tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post8704362831704282437..comments2024-03-29T09:38:08.662+00:00Comments on TPQ: Republicanism No Choice But To 'Stand Behind The Republic'AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-58980626694400785792016-05-18T12:59:34.993+01:002016-05-18T12:59:34.993+01:00'Pat' - or whoever he really is - seems to...'Pat' - or whoever he really is - seems to have disappeared but there is one thing I'd like to add. You seem to believe I had it in for Anne McCloskey and sought to undermine her, all to aid Eamonn McCann and PBP. That is the disgusting slur you attached to those involved in Eamonn's campaign - as if they would stoop to that low - something I'd venture would not be beyond the Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8646172913665116632016-05-16T10:56:41.996+01:002016-05-16T10:56:41.996+01:00i wonder is it the pat i knew.i wonder is it the pat i knew.goothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14677595363697845833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-23400577037312938842016-05-16T10:54:50.033+01:002016-05-16T10:54:50.033+01:00maybe his name is just - pat. i knew a bloke calle...maybe his name is just - pat. i knew a bloke called pat once and that was his entire name - just pat.goothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14677595363697845833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-59038351888683546042016-05-15T23:30:29.840+01:002016-05-15T23:30:29.840+01:00'Pat', you are quite obviously in some way...'Pat', you are quite obviously in some way involved with Anne McCloskey's set-up, your earlier comments make that clear for the discerning reader. That you are mouthing about me is one thing - I don't really care when all's said and done - but that you cast aspersions and are attempting to smear Eamonn McCann and PBP is another story and very revealing. You and your insidious Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-77429601335444255132016-05-15T21:01:01.542+01:002016-05-15T21:01:01.542+01:00Hi Sean,
So for asking a few questions based on yo...Hi Sean,<br />So for asking a few questions based on your article I'm a stalker based at Palace Barracks? And if my aim was to muddy any water then your answers to the questions should blow me out of that water. I know little about the 1916 societies, and this one ireland vote thing you've being writing about. From being, to use your words, a casual observer it seems that there's not pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03542494756113310385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-63509700096232432382016-05-15T17:19:37.879+01:002016-05-15T17:19:37.879+01:00Maybe you haven't grasped it yet 'Pat'...Maybe you haven't grasped it yet 'Pat'. As I said earlier, my comments - both in this instance as with all the other articles I've written - are not and have never been aimed at Anne McCloskey. So to deal with your point, I don't care if Anne McCloskey stands again or not and it is of no concern to me. Should people running her campaign try again though to drag the 1916 Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-72519612010395409772016-05-15T17:14:08.237+01:002016-05-15T17:14:08.237+01:00Sean
I'm fed up with a dolite lifestyle. But ...Sean<br /><br />I'm fed up with a dolite lifestyle. But until someone hands me the Euro Millions win I know I desrve I'm fucked if I'll work ever again. Not much of a manifesto is it?larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-58869945699036482432016-05-15T15:13:33.305+01:002016-05-15T15:13:33.305+01:00Sean
I insinuated nothing you have had it in for ...Sean<br /><br />I insinuated nothing you have had it in for Dr McCloskey whilst cheering on People before profit from the start of her campain. Have you friends in People before profit is that it? Where they making the balls as you fired them, as I saw a few photos of you and Eamon McCann on your facebook?<br /><br />In your status above in relation to Dr McCloskey's intentions to stand againpathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03542494756113310385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-43283736927676514922016-05-15T13:54:05.292+01:002016-05-15T13:54:05.292+01:00On the contrary Larry, what I've said througho...On the contrary Larry, what I've said throughout is that the historical record demonstrates where such ventures end. Those who argue we should try the non-abstentionist approach should spell out how and why things will be different 'this time' and how their strategy can further the republican project - if they seriously expect others to second what they're doing that is. They needSean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-2471583070062382122016-05-14T09:54:43.073+01:002016-05-14T09:54:43.073+01:00Sean
SF 'took-out' the SDLP because they d...Sean<br />SF 'took-out' the SDLP because they didn't want 30 years of jail, murder and mayhem to be a wave upon which the SDLP surfed to glory having played no physical part in the war. Are you consigning yourself to the political wilderness and confining your 1916 Societies to a mere pressure group for an Irish reunification referendum? Can you in all good concience not see that larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-44067452033598943112016-05-13T21:01:38.565+01:002016-05-13T21:01:38.565+01:00Peter, I am neither an ideologue or a purist. If y...Peter, I am neither an ideologue or a purist. If you read the article how it was intended it makes clear that once electoralism comes into the equation it brings its own set of pressures, which end up reshaping policy. That is my difficulty and not whether an action contradicts the Gospel according to Patrick Pearse. It's worth reading again an extract from John Crawley's speech over the Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-25511930821053803732016-05-13T14:28:01.112+01:002016-05-13T14:28:01.112+01:00Sean
