Are the six counties / N. Ireland a nation?
According to current unionist political dogma the U.K. is made up of four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland. But does the dogma that N. Ireland is a nation stand-up to secularist scrutiny. This dogma is passionately held in some quarters but passionately disputed in others. A secular defence can be made for England, ~Scotland and Wales being nations even if Scotland seems to be taking the path to Independence. A secularist may ask what does independence mean for the Scots and in what form will it take. Will the form be a Republic of Scotland?
A secularist disavows dogma especially political dogma but sees reason logic and observation as the basis of political analysis and discussion. For a secularist, nationhood has nothing to do with ethnicity, genes, religion, skin colour, language o r territory but is bound up with the constitution of the place which the people adhere to. What makes Germany, France, Spain Italy and the U.S.A. et al nations, is that these places have a constitution accepted by the overwhelming mass of the people. For Europe to become a nation will require a European constitution. This has been attempted democratically but the constitution was democratically defeated. Currently the Lisbon Treaty is being smuggled in by an undemocratic back door.
For a secularist who relies on reason logic and observation a case for N. Ireland being a nation cannot be made. It has an unwritten imposed undemocratic constitution, which doesn’t enjoy the overwhelming support of the people of the place. It is observable in post civil rights N. Ireland that there are two heads of state involved, two national flags been flown, two national anthems being sung with two national passports being travelled on while in Derry and Belfast the two communities sulk behind peace walls with kerbs painted red white and blue on the one hand and green white and orange on the other. So the six county/ N. Ireland place is not a nation as on observation the people are in deep disagreement over the constitution.
But if N. Ireland as a nation falls down on observation does it stand up in logic? It is fashionable by some in the six counties to call themselves Northern Irish. Since I live in Derry I could call myself Northern Irish but if I do what does that make the people of Inisowen and Malin Town? Are they not Northern Irish as well? So the constitutional name of the six counties-- Northern Ireland--- doesn’t stand up in logic thus for a secularist the constitutional name of the six counties has to be rejected. In logic the six counties can only be called the six counties So N. Ireland isn’t a nation either in observation or in logic. The only conclusion a secularist can arrive at is that U.K. constitution is unreasonable in Ireland in that it is imposed militarily on a part of the island against the majority wishes of the entire island inhabitants and against the wishes of a significant sector of the population in that part of the island in which U.K. constitution is militarily imposed. For a secularist the constitutional set up here is unreasonable, illogical and is rejected on the grounds of observation but on top of all that U.K. constitution has been discredited when dogma-driven Right Wing Union Jack Unionism set up shop with dogma-driven Republican terrorists of Neo-Marxist Late Sinn Fein.
At this juncture this analysis might sound like a gift to dogma-driven Republican terrorists. This is not so. Secularists recognise Loyalty to the Crown as reasonable, logical and observable. Loyalty is a praiseworthy laudable human attribute be it loyalty to Crown, country, church, organization, or friend. Because of this loyalty is acceptable as logical and reasonable. Loyalty to the Crown is also observable as a reality in Ireland. It can be seen when expressed on the streets of the six counties; thus loyalty to the Crown should be seen being freely expressed in Ireland (in all of it not a bit of it) and should not be repressed and trampled underfoot as it would be in a Republic. So a secularist is loyalist and Crown friendly. What this analysis points to irrefutably is the need of U.K. Constitutional reform in relation to Ireland. . Secular Federal; Unionism –Early Sinn Fein sees this as achievable in the National Government of Ireland Act which will define a new relationship between Ireland and Great Britain as the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland Great Britain or vice versa.
If the version of THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND ACT given in the novel THE WAY IRELASND OUGHT TO BE published by Authorhouse, is looked at it will be found in Article 22 Page 266 of the novel that the people of this island should be given the opportunity of voting in a referendum to decide on the future of Ireland either as: -
(a) A Sovereign Nation of Ireland within a Federal Kingdom.
Or
(b) A Republic of Ireland with the 1937 constitution.
