[- "A nation?" says Bloom. "A Nation is the same people living in the same place."
- "By God, then," says Ned, laughing, "if that’s so I’m a Nation for I’m living in the same place for the past five years."
So of course everyone had the laugh at Bloom and says he, trying to muck out of it:
"Or also living in different places."]
~James Joyce, Ulysses~
Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, again cranked up the pressure on Dissident Republican Groups in Derry and Northern Ireland. In a stinging attack and rebuke of their activities, he accused them of effectively ’Ghettoising’ areas of Derry City.
"They have effectively tried to turn parts of Derry into a slum."
~Martin McGuinness~
Republicanism’s chief negotiator during the peace process was recently informed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) of alleged potential threats on his life by Real IRA. However, given the level of criticism being brandished at the Deputy First Minister (N.I.) from within grass roots Republicanism, he is facing up quite bullishly to these criticisms, as expressed in a recent interview with the ‘Derry Journal'. He also remains adamant that Sinn Fein’s road map towards a United Ireland is still on track! He dismissed the recent upsurge in Dissident activity as, “self-serving”and described them as
“imposters”,
who’s main goal was to hijack the ideals of Republicanism. He dismissed their claims of being the true exponents of Irish Republican Ideology as mere:
“flags of convenience for criminality and drug dealing.”
Mr McGuinness is due to attend a public meeting in Derry this Thursday, as principle speaker, and it is hoped that recent rumblings of discontent will not over shadow the planned topics up for discussion!
"Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations. The Defenders of this Realm have worked well in secret and in the open. They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! — they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace!"
~ Padraig Pearse~
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