52 Comments

• kurtjohnson | Feb 09, 2011, 11:43 PM EST

  Calm down towntroll you big drama queen(and it's Kurt). Before you hijacked the thread in the third post, haikued2 at Jan 23, 2011, 01:47 PM EST, commented on the commercialization of the photograph (how can something that is priceless be sold? Just a thought). I haven't bothered getting through the rest of your rambling pablum for which you keep congratulating yourself.

• Towngate | Feb 06, 2011, 03:55 AM EST

  The Photograph sold at Auction for €500. ($680, £421-UK) €100 below the lowest Guide Price :-(5-8oo). (Irish Times).

• Towngate | Feb 03, 2011, 09:23 AM EST

  YOU ARE A LIAR curt. There was NO mention of that point before my first post on this topic! - - - Chapter and Verse, if you please ! - - - or offer the site an apology, if you have the backbone.!.. - - - - - -If Constance had heard her Comrades being shot one by one from her cell and 'pulled every string available' to her, to save her own life, then, only when she was SURE she had 'escaped', did she make her hypocritical remark : pretending she would rather have died for her Cause!. If she genuinely felt so bad about living when the Men died, it surely would have been the 'decent thing' to shoot herself with one of her German bullets - having saved the British Army from wasting a good English one! The more you display your ignorance, the bigger the Shadow grows on her Reputation. But still, in spite of all the Shadows, she displayed more courage than you will ever dream of in a hundred sorry lifetimes, so apologise,for goodness sake, and let her Rest in Peace now.

• kurtjohnson | Feb 02, 2011, 08:34 PM EST

  There was indignance raised about selling such as national treasure before you hijacked the thread with this little gem creaky: "She could have had the decency to shoot herself!"

• Towngate | Feb 02, 2011, 09:27 AM EST

  THE POINT that amuses me is that amidst all the indignant guff issued by the 'little irelanders' on this Thread --- there has not been a single peep of Moralistic Outrage that this 'Priceless Irish Photograph' is being flogged off to the highest bidder and will probably end up is some museum "on the nicest street in Philadelphia". - - - Such an ignominious end for such a Treasured Momento!

• kurtjohnson | Feb 01, 2011, 11:01 PM EST

  It's about time for you to get back to the "point of the post" and given us another rambling stream of insane nonsense creaky.

• Towngate | Feb 01, 2011, 12:47 PM EST

  QUICK! These two need 'the Priest'!

• sirpeter | Feb 01, 2011, 06:13 AM EST

  Creaky..you haven't a chance of anyone touching your 'shakespeare' at your age.

• sirpeter | Feb 01, 2011, 06:12 AM EST

  Creaky..You haven't a chance of anyone touching your "shakespeare! at your age.

• Towngate | Feb 01, 2011, 03:33 AM EST

  BETTER AND BETTER! - - - now TWO minnow-minds on the same hook! Pass me my 'shakespeare' so I can put them out of their misery!

• kurtjohnson | Jan 31, 2011, 08:42 PM EST

  Yes, hopefully this site works as a form of shock therapy for creaky.

• sirpeter | Jan 31, 2011, 01:22 PM EST

  Creaky..Well at least you are reading Irish history anyway,It's all part of your rehabilitation.Kurt I have noticed that.He is abandoning his rambling, monotonous works of fiction.Creaky is beginning to do a bit of research now.He knows he can't just post his own dopey belief's anymore. Well done Creaky,you have admitted you are a chronic liar and that is the first step to recovery..Now for your homework...You must keep repeating..I must not believe the lies the British have taught me. Maith an fhear!!

• Towngate | Jan 30, 2011, 11:23 PM EST

  ANOTHER BITE! Yip-pee! - - - Much as we are enjoying hooking these boring dopey flounders, we must get back to the point of the Post: I wonder how much the Photograph of the Lady with the 'Brit Status and 'Toxic System of Values' fetched, when it was sold?

• kurtjohnson | Jan 30, 2011, 10:20 PM EST

  Although towntroll has used his brit troll status to obscure his pathetic and failed defense of his toxic system of values, perhaps he's also abandoned the rambling, monotonous works of fiction he post.

