Ciaran Byrne (Irish Independent, February 25) wrote an opinion piece, "Smiles all round at Croker on day of royal visit, well, almost."
He used extremely derisive language to belittle the demonstration held at Croke Park by Republican Sinn Fein to protest the presence of Princess Anne Windsor at the rugby game.
If our picket "soured the occasion", that would have been due to the fact that we reminded the Irish fans that Anne is the representative of the British Crown, whose occupying military forces committed a war crime -- unrepented and unpunished to this day -- by the massacre of innocent civilians on the playing field of Croke Park, in 1920.
We reminded these Irish fans that Anne is the military representative of a foreign country which, to this day, continues to occupy Ireland.
The fact is that the British Crown is an institution, which claims sovereignty over six of the nine counties of Ireland located in Ulster, enforcing that claim with an army of occupation.
Contrary to claims that these forces have pulled out, there are more British troops still here than in Afghanistan. For these reasons, no representative of the British Crown is welcome in any part of Ireland while such conditions exist.
Such a visit must be seen for what it is, part of the normalisation of British rule in Ireland. Foreign rule and occupation is not normal. Your reporter tried to dismiss these irrefutable facts with his mantra: "Who cares?"
We care. And through the eight centuries of British occupation, be assured millions of true Irishmen and Irishwomen cared. Those who were forced off their lands to make room for the foreign "planters" or who were "transported" out of Ireland, or those who had to flee into economic or political exile cared.
We were at Croke Park last Saturday to speak truth to power. It may be unpopular to do this in the present-day prosperity, where going to a rugby game seems more important to thousands of fans than to boycott it because of the presence of the representative of the British Crown Forces still controlling part of Ireland.
Royal visits like Anne's are in the news because the true analysis of them sheds light on the insidious plan by the Dublin administration to copper-fasten English rule in Ireland.
Thankyou for your enquiry friend and the poster above has it.
The Ulster topic confuses a lot of people.
The Irish island is comprised of Four provinces, Leinster, Connacht, Munster and Ulster.
In ancient times 'Meath' was a fifth province, due to its location it was absorbed by three of the others.
Ulster is in fact a nine county province.
Antrim, Armagh, Derry (mistakenly called 'Londonderry' by those loyal to the crown), Donegal, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Tyrone, Cavan and Down.
When the illegal partition of the country took place the English did their usual gerrymandering to balance the books in their favor.
Six of the counties in Ulster had a larger population of Protestants and Loyalists than the other three, so these six were partitioned into "Northern Ireland".
The three counties of Ulster that bacame part of the Irish Free State are Cavan, Donegal and Down.
Had Ulster not been broken up the population that favored an independent Ireland would have in fact out numbered those that didn't.
The above mentioned gerrymandering in the Occupied Six Counties has continued to this day with districts being layed out to give the Unionist/Loyalist communities the upper hand when it comes to voting.
We admire the book 'Our Future is History'.
The situation in Kernow is in many ways similar to that in Ireland, whenever the English are unhappy with something they just change history or redraw the maps.
The most disturbing thing of all of this to us is the unwillingness of many Irish and Irish Americans to grasp the fact that throughout history English monarchs have been despotic in their treatment of their so-called subjects.
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Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill,
223 Parnell Street
Dublin 1, Ireland
Sinn Féin Poblachtach
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill,
223 Sráid Pharnell, BÁC 1, Éire
For further information contact:
Des Dalton:
Vice-President: 086-329 1809
Richard Walsh:
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Ruairí Óg Ó Brádaigh: 087-648 2061
RSF will oppose visit by Queen of England
Statement by Republican Sinn Féin Vice President Des Dalton
In response to the statement by the head of the 26-County administration Bertie Ahern on the RTÉ radio programme The Joe Duffy Show on December 24 that a visit to the 26-Counties by the Queen of England is now "inevitable", Republican Sinn Féin reiterates its opposition to such a visit.
Republican Sinn Féin will be to the forefront in opposing such a visit as we are in opposing the ongoing campaign to normalise English rule in Ireland.
will that still go ahead now that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is stepping down and now Brian Cowen
is going to take power at the start of May I live down Munster my self and don't want to see any member of the English Royal family over here
edited by: cornishrebel2, Apr 19, 2008 - 12:01 AM
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