Have you seen Easter 1916, about the seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. It’s also known as 1916 Seachter Na Casca. It was quite informative and made for Irish audiences (it’s partially in Gaelic) and included numerous historians talking about each man and the Irish Rebellion. Obviously it’s told from the Irish perspective. I’d be interested in documentaries from the English perspective as there are always two sides to every story.
Cheers, I agree, but on that time i think there were many sides to that story, many dimentional, the signatories, the British, the different Christian groups and finally those in the IRA that disagreed with the signing of the agreement and the time in history. The personification of the time for me, is Denis "Sonny" O'Neill, who is the most likely to have killed Michael Collins at the ambush. Everything was so mixed up a simple answer/conclusion is not possible. There are no British documentries on it, would not be politically correct in todays world. The same as there has been a lot of legal proceedings against ex-British troops for potential atrocities during the Troubles, which Sinn Fein have been heavily involved in pushing, but when it comes to attrocities by the IRA and their 'soldiers' being investigated they are very quiet, such as the murder of Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose.
It makes me smile when people talk of a united Ireland, with little understanding. Which is shown when people say they want to unite Ireland AGAIN. To which i ask, "Do you mean under British rule?" As that was the only time there was single unified Ireland under one government, but i don't think that is what they mean.
It is up to the people that live there to decide, not people from Ireland, with those in NI deciding whether or not to stay in the UK, but i think first the people who live in Ireland have to be given the decision on whether or not they want to be unified, if they don't want too then a vote by the people in NI is i
rrelevant. People think it is a foregone conclusion they want too, but as with any family, mine and probably yours, there are relatives you love, but you would not want to live under the same roof..... The decision may also be interesting when they have to take on their debt and costs, currently the NI deficit between income and expenditure is around £10 Billion annually [without COVID] and is subsidised by the UK. NI has been in deficit every year since 1966, so this is set to continue for a long time. Plus will the united Ireland pay Great Britain the percentage of the UK deficit that NI will have to take with them?
Anyway back to Toy Soldiers.
