Ruiri said there was loads of people came down that day from Belfast to vote him out. He never seen them before and never seen them again. A true patriot stabbed in the back by Adams and McGuinness.
Ruairi O Bradaigh was my teacher in the Technical School in Roscommon. I would like to get in touch with his sister n law Mauraid O Connor ,as she was known then, when she was a teacher in the Tech in Roscommon. I would like to say that Ruairi was one of my favourite teachers.
A true son of ireland, he stood his ground not only to Britain but the freestate,. He gave way to no man or no agenda. A true republican till the end. RIP
Well enmeshed into the system now . FF and FG banded together alright . Not many people spoke truer words , it is hard to believe that Ruari , seen this all coming . What a genuine visionary . I feel for all the dead men , ex prisoners whose lives have been changed forever after languishing in torture camps , men who have lost their family , wives and children . Men who gave everything and took nothing. The poor hunger strikers who died painful deaths for their genuine beliefs , the list is endless . The amount of suffering is immeasurable . Look at Adams now , he took from the people and is living as a lord with his properties all over the place . He is worse than the british colonialists and has become part of the brit system. For what died the sons of Roisin ? We are well enmeshed now , North and South . Bought by the Englishmans' purse . Sad in the extreme , so sad . We should have listened to this great republican . RIP Ruari .
2023 ,100% right ✅️ 👌 ! A man ahead of his time ⏲️ ! To look at what SF has become is a sickness that's be on belief ! Africa , China, Pakistan, India , the whole of the Middle East, south America is welcomed into Ireland with open arms as illgel immigrats to drive down wage growth and living standards for the Irish people ! Unfortunately it's looking like the guns will be turned on them !
He was described by the FBI as a “dedicated revolutionary undeterred by threat or personal risk". The world would be a beautiful place if we were ALL like that.
He has been proven to be so right. He is an inspiration to all who aspire to the revolutionary principle, even if their political programme is different to his.
The man was 100 percent right but unfortunately he couldn't bring the people with him, Adams won because the vast majority in PSF weren't committed republicans anyway, true republicans were always a minority in Ireland be it 1916 1922 or 1998, Ireland is too aligned to Britain in its people and its capitalism to ever build a true socialist Republic, revolutionary movements are worthless unless you can get the vast portion of a nations population to back you, we see that today with dissident groups, without public support unfortunately they're efforts are in vain
He was right tho. He said if you go into parliament then you are bowing to their rules, they will gang up on you and keep you on the streets. Exactly what the other parties are doing to sinn fein to this day
Ruairi O'Bradaigh's words have proved prophetic in the intervening years since that historic Ard Fheis. It is just a pity that so few were prepared to heed him and keep on the path of principle.
Ruairi was the epitome of Irish Republicanism it’s very doubtful we’ll see his like again , shaking hands with traitors like Adams must have turned his stomach 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
J118 lied from his first word to his last. Ruairí told the truth throughout. PSF in 2020 has become the new Fianna Fail (with a Fianna Failer as leader!!!) and Ruairí predicted it all.
Ruairi O Bradaigh was 100 % right,now we have Sinn Fein sitting as ministers in Stormont while their old comrades in arms are being interned and charged with "crimes" that happened 40 years ago.Sinn Fein politicians are still treated as pariahs,insulted regularly both in the Dail and Stormont while things on the ground in Nationalist areas of Derry and West Belfast deteriorate to conditions far worse than when the troubles began.
Ruairi O Bradaigh...A true Irish Republican who never wavered from from his beliefs, Unlike the Quisling leadership in the 6 Counties, everything he spoke of in this speech has come to be. Recognition of the the Dail , Administering British rule in the North , The men of 81 did not die for what SF had so far not delivered.Our patriot dead deserve so much more.Dia Duit
ruairi was a true Republican rite up until the bitter end as republicans today we see mc Guinness and adams sitting in storment and leinster house today and as ruairi predicted have been duped into the normalisation of occupation just because we dont see british troops on our streets doesn't mean their not here
Exactly, both Adams and McGuinness had been working alongside the establishment at this stage to bring the armed struggle to an end, as none of what the London government and it's occupational forces (RUC, British Army, MI5, etc) wanted would have been possible without the co-operation of Adams and McGuinness. They have even said so publicly. Neither men were actually republicans and sought to infiltrate a movement to become careerist politicians and ditch those same volunteers they used as cannon fodder when the opportunity finally came (aka the Belfast Agreement).
P Sl I'm against any deal made with the British intensely.... but on the other hand I think about how many more innocent people would be dead had this not come about... it sends the hair on me neck standing up when I think about it.... men.... women.... children... mothers... father's.... sisters.... brothers....
