|  pjdscott | Mar 20, 3:54am | Who is your favourite Irish person, living or dead? The only condition is they have to be born in Ireland (rather than have Irish parents). You can give a reason is you wish.
Here's mine:
Oscar Wilde
Ireland's foremost wit and writer, his writings and sayings encapsulate all that is good and great about Ireland. |
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| | carm2 | Mar 23, 12:18am | | Bobby Sands...if youre irish, you will know why |
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| | pjdscott | Mar 23, 6:18am | You don't have to be Irish to know why! Yes - he was a martyr to the cause.
> Bobby Sands...if youre irish, you will know why |
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Sponsor |  MonkeyMagico | Mar 23, 1:54pm | Bobby Sands - IRA activity
In 1972, the year of the Troubles with the highest death toll, he joined the IRA.[10][11] In October of that year, Sands was arrested and charged with possession of four handguns which were found in the house in which he was staying. In April 1973 he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.[11][12]
On his release in 1976, he returned to his family in Twinbrook in west Belfast, and resumed his active role in the IRA's campaign. He was charged with involvement in the October 1976 bombing of the Balmoral Furniture Company in Dunmurry, although he was never convicted of this bombing, and at the trial the judge said there was no evidence to support the assertion that he had taken part in it. After the bombing, Sands and at least five others in the bomb team were allegedly involved in a gun battle with the police, although he was also never convicted of this for lack of evidence. Abandoning two of their wounded friends, Seamus Martin and Gabriel Corbett, Sands with Joe McDonnell, Seamus Finucane and Sean Lavery tried to escape in a car, but were caught. One of the revolvers used in the operation was found in the car in which Sands was travelling.[13]
His trial in September 1977 saw him convicted of possession of firearms (the revolver from which bullets had been fired at the police after the bombing), and Sands was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment.
Nothing to be proud about. |
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| | carm2 | Mar 23, 4:12pm | | He died for a cause |
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| | pjdscott | Apr 2, 8:55am | | MonkeyMagico - two very useful articles. Forewarned is forearmed, so to speak... |
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|  Dev17 | Apr 7, 3:38am | Michael O'Leary,
He is the claws and the teeth of the Celtic Tiger.
Ruthless efficiency.
-Dev |
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| | SlaineMacRoth | Apr 8, 3:00am | Re: MO'L yeah, red in tooth and claw. The efficiency I see is in unnecessarily screwing his workforce and the environment. And lets not mention disabled people...
But I think the OP's condition that they have to be born in Ireland is a little suspect... I mean one that would jump out for me is James Connolly*
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Connolly [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Connolly]
"James Connolly (Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile; June 5, 1868 - May 12, 1916) was an Irish socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but despite this he would become one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. Though proud of his Irish background he also took a role in Scottish politics. In addition, he studied the neutral international language, Esperanto.[1] He was shot by firing squad following his involvement in the Easter Rising of 1916......" |
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