Well I'm very sorry that our elites did better than your elites. At the end of the day it was the scum of the Earth common soldier who died for a pittance just like today.YaTingPom wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:14 amAs LL said.Fred Edwards wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:25 pmSo it wasn't just the English who had the monopoly on foreign fighters doing their dirty work.YaTingPom wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 5:03 pmHe’d prefer that to the English.Fred Edwards wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 1:15 pmFair play! I wonder what he would think lf he knew his sacrifice would be for an Ireland ruled from Brussels and Strasbourg.
Many Europeans went to Ireland to join the ranks and fight. “Your enemy is my enemy”.
So what was his relationship with the Welsh or Scottish? Was it only the English he rebelled against?
There’s 800 years of conflict.
Northern Ireland was populated with English and a lot of Scottish protestants and they were land owners in the Republic of Ireland, and treated the locals like scum. Lots of new laws brought in over time but still the English held power, until the locals started using violence.
It’s really complicated the history of Ireland.
The English actually had Irish fighting for them in the great wars on the premise they’d get land or rights back home. All lies.
What I don't get is why so many people are are wholesale anti English when when like Lord Lucan said direct it Westminster and the Crown and not anything which comes out of England for example the football team!
I support Ireland and any other team who is playing England t-shirts.