QuoteCome to Galway for a visitOriginally Posted by Pablo
i look around this country sometimes and i think after all the struggle and fight to be a free nation we are nothing but an English province.
Come to Galway for a visit
i was refering to Dublin in and the crowd in lansdowne in particular. Its different(a bit) down here
outside the pail...
Ya What???He's giving out about England. The last thing he needs is a bunch of English hippies...
i look around this country sometimes and i think after all the struggle and fight to be a free nation we are nothing but an English province.
Ya make me laugh
ya a lot did 'opt out' of English society...
Well someone had to attempt to keep Ireland Irish
You mean the words aren't da da-da da da da DAAAAAAAA da-da?!?!I'd sayy99.9% didn't know the words
So not only do I not know what the words are, I also don't know what they aren't?!
A voice like thunder spake.......the west's awake, the west's awake
Off on a complete tangent, a friend of mine once remarked that if people in this country are serious about wanting a united Ireland, the national anthem and the flag will definitely have to change if nationalists and unionists are to compromise on it. Sorry if this is too political any feel free to move it moderator but what do you think?
The lyrics your looking for Eanna
And if, when all a vigil keep,
The West's asleep! the West's asleep!
Alas! and well may Erin weep
For Connacht lies in slumber deep.
But, hark! a voice like thunder spake,
The West's awake! the West's awake!
Sing, Oh! hurrah! let England quake,
We'll watch till death for Erin's sake
yeah, couldn't remember them exactly. I have a Luke Kelly CD- its haunting the way he sings it
This may seem strange but when I left 20yrs ago I became more Irish than when I was living at home. In other words I became more aware of my history and heritage. As shameful as this may seem, I did not learn the words to our National anthem till my late twenties. Did anyone else, who is living overseas, go through the same patriotic phase?
Last edited by strangeirish; 11/02/2005 at 9:54 PM.
Did you ever notice that in every painting of Adam & Eve, they have belly buttons. Think about that...take as long as you want.
Great post. and exactly what we all want. Ireland needs to Be Irish. and frankly, if you go by the premiership bar stooler that frequent Lansdowne road, it certainly isn't. Can they not see it? is Irishness gone? Dead?
W.B. Yeats
September 1913
What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
5 You have dried the marrow from the bone;
For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.
Yet they were of a different kind,
10 The names that stilled your childish play,
They have gone about the world like wind,
But little time had they to pray
For whom the hangman's rope was spun,
And what, God help us, could they save?
15 Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.
Was it for this the wild geese spread
The grey wing upon every tide;
For this that all that blood was shed,
20 For this Edward Fitzgerald died,
And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,
All that delirium of the brave?
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.
25 Yet could we turn the years again,
And call those exiles as they were
In all their loneliness and pain,
You'd cry, „Some woman's yellow hair
Has maddened every mother's son“:
30 They weighed so lightly what they gave.
But let them be, they're dead and gone,
They're with O'Leary in the grave.
*alcohol makes you emotional
I take it you were watching the game in the Inn under age, To be fair it could have been a one off, watched Cavan (my dads county) v Derry last summer in there the same day Greece played Portugal and as the game went on the pub filled up with young Greek lads to get the seats near the big screens and as they seen a couple of Greek flags being waved by the Cavan fans on the telly they all started cheering on Cavan.
Mind you did see it nearly boot off before Cork v Wexford two years ago when a couple of gezzers in hacket tops started fcecking about talking the phiss during the anthem.
You should go to O'Raffertys for the games instead. &1 .60 a pint of Guinness sunday to thursday. Also great craic in there when a team that you can't talk about on here are playing on telly.
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
You wouldn't be meaning us lot now would you Conor.
Come on your making things up again
Come to think of it, i'd say you fella's back home are on the front line against the tans, seeing that thats who the media over there seems to be obsessed with, as well as Irish fans worrying and getting carryed away with what tan club opposing players play for.
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
Just thought I might add, the words to the National Anthem are printed in the programme beside the teams. It helped me slightly even though I admit my Irish is pure brutal.
No need for the whole racist debate though.
I'd rather die laughing than trying!
Then stop doing it, the filters are there for a reason. If you don't, I'll be forced to delete all of your posts, since I don't have time to go through them one by one.
adam
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
I meant that at weekend night's it does double up as a crech. The screen has got a bit better in O'Raffertys, its just gottta get a little tap sometimes.
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
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