Anyone but Bono (94)
hem23: id never heard of john hume until last night
ok im not irish but i still think the greatest irishman ever should at least be someone that would also be known internationally. I think Michael Collins should have won. Im also suprised padraic pearse wasnt even in the running. i also think there should have been at least one of your very famous writers...Wilde, Yeats, Beckett, Joyce crazy was no mention of any of them...to Bono ahead of any of those great men is mad. Anyway im off to google john hume
ok im not irish but i still think the greatest irishman ever should at least be someone that would also be known internationally. I think Michael Collins should have won. Im also suprised padraic pearse wasnt even in the running. i also think there should have been at least one of your very famous writers...Wilde, Yeats, Beckett, Joyce crazy was no mention of any of them...to Bono ahead of any of those great men is mad. Anyway im off to google john hume
John Hume did something the others failed to do; he and Trimble brought comparative peace to our country.
hem23: id never heard of john hume until last night
ok im not irish but i still think the greatest irishman ever should at least be someone that would also be known internationally. I think Michael Collins should have won. Im also suprised padraic pearse wasnt even in the running. i also think there should have been at least one of your very famous writers...Wilde, Yeats, Beckett, Joyce crazy was no mention of any of them...to Bono ahead of any of those great men is mad. Anyway im off to google john hume
ok im not irish but i still think the greatest irishman ever should at least be someone that would also be known internationally. I think Michael Collins should have won. Im also suprised padraic pearse wasnt even in the running. i also think there should have been at least one of your very famous writers...Wilde, Yeats, Beckett, Joyce crazy was no mention of any of them...to Bono ahead of any of those great men is mad. Anyway im off to google john hume
Hi Hem Hope the job search is going good in the UK .
On the Topic of Irish Writers,,,,,
I believe they should of all been drowned at birth....How many times i was beat at school for not remembering some crappy poem or peice of Literture i dont know....
What good has it ever done listening to some silly poem
..Now That Shakespeare fella should be dug up and pooed on too.....Was he on Anti Depressants or something
Losty: John Hume did something the others failed to do; he and Trimble brought comparative peace to our country.
Oh ok he is a politician, that would explain why id never heard of him, dont have much interest in politics.
@ relative peace, yeh i was thinking that too, arent they still blowing each other up in the north? I guess not as often as they used to tho.Omurchuwho: Hi Hem Hope the job search is going good in the UK .
On the Topic of Irish Writers,,,,,
I believe they should of all been drowned at birth....How many times i was beat at school for not remembering some crappy poem or peice of Literture i dont know....
What good has it ever done listening to some silly poem ..Now That Shakespeare fella should be dug up and pooed on too.....
Was he on Anti Depressants or something
On the Topic of Irish Writers,,,,,
I believe they should of all been drowned at birth....How many times i was beat at school for not remembering some crappy poem or peice of Literture i dont know....
What good has it ever done listening to some silly poem ..Now That Shakespeare fella should be dug up and pooed on too.....
Was he on Anti Depressants or something
You must have no soul!
GalwayGuy35: how in the name of god can you say collins was a brit. he was in a country ruled by the brits but he definately wasnt british
You're missing the point Jimbo was making. His point was that by the laws of the day Collins was considered a British citizen the same as Connolly.
Besides Connolly was more Irish than most of our soccer team.
hem23: id never heard of john hume until last night
ok im not irish but i still think the greatest irishman ever should at least be someone that would also be known internationally. I think Michael Collins should have won. Im also suprised padraic pearse wasnt even in the running. i also think there should have been at least one of your very famous writers...Wilde, Yeats, Beckett, Joyce crazy was no mention of any of them...to Bono ahead of any of those great men is mad. Anyway im off to google john hume
ok im not irish but i still think the greatest irishman ever should at least be someone that would also be known internationally. I think Michael Collins should have won. Im also suprised padraic pearse wasnt even in the running. i also think there should have been at least one of your very famous writers...Wilde, Yeats, Beckett, Joyce crazy was no mention of any of them...to Bono ahead of any of those great men is mad. Anyway im off to google john hume
Joyce was on the original list as was Wilde, Pearse, Yeats (I think)and Joyce. They just didn't make the last 5.
woods: No! the holocaust denier is Irving not Irvine!
