The mental gymnastics here is something else. I suspect many in Fine Gael would prefer if the roots of their political party stemmed from constitutional nationalist politics and not the violence and chaos of the revolutionary period.
So Varadkar is now a Shinner?
Does that not make them even worse than the Provos in his eyes since the Provos believed, rightly or wrongly, that there was no alternative to violence?
If Collins believed there was an alternative but chose violence despite that belief, what does that make him in Leo’s eyes?
>“the name Sinn Féin has been used in more recent times by those who have never understood the principles by which people like Griffith and Collins lived their lives, or tried to follow them. Both were pragmatic men… and neither believed there was no alternative to violence or war”.
Remember that time when the Good Friday Agreement was signed between unionists and absolutely nobody else?
The desperation with which Fine Gael wish their roots as a party didn’t lie in Sinn Féin is something else.
Varadkar and co. clearly wish they were the descendants of the constitutional nationalists of the IPP rather than SF.
As an aside FG claiming the legacy of Collins and Griffith as theirs alone is problematic. Neither man was ever a member of any political party except SF. CnG wasn’t even founded until the year after their deaths.
FG so badly wish it was politically acceptable to be unionist in Ireland.
Imagine the shite they’d all say about Dev if he’d died around the same time.
Clearly he knows very little about Griffith. Griffith argued many times against all out violence instead favouring passive resistance. He also felt to avoid partition a dual monarchy system and in Ireland would be the most acceptable to nationals and unionists.
Clearly Leo needs to brush up on the old history books
Ah yes the same party who wanted to “commemorate the RIC”. Useless blagards. Hope they get evicerated next election lol.
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The mental gymnastics here is something else. I suspect many in Fine Gael would prefer if the roots of their political party stemmed from constitutional nationalist politics and not the violence and chaos of the revolutionary period.
So Varadkar is now a Shinner?
Does that not make them even worse than the Provos in his eyes since the Provos believed, rightly or wrongly, that there was no alternative to violence?
If Collins believed there was an alternative but chose violence despite that belief, what does that make him in Leo’s eyes?
>“the name Sinn Féin has been used in more recent times by those who have never understood the principles by which people like Griffith and Collins lived their lives, or tried to follow them. Both were pragmatic men… and neither believed there was no alternative to violence or war”.
Remember that time when the Good Friday Agreement was signed between unionists and absolutely nobody else?
The desperation with which Fine Gael wish their roots as a party didn’t lie in Sinn Féin is something else.
Varadkar and co. clearly wish they were the descendants of the constitutional nationalists of the IPP rather than SF.
As an aside FG claiming the legacy of Collins and Griffith as theirs alone is problematic. Neither man was ever a member of any political party except SF. CnG wasn’t even founded until the year after their deaths.
FG so badly wish it was politically acceptable to be unionist in Ireland.
Imagine the shite they’d all say about Dev if he’d died around the same time.
Clearly he knows very little about Griffith. Griffith argued many times against all out violence instead favouring passive resistance. He also felt to avoid partition a dual monarchy system and in Ireland would be the most acceptable to nationals and unionists.
Clearly Leo needs to brush up on the old history books
Ah yes the same party who wanted to “commemorate the RIC”. Useless blagards. Hope they get evicerated next election lol.