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Tracy 3rd Sep 2008 21:30 GMT: All I want to say is I walked that road day in and day out for one reason being to take my daughters to school . On the odd Occision when I looked around me I......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

always a Bushwick kid: Hey Lou Romero: you mentioned Sr. Ann Melanie, Sr. Betty, etc. Well Sr. Ann Melanie died not too long ago and Sr. Betty still works in Bushwick- she runs Independence House on Cornelia Street (between......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Liz in Canada: I am Canadian and my ancestry is Irish/Scottish. Some of my ancestors were Catholic and some were Protestant, but I am non-religious by choice. My Irish ancestors were forced out of Ireland and......

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

Nick: I wish these "Protestants" and "Catholics" in Northern Ireland would rename themselves Oil and Water instead, as there is nothing remotely Christian about their ways. As for Unionists, I don't know what your obsession about Britain......

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

John: Article? All I've read here is vitriol venomous spew from people who claim to know God. I'll bet good money that He's sick of the fighting between protestants and catholics. Satan must be laughing with......

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

Aingeal: Being from the Bogside, Doire, (Derry). I've developed a strong sense of awareness, passion for all people, and the need to uphold my Irish heritage. I was saddened to read Seamus's (from the south) comments.......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Brianna: we have a family story dating back to who knows when, about Lord Balfour's daughter who fell in love with a catholic footman, but because their marraige was forbidden since she was protestant, they ran......

in response to: Castle Balfour by barry

Phil: I'm a Catholic ,I Live in America . I have family on the falls. Im married to a protestant. My family doesn't case we are Christians.I believe be proud of your herritage weather you......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Danny: What happened at Holy Cross is Northern Irish hatred and sectarianism at its finest. Protestants target Catholic children with pipe bombs and urine, the police do nothing to arrest them, and the British media reports......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Tommy 164: Just been over to the shankhill..amazing, first time over loved every minute of it and the people. protestant forever and ever. Looking forward to next year...

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

shankill: The Shankill road it too strong to fall appart over negative comments like those made by people trying to damage the reputation of this great road. The Protestant Faith will aways remain dominant in this......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

shankill: Wouldnt live anywere else!! thers great shops and cafes and the people are the most friendly by far. tourists walk freely all over the shankill and along the peace walls, signing their names and leaving messages......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

karen: I was out to Belfast earlier this year to visit friends and I did the tour. Canadian born, raised in England with a catholic mother and a protestant Father. I remember growing up with images......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

BASQUE GIRL: Could somebody tell me if Andersonstown street is in Catholic or protestant area?...

in response to: snapshots on a refrigerator by manda

hannah: i think it is very unfair how people judge us in northern ireland because of some murals. Some of the comments above are really biased. Not all Northern irish peple are secterian. i am from......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

irish adw: jonny the person that started the whole protestant religon was as u call a 'TAIG'...

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Jon Dominguez: "... and take back what used 2 b ours we should not be the minorities anymore we got black and brown teaming up we both are minorities we both have struggling histories we should take......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

seamus: Hey, am from the south and can honestly say that few people want that boggey dull cornor of ireland in the rpublic. Imagine this people, 600,000 disaffected catholics in the north almost bankrupted the......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

eva: Derry has a major problem with violent sectarian attacks against Catholics by outlawed protestant paramilitaries. ...

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Luke: Angela there is hatred equally on both sides, and equally there is suffering on both sides. One small other correction to make it is not 'Catholic and Protestant', it is a divide largely between Republicans/Nationalists......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

The Healing Leaf: Hey, Ulsterman and Republican! Yo! Interested in what my Canadian government did to our First nations people 100-150 years ago? Exactly what the British did to ALL the original Irish 400 years ago, and beyond!......

in response to: snapshots on a refrigerator by manda

Rí Niall: rite this is bollocks, i read most of this n its a pile of shite. the only places that are dangerous 2 outsiders is the rundown estates, mainly places lyk ballymacash(loyalist) or turflodge(republican), simply bcos......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

A Volunteer: And yes EG , people like David Ervine and John White did exactly that in bringing peace to Ulster. The latters crime obviously more severe than the former, stabbing Senator Paddy Wilson ( if......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Sirhcbre: I found out something interesting about DDO. According to Wikipedia: "...Dollard-Des Ormeaux is a multicultural community. In its early years the city was overwhelmingly white and Protestant. In fact, prior to the 1980 Quebec referendum on......

in response to: Montreal Signs 2: Beaconsfield, Kirkland, DDO by EvilGentleman

Disgusted: Myself personly, i am DISGUSTED with the whole protestant/catholic british/irish issue. I myself am a protestant and i love Ireland to me its the best country in the world. I consider myself an irish man (that......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Disgusted: Has anyone Bothered to ask why this crap started? nationalists decided they would take down loyalist flags in protestant areas because they "offended" the children on their way to school ...who incidently had walked through those......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Tony: I WAS born in a house on Bushwick Avenue and Halsey Street. My father and mother were both immigrants from Italy, They left italy for the new world to improve their lives and to......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Alan: Good post Karlo and a refreshing opinion. If we had more Republicans who spread this message we'd be in a much better place right now. A truely 'United' Ireland can only come about if there......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Jeff, Birmingham: I am not too educated on the troubles in Ireland but i would like to share with you some of my opinions. Firstly i do not understand why the protestants love the queen when most people......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

jamie: the problem is that compromise, as obvious a solution as it is to you or i, is not an option. if northern ireland were merged back into the republic or ireland there would be an......

