Connolly Street, Belfast? Why Not Jean McConville Street?
“Women, labour, the working class, Irish and ethnic groups, are invisible in the city centre. That needs to change. We want to change Castle Street to James Connolly Street as a start…”
https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/belfasts-castle-street-should-renamed-18690283
That’s the declaration of continuous culture war heard from an ex-councillor named McVeigh, whose party affiliation is very oddly omitted from Belfast Live’s report.
Could it be he’s the very same fellow described as a ‘former IRA bomber” in a more candid part of the Ulster media?
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/the-former-ira-bomber-who-got-under-the-skin-of-unionists-in-city-hall-36480597.htmlShared
Obviously renaming a well-known street after a man infamously part of the 1916 republican insurrection, whose statues grace both Dublin and, regrettably, a disloyal district of West Belfast..
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The statue of James Connolly, Irish republican socialist leader, in Dublin
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… is offensive to loyal British people in any British city.
But let’s consider the other categories carefully.
Women?
McVeigh suggests Mary Ann McCracken, who is listed in wikipedia as a ‘supporter of the United Irishmen.’
No thanks!
Apart from anything else, that organisation’s name is surely irredeemably sexist – not ‘Irishpersons! – and since we are told we must judge olden-times notables by modern standards, that must exclude McCracken.
Might it not be more locally relevant to name a street after Jean McConville, a humble Belfast woman murdered by the IRA…
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…a foul crime defended by Sinn Fein’s Mitchel McLaughlin.
In January 2005, McLaughlin declared that the ‘killing of McConville was not a crime, saying that she had been executed as a spy in a war situation..’
Why not rename the Falls Road after Jean McConville?
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A constant reminder of what Sinn Fein is all about.
Mr. Speaker, Sir – You’re the Scum of the Earth!
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Ethnic minorities?
If we want to go down that road, why use McVeigh’s weird suggestion of Frederick Douglass, an American who had nothing at all to do with Ulster?
If there’s to be a road renamed to honour a black man, better by far to choose one of those listed below.
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Black lives murdered by terrorists: Top rown from left: Pte Eustace Handley; Kingsman Marcel James Doglay; Gnr Errol Gordon; Gnr Anthony Brian Abbott Middle row: Pte Lynford Pryce; L/Cpl Grenville Winstone; Pte Anthony Carlos Harrison; L/Cpl Paul Garrett Bottom row: Julius Stephen; Abayoni (Max) Olorunda
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And what about ‘labour and the working class?’
Might we not consider Johnny McQuade, a working-class hero who served the community tirelessly all his life?
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Johnny McQuade
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Just a few random thoughts on a plan surely put forward as a provocation by a man who wants to see Ulster amalgamated with an alien and hostile republic, which would undoubtedly abet his desire for cultural revisionism.
Colum and 
Billy King are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Billy King 23:04 on July 31, 2020 Permalink |
That is brilliant, Ross.
The IRA want to turn our country into a wee tail of the Eire dog.
We don’t want their history or their language here. Eire’s where it belongs.
We belong to HM The Queen and to nobody else!
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Colum 03:01 on August 1, 2020 Permalink |
They shouldnt be renaming streets at all.
Its just playtime politics for people with nothing better to do,
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