy to follow and as they say patrique the only reason ireland remained a catholic country is out of spite of the english turning protestant if the english remained catholic they reakon ireland would have become protestant

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 15/03/2010 20:05:48    589078

hipster
County: Dublin
Posts: 1329

589078 for some patrique its easy to follow and as they say patrique the only reason ireland remained a catholic country is out of spite of the english turning protestant if the english remained catholic they reakon ireland would have become protestant

So ! That makes the English responsible for the scandals in the Church then as well, we could have been the protestants and they could have had the scandals.

derryman (Derry) - Posts: 3246 - 15/03/2010 20:58:23    589174

Paddys day is pointless I think. You go watch a rubbish parade or go to a pub and get ******. Wake up the next day with a massive hangover. Only thing good about it is a day off school or work, otherwise it's a day Americans can make themselves feel Irish.

PRDY (Mayo) - Posts: 141 - 15/03/2010 21:23:52    589216

PRDY
County: Mayo
Posts: 34

589216 Paddys day is pointless I think. You go watch a rubbish parade or go to a pub and get ******. Wake up the next day with a massive hangover. Only thing good about it is a day off school or work, otherwise it's a day Americans can make themselves feel Irish.

Well i suppose you cold get yourself a sprig of shamrocks and stick them in your buttonhole then go to your local Catholc Church and celebrate the Sacrament of the Mass in Celebration and honour of St Patrick. I think that was the original idea. Until the demon drink hijacked this great day.

derryman (Derry) - Posts: 3246 - 15/03/2010 21:30:50    589232

PRDY
County: Mayo
Posts: 34

589216 Paddys day is pointless I think. You go watch a crap parade or go to a pub and get pissed. Wake up the next day with a massive hangover. Only thing good about it is a day off school or work, otherwise it's a day Americans can make themselves feel Irish.

Well PRDY me and my kids had a great day in our Parade in Manchester yesterday. The kids loved it and thousands turned out to see the 3rd biggest Irish parade in the world. O and no-one forces you to get pissed in the pub, that your choice. Generally i find the people in the pubs in great form and just out to have a good time, what is wrong with that?

Mancirish (UK) - Posts: 2200 - 15/03/2010 21:32:05    589236

For some Paddy's Day is another day to worship their sky god. I prefer to think that it is a day to celebrate Irishness.

nocky (Wexford) - Posts: 2059 - 15/03/2010 22:00:54    589297