The votes in the 6 and 26 counties should be counted separately. If a significant majority in both territories vote for a Sovereign Nation then the island is united as a Sovereign Nation within a Federal Kingdom If a significant majority vote for a Republic in both territories then the island is united as a Republic. If a significant majority in the 6 counties vote for a Sovereign Nation and a significant majority in the 26 counties vote for a Republic then the island will remain partitioned. In that case Westminster should pass a bill defining the Federal Kingdom as the Federal Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland whose written constitution is the NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND ACT That is the closest the six counties can be brought to as a nation constitutionally.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Thursday, 25 June 2009
The Loyalist Village and the Romanians
The Loyalist Village and the Romanians
The intimidation of the Romanian migrant workers out of the Village in South Belfast has been widely reported on the media. Hands are now being thrown up in horror at the thought. Such hypocrisy! What would be the fate of an Irish speaking family, were they to set up house in the Village, the Sandy Row, or the Shankill? I leave the reader to answer the question. By the same token what would the fate of an Ulster Scots speaking family wearing a sash were they to set-up home in the Falls or in the Bogside.I leave the question unanswered.
While hands are being thrown up in horror about Romanians, the above is taken as the norm in Ireland because the Irish are sectarian. Since it is now being said that Romanians should be free to live in the Village, it should also be said that Irish Catholics should be free to live in the Village The Sandy Row or the Shankill and as well, why shouldn’t loyalists be free to live in the Falls or in the Bogside. That is the logic of the situation but that logic doesn’t hold in the six counties/ N.Ireland as is evident in the peace walls in Derry and Belfast.
However the issue of Romanians living in Belfast has a wider European dimension. This has to do with the unregulated movement of workers across Europe. The movement of workers is subject to a free laizze faire market where demand for labour sucks in an unregulated supply of labour and in this free-for-all the weak are pushed to the wall. This should be replaced by a managed demand and supply of labour. This should be replaced with managed labour market. It should be the function of a European government to classify where and by how much labour is in demand due to labour scarcity in the host country Based on these facts the government should recruit labour from Europe by issuing work permits to European workers ensuring there is adequate acceptable housing in supply along with adequate provision of social services in the host country. If the labour market is managed in this way a loyalist Village debacle in Belfast can be avoided and the sale of the Big Issue will be made obsolete.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
The intimidation of the Romanian migrant workers out of the Village in South Belfast has been widely reported on the media. Hands are now being thrown up in horror at the thought. Such hypocrisy! What would be the fate of an Irish speaking family, were they to set up house in the Village, the Sandy Row, or the Shankill? I leave the reader to answer the question. By the same token what would the fate of an Ulster Scots speaking family wearing a sash were they to set-up home in the Falls or in the Bogside.I leave the question unanswered.
While hands are being thrown up in horror about Romanians, the above is taken as the norm in Ireland because the Irish are sectarian. Since it is now being said that Romanians should be free to live in the Village, it should also be said that Irish Catholics should be free to live in the Village The Sandy Row or the Shankill and as well, why shouldn’t loyalists be free to live in the Falls or in the Bogside. That is the logic of the situation but that logic doesn’t hold in the six counties/ N.Ireland as is evident in the peace walls in Derry and Belfast.
However the issue of Romanians living in Belfast has a wider European dimension. This has to do with the unregulated movement of workers across Europe. The movement of workers is subject to a free laizze faire market where demand for labour sucks in an unregulated supply of labour and in this free-for-all the weak are pushed to the wall. This should be replaced by a managed demand and supply of labour. This should be replaced with managed labour market. It should be the function of a European government to classify where and by how much labour is in demand due to labour scarcity in the host country Based on these facts the government should recruit labour from Europe by issuing work permits to European workers ensuring there is adequate acceptable housing in supply along with adequate provision of social services in the host country. If the labour market is managed in this way a loyalist Village debacle in Belfast can be avoided and the sale of the Big Issue will be made obsolete.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Martin and the Orange Order
Recently I read a piece in the Belfast Telegraph where Martin Magennis called on the Orange Order to stop parading through Catholic areas. The Orange in response said it was their intention to make their parades family friendly outings and that Martin’s comments were unhelpful.
And so this dreary old argument goes on and on into the 21st century and the Telegraph is still making a story out of it. Churchill wrote about the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone rising from the deluge and Churchill is disgusted that the integrity of the quarrel is still maintained in spite of the cataclysm that has swept the world.
