12 Jul 12 - 09:11 AM (#3375245) Subject: BS: Battle of the Boyne From: kendall I woke up with the song, The Old Orange Flute in my head and it reminded me that it was on this date in 1690 that King Billy crossed the river Boyne looking for a fight. He found one.
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12 Jul 12 - 09:34 AM (#3375257) Subject: RE: BS: Battle of the Boyne From: Rapparee If it weren't for religious prejudice it wouldn't have happened. |
12 Jul 12 - 01:28 PM (#3375347) Subject: Folklore: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!!!! From: *#1 PEASANT* Some songs for the day http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/osong/ooooo.html Songs for the twelfth of july! just in case you are clueless.... http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/orange.html Whats it about the twelfth? Never neglect a holiday~ Conrad |
12 Jul 12 - 02:34 PM (#3375371) Subject: RE: Folklore: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!!!! From: radriano This is just a pet peeve of mind. You only need ONE exclamation point. The rest mean nothing. |
12 Jul 12 - 03:21 PM (#3375385) Subject: RE: Folklore: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!!!! From: Will Fly And this is just a pet peeve of mine: Why in God's name should any of us wish to celebrate a battle in which many were killed and which helped to fuel the intransigence embedded in the political, social and religious landscape of Ireland? And what relevance is any of it to you personally? |
12 Jul 12 - 03:40 PM (#3375395) Subject: RE: Folklore: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!!!! From: GUEST,sturgeon It wasn't even the key battle in the war either! The Prods never get anything right. |
12 Jul 12 - 03:47 PM (#3375397) Subject: RE: Folklore: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!!!! From: Megan L I do wish people would stop throwing verbal blankets over people not all protestants think the same way and neither do all catholics. Start building bridges stop building walls |
12 Jul 12 - 04:23 PM (#3375410) Subject: RE: Battle of the Boyne: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!! From: Joe Offer The Office of Public Works of Ireland has an interesting Website for the battlefield, which is now a national park. The Website links to a secondary education pack, which has interesting information on the battle.
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12 Jul 12 - 05:05 PM (#3375417) Subject: RE: Battle of the Boyne: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!! From: kendall Will, I see it as remembering a piece of history, not celebrating all that carnage. |
12 Jul 12 - 06:22 PM (#3375461) Subject: RE: Battle of the Boyne: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!! From: GUEST What could be celebrated: The heroic resistance of the ordinary people of Londonderry, who wouldn't let the soldiers surrender to save their own skins, at the expense of the civilians. What shouldn't be celebrated: the colonial oppression of Irish people by British colonialism, using the fears of poor descendants of the Derry Prentice Boys as a battering ram. |
12 Jul 12 - 06:52 PM (#3375467) Subject: RE: Battle of the Boyne: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!! From: framus We Prods prefer remembered to celebrated. Surely the "ordinary people" ARE the civilians, and the British are still, to an extent, persecuting both sides over here when it suits them. Lundy was probably very nice to his Mammy and Daddy. Haven't heard as much as one 6 key flute all day! |
12 Jul 12 - 06:55 PM (#3375469) Subject: RE: Battle of the Boyne: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!! From: framus And thanks, Joe, for pointing out the date "anomaly". Sorry Kendall! |
12 Jul 12 - 09:58 PM (#3375531) Subject: RE: Battle of the Boyne: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!! From: GUEST The "Glorious 12th", as far as I can recall, is the term used for the start of the grouse shooting season. Nothing glorious about this sort of crap! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18823292 |
13 Jul 12 - 09:02 AM (#3375656) Subject: RE: Battle of the Boyne: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!! From: Charmion I grew up in an Orange village in eastern Ontario. I dislike suburbia and the effects of urban sprawl in the Ottawa Valley, but I don't regret for a minute the disappearance of the Orange Lodge -- part of the old rural culture of this area -- from the Ottawa region. |
13 Jul 12 - 10:37 AM (#3375690) Subject: RE: Battle of the Boyne: Have a Glorious twelfth!!!!! From: GUEST I still think that all organized religions should be banned. They have caused more deaths than all the wars put together. Thank god I'm an atheist. |