My mistake.
hem23: Oh ok he is a politician, that would explain why id never heard of him, dont have much interest in politics. @ relative peace, yeh i was thinking that too, arent they still blowing each other up in the north? I guess not as often as they used to tho.
They're not really. An odd isolated incident that's all.
Losty: John Hume did something the others failed to do; he and Trimble brought comparative peace to our country.
No more so than David Ervine, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Billy Hutchinson, Albert Reynolds,Mo Mowlam,Fr Alec Reid, Gusty Spence, Sean Garland, and a host of others too numerous to mention. It was called the peace process for a reason, no 2 people could bring it about. Hume merely had the cop on to realise that the provos and loyalists had to be brought into the talks in order to make them worth.
As for Trimble, well he did more harm than good for most of his time as leader. Marching hand in hand down the Garvaghy road with Ian Paisley.
Losty: Not one of the candidates can be even considered our greatest people and while debate as to who is or isn;t has a certain of concentric talk about it; the names for this series ring in as little more than a popularity contest. Bono comes over to many as a self obsessed singer; Robinson turned over some laws but as a Senior Counsel that was her job to do as such while Collins was no more important than others of his time. Of the rest Hume would get my vote or perhaps Connolly but again they were one of several of their doings alongside others who could be also argued for.
However, I like Hem would value many others contribution to Irish society as much and more; from Dr. Tom Barnado to Jim Larkin, Benjamin and Arthur Guinness II, Sister Stanislaus Kenneddy, Willie Bermingham and Fr Peter McVerry, CS Parnell, TJ Whitaker, WB Yeats, Alfie Byrne etc etc, the list could go on but there are many more selfless people out there that deserve accolade and respect from us all.
However, I like Hem would value many others contribution to Irish society as much and more; from Dr. Tom Barnado to Jim Larkin, Benjamin and Arthur Guinness II, Sister Stanislaus Kenneddy, Willie Bermingham and Fr Peter McVerry, CS Parnell, TJ Whitaker, WB Yeats, Alfie Byrne etc etc, the list could go on but there are many more selfless people out there that deserve accolade and respect from us all.
You raise some very good points here. These lists are just a test of who people have heard of more than anything else.
scriobhneoir: No more so than David Ervine, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Billy Hutchinson, Albert Reynolds,Mo Mowlam,Fr Alec Reid, Gusty Spence, Sean Garland, and a host of others too numerous to mention. It was called the peace process for a reason, no 2 people could bring it about. Hume merely had the cop on to realise that the provos and loyalists had to be brought into the talks in order to make them worth.
As for Trimble, well he did more harm than good for most of his time as leader. Marching hand in hand down the Garvaghy road with Ian Paisley.
As for Trimble, well he did more harm than good for most of his time as leader. Marching hand in hand down the Garvaghy road with Ian Paisley.
Agree with you on the many other names that could be mentioned. A show like that is more about being fodder for tea breaks and pubs than it is about honouring people but it does little harm.
Except making Bono even more big headed
Losty: Agree with you on the many other names that could be mentioned. A show like that is more about being fodder for tea breaks and pubs than it is about honouring people but it does little harm.
Except making Bono even more big headed
Except making Bono even more big headed
Yeah it was an interesting experiment, nothing more. Although I did find it funny the way Joe Duffy spent half of the show on Connolly talking about his own family.
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ok im not irish but i still think the greatest irishman ever should at least be someone that would also be known internationally. I think Michael Collins should have won. Im also suprised padraic pearse wasnt even in the running. i also think there should have been at least one of your very famous writers...Wilde, Yeats, Beckett, Joyce crazy was no mention of any of them...to Bono ahead of any of those great men is mad. Anyway im off to google john hume