tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post8098241594590333209..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: King BillyAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-6533730172670708492010-06-09T15:27:07.548-07:002010-06-09T15:27:07.548-07:00It's impossible to anticipate what will or wil...It's impossible to anticipate what will or will not engage the passions of the masses. :-) I'll check when I've finished here.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-51846333060792799482010-06-09T13:48:40.825-07:002010-06-09T13:48:40.825-07:00Well, I have to log in under my WordPress ID, copy...Well, I have to log in under my WordPress ID, copy a word into a box, then be told, as likely as not, that my OpenID credentials couldn't be verified (although I didn't use OpenID), then do it once or twice more.<br /><br />Yes, it was a spot of fun, as blogging ought to be. Not as many comments as your blog of last night, though. People are bored by the idea of Ireland ... perhaps your Calais notion would have provoked more of a response.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77262241585474664732010-06-09T10:34:35.332-07:002010-06-09T10:34:35.332-07:00Sorry, Adam. :-)
Brendano, why is it a hassle? ...Sorry, Adam. :-)<br /><br />Brendano, why is it a hassle? Anyway the dreaded blog has been added, a spot of fun. <br />:-))Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-36363790490405490402010-06-09T05:28:57.485-07:002010-06-09T05:28:57.485-07:00Rush? Doesn't sound like me. :-) Yes, 'Our...Rush? Doesn't sound like me. :-) Yes, 'Ourselves' is more accurate.<br /><br />I don't think Northern nationalists (of whom I have known many very well) have any hatred of King Billy. They see him (if at all) as a figure in the dim, distant past, where many unionists still seem to wish to live ... they find that mentality somewhat bizarre. Some Unionists still need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the eighteenth century, never mind the twenty-first.<br /><br />Yes, you're right about Aughrim.<br /><br />Commenting on your blog is a hassle ... various hoops have to be jumped through.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-67226818562728137102010-06-09T02:47:03.019-07:002010-06-09T02:47:03.019-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-20318073543745878782010-06-09T02:44:53.851-07:002010-06-09T02:44:53.851-07:00Adam, that would be too gay. :-))
Brendano, I do...Adam, that would be too gay. :-))<br /><br />Brendano, I do not always reach for contention. :-)) <br /><br />Is that true in the north as well? I would have thought William would have been a symbol of everything that the Nationalist community hated. I might write a longer piece on the Jacobite War in Ireland. People here generally have heard of the Battle of the Boyne but have never heard of the Siege of Limerick or the far more decisive Battle of Aughrim<br /><br />Actually what I was thinking of doing for My T was a spoof along the lines of the North as Gaza and the Republic as Israel. If I get the time I'll try to put something together and post it this evening, with Ourselves Alone as a possible title. And before you rush to tell me I know that is not an accurate translation of Sein Fein. :-))Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-90036577757434444782010-06-09T01:12:30.334-07:002010-06-09T01:12:30.334-07:00A factual blog, conaining nothing contentious, I w...A factual blog, conaining nothing contentious, I would have thought. I think it's generally realized now that Ireland at the time was just one theatre of the European war, at the end of a disastrously turbulent century here.<br /><br />I don't think William has ever been a figure of hatred for Irish nationalists/republicans. He has been coopted into unionist/Orange triumphalism and sectarianism, which has mainly been seen, I think, as rather silly and pathetic. William himself was quite tolerant and reasonable.<br /><br />Incidentally, you will break help ma boab's heart if you draw an analogy between the Israelis and the Irish. He sees the Israelis and Ulster unionists as Chosen Peoples and the Palestinians and Irish as <i>Untermenschen</i>. :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-85157887411368865912010-06-08T17:38:33.083-07:002010-06-08T17:38:33.083-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-10342853614287216362010-06-08T17:36:33.776-07:002010-06-08T17:36:33.776-07:00You love it, I feel sure. :-))You love it, I feel sure. :-))Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-14699852616212054122010-06-08T17:30:31.417-07:002010-06-08T17:30:31.417-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-25409776371472931502010-06-08T17:25:38.220-07:002010-06-08T17:25:38.220-07:00Thanks, Adam. You are a man of clear and obvious ...Thanks, Adam. You are a man of clear and obvious passions. I’m such a bossy boots but I hope you don’t mind be saying that there are some in that other place who will play to that deliberately. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-44456798195458825992010-06-08T17:13:29.145-07:002010-06-08T17:13:29.145-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-66508461329661161572010-06-08T16:50:30.679-07:002010-06-08T16:50:30.679-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.com