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Originally Posted by Vitruvian Man
Macy and Pete, get a history lesson for God’s sake. And not one of Passive’s arse-over-tit makey-up ones. I suppose, by your logic, the agents of Michael Collins who infiltrated Dublin Castle were West Brit garrison-monkeys just because they shuffled some paperwork for Queen Victoria.
Bohemians were formed in 1890 by an IRB spy ring who had subverted the Dublin garrisons of the British Army (one of the most powerful in the world at the time) but needed a front to meet and pass their information, especially in the winter because the Phoenix park was proving to be pretty cold. By also infiltrating the medical wing of the occupation force they also ensured the deaths of countless Royal Irish Regiment personnel by infecting them with syphilis, known colloquially during the times as “The Hooped Disease” or “The Ringsend Rot”.
Everyone with more than superficial knowledge of Irish history knows that Bohemians have the richest deepest and most vibrant nationalist character of any association football club. For example, the original colours of the Starry Plough flag of James Connolly’s ICA were red and black in honour of Bohemians FC. But, they were changed to green and silver after the original was stolen and burned during a game in 1902 with a team recently formed from Ringsend street-drifters and the unemployed sons of Montgomery Street workers. The flag was changed to the more familiar blue and yellow after a Bohemians game against a different team of Ringsend criminals in 1913 who attempted to turn the Bohem
ian revolutionaries in to the British Imperial authorities by presenting them with the stolen flag.
In 1916 Dalymount was considered by the IRA army council as a site for staging the rising due to the staunchly republican nature of the area but Bolands Mills was eventually settled on as they decided that any collateral damage to civilians would be better suffered among the traditional supporters of the British Empire. This theory proved to be well founded as the British Navy gunboat Helga fired on every rebel position within range except the Bolands Mills even though it was the closest.
Bohemians = Nationalist Team.
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