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Thread #101746   Message #2358303
Posted By: ard mhacha
05-Jun-08 - 11:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bobby Sands hunger strike film
Subject: RE: BS: Bobby Sands hunger strike film
Teribus so there has been no changes from 1968, well Billy boy I live here and I am amazed to see so many Catholics-Nationalists in top jobs.
Basil Brooke who was Prime Minister here from after WW2 until the 1950s stated that he wouldn`t have one about the place, Catholics that is.

Today wonder of wonders we even have Catholic Lord Mayors, I could go on and tell you of the various seats of employment which were taboo for Catholics and are now filled by them, all of this over the past few years.

I remember reading the Protestant poet John Hewitt at Queens University in the 1930s, regretting the fact that two of his Catholic friends although academically brilliant would have to emigrate to fulfill their profession, he knew that discrimination was such that no learned Catholic had the slightest chance of employment, thankfully it is much improved to-day, we still have a bit to go to enjoy full citizenship, but we are getting there, there is no going back now.

Oh yes Teribus things have radically changed here, and there was no way that the Unionists would have made changes if they had still have had free rein to do whatever they pleased, I live here, I know, seeing is believing.