• Towngate | Jan 30, 2011, 08:22 PM EST

  ANOTHER S-PRAT HOOKED! Jolly Good!

• kurtjohnson | Jan 30, 2011, 07:12 PM EST

  To towntroll, racial supremacism and class stratification = "compassionate and chivalrous." One can't fault him for keeping his values consistent with the british terror state he worships, however. Irrespective of her evenutal fate, the decision of Countess Markievicz to put her high level of privelege at risk demonstrates the worthiness of the cause she chose.

• Towngate | Jan 30, 2011, 10:36 AM EST

  THOUSANDs of acres to ride and shoot in as a child. An incredibly wealthy father with more smiling servants and grinning Irish peasant labourers than he could throw a stick at, a Polish Count with vast Estates as a Husband, a British Army Cousin gallantly fighting in Dublin : present at her surrender, who offered her a lift to prison! - - - Following her Courts Marshal trial, her Guilty, and “I am only a woman” Plea, and Sentence to be shot, which, after a 'vigorous campaign' by her sister Eva and ‘Others’, was Commuted to 'Life' " based purely on her Sex" --She served only one year of her sentence but objected constantly to being locked up with the “common dregs of society”. (She never did any 'Hard Labour' under the British --- that came later when she was locked up by her Irish 'comrades'). --- Nevertheless, she was a complicated, troubled, and truly outstanding woman of her time and we cannot deny her courage and commitment to her chosen cause, and must be grateful for it. --- Nevertheless: she provides all Irish history lovers with yet another 'Uncomfortable Irish Truth' to ponder; The Shadow of doubt which darkens her Place as a truly ‘Great’ person in British and Irish History, is that when the ‘going got tough’ in 1916/17, - the remarkably Compassionate and Chivalrous British Authorities allowed her to ‘pull every string’ she had, and unashamedly ‘ play her Race, Class and Sex cards’ to save her own skin! And I for one don’t blame her one little bit! So! – let’s have a rousing ‘Three Cheers’ :- for Kith and Kin! :- The British Army! :- and the Good Lady herself ! --- May they all Rest in a Peace of Truth now, anyway!

• sirpeter | Jan 30, 2011, 10:35 AM EST

  Nice tactic Creaky pretending to be a troll..When i came on here first, you were all earnest in your scholarly writing's. Now you are pretending you are in control,by been a troll. I think i have ya on the auld Irish history. When it comes to the auld bottom feeders,and their manipulating of Irish history I think your "Flounder-ing" alot more.

• kurtjohnson | Jan 29, 2011, 10:39 PM EST

  Yes, that's just how it reads troll.

• Towngate | Jan 28, 2011, 08:35 PM EST

  THE LAUGHTER JUST GETS LOUDER as the Flounders bite on every hook!

• sirpeter | Jan 28, 2011, 07:20 PM EST

  Creaky..You would try anything to try to put the Brits in good light wouldn't you..Not on my watch buster..You will have to do better then that.When it comes to Irish History..You will have a hard job.

• sirpeter | Jan 28, 2011, 07:14 PM EST

  Creakygate..You are a liar. I was wondering when you would drag that up about her saying "I am only a woman, surely you would not shoot a woman!" You say there IS a record of her saying that..WELL YOU ARE WRONG,THERE IS NO RECORD OF HER SAYING THAT.First comment..Quote"She could have had the decency to shoot herself!"Unquote..Now she was an outstanding individual that's a bit of a turnaround. This women fought along side men for a week..Who knew they had not a chance in hell of succeeding..All the leaders knew their fate.She was as tough as nails..None of the rest groveled for mercy,what makes you think she did? They didn't shoot her because she was a Countess with English blood..It just wouldn't look good old chap!! If she was an ordinary Irish women,she would have hanged from the gallows. Don't you try and bullsh*t us with your great humanity of this remarkable woman and HER CAPTORS.She WAS remarkable.There was nothing remarkable about her captors.

• kurtjohnson | Jan 27, 2011, 09:33 PM EST

  There's no such thing as "british" kith and kin you silly troll. However, the fact that she had anglo blood probably kept these ethnic supremacists from murdering her like they did with their Irish victims (as well as those in other parts of the world subject to their seemingly endless campaigns of nation mugging).