More recently I heard a report on the radio of a man travelling abroad who was asked
“ Where are you from?”
“ Ireland”
“ North or South?”
“ North”
“ Ah! You’re a protestant”
The ancient quarrel is no longer just dreary it is now a sick joke internationally. It is true to say sectarianism is the mental sickness of the Irish.
But is there no way out of all of that? Federal Unionism-Early Sinn maintains sincerely that there is. In that analysis the nature of this Ancient dispute is bound up with the U.K. Constitution which now needs reform in The National Government of Ireland Act which in turn will transform the United Kingdom of Great Britain and N. Ireland into the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain or vice versa. If the National Government of Ireland Act were in place in the whole of Ireland then the Orange Order could parade up the Falls, into the Bogside and Crossmaglen but also they could parade down O’ Connell Street in Dublin, in Cork and in Galway and in Times Square on St Patrick’s Day displaying the picture of the Queen on a banner and flying not the Union Jack but the Federal Kingdom symbol –the Royal Flag of Ireland. An impossibility you might exclaim! Not at all. With the National Government of Ireland Act all things are possible and nothing is impossible, see the novel –THE WAY IRELAND OUGHT TO BE—Article Ten page 231 published by Authorhouse
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Recently I read a piece in the Belfast Telegraph where Martin Magennis called on the Orange Order to stop parading through Catholic areas. The Orange in response said it was their intention to make their parades family friendly outings and that Martin’s comments were unhelpful.
And so this dreary old argument goes on and on into the 21st century and the Telegraph is still making a story out of it. Churchill wrote about the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone rising from the deluge and Churchill is disgusted that the integrity of the quarrel is still maintained in spite of the cataclysm that has swept the world.
More recently I heard a report on the radio of a man travelling abroad who was asked
“ Where are you from?”
“ Ireland”
“ North or South?”
“ North”
“ Ah! You’re a protestant”
The ancient quarrel is no longer just dreary it is now a sick joke internationally. It is true to say sectarianism is the mental sickness of the Irish.
But is there no way out of all of that? Federal Unionism-Early Sinn maintains sincerely that there is. In that analysis the nature of this Ancient dispute is bound up with the U.K. Constitution which now needs reform in The National Government of Ireland Act which in turn will transform the United Kingdom of Great Britain and N. Ireland into the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain or vice versa. If the National Government of Ireland Act were in place in the whole of Ireland then the Orange Order could parade up the Falls, into the Bogside and Crossmaglen but also they could parade down O’ Connell Street in Dublin, in Cork and in Galway and in Times Square on St Patrick’s Day displaying the picture of the Queen on a banner and flying not the Union Jack but the Federal Kingdom symbol –the Royal Flag of Ireland. An impossibility you might exclaim! Not at all. With the National Government of Ireland Act all things are possible and nothing is impossible, see the novel –THE WAY IRELAND OUGHT TO BE—Article Ten page 231 published by Authorhouse
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Friday, 12 June 2009
Constitutional Decay in the Six Counties
Evidence of Constitutional Decay in the Six Counties/ Northern Ireland
From the evidence of the recent European elections it is clear that Right Wing Union Jack Unionism is in disarray due to the decay of the constitution in this part of the country. Constitutionally there are two heads of State involved, two flags being flown, two national anthems being sung and two conflicting passports travelled on. A state thus constituted is in decay, is inherently unstable, is prone to strife and will not endure.
There is a myopic longing in same quarters of Right Wing Union Jack Unionism for a return to traditional unionism---“the good old days of unionism”—when there was one head of state, The Crown, one flag, The Union Jack, a protestant parliament for a protestant people, and one anthem, God Save the Queen. In those days the Nationalist community was kept down and in place by an armed B-Specials and R.U.C. In this way the unwritten undemocratic constitution was kept stable by being imposed but it has to be recognised that traditional unionism and its unwritten imposed U.K. constitution were shattered with the rise of Civil Rights. The—“good old days”—are gone forever
The route is now open for a late Sinn Fein first minister to emerge at Stormont. However is such a constitutional outcome acceptable to that majority in the six-counties/Northern Ireland who have any sense of morality in their being? Late Sinn Fein condoned and connived at the attempted overthrow of the U.K. constitution here by the obscenity of violence, by brute force and atrocity. That attempt was rightly defeated.
