00:13
Assault on Dame st. Approached by a number of men. Kicked in the head. Witnesses sought.
00:18
Repeat after repeat.
00:45
Did youse go to de nineteen-sixteen rising exhibition?
- Oi did. It was a bit pokey.
Howdja mea-yin?
- Too small. I mean. The room was too small. I had to back up if I wanted to look at something else, couldn't turn around. It was like they didn't want too many people gettin' in there.
Was it interesting?
- I still don't know what the story was between the IRA, the IRB and the Citizen's Army during the Easter Rebellion in 1916. I THINK the Citizen's Army were sound. But the rest of them queer folk are a bunch of funny handshakers and blisterin' eejits.
Including the great Michael Collins?
- Him and the whole cultish lot of them. Collins was a Big Kahuna in the IRB. There was a big trick, a conspiracy, against the ordinary rebels. There was this whole secret IRB organisation within this whole revolution the whole time. It's no wonder it was farcical.
- Aye. Irish fellows shafting each other left and right even while British artillery is raining down. Artillery doesn't distinguish between socialists and nationalists, or the merchants and workers. Do you think we should tell them?
- That they weren't Romantics in the end? Our first assumption was wrong. It ain't no Republic. It's a Treaty State. Who're they kidding? Personally, I wouldn't have anything to do with a Republic. Attracts the bleedin' fundamentalists.
01:17
The lulling music of the insurgency videos makes me want to don a teatowel and spark up an AK. The chopping motion of the Apache makes me think twice. The internet is a harsh window on a media world.
09:00
1922 Battle of Dublin begins as Republican hardliner Rory O'Connor and 200 anti-Treaty forces occupy Dublin's Four courts in Irish civil war opener
10:10
With 1.3 and 1.1 billion respectively, China and India represent 37% of the world's population of 6.5 billion (2006).
14:03
We could launch from Cape Clear in Co. Cork, as it's probably closest to the Equator, and already has a spacey name.
Kazakhstan, flush with money from its rapidly developing Caspian oil industry, wants a share of this lucrative space business and is working closely with Russia on its Baikonur projects.14:55
John Devoy was said to have reckoned founding-father DeValera never really wanted out from under British rule. He was some kind of racially insecure rapscallion, it seems. If you're looking for The Godfather, look no further than Devoy. He hated Dev. Alera.
13:34
BERTHELLO: Go fuck thyself thy fucker! I made said promise ten years ago and it doth mock the meat to keeping it.
15:18
Easter Rising spokesperson Patsy Pearse was just the poster boy. If you want to know anything about anything, ask the women involved. What are they saying? To a chick, everyone of the widows and ex-girlfriends of the executed 1916 rebel leaders were against the Treaty. FUCK THE TREATY. Fuck everything in it, they said.
18:47
De Valera is a bitch. Ireland is wet and cold.
22:45
McDog of the Probably Deads (PDs) told Gerry Abrams (Sinn Fein) he was in Columbia snorting cocaine as a member of the IRA army council. On TV. Reading from a file on his lap. Minister for Bluster.
23:08
DOG: Did you ever take any money from the banks in Sinn Fein to boost party funds?
ABRAMS: We ran a frugal campaign. I'm not so worried about where the money comes from. The issue is how much we spend.
23:58
The Greenie candidate, as well as having a barbq-cleaning brush for a haircut has his notes for the televised debate written on his hands. Hello? It's a visual medium? We can see you staring at your blue-soaked palms.