• Towngate | Jan 27, 2011, 04:26 PM EST

  THERE IS NO DOUBT she was an outstanding individual, and I hope the photo sells well, but Antoinette, there is no Record of her " ...decency to shoot me." comment; - which you include: but there IS of her pleading Guilty and 'moaning' throughout her Courts Marshal, and when she was duly Sentenced to Death, implored: "I am only a woman, surely you would not shoot a woman!" – which you omit! ......How well she knew and relied on the compassionate nature of her own British 'kith and kin' who, naturally, did the 'decent thing', and commuted her sentence to Life in prison, and yet Released her only one year later! ... Your readers deserve this little bit of balance to her story which may help them gain a better understanding of the great humanity of this remarkable woman and her captors and may even help them all Rest in Peace.

• kurtjohnson | Jan 26, 2011, 08:01 PM EST

  LOL

• sirpeter | Jan 25, 2011, 08:55 PM EST

  Be careful Kurt..His Onion Jack sticking out the top of his monitor is beginning to vibrate.

• sirpeter | Jan 25, 2011, 08:48 PM EST

  Creakygate is beginning to shout and has no come back.He thinks we were laughing with him,but we were laughing at him..ha ha

• Towngate | Jan 25, 2011, 08:06 PM EST

  NOT YET - OBVIOUSLY!

• kurtjohnson | Jan 25, 2011, 08:01 PM EST

  We're laughing at the notion that the cobbled together proto-bolshevist british terror state is peddled as a real nation.

• sirpeter | Jan 25, 2011, 05:07 PM EST

  Thank you Liam,you're a gent..It is indeed time we pushed the likes of Towngate and Dublinass off these pages for good.But I'm afraid their type, are the malignant cancer that permeates the very soul of Ireland.Just like on this forum. There one and only purpose is to drag down everything Irish and sneer. Well I for one, won't let them get away with any sneering comment's....Isn't that right Creaky? I made a fool out of you a good few times haven't I? So much so,you stopped posting a reply. When are the Brits going to give back the stolen Irish artifacts in the British museum in Londinium? You never answered that one. Remember how you said that England lost millions of people in WW2 and it turned out to be just 383,600 and the U.S lost 416,800 and the Soviet Union lost 10,700,000..Then when I said half the 383,600 were from Ireland,Scotland an Wales,and that when you think about it, there must have been hardly an Englishman on the front line. You weren't laughing then..were you?..You stopped talking to me then Creaky..Didn't like me bringing down your fellow Brits..did ya..ha ha.

• Towngate | Jan 25, 2011, 09:20 AM EST

  YOU LAST THREE - Tell us when to stop laughing! .....

• LiamDavid | Jan 24, 2011, 10:39 PM EST

  Sirpeter is quite a well spoken man, and sirpeter, and I throw in with ye. It's at these very moments when Ireland needs her sons and daughters to stand strong, and tip these heathen Brits off the edge of these pages of good and strong Irish discussion. England and it's pack are true mongrels! They fear the Irish, because after centuries of murder and sin of every nature, the Brits, try as they might, can not and never will extinguish Ireland's flame!

• kurtjohnson | Jan 24, 2011, 10:16 PM EST

  A heroin who recognized and tried to effectuate the innate right of self determination for the Irish people to her own extreme detriment - a moral giant compared to supremacist terror state cheerleaders such as towntroll. It's a shame there are none like her in the anglo mass consumer wasteland that industrial estate Ireland has become - apt contrast to Maccamouthpiece GeorgeDillon.

• sirpeter | Jan 24, 2011, 09:17 PM EST

  What's your knowledge and experiences Creaky?..Besides the fact that everything the Irish people have respect for ..you like to sh*t on. See Creaky you don't like anything about Ireland..not the place..not the land..not the history..not the politics..not the people. You are just a Brit lover,who love everything british. That means you are to be toyed with and abused. You must go to the Irish west Brit site to your own kind,and leave this site to where Irish people have the right to criticize in a constructive way.

• Towngate | Jan 24, 2011, 08:46 PM EST

  ANCAVKER: What would our lives be if we all felt and thought identically? That is not what they would have wanted. Most posters on here are simply reacting to the Blog and are expressing and sharing a viewpoint based on their own knowledge and experiences.

