Prince William may be married in Irish Guards uniform

sirpeter: How many countries in the EU swear an oath of allegiance to HM Queen - the British Head of State? One doesn't even have to try with you....lol.

sirpeter: I notice you don't understand some of my responses - can't say I'm surprised. I suggest you look up the word "dominion" in the Oxford English Dictionary for starters.

OH..It's pr*ckface Realist...Sorry FallsRNat for adding your name.I was in a rush.

sirpeter: Lol....Austria was annexed. The British and the French were not able to cut and paste from Wikipedia like you old son. The Austrian people welcomed the German troops. No official complaints or requests for aid were made. That was all the outside World could see. Maybe De Valera should have consulted Sean Russell - he was in Berlin at the time after all? A guest of the Abwehr if memory serves or was it the SS? I must have a closer look at his bronze statue in Fairview Park. No doubt you're familiar with it.

Realist...Following the deaths of Griffith and Collins, W. T. Cosgrave became head of government. On 6 December 1922, following the coming into legal existence of the Irish Free State, W. T. Cosgrave became President of the Executive Council, the first internationally recognised head of an INDEPENDENT Irish government. By your reasoning no country in the EU is independent,because we have ties to eachother. Seamus you're not a well man.

Realist.."nothing at all got to do with Hitler", well that is laughable schoolboy denial...So you are saying Dev admired Hitler and was upset by his death..Then you don't know anything about De Valera.

Realist..Austria devoted to remaining independent but under considerable pressure from both German and Austrian Nazis, Austria's Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg tried to hold a referendum for a vote on the issue. Although Schuschnigg expected Austria to vote in favour of maintaining autonomy, a well-planned coup d'état by the Austrian Nazi Party of Austria's state institutions in Vienna took place on 11 March, prior to the referendum, which they canceled....A coup d'état is a take over by FORCE weather a gun was fired or not...Cop yourself on Seamus

Realist on Feb 17, 2011, 01:20 PM EST..You give no explanation..

sirpeter: "Ireland's part as an independent nation since 1922"? My friend, the Irish Free State was a dominion of the British Empire until 1937....lol. Are you sure you're Irish? "You had better get a little be more understanding about Ireland". I couldn't agree with you more....chuckle.

sirpeter: When did "Hitler invade Austria"? I think you mean the "Anschluss". Austria was annexed by Germany - Hitler himself was an Austrian. I believe the Austrian people attacked the German troops with flowers when they crossed the border. Remind me, how many shots were fired? Surely the Austrian government would have issued a complaint with the League of Nations or appealed for military aid from other countries like Poland did? The U.K. and France drew their line in the sand after the taking of the remainder of Czechoslovakia. Germany then invaded Poland and war was declared as promised in their commitment to the Polish people. As for De Valera paying his condolences on the occasion of Hitler's suicide on behalf of the Irish people having, "nothing at all got to do with Hitler", well that is laughable schoolboy denial. To reiterate, I'm glad the Irish Free State and latterly the Irish Republic survived to enjoy the peace and freedom secured for them by the blood and sacrifice of others.

sirpeter: Lol....I really don't know where to start. "Irish Catholics fought and died by the tens of thousands in the American civil war.To quote confederate speaking to the Union officer "..you'uns only won 'cause you had more Irish than we'uns." You then go on to assert that, and I quote, "What Irish individuals do under the leadership of another country is their business." If I didn't know any better I might think, "....your sense of reasoning is abysmal".

Seamus aka FallsRNat.Yes..Irish/American soldiers were very much to the forefront in oppressing the native Americans.That's a fact.But that has nothing to do with Ireland.What Irish individuals do under the leadership of another country is their business. Seems another silly point.It was not Ireland's policy to oppress the Native Americans. Seamus your sense of reasoning is abysmal.Your soul aim in all your posts is to distort proven fact's,mix them with your own imagination,along with unproven stories you heard,never to agree with anything that doesn't suit your agenda,refuse to answer anybodies question's and keep hammering away. At least I'm trying to understand the Unionist's point of view on that site you sent me..I'll tell you now it's not easy. They seem to have trouble agreeing with each other on their identity.Some want one identity another want's a different identity. If they don't agree who they are among themselves,how the hell am i suppose to know. I'll keep reading, see will the picture change.

Seamus aka FallsRNat..You're not reading my posts..As Dev said..Rather then courting been bombed by declaring war,we took a chance and it payed off. Saying if the allied lost the war is silly because that didn't happen. So we saved ourselves been bombed. That's the reality. No point in speaking hypothetically about something that didn't happen. History is a series of events,to change one important event,is to change a series of future event's related to that change. Seamus I'm not trying to be smart,but alot of what you post is hypothetical and therefore is just how you imagine how things will work out. Seamus I'm from Cork as you know. You stating Quote"The slaughter of innocent protestants in cork, the murders of protestant landlords".Unquote..That statement is loaded and is extreme..I have studied that topic in detail speaking to Catholic's and Protestant's from west to east Cork on what you said,because I myself found it hard to believe there wasn't some reprisals.This is what they told me. SOME protestants and SOME catholic spies were shot (more catholic then protestant)SOME Catholic's and Protestant's who were a bit to friendly to the British army were harassed ..BUT were not shot. This what I was told by the people who lived during the black and tan war and the civil war... These Catholic's and Protestant's are not trying to sell a book or have some agenda. Both Catholic and Protestant stories match up..NOW!! Seamus I want you to back up that statement with proof!! I want impartial evidence,not some loyalist bulls*it. Because if there was a slaughter of innocent protestants in cork, and murders of protestant landlords. I want to know about it. Back it up by a number of catholic and protestant witnesses with impartial evidence. Seamus, I agreed with you,that there was some harassment..But I'm not going to let you make a statement like that without it going unchallenged..Fair is Fair Seamus.

kurtjohnson – Not sure where you get your GDP figures? According to ‘The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison’, the 1938 GDP figures – in dollars - were Germany 351, UK 284, France 186. Additionally it was the French delegation under Georges Clemenceau who pushed for punitive terms of the treaty, as his chief goal was to weaken Germany military, strategically and economically, having personally seen two German attacks on French soil in the last forty years. Lloyd George actually pushed for more favourable terms for Germany, but acceded to the French view later in the negotiations. It was to put right some of the perceived wrongs of Versailles that much of the later appeasement strategy was based. Right wing dictatorships were a feature of mid war Europe, Mussolini came to power in Italy, and they had been on the winning side.

Sirpeter - how did keeping dev out of the war keep the irish state free? u are stating this because history told us that the Brit/US allied alliance won the 2nd WW, there would be no free state if the brits had lost, the SS stormtroopers could have picked the FS off at will if they occupied UK & NI. 300 years of oppression, give me a break, youse guys did enough killing of your own, yes the irish were sleeping on straw, but i'll bet the londoners/mancunians & other city dwellers wished they had straw to lie on, most had the street cobbles & carts if they lucky or huddled together, 50 or more so at a time in rooms in 2 up 2 downs. Get a bit of reality we won't the only 1s suffering. If the irish were so at the for front of US history, then they must have been 1 of the main oppressors of the Red Indians, the rightful owners of the US, yes?