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Posted on 02/12/2018 4:59:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
The divisive statue of Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, will not be removed.
The Oireachtas Petitions Committee have dismissed a public petition calling for its removal as “inadmissible”.
The main petitioner was seeking removal of the statue due to its representation of Britain’s oppressive rule over Ireland.
The Petitions Committee [head], Seán Sherlock, maintained that the controversial monument of the German-born ruler still remains a significant part of Irish history. […]
Part of the reasons disclosed for keeping the statue intact was that the Dáil does not actually own the statue and therefore could not legally oversee its removal.
The committee also believes that the work of local artist and sculptor John Henry Foley should be preserved. …
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How much of rural Ireland is like that from “The Quiet Man”. Was it ever thus, or was that just a John Ford fantasy?
A dreary landscape populated by dour, brawling drunks?
Probably no relation to reality.
As I recall Vickey was relatively favorable toward the Irish and the Irish Catholics. Not so much her government though.
Isn't Sherlock an English name? And isn't Sherlock's greatest enemy's name Professor Ó Muircheartaigh, Anglicized as Professor Moriarty?
Yes; Sherlock is from an Anglo-Saxon word that either means fair hair or short hair.
Moriarty is one of the Anglicizations of “Ó Muircheartaigh”; the other most common forms are Murtagh/Murtaugh, Murdock/Murdoch, and even McMurtry and McCurdy (from the “Mac Mhuircheartaigh” variant).
Were they really under free state status, or were they just happy to see us?
If so, they’d better let him out.
Irish patriots took care of the statue of Lord Nelson in Dublin (O’Connell Street?) with some sticks of gelignite in 1966. They might do the same to the queen! (no caps; she ain’t MY queen!)
Oh wait... it’s the prince...he ain’t MY prince!
The man who bombed Nelson’s Pillar was anything but a patriot; Liam Sutcliffe was a hardcore revolutionary Marxist. You going to be like Peter King and support the communistic IRA too?
BTW, the statue of Lord Nelson still survives.
And oh yes, I would rather see the pillar back instead of that tasteless “Millennium Spire”.
"Irish patriots" translates as "atheist Communists."
True, the IRA which started out as resistance to British occupation, killing enemy soldiers was co-opted by communists who started bombing pubs where soldiers and non-commies were likely to be found.
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