Thread to dispel lies about our neutrality

National Declaration by Ireland to the EU Council – Seville, 21 June 2002

Government committed to holding a referendum if they chose to abandon neutrality, support an EU army, or common EU defence

They also reiterated the Triple Lock The Triple Lock doesn't give the UNSC a veto over us.

If the UNGA endorses an action, we can take part.

The UNGA essentially overruled the UNSC on the suez canal.

During the troubles there was active British intelligence officers & hit squads working in the south of Ireland against the IRA... in close collaboration with southern state officials

There's a reason they didn't pursue Dublin & Monagahan... they were afraid what it would reveal The garda and government down south went about covering up their collaboration with British intelligence services and security forces as they hunted down Irish citizens north and south.

Isn't it crazy that at the height of the famine, the Quakers were sending more aid than the British government

More crazy still, when the Ottoman Sultan wanted to send 10,000 pounds of gold, the British made him lower it to 1000

When the Ottomans secretly sent food ships... The British tried to block them from gaining access & so the Ottomans went around them & dropped the food off at Drogheda under Ottoman protection

All while the British government was exporting food from Ireland & saying it was either God's punishment or an economic opportunity

Rules for you Rules for her Her integrity

A 1539 act during Henry the eight's dictatorship over Ireland, decreed that no person or persons in Ireland of what estate, condition or degree they be, shall use, or weare any mantles, cote or hood, made after the Irish fashion

Destroying yet more of our unique culture

1/ In 1571, Sir John Perrot, despot of Munster, decreed that
The inhabitants of cities and corporate towns shall wear no mantles… Irish coats, or great shirts, nor suffer their hair to grow glib.

The ould English were mad insecure & sure the Gaels looked like hipsters 🤣🤣🤣

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@HMcEntee said that Michael Collins is FG's greatest historical figure... but he died 11 years before @FineGael were formed

He died before any of the 3 groups which later merged to form FG were even formed.

How can ministers just blatantly lie and rewrite history like that? On that note, FG's website had WT Cosgrave as their first leader... but he wasn't. Eoin O'Duffy was FG's leader

They whitewashed their history to hide their fascist roots. Which is in itself quite a fascist thing to do

Oddly enough though, there are also pics of a nazi Cosgrave

Ignoring everything done to Ireland before 1800 for a second.

The "Irish" parliament rejected the act of union but the British came in & bribed, cajoled or threatened until they had a majority, with promises of Catholic emancipation.

Promises that were immediately broken.

1/ With the English king saying of the idea of Catholic emancipation; 'I shall reckon any man my personal enemy who proposes any such measure.

The act of union itself was passed illegally and so England never had any right over Ireland.

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Yes, support for holding a referendum on #ScottishIndependence is a valid reason to have one... yes. Yet Irish government figures and even ex government figures are platformed to preach against it.

The Irish Times was founded by Major Lawrence Edward Knox in 1823 as a voice for conservative Protestants.

It was soon bought by Sir John Arnott... owner of THAT Arnotts & an MP in Westminster. It then became a home for British unionism & was associated with the.....

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https://twitter.com/IrishTimes/status/1382582119449440260

Irish unionist alliance. The Irish unionist alliance was swallowed up by Cumann na nGaedheal as it formed, which later merged with the Blueshirt fascists and the national Centre Party, a large landowner party, to form Fine Gael.

The Arnotts kept a majority until the 1960s.

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Regarding the racist & xenophobic blood argument of people calling themselves #Irish patriots... You clearly don't know #Ireland's history at all. Not our perpetual exodus to other countries as #immigrants, our status as a people of the #diaspora or our history of blending.... 1/ In roughly 12,500 BC the first inhabitants of Ireland arrived from overseas. They were hunter gatherers & they were later joined by a group in around 6000 BC. This second group brought agriculture & also high levels of CF amongst other hereditary genetic issues... They merged. 2/