Would that be MacBrides brigade? Irish commandos and volunteer fighters sided with the Boers against the British?
Had been a history of Irish support for the Boers. Parnell and the Home Rulers supported the Boers to prevent British Annexation. Connolly himself led a protest in Dublin in 1899 against British rule over there.
Mark my words, if I die fighting a war in a foreign land, see to it that the remember me with a big stone cock.
I think some great-granduncle of mine died there for the English…….
The Stephen’s green entrance was also built to remember the Irish who fought over there.
Would you really want to be supporting or commemorating any side or group fighting in the Boer wars.
War is futile cruel & tricky when I’m gone build a big stone Mickey
Europeans had no business being over there, on either side. Two groups of imperialists beating the shit out of one another to decide who gets to steal the natural resources from the Zulus. I hope the Irish government isn’t involved in maintaining this thing.
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Would that be MacBrides brigade? Irish commandos and volunteer fighters sided with the Boers against the British?
Had been a history of Irish support for the Boers. Parnell and the Home Rulers supported the Boers to prevent British Annexation. Connolly himself led a protest in Dublin in 1899 against British rule over there.
Mark my words, if I die fighting a war in a foreign land, see to it that the remember me with a big stone cock.
I think some great-granduncle of mine died there for the English…….
The Stephen’s green entrance was also built to remember the Irish who fought over there.
Would you really want to be supporting or commemorating any side or group fighting in the Boer wars.
War is futile cruel & tricky when I’m gone build a big stone Mickey
Europeans had no business being over there, on either side. Two groups of imperialists beating the shit out of one another to decide who gets to steal the natural resources from the Zulus. I hope the Irish government isn’t involved in maintaining this thing.