• sirpeter | Jan 24, 2011, 08:26 PM EST

  Creakygate..The Plantation of Ireland was never OK at that particular time in history..But it was a reality all the same.It's about loyalty to the country you were born in and fed you,no matter what religion or background you were born into. We had some great protestant men and women..Who were loyal to Ireland..That's something YOU CREAKY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT..Loyalty to your country.So that make's you the traitor..History is full of Irish traitors who took the English shilling.Hope you are proud of yourself..To me you are still an Irishman..traitor though you are..But to the Brits creaky you are still a Paddy.

• Towngate | Jan 24, 2011, 07:34 PM EST

  ONE MANS HEROINE is another mans murdering Class and Race Turncoat Traitor! - her father was "an enlightened landlord" - so that makes the Plantation of Ireland okay!?

• nanny2sorli | Jan 24, 2011, 07:31 PM EST

  No mention of the fact that she was the first woman elected to the British Parliament. (She wouldn't take the oath of loyalty, so couldn't take her seat, so that honour eventually went to Lady Astor!)

• GeorgeDillon | Jan 24, 2011, 02:29 PM EST

  I had elderly relatives in Ireland, now alas passed on, as they say, who could remember the Countess holding meetings on Dublin street corners to support workers' and womens' rights, or to oppose the Fascists in Spain during the 1930s. She gave up a live of wealth and privilege out of solidarity with the poor. What a contrast she was with useless overpaid nonentities like McAleese, the current unelected President over there.

• sirpeter | Jan 24, 2011, 02:26 PM EST

  Yeah..Dublinass and Creakygate..That woman was worth the two of ye anyway..Have ye brought you're little wavy union jack flags yet for Lizzie's visit.Ye bunch of sycophants, just like fatty Churchill who said about her,when she was TWO. She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant.Then she goes and gives birth to a shoal of goldfish.

• GeorgeDillon | Jan 24, 2011, 02:25 PM EST

  Dublinjas: You're showing your ignorance here. Be quiet. ancavker: Did you post both the two preceding comments?

• ancavker | Jan 24, 2011, 01:31 PM EST

  Np matter what the story osted, there is always a poster here who condemns the men and women who fought for Ireland's independence. How very, very sad.

• ancavker | Jan 24, 2011, 11:39 AM EST

  She shot a cop. That makes her a hero? Hardly

• Dublinjas | Jan 23, 2011, 10:24 PM EST

  And as we know quite well it was very common in those days for young Sligo country girls to wear silk kimonos...they went awfully well with shitty welly boots around the farm.

• Dublinjas | Jan 23, 2011, 10:20 PM EST

  "British aristocracy" "Constance Gore Both" "Polish count" D'ya think this gal might just have been an adventurer.

• sirpeter | Jan 23, 2011, 08:44 PM EST

  opps!!..pistol whip

• sirpeter | Jan 23, 2011, 08:43 PM EST

  You wouldn't say that to her face creakygate,..she'd pistol ya, till you were yelping like a mongrel dog.

• Towngate | Jan 23, 2011, 07:38 PM EST

  She could have had the decency to shoot herself!

• Liamkeyes | Jan 23, 2011, 06:58 PM EST

  There's a recession, don't you know. One person's rubbish can be another one's Treasure.

• Liamkeyes | Jan 23, 2011, 02:08 PM EST

  Sharp and hard words,sirpeter, but I agree w/ you.

• haikued2 | Jan 23, 2011, 01:47 PM EST

  Rhetorical...how can something that is priceless be sold? Just a thought.

• sirpeter | Jan 23, 2011, 10:47 AM EST

  “I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me." God!!When I think of this Irish women, and then when I think of the bunch of sneaky, dirty, rotten to the core, cretins we now have leading us,what they have done to us...I really feel we have to do something to change things.With all the money we had over the last 20 years.I feel we payed for it by selling part of our soul.We have gone soft.Countess Markievicz could have shot that gun towards the benches of the FF and FG in the Dail, in the clear knowledge that whoever it killed.She was not hitting an innocent man/woman, but a traitor to the Irish people.