Not a Sinn Fein fan, but they have as much of a right to claim 1916 as the rest of the parties. The hypocrisy of the Daily Mail, a solidly conservative British newspaper, calling them out on this is staggering. What nex: Donald Trump complaining that ISIS aren’t Islamist enough? Amazing.
Joe cool
They should have gone with “All you irish are *****
NilNocere
Yeah completely bizarre. It was dubbed the Sinn Fein rising at the time. And if one party has a claim to consistently supporting violent revolution…
Cian
Provisional Sinn Fein aren’t that party though – it’s remnants are FG and FF. And it was heavily the Connolly (Labour) linked rising also
Not a Sinn Fein fan, but they have as much of a right to claim 1916 as the rest of the parties. The hypocrisy of the Daily Mail, a solidly conservative British newspaper, calling them out on this is staggering. What nex: Donald Trump complaining that ISIS aren’t Islamist enough? Amazing.
They should have gone with “All you irish are *****
Yeah completely bizarre. It was dubbed the Sinn Fein rising at the time. And if one party has a claim to consistently supporting violent revolution…
Provisional Sinn Fein aren’t that party though – it’s remnants are FG and FF. And it was heavily the Connolly (Labour) linked rising also