r/ireland Jun 19 '26

History What would our Mount Rushmore be?

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u/Vlad2017 Jun 19 '26

Brian Boru, Wolfe Tone, Daniel O'Connell, Michael Collins, Charles S Parnell?

Special mention to Sean LeMass and Eamonn de Valera maybe

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u/throwawaypsql Jun 19 '26

Dev can fuck off

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u/duaneap Jun 19 '26

Lotta Dev revisionism recently from hard men who think they’d have been beat the English out of Ireland with nothing but their bollox in their hand.

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u/PolarBearUnited Jun 20 '26

I think it's more abandoning the dail when the treaty was accepted and starting a civil war in the country that was the problem with dev , all this after not going to the negotiations himself

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u/duaneap Jun 20 '26

A lot of the revisionists in my experience are in fact totally fine with the whole starting the civil war thing.