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein points to a better way. That political concept is Ireland and Irish friendly, Irish unity friendly, democracy friendly, union friendly and Crown friendly. That concept advocates that the decayed U.K. constitution be replaced by a new written constitution of the reformed union of the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain realized in the National Government of Ireland Act. In this way from Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein, a new Irish friendly Unionism along with a new union friendly Irish Nationalism will emerge, and from this will sprout the green shoots of new Ireland out of the decayed, remains of Right Wing Union Jack Unionism and its discredited U.K. Constitution.
Michael Gillespie Derry
Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
From the evidence of the recent European elections it is clear that Right Wing Union Jack Unionism is in disarray due to the decay of the constitution in this part of the country. Constitutionally there are two heads of State involved, two flags being flown, two national anthems being sung and two conflicting passports travelled on. A state thus constituted is in decay, is inherently unstable, is prone to strife and will not endure.
There is a myopic longing in same quarters of Right Wing Union Jack Unionism for a return to traditional unionism---“the good old days of unionism”—when there was one head of state, The Crown, one flag, The Union Jack, a protestant parliament for a protestant people, and one anthem, God Save the Queen. In those days the Nationalist community was kept down and in place by an armed B-Specials and R.U.C. In this way the unwritten undemocratic constitution was kept stable by being imposed but it has to be recognised that traditional unionism and its unwritten imposed U.K. constitution were shattered with the rise of Civil Rights. The—“good old days”—are gone forever
The route is now open for a late Sinn Fein first minister to emerge at Stormont. However is such a constitutional outcome acceptable to that majority in the six-counties/Northern Ireland who have any sense of morality in their being? Late Sinn Fein condoned and connived at the attempted overthrow of the U.K. constitution here by the obscenity of violence, by brute force and atrocity. That attempt was rightly defeated.
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein points to a better way. That political concept is Ireland and Irish friendly, Irish unity friendly, democracy friendly, union friendly and Crown friendly. That concept advocates that the decayed U.K. constitution be replaced by a new written constitution of the reformed union of the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain realized in the National Government of Ireland Act. In this way from Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein, a new Irish friendly Unionism along with a new union friendly Irish Nationalism will emerge, and from this will sprout the green shoots of new Ireland out of the decayed, remains of Right Wing Union Jack Unionism and its discredited U.K. Constitution.
Michael Gillespie Derry
Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
The Ascendancy
The Ascendancy
Reflecting on the Irish problem as I often do, it seems to me that the existence of the protestant ascendancy in Ireland is at the root of this historic problem. The protestant ascendancy in Ireland rose to prominence and power in Ireland at the battle of the Boyne where the protestant King William defeated the catholic King James. In Ireland the protestant minority community became the ruling class as of right and ruled a defeated penalized catholic majority. This convention was retained in the 1801 Act of Union and thereafter the will of the protestant minority was what mattered while the will of the catholic majority was of little consequence.
With the setting up of the Northern Ireland six county statelet whose constitution was the unwritten imposed 1801 constitution, protestant ascendancy rule continued in the six counties and the state was kept constitutionally stable by the suppression of the catholic minority identity. I can recall living in West Belfast prior to the upsurge of the civil rights campaign in a new housing development whose inhabitants were 50/50 catholic/protestant. Relationships in the estate were excellent even though a few Union Jacks appeared on the Twelfth of July at the marching season but a display of the Irish Tricolour couldn’t be considered, as the police wouldn’t tolerate it. Indeed there are those who date the beginning of the troubles to a protestant protest led by Ian Paisley, against the display of an Irish Tricolour in a shop window in the catholic Lower Falls. My reading of the civil Rights Movement is that historically it mounted a challenge to Protestant ascendancy rule in the six counties and had the reforms envisaged by Terence O Neill been implemented with the backing of Ian Paisley there wouldn’t have been violence in the six county state. In later times Ian has made the magnanimous concession that in Northern Ireland Catholics can have anything they want and so they can, provided they don’t want rid of an unwritten imposed undemocratic U.K. constitution and don’t demand a catholic as first minister. However The Civil Rights Movement was hijacked by Republicans and corrupted by Republican violence and atrocity.
