Imagine the United States suspending Independence Day ceremonies for 36 years, or the French doing likewise with Bastille Day ceremonies. Imagine if the British government announced that, even for one year, there would be no Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph on November 11th. There would be national uproar in any of these countries. Yet, here in Ireland, just such a suspension occurred. There was no state ceremony to mark the 1916 Rising on what was then seen as the National Day of Commemoration, at the GPO on Easter Sunday, between 1971 and 2006 when it was reinstated.
By that time the idea of national commemoration had had its emphasis shifted away from remembering and commemorating the issuing of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic on April 24th 1916 and the week-long revolution that followed which fueled a partially successful War of Independence. In 1986 a new National Day of…
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AN SIONNACH FIONN 
And fascism, despite their courage and sacrifice, is alive and well and thriving today in Europe, and lauded by the US and EU when it is employed in the Ukraine to destablise Russia, and it seems that we are willing partners in that, even if we, the people, weren’t asked if that suited us.
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WTF is he talking about?
Russia is fully responsible for that conflict and its aim is to make Ukraine a failed state.
Ukrainian blood is on Putin’s and his supporters’ hands – he should be tried at the Hague as a war criminal he is.
NATO is the only thing that protects Baltics and Poland from the same fate.
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Tend to agree with that. Russia is not a good neighbour at this moment in time and conspiracy theories over Ukraine are a bit far-fetched.
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Are you seriously suggesting NATO are the good guys in that conflict? Try and name one instance were NATO has involved itself in something that resulted in a peaceful outcome. Poland and other Baltic states will be used and abused by both sides in their power game. I don’t know about Russia but don’t for one second think the US cares for any of the countries in that region.
By the way I can never figure out why a billionaire wants to be involved in politics but yet NATO and the US hand picked the ukraines new billionaire leader.
I will say it again, if the Americans had involved themselves in Ireland like they involved themselves in other conflict regions, we would have had unification years ago. Come to think of it, we would never have had partition.
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I don’t think any of those involved in the current dreadful circumstances in Ukraine are “good”. However “goodness” has little to do with fíorpholaitíocht.
Your last point is very true. And has been since the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Or the Fenian Invasions of Canada in the 1800s.
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was at the kilmainham ceremony on sunday as a guest of the maritime institute,have to say it was all very british orientated,dont think ill be going back next year.
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Heard some people say that before. As one person said to me it is a sort of de facto “Remembrance/Poppy Day” for ex-British military in Ireland. Until the actual Remembrance/Poppy Day is made into a national holiday/commemoration. Which one hears is under discussion.
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