in response to: Northern Ireland is the most intrguing of places by Jamie

Susannah : I also have to say that people who want to look to the past all of the time are just looking for excuses and someone to blame for their dissatisfaction with themselves. I grew......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

william: no prodestants live there and the murals are dedicated to people who terroised both catholics and protestant they are nothing more than a criminal gang like the crips or bloods with a bigger following...

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

william: no prodestants live there and the murals are dedicated to people who terroised both catholics and protestant they are nothing more than a criminal gang like the crips or bloods with a bigger following...

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

EvilGentleman: Since most of Northern Ireland seems to be broken up into Catholic and Protestant areas, why not just let the Protestant areas remain as British enclaves, while the rest of Northern Ireland merges with the......

in response to: Northern Ireland is the most intrguing of places by Jamie

Jamie: i've just sat and read this entire thread end to end and i have to say, i think there are a lot of sticks being firmly grasped by the wrong ends. Northern Ireland is a......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Ronan - North Belfast: Ardoyne is in NORTH Belfast!!! Reggie it's bigotted people like you that hinder progression in such segregated societies, calling them "lazy, car stealing, pensioner mugging ballbags" is a gross over generalisation, how many people have you......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Flib: its this kind of attitude that is tearing the world apart, hope it feels nice for ya to be part of the problem and not the solution. mon nom: 11th Jun 2005 - 13:54 GMT Haha. Yeah,......

in response to: Rural Northern Ireland by Jamie

Micah: At last! I love reading your stories. I have one question with two parts: does 'mick' refer to a protestant as I believe it does in a certain European island nation? And is......

in response to: The Meatball Caper by jack

EvilGentleman: Having lived through a different type of troubles, I know how hard it can be to deal with the legacies of colonialism. My ancestors fought the French for the British (and won!), they fought the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

elaine: well if you are really lazy about getting to the end of words you can make up for the catholic thing straight away with protestant......

in response to: Cathodic Protection Test Point by groovehouse

Flannagan: Most Protestants are selfish and ignorant in ireland Ian paisley for instance, cant they compromise, any compromise at all and then its giving in to catholic demands.PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

stephen: iam from the republic i think it is time for a united ireland it makes scence both econmic and social.It doesnt seem the british government give a toss about northern Ireland or the peopel including......

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

elaine: not being a catholic, i can't see me bothering to campaign for it as such - but it seems to me that the point of the despotism of catholicism is that you particularly don't question......

in response to: The Pope\'s Tomb by pietro

Craigy: " I believe that the "nothing has changed" mural is gone. Why are you guys scared of a painting on a wall? These paintings are in an inner city area. Just like any place in the......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Jamie: I think the social tensions that exist in the rainy top right corner of ireland are quite universal in their nature. I'm talkin of course of the mindless and implicit ground-in hatred. And i'm thinking......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Dan: I have to say, I just found this thread quite by chance, and I've been living in Asia for the past 3 years, where generally people are less hostile than back home. ( Maybe Buddhism......

in response to: Amsterdam-Schiphol by ian

Stakem: The idea I mostly receive from the whole situation in N. Ireland is a lack of communication, a lack of understanding, and, above all, complete friggin' ignorance. I can't sit here and lecture on N.......

in response to: Northern Ireland Memoirs: Part One by Jamie

elaine: well, it's history and geography. the romany gypsies are one thing, then there are irish gypsies, and then there are elective 'new age' travellers. the new age travellers came out of a long standing squatting......

in response to: urban transgressions and taboos by elaine

Cincinnati: Was doing some research and stumbled upon this blog. My o my the hatred people. It makes me glad my 'Mick ancestors (local terminalogy for Irish descent) came to the states. Cincinnati......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

mon nom: Okay, American. Maybe if the "rich" Brits and Protestants who employed the Catholics for peanuts actually HELPED the Catholicas get through the famine, then maybe you family wouldn't have had to move to the US,......

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

mon nom: Haha. Yeah, Beware of IRA is right. I'm so glad I'm not a dirty Protestant. >=)...

in response to: Rural Northern Ireland by Jamie

American: I personally feel that there is too much hatred and attention on the British in Bogside. No offense but shit happens, and my family was Irish about 100 years removed and they came over to......

