I have borrowed this picture from my friend Venividi’s site (I think he’ll forgive me , I did it before and he did ) because it is a terrific picture but also it makes me think about the whole phemenon of Brit bashing in Ireland.
Neither my Mother nor Father would have a word said against the royal family in England .
This was nothing to do with blindness of the faults of the British , my mother as a child out walking had Black and Tan soldiers shoot over her head just to scare her, my father showed me pictures of petrol soaked sheets with which the same soldiers had draped around Dwyer and Co in a failed attempt to burn it down during the burning of Cork.
These events didn’t shake their respect for the royals or their many friendships and ties with the English .
Seeing this lady , their generation , welcoming the Queen reminds me that for a whole generation , right or wrong , she never stopped being venerated , royally.
Comments
padraic
on May 24, 2011The sub-editor responsible for the “Céad Míle Fáilte…..” doesn’t understand the language. If the Queen is being addressed she should have the benefit of the leniting particle “a” before her title in the vocative case.
Mike
on May 24, 2011SUB-EDITORS AT THE EXAMINER OR SHOULD BE,NOTORIOUS FOR THEIR
IGNORANCE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,LET ALONE THE IRISH.
COMMON RECENT EXAMPLES ARE THE
CONFUSION OF HOMOPHONES EG RAIN,REIN,REIGN AND OF COURSE FLAUNT AND FLOUT. MAYBE YOU CAN REMEMBER THE WEEKLY EXAMINER WHICH REGULARLY PUBLISHED BRIDGE COLUMNS WITHOUT SHOWING THE CARDS!
I CAN REMEMBER ONE PHOTO OF JACK LYNCH PRESENTING A SILVER TRAY TO AN AGED MAN WITH THE TITLE “MARY AND SEAN O’—– WHO WERE MARRIED RECENTLY AT ETC!
Jedrzej
on May 27, 2011Martin, I’m delighted when you use my photos.
Now it’s a very curious thing what you described here. Could you try and explain me why would older generations have such respect for English royalty? Aren’t they (or weren’t they then, at least) so much like the symbol of everything oppresive, wrong and possesive about English?
Martin
on May 29, 2011Good question. I think this is because a lot of Irish people , at the begining of the last century, neither sought nor welcomed independence and, rather like a lot of Scottish and Welsh today, retained a certain affection for the English monarchy. Here in France they are obsessed by them. It is curious but the love of royalty seems to go deep.
The comments are closed.