Dublin Repeals English Laws Designed To Curb The Irish

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3-13-2006 | Tom Peterkin

[RichInOC]

Dublin Repeals English Laws Designed To Curb The Irish

Heh. I thought they used the toilets like everybody else.

[Bosco]

I'm surprised this hasn't been done already.

[Sonny M]

The overhaul of the Irish Statute Book has been initiated not only to remove relics of the past that are no longer relevant in modern Ireland but also to simplify the legal system for lawyers and the public.

I wish legislators across the country and throughout the nation would think like this.

[muawiyah]

The laws were there but the will to enforce them wasn't. Every country has such laws.

[The Worthless Miracle]

There really is something to that. Even the language of the law is unnecessarily comlicated. Citizens shouldn't have to hire a lawyer to answer to the government.

[Incorrigible]

DeValera: "Burn everything British except it's coal!"

[BW2221]

Irish Thatcherite will hate this. He loves being under England's heel.

[BIGLOOK]

The draconian laws the English imposed on Ireland to keep the natives at bay are to be repealed hundreds of years after they were first put on the Statute Book.

Impeacht gan teacht ort!

[ChEng]

Most of these laws were put in place to counter the great Irish ability to assimilate all comers...After a generation or two, most of Cromwell's occupying forces were; marrying Irish, riding bareback, growing wild beards, singing Irish songs and speaking Gaelic and having a grand time....hardly suitable, hence the laws..Which were observed for less then the time that it took to compose them..This was most evident beyond, as opposed to, within the "Pale"...Hence the expression..

Sorry, the Pale being that small area of Ireland under total English control..

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Irish Thatcherite will hate this. He loves being under England's heel.

I see BW2221, just because I oppose the IRA I must be Unionist. If that is the case, then the majority of southern Irish Catholics must also be Unionist.

Go trolling elsewhere!!

I suppose you are still defending the Dublin riots?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Most of these laws were put in place to counter the great Irish ability to assimilate all comers

We are the Irish. Lower your shields. Power down your weapons. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Seriously, you are right - Ireland is the original melting-pot!!

[reelfoot]

Éire go brách.

[fanfan]

The revision programme will see the removal of ancient acts banning the Gaelic language, prohibiting the English from fraternising with the locals and preventing Jews from owning armour.

Old laws sound so strange to us!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

There must have been liberals around in those times - they didn't want the Jews defending themselves!!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Nice one!!

[Pilsner]

We are the Irish. Lower your shields. Power down your weapons. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

LOL

The Irish weren't breaking any ground by assimilating Cromwell's soldiers. They had by and large done the same thing with Tudor, Norman and Viking conquerors. There is a lesson there too about a culture that decides that its members are too good to do some sorts of work, and allows (or forces) members of another culture to be their drawers of water and hewers of wood.

In any event this doesn't strike me as any blow for Irish freedom, but as empty political grandstanding.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Nope, it doesn't matter - I don't think those laws were being enforced!!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Any law that remains on the books even if not currently enforced has the potential to be pulled out, dusted off and used.