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

David: I've already told you that it is irrelivent what the labour government think about here because the United Kingdom as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is set in stone and things can never be......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Sean: The D.U.P has put a stop to them,thats why i voted for them because i knew they would,and the R.U.C(despite whatever you might of heard or read somewhere)was an excellent police force and was accepted......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

David: You say Eire is the third richest country in the world,well that might be,good for you,but it is not our country.If Russia wants us to be part of them, or Germany or the U.S.A or......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

hotdogx: Lets get something straight here, the last time you visited the republic must have been in the 70s or 80s when there was a standard of living diffirence between Ni and rep. Ireland is now......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

David: All you have to do is drive over the border into Eire and immediately you see the difference,even the roads are full of pot holes and craters,its like a third world country(but even if it......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Ulster Loyalist: The reason why a lot of Protestants say they are from Ireland to Ignorant foreigners is that most of them don't even know that Northern Ireland is a different country and part of the U.K,......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

anon protestant: Re: Shankhill Road taigs are all rebel ball lickin scum bags who need shot and drove out of northern ireland go back down south where you's all belong. Up the Uda. Keep er lit !!!......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

sick of all the shit : Re: Shankhill Road does rebel 32 ever give over or get over himself? The only reason for killing the catholics was because the IRA was killing the protestant people in ulster they were bombing and......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

kilfennanDavy: I believe that the "nothing has changed" mural is gone. Why are you guys scared of a painting on a wall? These paintings are in an inner city area. Just like any place in the......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

R D : Re: Falls Road You know, although I have Irish family (and I don't mean like great- great grandparents) I don't think I'm biased, but really here in England at least (as opposed to Scotland) the vast......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

An American for better beer: Re: Falls Road This site is hilarious. I didn't realize so many people in Northern Ireland where still being force fed their parents bullshit. I thought you guys actually had resources to overcome all......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Shankill Stud: Re: Shankhill Road We're not Brazil we're Northern Ireland....we're not Brazil we're Northern Ireland... Protestant...and proud of it...lived on the Shankill Rd all me days...like everywhere else...full of the odd little hood...the odd big time charlie gangster...the......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

Proud to be a Prod !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: Re: Shankhill RoadJust a wee message to cuchulain who spewed out his crap on 22nd March 2005.are you trying to tell us that only Protestants are racist. most times you see anythings racist comes from......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

Colm: Re: Shankhill Road: Right on brother! let the scum have Portadown. I say! Then the ordinary protestant people can live in a peaceful 32 county Ireland without the persecution meated on them by their so......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

32 County Government in Exile: Northern Ireland is an artificial state and this artificial nature undermines any legitimacy its pro-Union majority would otherwise have. In 1920 when Ireland was partitioned, Co.Tyrone and Co.Fermanagh were 56% and 53% Catholic/Nationalist respectively, but......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Cuchulain: Re: Shankhill Road Fascism lives in the UK in the form of the UDA and UVF, racist organisations with links to the BNP and Combat and 18. The Portadown mosque comes to mind, attacks on......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

Belfast exile: Re: Living in 'the province' I was born & brought up in Ulster (U.K) dont see what all the fuss is about, hate it here in the mainland & cant wait to bring myself &......

in response to: Northern Ireland is the most intrguing of places by Jamie

Dutch: Re: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill can you az a outsider (Tourist) go there with out gettin shot by Protestants or Catholic's ...

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Armagh bhoy: Là Fheile Padraig (Happy St Patrick for non Irish speakers). Visit Ireland and support the Irish struggle for freedom and justice for ALL (yes even the protestants who are Irish as well). England is the......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Jamie: A bit of clarification is perhaps needed for those not familiar with the Irish/Ulster slang used here. My facts should not be taken as gospel but are what I have gleaned from spending a couple......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

uk defender: This site is hillarious..i had no idea that catholics and protestants still hated each other this much in northern ireland.But to be fair both sides are a bunch of fannys.I mean surely all your disputes......

in response to: The West Belfast Peace Line by Jamie

Irishman: Catholics are the real irish. The fucking protestants ive met only fly the shitty ass lymie flag ,not the irish flag. All you orangemen need to start loving your country and its flag and stop flyng the......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

volkovv: Its not about religion, its about Nationlism, what greatest Irish Freedom fighters ,was Protestants, but when f*cking orange start his sectarian marches, then is it about religion, but not from the cat. side. UP the RA!...

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Observer: P.S. I have lived and worked in N.I/the north of Ireland (!?) for 27years, am in a mixed religion relationship and have many many friends and family on both 'sides'. So to all the tourists/non......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

Observer: As an observer it appears there are many short sighted and narrow minded people on both sides of the divide here on this site and in the North/N.I. (trying to keep everyone happy). The......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

protestant taig: who gives two shites for the pope or his people, eh? not me. so your statement, wullie, means naught to us....

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

wullie: remember all you protestants if you cant fuck the pope fuck his people...

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

~creAtor~: i guess i just dont get what all the fuss is about. some ppl are protestant. some are catholic. big deal. its that way all over the world and the rest of the world doesnt......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

ireland: hey gene. nothing here but catholic dumbarses and protestant wankers!...

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

rebel 32: hello loyal and true would it not be factual that the catholic church paid king billy to defeat king james so before open your mouth next time try reading the early reformation about calvin, martin......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

IRA til DEATH: up the arse is mroe like it, mate. shut yer hole before i come kick your pansy protestant british arse!...

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

otisbirdsong: this shots are great...thank you fro giving us a glimpse of northern ireland... is Bombay Street in a catholic area or a protestant area?...

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie