tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post1196271287633180935..comments2024-03-23T10:20:15.689+00:00Comments on Léargas: The Belfast of the TitanicMáirtín Ó Muilleoirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088662505129211196noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-10626190726966871362012-04-10T15:47:22.820+01:002012-04-10T15:47:22.820+01:00The infamous Belfast shipyard at one time employed...The infamous Belfast shipyard at one time employed 30,000 - 35,000 people and to their shame they only employed 400 - 600 Catholics,they where known as gofers, (go for this go for that)somebody had to sweep up.Buses went to the Castlereagh rd,Beersbridge rd.Newtownards rd,Belmont rd, Albertbridge rd,Woowvale rd,Shankill rd, etc,but holy of all holies none went to the Falls rd,I wonder why!!!<br />Please Google it.<br />Padhráig O'ChoírbínPadhríghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04164193592311791894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-8554776195477026902012-04-05T17:09:18.127+01:002012-04-05T17:09:18.127+01:00Good to see you like this version, yes a Titnic of...Good to see you like this version, yes a Titnic of a story. A twice told tell of Terror. Sometimes survival accounts do captivate the mind, but the whole stories and lessons are not always learned. Whenever good things are build, they often end up building us. A State can be a mask behind which there is no face only an attraction. The past is there, if one looks can find a truth. It is that beyond eyes that moves drum is beats. Unsinkable ideas and ideals can find icebergs on the greener greengrass, we must alway be on posture, on watch of the dangers ahead.Timothy Doughertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03626399091447383952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-13592539783276758062012-04-03T18:44:58.090+01:002012-04-03T18:44:58.090+01:00Well written Gerry,
As Martin Luther King, Jr. sai...Well written Gerry,<br />As Martin Luther King, Jr. said:<br />"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."The Industrial<br />Revolution was successful in England and the U.S. because of cheap cotton. What made cotton cheap? The extermination of the native population and bringing in slaves. The Chartist Movement and leaders like Feargus O'Connor, issues of democratic inclusion and the rights of citizenship remain relevant today. Ireland was ruled and administered directly from Westminster and contained a third of the population of the British Isles before the famine. Often disturbed districts used to describe areas in Ireland where martial law had been imposed was also used to describe parts of the manufacturing districts of England and Scotland. One could say the way in which Ireland was ruled, the living conditions of its people affected the rest of the all England directly. Chartism kept the issue of Irish coercion at the head of the campaign against the government,as did The Northern Star.<br /> A wonderful bit if history, that is still of interest today.Timothy Doughertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03626399091447383952noreply@blogger.com