and then re read trinity.......this time in English as the latin took me ages
Trinity.......I never knew it was in Gaelige ....truly amazing helps you understand the plight of 3 generations of irish families and one even going on to play for a early version of celtic
Tomorrow im reading The 3 stories of irish families in a book........
I always drive Christmas night with my santa outfit on in the car when im going to drop down the prezzies to the kids mums and it really freaks other drivers out (11pm to 3am time) lol, but i see more of them doing it these last few years too............
Christmas day when i bring the boys to mine i get them to wear their scooby dooby doo costumes in the car and they pretend their reindeers and im santa ..........im gonna hate it when they get bigger .theyll loose that innocence
Hi Nuala , Let me be honest with you and let you know im gonna really miss you...
Ive had some good banter with you and have met you on 3 meet ups so far and have always known im in good company ...Seems like the place will be losing a special cog in its mechanism if you leave..
I really hope its just a temporary thing and you come back soon ......
After all i thought you might like to meet the lady ive lined up to marry and shes on CS
.........Oh She doesnt know yet , actually ive not even had a date...ok ive not told her my feelings either ...but .....look shes loaded yeh and im poor and i know i could make it work .
( I couldnt let you leave without a little humour ) ..
So just take some time out and when your ready drop back in to your friends who care for you and will be missing you....
Lots of Love and Hugs Eamonn <----------- Spelt correctly
Well if you want to cook the dinner and supply the drinks and let us all watch the telly and promise not to make too much noise washing up ..i reckon some of us might be intrested in going to wexford
Cmon now your backing out...oh sorry and do the babysitting, i hate leaving my kids alone in the basement.....and the eldest is nearly potty trained
Ill do a Christmas in Wexford thread onm a forum poster
A good wish for me is that if Mummy with her wish could free herself of debt...
My wish would be for her to take out a massive loan and get back in debt... I dont know what it is but i really enjoy watching people i know struggle financially
..........Yes Niamh im only kidding sure id be wishing myself out of debt so i could order my Mail order bride .... they dont get damaged in the post do they ?
Not well today....The nightmares have started coming back and i now here the voices ......Them cries for help muted by a gargling sound before the quiet
Yes a hang over and remembering a barman asking for his mate to help him serve the customers before i started drinking my pint and falling asleep
Hes the only fella i would trust going to the bar though...His ability to remember everyones drink and exact change is astounding...im sure he wont mind going upo for anyone who asks him
and he might be checking out some other figures as well
Morning Crystal, .....Unfortunately like it or lump it Because Celtic was set up by a Roman Catholic Priest many many moons ago to Loyalists here in Ireland the football top is seen as offensive (true or false ?) which is why you will see Republicans wearing the Celtic colours to annoy the Loyalists and show their tribal alligence to fellow Republicans...In the same way that at the march season Loyalists will be wearing Rangers tops if not the bowler hats etc .....
A stupid argument a while ago stopping young school children was started off by a few men wearing Celtic football tops bringing their children to school...they walked day in and day out wearing Celtic football tops Through a loyalist area ...why ???
Its not me its just a sad fact of life.......
I know that the two clubs have been trying to promote anti sectarianism for the last few years and i for one hope they succeed ,but again whilst there is an association with sectarianism due to no part of the clubs i will not allow my kids to Potentially Offend Fellow Irishmen/women who have a different Religious belief.....
Celtic is a Scottish Football club and you live in Scotland so wearing your local football tops supporting your local team is Fandazzidozey and why shouldnt local kids who have local friends that both support either 1 or the other local clubs get on.....
Just my opinion...and yes i know there are plenty of exceptions to my statement
I just thought id say a last piece before i hit the sack and before the 11th is over.......
Everyone here agrees that its right to pay homage and Respect to those who died in Their countries wars.......Were all agreed
The only thing were slightly disagreeing on is a symbol that represents the respect that should be given.... Cliffhar had it spot on that we need our own symbol to honour the dead which would be a sensible thing to do.
Just to add a note as far as contentious issues...
I also disagree with the whole Celtic/ Rangers sectarianism and will not let a celtic top be given to one of my kids for the simple reason is it promotes hatred .....
Personally i am offended by those in Eire who would wear something on their person supporting the Reprensentation of an illegal Forced occupation of our land .....
The people who died in the first and second world wars were bloody heros
and im not disrespecting them at all,
What i do disrespect is that even as stated here in this thread .. We are informed that the money collected from the sale of the poppies is given to the British Goverment/Legion ....
NOT THE IRISH GOVERMENT and goes towards ..helping THEIR wounded to this day and their wounded soldiers are/were the same as the ones Illegally occuping our 4th green field ..
Cmon
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND
IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.
We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people. In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the last three hundred years they have asserted it to arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and of its exaltation among the nations.
The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and all of its parts, cherishing all of the children of the nation equally and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past.
Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent National, representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the suffrages of all her men and women, the Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.
We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God. Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, in humanity, or rapine. In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by its valour and discipline and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra
Come tell us how you slew those brave arabs two by two Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows How you bravely slew each one with your sixteen pounder gun And you frightened them poor natives to their marrow
I actually spent a long time in the Uk and respect those squaddies who have died so i can have a mcdonalds hamburger .....you would swear they got paid for doing their jobs wouldnt you, instead of dong it all for free ...
One day when issues on this Island are fully resolved we can all mope around and remember the dead, But sorry im not that morbid myself ..Funny how the last paragraph can apply to a modern conflict for the allied forces ...............Do they ever learn
RE: The 50 Book Challenge Thread (no spoilers please)
Yes okay ..Trinity
and then re read trinity.......this time in English as the latin took me ages
Trinity.......I never knew it was in Gaelige ....truly amazing helps you understand the plight of 3 generations of irish families and one even going on to play for a early version of celtic
Tomorrow im reading The 3 stories of irish families in a book........
Cant think what its called now