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"My review of "The Wind that Shakes the Barley""

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

In the end, Steve, British domestic opinion had been moving to grant the Irish their independence for decades.

The myth of the unstoppable guerilla is just that, a myth. Ask Geronimo, Cochise, Sitting Bull, and Pancho Villa about that one.

Britain had been primed to give Ireland home rule before WWI, and had been looking to get out since it wasn't bringing them money and only Protestant votes in the North were a reason to stick around.

[Violence CAN push nations to do things they already wanted to do. Of course the IRA's links to the Kaiser, and later Hitler, didn't bear examining by Loach.]

9/10/07, 3:14 PM

Anonymous Oliver Cromwell said...

Actually, it was an army made up of Normans and Welsh. Other than that, not a bad review.

Still, I wish that Irish kid had not beaten you up in fourth grade. You wouldn't be so bitter.

Let bygones be bygones I always say.

9/10/07, 3:24 PM

Anonymous Drawbacks said...

I'm sure you're onto something, Ollie. Mike Myers must have spent his entire time in elementary school being kicked around by some big red-headed kid called MacGregor. What else would explain the endless parade of Scottish grotesques in his films?
Oh, and Hitler's career was driven by his hatred and envy of Wittgenstein, who was a couple of grades above him in school in Austria and won the debating trophy and all the other prizes by slyly redefining the terms of competition.

9/11/07, 1:20 AM

Anonymous oliver cromwell said...

drawbacks,

Don't you know it.

Prince Rupert used to kick me around all the time when I was a kid. If only I could've just let it go......

Fortunately for me, I was not into philosophy and never had to worry about tricky upperclassmen.

9/11/07, 3:54 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

[Violence CAN push nations to do things they already wanted to do. Of course the IRA's links to the Kaiser, and later Hitler, didn't bear examining by Loach.]

He also did not examine Churchill's comment about allying with the devil when you needed to.

9/11/07, 3:55 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let bygones be bygones I always say

Then you must not be Irish.

9/11/07, 5:31 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

IRA allying with Germany in WW1 & 2. What did that bring them exactly? A warm feeling inside engendered by hanging out with the big boys?

Better to have had no alliance at all until they were pretty certain the Germans were going to win. Especially in WW1, any probable German victory would have involved some sort of negotiated settlement. Im sure there would have been no German occupation of Britain and what would Ireland get out of it? Independence for Ireland would hardly be something the Germans would be pressing.

So a big mistake really.

9/11/07, 5:48 PM

Anonymous Oliver Cromwell said...

"Let bygones be bygones I always say"

"Then you must not be Irish."

You seem to hold a grudge well enough.

9/12/07, 9:31 AM

Anonymous dearieme said...

The Irish Home Rule Act was passed in 1914, to be held in abeyance only until WWI was over. The British government was therefore looking for peace to break out in Ireland so that it could put the Act into effect. The problem was that the IRA did not want to accept Home Rule as granted by Act of Parliament, but felt that it ought to be obtained by the spilling of blood. Fascists, effectively.

9/17/07, 2:48 PM

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