Posted on 11/11/2017 7:45:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
Kathy Griffin was booed by the crowd at her Dublin performance on Wednesday, November 8 after she mistakenly included Ireland as part of the United Kingdom.
She stated it was nice “being in the United Kingdom,” and seemed genuinely shocked when the friendly crowd suddenly turned to her booing and catcalling.
Griffin became so startled she had difficulty continuing with her routine, The New York Times reported.
Most of the Irish people at the show in Vicar Street clearly believed Griffin, an Irish American, should have known better. She has been a frequent visitor there and visited her grandmother’s hometown of Drogheda in Co. Louth in 2007 with a TV camera in tow. Her Irish escapades were filmed for her Bravo series “My Life on the D List.” She was given a civic reception. …
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
From the EU’s viewpoint, Finland, Spain, Britain, Ireland, Poland, Hungary and all the rest of the “big countries” are indeed one nation under its aegis. Their motto is not “ever closer union” for no purpose.
The only really bloody war was perhaps 1916 and afterwards into the 1920s, but it was in the name of leftism. People like James Connolly were communists and did not care one whit about Catholic grievances, but only to exacerbate divisions for their own advantage, and perhaps they were on board with the notion of this imperial union in Europe under the rule of Germany back then and not truly for an independent Ireland. Before 1916, the demand by Catholic Irish was for home rule, and not independence; the rapid execution of the rebels served to turn opinion towards the notion of independence, which was very short-lived once the Third Amendment (containing the clauses that allowed the laws of a foreign power to have “the force of law in the State” again) was passed.
That’s not what I’m talking about.
Not interested.
LMAO
“The stupid, it burns.”
I don’t think the USA had a governor general after 1783, or any allegiance to the British king. Ireland had a governor general until 1931 (abolished by the Statute of Westminster), as well as a requirement for an oath of allegiance to the British king (abolished by De Valera).
In what?
In your opinion.
Truth be told, I really don’t care about this topic. She got boo’ed. End of story.
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