this won’t please anyone as well, it’s not like the british state are gonna let them off the hook for it. i do wish they had doubled down, obviously easy for me to say but they had an opportunity to be very cool and they undermined themselves.
you’re fine, he is still widely known/portrayed, here and elsewhere, as The Cool Irish Revolutionary (we are even taught in school that he was brave and good for signing the treaty) so i totally get it. just something i feel the need to push back on when I see it because it’s a symptom of the prevailing liberal historiography of the period.
i understand. his vulgar nationalism is one of the more forgiveable things about him. however his actions from 1921 onwards are totally unforgivable in my view and him and his ilk are a big part of why the country sucks so much shit today.
yeah, my friend who’s a modern Irish historian and a comrade is no fan of him at all and neither am I. i mean like i said he was a force for good at times, but it’s not like left wing anti-imperialist nationalism hadn’t been invented yet, James Connolly being the shining example of that on this island. Collins’ nationalism was qualitatively different and of a vulgar, right-wing nature.
I don’t know what you mean by “benefit of the doubt”, we can acknowledge Collins’ material contribution to the struggle while criticising his significant shortcomings and reactionary tendencies. no need to let him off the hook because he was effective at killing Brits.
and again, signing the treaty was unforgivable in my view. after which he led his guys to fight on the wrong side of the civil war (the bourgeois counter-revolution), violently enforcing the will of the British crown against his fellow Irish people. playing an active role in dooming the nation to a century of rule by a bourgeois comprador class. these aren’t things you can just handwave away, it’s clear you don’t know much of the history here. he tends to be upheld these days by social chauvinist and right-wing nationalists, and it’s not some great contradiction, they kind of are his inheritors. he was a bad guy and frankly a traitor.
fun fact baileys was invented by an american, irish cream liqueur isn’t a “real” thing, just marketing. it is very delicious though. also, it originally had a more “traditionally irish” name but the guy changed it to baileys after doing market research and discovering that drinks with protestant names sold better.
ehhhh Collins undoubtedly was a force for good at times but it’s probably fine that he got whacked because he was very much on a proto-fascist trajectory. also signed the anglo-irish treaty which, you know, not great. unforgivable in fact. most irish communists wouldn’t really uphold him as he was by no means a comrade, very much a right-leaning, “pragmatic” nationalist. he was good at killing brits and insurgency, spycraft etc. but suffered from a vulgar patriotism unguided by any real left-wing ideals.
he is also an elf who has lived in the phoenix park for 100s of years
privileged, chauvinistic, ignorant nonsense.
Irish woman legally residing in US for 30 years detained following visit to ill father in Ireland
…meanwhile our taoiseach is more focused on chastising kneecap for something they said at a gig a year ago
but my friend jerma 985 lives there
doesn’t Nevada have no state income tax?
the UK never had a bourgeois revolution or grappled with their toppling as world hegemon and their politics is still firmly stuck in 100 year old colonial mindset
baby speak lol i desperately need to see examples of this
in a just world this guy would be stoned to death in front of his family
its fine
i mean, it is an incredibly beautiful and varied country from a natural features pov with lots of unique sights to see
my old pair used to piss me off but they broke recently and i begrudgingly got new ones and I actually love them. connection is really seamless, remarkable battery life, actually good noise cancellation. audio quality is up to scratch. more comfortable and secure in my ears than the old ones too. i always hated wired earbuds and could never ever go back. the convenience factor is just too high. i think they’re just very hit and miss, like i said i kinda hated my old pair but honestly delighted with my new ones.
it is disappointing. it’s their choice whether they want to be rockstars or revolutionaries i suppose. easy for me to say but i wish they had doubled down and tested the courts.