If thats true I'm guilty as charged. Though I'm not too ashamed that shopping is not one of my specialist subjects.
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You're joking right, you are talking about the same country that has allowed historic sites and castles to be torn apart in the interest of consumerism and backhanders (St. John's Castle, Viking sites in Dublin, etc.), and are currently allowing Tara to be destroyed. Turning the GPO into a shopping centre, whilst a disgrace, is hardly the least of the Irish people's sins
Well in consumer fanatic Ireland what else would be an appropriate way to honour the site?
I dont think its a biggy as long as they maintain the front bit as a memorial.
Connolly was a soviet agent anyways. His only agenda was to get the Brits out so he could take orders from Lenin and Trotsky in the Irish Soviet. If 1916 was a success Connolly and Larkin would have taken over had the other leaders liquidated, built gulags in Donegal and had gigantic bronze statues of themselves made.
The Russian revolution and the establishment of Soviet Power occured in 1917 over a year after the execution of James Connolly. At the time of his death, Connolly had no reason to believe there would be a Socialist revolution anywhere in the world so soon, for if he had he would never have got involved in the Easter adventure. At this time the Socialist international had collapsed due to the capitulation to belligerence on the part of the leading parties of the international. Only a few of the major players opposed the war. Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks, Connolly in Ireland, Luxemburg and Liebknecht in Germany, MacClean and his followers in Scotland and the Left in the SPUSA. But communication was difficult due to the war and there was no organisation linking them together as the comintern had not yet been established.
Sounds a bit like paradise compared to the present system alright. God help the Irish if I ever get a sniff of power at this stage, I'd show the Simpsons what history's greatest monster really means :eek::)
Seriously I'm taking labour camps for Fianna Fail voters
Are you planning to clone David Norris? ;)
I'm free!