Yet again I see with deep disgust that certain football clubs and players wont wear a poppy this year. citing reasons of British imperialism and an republican ethos as their reasons. James McClean at Wigan Athletic for example like to spout an uneducated bigoted view as why he should not wear it. i say this as unsurprisingly for he is regurgitating factually inaccurate propaganda masked as history. Sorry but rewritten history by those who are equally as bigoted and sectarian does not make it factual. Ironically the ones that pay your wages are the very ones who families, as working class folk probably, notice that when unsure i said probably, bore the brunt of the losses of both world wars. So Mr McClean I will leave you with this a factual extract you being an expert on Irish history wont need telling who James Redmond was JAMES REDMOND’S SPEECH TO THE VOLUNTEERS SEPTEMBER 1914 The interests of Ireland — of the whole of Ireland — are at stake in this war. This war is undertaken in the defence of the highest principles of religion and morality and right, and it would be a disgrace for ever to our country and a reproach to her manhood and a denial of the lessons of her history if young Ireland confined their efforts to remaining at home to defend the shores of Ireland from an unlikely invasion, and to shrinking from the duty of proving on the field of battle that gallantry and courage which has distinguished our race all through its history. I say to you, therefore, your duty is twofold. I am glad to see such magnificent material for soldiers around me, and I say to you: “Go on drilling and make yourself efficient for the Work, and then account yourselves as men, not only for Ireland itself, but wherever the fighting line extends, in defence of right, of freedom, and religion in this war”.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:29:32 +0000
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