In light of the attempts by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland and other British Protestant fundamentalist organisations in the country to repackage their “culture” as the acceptable face of the British ethnic minority on this island, here is photo doing the internet and social media rounds. It’s from a Twelfth of July bonfire in Derry, atop of which is a representation of the Free Derry Wall with the names of the civil rights marchers murdered by British soldiers during the Bloody Sunday Massacre of 1972.
Apparently celebrating British war crimes in Ireland is also a part of the “culture” of the British separatist minority we share our nation with.
UPDATE 17.33: Thanks to CiarzyB in the Comment below for this link and the claim by NewsWire that the photo is from Lisburn in 2010. Counter-claims are also circulating that the photo is a recent one. I will update as I find out more.
AN SIONNACH FIONN 
Is cosúil nach bhfuil sé seo fíor. Deirtear gur ó Lisburn sa bhliain 2010 a tháinig an pictiúr, cé go bhfuil sé sin dona go leor fós, ach ní i nDoire a tharla sé. Sin atá á rá ag na meáin ar aon nós.
http://www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk/news/local/rumours-of-fountain-mockery-of-bloody-sunday-dead-untrue-1-4044234
http://www.newswireni.com/content/rumours-over-bloody-sunday-sign-bonfire-could-have-started-bloodbath
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Whether old or new it’s an awful photo and indicative of a shocking mindset. Hate crime.
Do we really want to incorporate such appalling sectarianism?
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Impím ort gan iarracht a dhéanamh nasc a dhéanamh idir an Ord Buí agus an Ghearmáin/an Ghearmáinis. Níl a fhios agam an bhfuil tú ag iarraidh a chur in iúl gurb ionann lucht labhartha na Gearmáinise agus Naitsithe/grúpaí frithdhaonlachtacha nach iad, ach sin an chuma atá ar an scéal. Cuireann frásaíocht den tsórt seo (“Orange Kulturfest”) steiréitíopa ciníoch faoi mhuintir na Gearmáine chun cinn, .i. gurb ionann iad agus na Naitsithe. Dearcadh é seo a d’eascraigh ón seanaighneas idir an Bhreatain Mhór is an Ghearmáin is nach gá go raibh baint ná páirt ag muintir na hÉireann leis.
Mise le meas
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Grianghraf eile atá ag dul thart ar facebook.
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