People like Parnell and Redmond were protestant but committed to Irish freedom and advancement. In the 1870's all the land acts that took land off the landowners and gave it to the people were pushed by the Irish Parliamentry Party, most of them Protestants!
Not so, he used terror tactics to get what he wanted, murdering (Irish) men in their beds. He wasn't 'giving as good as he got' as the British state didn't do that to the Irish people (or when they did - in the form of the Black and Tans - it was only in response to IRA atrocities in the first place).
You say Ireland was subjugated, maybe, but it was also part of the British state with full representation at Westminister and Home Rule was already on the statute books.
Yeah it is, and he often thought of what he had achieved on the pitch during the 'drinking years' and wondered what he could have achieved if he hadn't been drinking!
Howya Sal, lol, Envy used the term 'screw loose' today and I hadn't heard it for years so I thought I'd try to find out what the term means to people these days.
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