Sinn Feinn now the biggest party in Northern Ireland. How long until a United Ireland & Irish Freedom for the first time in 900 years?

[Redhead999]

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Me yesterday
https://youtu.be/GvvtZIwh4Bs

[NamerOfStars]

Wow. I had no idea.

Okay, I'm going to say what needs to be said here: Irish folks? North and south? Don't, I say DO NOT, make this into something full of strife, misery, and horror. I KNOW you've been told that "if it's not pointlessly tragic, it's not Irish", but if it IS pointlessly tragic, it's not Irish, either; it's Russian. Do you really want to be Russian? To trade your whiskey for vodka and your rain for snow and your incompretsible phoenetics for.. okay, THOSE wouldn't change much.

But no more hatred and violence, okay? You both have sweet songs and pretty girls with cute accents. Try focusing on that for a while.

[Redhead999]

Not sure you understand but OK...

[Brokenheartedx]

Yeah what?

[Lliam]

I have over 80% Irish Catholic heritage. I know that my father's side was from County Wexford.

I want Ireland to be united. May it happen in my lifetime. The Republic doesn't have religious strife. Down with the Orange Order and England.

I've visited the Republic twice but never Ulster. I'd love to visit Ulster once the island is united.

[Redhead999]

Visit it now.

[Lliam]

That updates is sooo funny. 🤣

On my last visit to Ireland, I met up with a Catholic priest with my last name. He lived in the area where my ancestors were from. I had connected with him prior to our visit when I was doing genealogical research.

He was nice enough to drive us around and introduce me to some people. One place we visited was Vinegar Hill. There was a plaque with the song Boulavogue that I hadn't heard so he sung it to me.
As we were driving away, I expressed some resentment toward the British and he surprised me by snapping "We're civilized people here."

I get invited to do a set of Irish pub and rebel songs once a year at a St. Paddy's Day ceilidh in front of a couple hundred people. Each year, I cobble together some musicians - accordion, bass, mandolin and/or Celtic banjo, maybe an extra guitar, harmony vocals, plus me on guitar and lead vocals. I create the musical arrangements. A few of my favorites are Foggy Dew, Pat of Mullingar, Orange and Green, Black Velvet Band.

Here's to a United Ireland! 🇨🇮

[Redhead999]

Yes brave father Murphy. You are lucky you found a priest, they are thin on the ground In Ireland these days...

[purplepoppy]

Doesn't make a blind bit of difference. They don't have enough seats in Parliament to effect change. As for a United Ireland they've long had the right to call for a referendum but no one has. Irish politics is just a religious head count but I can't help feel the brexit farce over the border laws has played a part.

[Redhead999]

Did Scotland have enough seats in Parliament to affect a change?

[Brokenheartedx]

About time Ireland United and away from Londons rule along with Scotland.
2 free celtic countries.
Hopefully in our lifetime

[ODC2112]

Supporting the Irish are the Irish communities of the US, and the votes that depend on them as well as their economic power. It was the US who forced the British to accept the Good Friday deal.

Biden himself in the first phone call to Boris after his election said that there will never be borders between Ulster and Ireland.

[Redhead999]

The good Friday agreement is basically the Sunningdale agreement 30 years before. I believe the US did put pressure on the British, the British had basically beaten the IRA but Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness had already convinced the IRA council that the unionists and British were more afraid of the politics than the guns.

[Dargil]

Despite my Ulster-Scot ancestry and being raised in the South End of Boston (Boondock Saints) I do not have a dog in this fight. But unifying Ireland will make for a much stronger nation with its agricultural and industrial base.

[jjj101010]

There’s no way of uniting Ireland without more trouble, as it stands we are in peaceful times, probably best leaving it as it is, no need for more death and destruction.

[Redhead999]

It's already happening. Irish Catholics are now in the majority and the population will continue to grow. It will be done with the vote and since brexit its only increased people's desires.

[jjj101010]

I’m not bothered either way as long as it’s peaceful, if it remains in or leaves the UK it doesn’t bother me, I have no connection to either NI or the republic.

[jjj101010]

Messaged u

[XXblack88]

I don't know about Ireland's politics. But I hope it gos well

[Fuentes]

Lol let their be freedom

[Andres77]

Good luck...

[Redhead999]

Tiocfaidh ár lá.

[Andres77]

feicfimid
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