Theories of the conspiratorial kind

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The envoy, Bewley, or the blueshirts, or maybe both (can't remember, going back to secondary school) were behind the "Dev is Jewish" rumour.

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Edit: Truncated post. Either way, the rumour goes back to the 30s-40s, and I believe Dev even addressed it in the Dail at some point.

One of the advantages of going to a Gaelscoil was having history teachers who were extremely enthusiastic about Irish history!

[Scáthach]

Ah yeah the zealous Gaeilgeoirs, always conspicuously Irish.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

For secondary I switched between a gaelscoil and a protestant school twice over; whatever about the former, the latter were certainly conspicuously unIrish by comparison!

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[Bigmac]

The envoy, Bewley, or the blueshirts, or maybe both (can't remember, going back to secondary school) were behind the "Dev is Jewish" rumour.

Any good articles or similar about that? I remember looking into it a while ago, but it seemed a bit of an inconclusive dead end. My digging didn't go very deep though.

On the topic of Jewish history and Ireland, the Wikipedia article about it is entertaining:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ireland

90 years after Toirdelbach sent 5 Jews back across the sea, Strongbow appears funded by a Jewish moneylender.

Very unlikely the two events are linked, but it's still entertaining to think that Toirdelbach so incensed them, they funded Strongbow in return.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

De Valera being Jewish himself puts a different spin on the Nazi thing...

I found this a bit mad when I came across it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89amon_de_Valera_Forest

Well, you think you know someone...then...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/ireland-and-the-nazis-a-troubled-history-1.3076579%3fmode=amp

Its bizarre where people from Irish history turn up. I remember reading somewhere a good few years ago about a restaurant in either Pakistan or Afghanistan where meals were named after martyrs to the cause against Western imperialism. You could order, I shit you not, a Bobby Sands burger. 

[Scáthach]

  Good on ye. That's the one.

[astfgyl]

I've given a good part of the day laughing at that, it's amazing

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[Black Shepherd Carnage]

You wouldn't say that if you hadn't eaten in 66 days!

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[astfgyl]

Clickety click.. Sickety-Sick!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Could have been worse. Could have been 88.

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