I don't anticipate PBP being the same as...Sean<br /><br />I don't anticipate PBP being the same as SF. The puritan approach will get you very little in the way of support. But it is your call. On the bright side, there is a wee place called Skellig Michael and there are enough bee-hive huts there for you lads to have one each. Watch the world flow by overhead. Opting out only gives career politicians a free run. I hope PBP show some larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-534515593330839072016-05-13T10:36:05.481+01:002016-05-13T10:36:05.481+01:00Larry
Sean is an ideological purist, but he is you...Larry<br />Sean is an ideological purist, but he is young and will learn the futility of such a position in time. We have argued and reasoned with him but remains 'unshakeable'. You are right in what you say about 'republicanism' it has become a word synonymous with failure and division. It is a similar story with the word 'socialism'. Somebody should tell the IRSP!!!!Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027470398152153427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-43486188461262050602016-05-13T09:29:32.234+01:002016-05-13T09:29:32.234+01:00Larry, what you argue for may be well and good but...Larry, what you argue for may be well and good but for me it won't work - we only need to look at Sinn Fein. Why would we turn out any different? Personally, I'm not prepared to invest my time in a project guaranteed to end in the same failure. It's not politics I'm interested in but one thing alone: getting Britain out of Ireland. A OIOV referendum, if we could ever get one, Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-7678521385445140662016-05-13T09:11:31.163+01:002016-05-13T09:11:31.163+01:00'Pat', the reason I said I would call into...'Pat', the reason I said I would call into the Derry office of PBP was firstly because I was asked to by the woman whose thread you were reading, Kate Nash, and secondly for no other reason than to see what was meant by the claim in an article she shared, that PBP policy was for an all-Ireland republic and whether OIOV was compatible with their thinking on that. When I asked what was Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-87481339600414904292016-05-13T09:08:52.541+01:002016-05-13T09:08:52.541+01:00Sean
if viewed from a perspective of a doctrinair...Sean<br /><br />if viewed from a perspective of a doctrinaire Irish Republican much of what you say is correct. Sure the republic proclaimed was sovereign and indefeasible. And partition flies in the face of the proclaimed republic; as does, of course, participation in elections to 'illegal assemblies'.<br /><br />But here's your problem Sean ... there are doctrinaire republicans and Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-35335755642275071082016-05-13T08:23:41.917+01:002016-05-13T08:23:41.917+01:00The 1916 Societies to my mind are a re-run of O...The 1916 Societies to my mind are a re-run of O'Donovan Rossa's Phoenx Societies. Forward thinking rather than backward is needed but that argument has been done to death so I'll leave it there. The Societies should engage with everyone. They should also begin building an electoral profile and machine. Hiding behind a professed republican purity didn't work for the 1950s campaign larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-60959692969107457852016-05-13T00:36:18.760+01:002016-05-13T00:36:18.760+01:00Sean
I’ve been reading posts online from you a whi...Sean<br />I’ve been reading posts online from you a while now, well it’s hard not to with you flat out on the internet talking shite. As you’re clearly full of theories here’s my theory, you are an online deviant for People before profit who has for months gone out of his way to try and dirty Dr McCloskey’s campaign whilst demonizing those supporting her. This was confirmed for me when you the pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03542494756113310385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-78078962201962786892016-05-12T23:13:34.760+01:002016-05-12T23:13:34.760+01:00Sean,
Have you read Sun Tzu's The Art of War?...Sean,<br /><br />Have you read Sun Tzu's The Art of War?<br /><br />Its an utterly brilliant book about strategy, and is still used today nearly 3000 years after it was written. <br /><br />One of the central tenants is 'Adaptation'. Standing your ground is fine, but not when you are on a rock in a river that is slowly rising.Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-18186024337662418252016-05-12T21:26:53.410+01:002016-05-12T21:26:53.410+01:00Sean, do you not think a few candidates for OIOV i...Sean, do you not think a few candidates for OIOV in Stormont in the naughty corner and/or councils would do you more good and give you a far greater platform than standing in the Burren of Irish politics telling everyone else they are wrong? The 1916 Societies seem to be well spread out about the place. Even if figures/votes were minimal initially surely the activity and exposure is better than larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.com