While there is now a bogus peace in the six counties since the Assembly was set up yet there remains an under-belly of violent discord in sectarian clashes in the streets of Derry between Catholic and Protestant youths, in the defacing of Orange and G.A.A. halls and in the continued existence of dissident Republican groups, namely the Real and Continuity I.R.A. to say northing of the peace walls in Belfast. Still in this analysis, this violence and discord will persist as long as an imposed unwritten undemocratic constitution remains in place in the six counties. The impact of this constitutional set-up is a clash of wills between the marginal Protestant majority and a significant Catholic minority. This clash of wills is expressed in the painting of kerbstones red, white and blue, and green, white and orange and in the flying of disparate conflicting flags. In this dichotomy the two communities sulk in mutual resentment behind peace walls in Belfast and in Derry in a bogus peace.. In the Assembly defeated Republicans sit in collaboration with a diametrically opposed Party, Right Wing Union Jack Unionism who have still to come to terms with the new reality that the days of the ascendancy are now over, but these are being propped up by Late Sinn Fein who are the arch enemies of and the implacable foes of the Union and are out to destroy it. Late Sinn Fein first used brute force but that effort was defeated; now they resort to political stealth but the destruction of the union remains their sole aim. But Late Sinn Fein must accept the cold reality that the only strategic rout to an all Ireland Republic is by the Protestant minority in Ireland converting en masse to Republicanism, a conversion that will not happen now or never since the central plank of Protestant culture is loyalty to the Crown. That said the Protestant loyalist community must also face the cold reality that since the days of the protestant ascendancy are over, the unwritten imposed U.K. constitution that goes with the ascendancy notion, has collapsed and is finished. There was a strong whiff of ascendancy rule about Ian Paisley and this whiff lingers with the D.U.P. and as long as this remains there will be Republicans to oppose it. There is also a strong whiff of ascendancy in the mentality of the Orange Order in the clash of communal wills at Garvaghey Road. The British cut the Provisional head off the I.R.A. monster but like the Lernean Hydra of old, the decapitated I.R.A. monster sprouted two new heads, The Real and Continuity I.R.A.
If this horror scenario is to be avoided in the six county state, then the people there will have to think again and anew about their constitutional future. New thinking will need a new party, which should be a united Ireland friendly, and the union and Kingdom friendly party. Such a party can be Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein, which should promote a new concept of a Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain in a National Government of Ireland Act. This Act should synthesise Unionism and Nationalism and in so doing draw up institutions and symbols, in a written constitution, which is acceptable to all, be they Catholic Protestant or Dissenter. In this way a genuinely peaceful united Ireland can be realized within a Federal Kingdom dimension.
Reflecting on the Irish problem as I often do, it seems to me that the existence of the protestant ascendancy in Ireland is at the root of this historic problem. The protestant ascendancy in Ireland rose to prominence and power in Ireland at the battle of the Boyne where the protestant King William defeated the catholic King James. In Ireland the protestant minority community became the ruling class as of right and ruled a defeated penalized catholic majority. This convention was retained in the 1801 Act of Union and thereafter the will of the protestant minority was what mattered while the will of the catholic majority was of little consequence.
With the setting up of the Northern Ireland six county statelet whose constitution was the unwritten imposed 1801 constitution, protestant ascendancy rule continued in the six counties and the state was kept constitutionally stable by the suppression of the catholic minority identity. I can recall living in West Belfast prior to the upsurge of the civil rights campaign in a new housing development whose inhabitants were 50/50 catholic/protestant. Relationships in the estate were excellent even though a few Union Jacks appeared on the Twelfth of July at the marching season but a display of the Irish Tricolour couldn’t be considered, as the police wouldn’t tolerate it. Indeed there are those who date the beginning of the troubles to a protestant protest led by Ian Paisley, against the display of an Irish Tricolour in a shop window in the catholic Lower Falls. My reading of the civil Rights Movement is that historically it mounted a challenge to Protestant ascendancy rule in the six counties and had the reforms envisaged by Terence O Neill been implemented with the backing of Ian Paisley there wouldn’t have been violence in the six county state. In later times Ian has made the magnanimous concession that in Northern Ireland Catholics can have anything they want and so they can, provided they don’t want rid of an unwritten imposed undemocratic U.K. constitution and don’t demand a catholic as first minister. However The Civil Rights Movement was hijacked by Republicans and corrupted by Republican violence and atrocity.
While there is now a bogus peace in the six counties since the Assembly was set up yet there remains an under-belly of violent discord in sectarian clashes in the streets of Derry between Catholic and Protestant youths, in the defacing of Orange and G.A.A. halls and in the continued existence of dissident Republican groups, namely the Real and Continuity I.R.A. to say northing of the peace walls in Belfast. Still in this analysis, this violence and discord will persist as long as an imposed unwritten undemocratic constitution remains in place in the six counties. The impact of this constitutional set-up is a clash of wills between the marginal Protestant majority and a significant Catholic minority. This clash of wills is expressed in the painting of kerbstones red, white and blue, and green, white and orange and in the flying of disparate conflicting flags. In this dichotomy the two communities sulk in mutual resentment behind peace walls in Belfast and in Derry in a bogus peace.. In the Assembly defeated Republicans sit in collaboration with a diametrically opposed Party, Right Wing Union Jack Unionism who have still to come to terms with the new reality that the days of the ascendancy are now over, but these are being propped up by Late Sinn Fein who are the arch enemies of and the implacable foes of the Union and are out to destroy it. Late Sinn Fein first used brute force but that effort was defeated; now they resort to political stealth but the destruction of the union remains their sole aim. But Late Sinn Fein must accept the cold reality that the only strategic rout to an all Ireland Republic is by the Protestant minority in Ireland converting en masse to Republicanism, a conversion that will not happen now or never since the central plank of Protestant culture is loyalty to the Crown. That said the Protestant loyalist community must also face the cold reality that since the days of the protestant ascendancy are over, the unwritten imposed U.K. constitution that goes with the ascendancy notion, has collapsed and is finished. There was a strong whiff of ascendancy rule about Ian Paisley and this whiff lingers with the D.U.P. and as long as this remains there will be Republicans to oppose it. There is also a strong whiff of ascendancy in the mentality of the Orange Order in the clash of communal wills at Garvaghey Road. The British cut the Provisional head off the I.R.A. monster but like the Lernean Hydra of old, the decapitated I.R.A. monster sprouted two new heads, The Real and Continuity I.R.A.
If this horror scenario is to be avoided in the six county state, then the people there will have to think again and anew about their constitutional future. New thinking will need a new party, which should be a united Ireland friendly, and the union and Kingdom friendly party. Such a party can be Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein, which should promote a new concept of a Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain in a National Government of Ireland Act. This Act should synthesise Unionism and Nationalism and in so doing draw up institutions and symbols, in a written constitution, which is acceptable to all, be they Catholic Protestant or Dissenter. In this way a genuinely peaceful united Ireland can be realized within a Federal Kingdom dimension.
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Introducing Irish Unionism
Introducing Irish Unionism
It has been a long-standing tradition in Ireland that to be a Unionist one had to be British. This notion has bedevilled relations between these two Islands for centuries. It is the contention of Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein that to resolve the Irish problem unionism will have to change from Britishness to Irishness.
For this change to be realized the Crown would have to be reformed in relation to Ireland. The Irish will never do a U –turn in their history and revert to loyalty to a British Crown. However Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein contends that the Irish can return to loyalty to a reformed Crown with out doing an historical U-turn.
In principle a union between these islands is acceptable since the islands have a close historical connection especially having to do with the Crown, provided that such a union is democratically acceptable to the people. Had such a union been established in 1801 the history of the United Kingdom would have been a happy one free from discord, but being imposed and favouring the protestant ascendancy the United Kingdom was doomed to violence discord and failure. The United Kingdom remains military imposed in the six counties and has engendered violence and will end in failure. Right Wing Union Jack Unionism have betrayed the idea of the union in their collaboration in the Assembly with Late Sinn Fein who are the arch enemies and implacable foes of the Union and are out to destroy it. Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein holds that the idea of a new union is good in principle but that such a new unionism can only be realized in Irishness not in Britishness. Irish Unionism can be accepted by those in Ireland who are Irish to the core but who find no inconsistency in being loyal to a reformed Crown. For those Protestants in Ireland who cling to Britishness in the forlorn hope that the ascendancy can be preserved need to wake up to the cold fact that while the day of the ascendancy is now over, the notion of the union can be retained in the concept of a Federal Kingdom.
To establish a Federal Kingdom in these islands will require a written constitution for Ireland. This will require that the National Government of Ireland Act be written. This Act should give a written democratically acceptable constitution for the Federal Kingdom of The Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain. For a constitution to be democratic it must enjoy the overwhelming support of all of the people. This overwhelming support for the constitution is absent in the six counties. There the constitution has only the support of a marginal majority. In effect the six county constitution is imposed by a marginal majority on a resentful minority and maintained by an armed militarily garrison. This unwritten undemocratic constitution is then rammed down the throats of the minority by a public posturing by the Orange Order on the Twelfth of July and by the Apprentice Boys in Derry in August. That is how an unwritten constitution operates. Were such demonstrations solely religious in Nature they would be acceptable but since they are the expression of an imposed constitution they should not be found in a democratic state. This constitutional conflict is evident on the Garvaghy Road. The resolution of this historic conflict lies in the promotion of the Irish Unionism of Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein with a written constitution for all Ireland in a Federal Kingdom context, the constitution being acceptable to all, be it the Catholics of Kerry or the Protestants of Derry. Irish Unionism in the National Government of Ireland Act can remove the walls of sectarian division in Belfast and make the painting of kerbstones red white and blue or green white and orange a thing of the past. It can transform fortress police stations into freely accessible democratic buildings open to an accepting population but above all else Irish Unionism can rid all of Ireland of its national sickness, sectarianism In all of this neither Catholic or Protestant have anything to fear but fear itself.
It was the constitutional claim of the late Brian Faulkner that Northern Ireland is the same as Yorkshire. There is an attempt by the British Establishment to treat the six counties, as the same as Yorkshire, since the Assembly was put in place but the dogs in the street know that to be a fallacy. The people of Yorkshire aren’t disputing the constitution and that dispute makes the six counties different and unique in these Islands but the Irish Unionism of Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein recognises the unique nature of the six counties and knows how to resolve it.
Michael Gillespie B.Ed BSc ( Econ) Dip. Ed D.A.S.E. M.A.(Ed)
It has been a long-standing tradition in Ireland that to be a Unionist one had to be British. This notion has bedevilled relations between these two Islands for centuries. It is the contention of Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein that to resolve the Irish problem unionism will have to change from Britishness to Irishness.
For this change to be realized the Crown would have to be reformed in relation to Ireland. The Irish will never do a U –turn in their history and revert to loyalty to a British Crown. However Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein contends that the Irish can return to loyalty to a reformed Crown with out doing an historical U-turn.
In principle a union between these islands is acceptable since the islands have a close historical connection especially having to do with the Crown, provided that such a union is democratically acceptable to the people. Had such a union been established in 1801 the history of the United Kingdom would have been a happy one free from discord, but being imposed and favouring the protestant ascendancy the United Kingdom was doomed to violence discord and failure. The United Kingdom remains military imposed in the six counties and has engendered violence and will end in failure. Right Wing Union Jack Unionism have betrayed the idea of the union in their collaboration in the Assembly with Late Sinn Fein who are the arch enemies and implacable foes of the Union and are out to destroy it. Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein holds that the idea of a new union is good in principle but that such a new unionism can only be realized in Irishness not in Britishness. Irish Unionism can be accepted by those in Ireland who are Irish to the core but who find no inconsistency in being loyal to a reformed Crown. For those Protestants in Ireland who cling to Britishness in the forlorn hope that the ascendancy can be preserved need to wake up to the cold fact that while the day of the ascendancy is now over, the notion of the union can be retained in the concept of a Federal Kingdom.
To establish a Federal Kingdom in these islands will require a written constitution for Ireland. This will require that the National Government of Ireland Act be written. This Act should give a written democratically acceptable constitution for the Federal Kingdom of The Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain. For a constitution to be democratic it must enjoy the overwhelming support of all of the people. This overwhelming support for the constitution is absent in the six counties. There the constitution has only the support of a marginal majority. In effect the six county constitution is imposed by a marginal majority on a resentful minority and maintained by an armed militarily garrison. This unwritten undemocratic constitution is then rammed down the throats of the minority by a public posturing by the Orange Order on the Twelfth of July and by the Apprentice Boys in Derry in August. That is how an unwritten constitution operates. Were such demonstrations solely religious in Nature they would be acceptable but since they are the expression of an imposed constitution they should not be found in a democratic state. This constitutional conflict is evident on the Garvaghy Road. The resolution of this historic conflict lies in the promotion of the Irish Unionism of Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein with a written constitution for all Ireland in a Federal Kingdom context, the constitution being acceptable to all, be it the Catholics of Kerry or the Protestants of Derry. Irish Unionism in the National Government of Ireland Act can remove the walls of sectarian division in Belfast and make the painting of kerbstones red white and blue or green white and orange a thing of the past. It can transform fortress police stations into freely accessible democratic buildings open to an accepting population but above all else Irish Unionism can rid all of Ireland of its national sickness, sectarianism In all of this neither Catholic or Protestant have anything to fear but fear itself.
It was the constitutional claim of the late Brian Faulkner that Northern Ireland is the same as Yorkshire. There is an attempt by the British Establishment to treat the six counties, as the same as Yorkshire, since the Assembly was put in place but the dogs in the street know that to be a fallacy. The people of Yorkshire aren’t disputing the constitution and that dispute makes the six counties different and unique in these Islands but the Irish Unionism of Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein recognises the unique nature of the six counties and knows how to resolve it.
Michael Gillespie B.Ed BSc ( Econ) Dip. Ed D.A.S.E. M.A.(Ed)
Friday, 15 May 2009
A Cairde
A Chairde
Ta athas mor orm a bheith ag an posadh Orlagh agus Ronan. Is mian liom adh mor a bheith orthu i rith a saol le cheile. Ba mhaith liom failte a chur riomh Orlagh anois a dtainig si isteach an clann Mac Giolla Easbuig. Ta me ag suil gurb cuma le Orlagh an t-anim, Bean Mac Giolla Easbuig. Is bean og gleoithe i agus bhi adh mor ar Ronan ar an la a bhuail se leithe.
Cuirfidh me comhairle ar mo mhac Ronan faoi posadh. Fuair me seanfhocail Gaelach faoi posadh i leabhar Gaelach. Is mian liom Ronan cluas gear a thabhairt le seo. I dtus baire:-
On la a bposfaid tu, beidh do croi i do bheal agus do lamh i do phoca.
Agus annsin:-
Bionn a dteanga in a bpoca ag na mna go bposann siad.
Dearfainn go ndearfaid Orlagh ---Nil ann ach amaidi.
Leabroaidh me daoibh in mBearla anios
Ta athas mor orm a bheith ag an posadh Orlagh agus Ronan. Is mian liom adh mor a bheith orthu i rith a saol le cheile. Ba mhaith liom failte a chur riomh Orlagh anois a dtainig si isteach an clann Mac Giolla Easbuig. Ta me ag suil gurb cuma le Orlagh an t-anim, Bean Mac Giolla Easbuig. Is bean og gleoithe i agus bhi adh mor ar Ronan ar an la a bhuail se leithe.
Cuirfidh me comhairle ar mo mhac Ronan faoi posadh. Fuair me seanfhocail Gaelach faoi posadh i leabhar Gaelach. Is mian liom Ronan cluas gear a thabhairt le seo. I dtus baire:-
On la a bposfaid tu, beidh do croi i do bheal agus do lamh i do phoca.
Agus annsin:-
Bionn a dteanga in a bpoca ag na mna go bposann siad.
Dearfainn go ndearfaid Orlagh ---Nil ann ach amaidi.
Leabroaidh me daoibh in mBearla anios
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