Originally Posted by Saph (Post 10753333)

what is the RIC and DMP

Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 10753318)

Sounds like it had been planned by the Irish government?

Odd that the song has gone to no. 1 in the UK

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 10753899)

What does it represent?... the spirit of brexit the uprising and galvanising of English nationalism. Imo

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 10753989)

Anyway all proceeds are going to charity so that’s a bonus

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 10753987)

Nonsense

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 10754204)

Well thought out response there, I fully understand your counter argument. I look forward to your next word on the subject.

It's rabble rousing, the black and tans were a suppressive faction that led to division, invented by the Boris Johnson of the day churchill. The comparison is apt.

I say fair play that the song has been released, it's a lesson in the fallacy that the English are the great emancipators.

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 10754198)

For the victims of police brutality? ...

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 10754210)

The Wolfe Tones say they'll donate the proceeds of downloads from "Come Out Ye Black and Tans" to homeless charity, the Peter McVerry Trust. That's after the rebel song topped the iTunes charts in both the UK and Ireland

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10754243)

how the **** did it top the charts in the UK? :skull:

Also, you asked who thought it would be a good idea to commemorate the RIC :


Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan, who supported hosting a commemoration for members of the RIC, cancelled an upcoming event at Dublin Castle on Tuesday following pressure from opposition TDs and the public.

TheJournal.ie also reported that the expert advisory group for the Government’s Decade of Centenaries programme did not recommend the planned commemoration event for the RIC, according to one of the group’s members Diarmaid Ferriter.

https://www.thejournal.ie/taoiseach-...61506-Jan2020/

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 10754249)

it did not top the UK charts

it was the "iTunes charts" which is pretty irrelevant (do people still use itunes, i thought it ended with ipods?)

this is the UK chart and Stormsy is number 1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/art...-singles-chart

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10754243)

how the **** did it top the charts in the UK? :skull:

Also, you asked who thought it would be a good idea to commemorate the RIC :


Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan, who supported hosting a commemoration for members of the RIC, cancelled an upcoming event at Dublin Castle on Tuesday following pressure from opposition TDs and the public.

TheJournal.ie also reported that the expert advisory group for the Government’s Decade of Centenaries programme did not recommend the planned commemoration event for the RIC, according to one of the group’s members Diarmaid Ferriter.



https://www.thejournal.ie/taoiseach-...61506-Jan2020/

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 10754209)

Please don’t kizzysplain Irish history to me

I am struggling to find any Brexit connection with a decision taken by the Justice Minister in the Republic so maybe you can kindly explain that one

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 10754466)

Kizzysplain I like it.. if you know the history you'll know why this is the perfect backlash to the flux caused by brexit.

Like brexit, the volume that have bought the tune and the reach its had shows the strength of public feeling to the issue IMO.

For me the song doesn't in any way commemorate the black and tans so not sure why you're mad.

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10754467)

I was thinking maybe the song got popular in England after that Alan Partridge scene

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 10754210)

The Wolfe Tones say they'll donate the proceeds of downloads from "Come Out Ye Black and Tans" to homeless charity, the Peter McVerry Trust. That's after the rebel song topped the iTunes charts in both the UK and Ireland

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 10754483)

:laugh: I know cherie... I read that too. Like dougal I was just having a bit of a laugh.. black and tans, police brutality? Geddit?

I dont know why I bother.

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 10754475)

wtf are you on about

The song going to no 1 is a direct protest again a move to commemorate the RIC in the Republic of Ireland, where did I say the song commemorated the Black and Tans, you are in such a rush to be right, you have completely misread the original post, then droned on about Brexit, realised this was happening in the Republic and not the North and are now backtracking like crazy lol give it up kizzy


do you see the line in bold in the op kizzy…..read and digest