Does John A. Murphy, Emeritus Professor of History of University College Cork, tend to give you a heartburn on your arse?
That’s how he affects me with his obsessive hatred of Sinn Fein and his repeated pedantic reminders that Sinn Fein did not organise the 1916 Rising.
His long and distinguished study of history does not seem to have yielded the intelligence that before, during and after the Insurrection, those Irish Volunteers who ignored John Redmond’s encouragement to shoot Turks, Austrians and Germans as if they were impeding Ireland’s yearning for freedom, were referred to as Sinn Fein Volunteers and Sinn Fein Rebels.
At no time before, during or after the Insurrection did Sinn Fein claim ownership of the Rising. But some members of Sinn Fein took part in it and some leading members of Sinn Fein played prominent parts. For instance Alderman W T Cosgrave of Dublin Corporation and Alderman Sean T O Ceallaigh of Dublin Corporation. Both played prominent parts in Irish public life for some decades following the Rising.
Sinn Fein played a crucial role after the Rising and it’s hard not to catalogue Professor Murphy’s objection to the party organising commemorative events on its centenary other than the begrudgery of an embittered old curmudgeon.
A good description of this hallion lol
You can’t totally blame him as the Irish media wheel him out time after time and pay him to spew his anti-Sinn Fein propaganda!
Any relation to the American Jesuit named Murphy who recently joined the revisionists ,at the Indo and elsewhere, in condemning the Rising ?
And the shame, the utter shame. My mother was a Murphy. I’ll need some psychiatric counseling after this.
“Sinn Fein played a crucial role after the Rising and it’s hard not to catalogue Professor Murphy’s objection to the party organising commemorative events on its centenary other than the begrudgery of an embittered old curmudgeon.”
You do realise that the current party calling itself Sinn Fein and organising commemorative events is not the same as the party that played a crucial role after the “Rising”?
Don’t patronise me MT. Various people left Sinn Fein. Cumann na nGaedheal sort of evolved
and its dates of conception and birth have never been revealed.
Fianna Fail split from it openly and became probably the most successful democratic party in
world history.
“Official Sinn Fein” dropped the Sinn Fein title and Sinn Fein ethos and split, split, and split
again.
Sinn Fein today has its title disputed by “Republican Sinn Fein”
Anti-republican bigots like yourself in particular, MT, know that today’s Sinn Fein stands for
principles your ilk opposed since long the party was founded – one adult, one vote, rejection of
Britain’s claim to rule Ireland, equal citizenship for all
I’m not a bigot, and it’s not often that anyone would consider it bigotry to be opposed to murder and terrorism. Most people might consider support for murder and terrorism to be an indication of bigotry. Your resort to personal abuse perhaps betrays your own bigotry?
Anyway, on the subject in hand, the current party calling itself Sinn Fein wasn’t formed until 1970, when it broke away from the original party (which aa you admit later changed its name).