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GUEST,Allan C BS: Have a Glorious Twelfth! (Drumcree Parade) (251* d) RE: BS: Have a Glorious Twelfth! (Drumcree Parade) 18 Jul 10

"Well, let's see. 320 years ago two British kings (well, one was mostly French and the other Dutch, but let's not quibble) fought it out in Ireland"

Quite so a family squabble over the thrones of Scotland, England and Ireland - with the real coveted prize being the throne in London. James the ousted monarch against his daughter and her husband who also happened to be his nephew. A family squabble which was only a sideshow in a much wider European conflict. Both William and James had blood on their hands and why anyone nowadays would be bothered about either of these guys bemuses me. The real issues are surely inter-communal conflict, mutual distrust, sectarianism and more modern politics with the Jacobite or Williamite things just trappings nowadays.

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