It should send the hair on the neck stand up when you think about the men, women, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, etc who were misled to their death by a leadership into fighting British occupation when that same leadership was secretly negotiating a ceasefire behind their backs. How many less graves would be filled with volunteers had the leadership been honest with them rather than use human tragedy to advance their political objectives?
everything was not as it seemed at this time comrades remember what ye were taught as children everything is not as it seems this was a different mans speech and should have heralded a united Ireland had they accepted the motion they would have been strong enough to force the brits out then the rest is a version of history ✊🍀
Read Ruairi's writings like Dilseacht and learn about true Irish Republicanism. Mcguinness and Adams ended up running around after British Royals. Ruairi was right.
Man stayed true, I can never work out how the North can be recognised but then refuse to take Westminster seat. And forget all that allegiance flannel, crazy moment.
The Republican movement still and rightly abstains Westminster. O Bradaigh wanted the IRA at the forefront of change but Adams and Martin knew it was Sinn Fein and politics on the island of Ireland that would move unity forward.
His views and theory was correct at the time of his speech,but he himself was sitting in the comfort of the south of Ireland,the movement he was trying to rouse was fighting the war on the streets of the north,if he was based in Belfast getting his door kicked in every other week,he may not have been so rebellious,and may have been forced like his then Northern counterparts,to find a way out of the violence.
The violence has not ended. The British own Ireland, and now the US and EU own slices of her. What did sacrificing the revolutionary movement bring? Ireland still does not belong to the Irish. Don't kid yourself. What is worth more than freedom?
This is fascism just like 1930s Germany. Politics and a paramilitary wing. And this evil man wanted the killing of Irish people to keep going on and on
Vast majority of Irish people wanted and want peace now.No sence in people dying for a military stalemate. Adams andi mcguiness were right and saw no point in furthering the armed struggle as if they did it would only inflict years of more misery on the Catholic community in northern Ireland. Easy for people in the Irish republic to sabre rattle when they can sleep easy without the fear of getting a knock on the door in the middle of the night from a loyalist death squad. Demographics will take care of a United Ireland,it's only a matter of time before a sectarian head count will get republicans what they want.In the meantime reconciliation is necessary,unless when the time comes for a United Ireland that people want another civil war.
+thefringthing He says that he is against the motion that has been proposed and wants to move a different motion to oppose it. He basically then says the same thing in English.
I think when he was negotiating peace talks with the british goverment officials if adams and McGuinness hadnt stepped in he would have possibly changed the course of the conflict
I can understand his points. However I believe sf was correct to embrace politics and move away from armed struggle. I believe that a United Ireland will be won via the ballot box within my lifetime.. sooner than most think, without a shot being fired. However I can understand his perspective, especially given the history of Ireland.
because the IRA was militarily spent, they were never going to win a military victory. adams seen that and set up plan B which avoided a full on defeat and saved the republican movement from irrelevence.
I'm not a believer in socialism or Communism but absolutely respect this man. He had values, morals & integrity. He's was right about abstentionism. They ended up in leister house & stormont and are totally enmeshed in the system. They still spout the same lies that Rouiri called them out on. RIP from a firm believer in NS
i met ruairi, i liked him but political purity is a sure sign of political failure. Its easy to have your principles, its the first step of politics, not the last
Sinn Fein now the largest party in Ireland in both jurisdictions. Government in waiting in the 26 state. What Adams has achieved is nothing short of remarkable. Respect for Ruairi but the war had to end or Republicans would continue to be contained. Victory is almost ours… the dream of a 32 county Republic is within reach in our time. Keep the faith. TAL 🇮🇪
When though? It’s basically 2022 and all I hear is talk. Ruairí had a solution and vision for a new federal Ireland Eire Nua. Please read IRA secret history, it sheds light on Adams and how he steered the movement in Britain’s favour. Ruairí is right, he was right then and is still right now.
@@nervesinapattern7261 it will happen when the people decide it’s what they want… SF is the most popular party in Ireland north & south and are obviously winning the argument… there is no credible alternative strategy?? A SF government in Dublin is the last thing the Brits need… you give them way too much credit
@@ruairijoseph Isn’t it weird how most civil rights movements /armed struggles have a high rate of attrition when it comes to leaders? But Adams avoids these issues for decades. And those who opposed Adams like Ruairí Ó Brádaigh are cast out. Máire Drumm who was a thorn in adams side is executed while in hospital, yet only a handful of SF leadership where aware of her location? You don’t find it any of this odd? I come from a Republican family, Falls road in Belfast. The rats in the street know about Adams, if he was such a threat to British occupation he’d have been murdered and that’s just plain fact, state collusion in murder of politicians and even lawyers was rampant. The Republican movement isn’t about one man, I’m sick to death of Adams getting credit when In all likelihood he was a British agent. Even Brendan Hughes said he felt deeply betrayed by adams. Sinn Fein is a lot more than adams, leave him in the past.
@@nervesinapattern7261 I didn’t say the Republican movement was about one man? My point is, Ruairi was against ending abstentionism in the 26 counties, while Adams was obviously a leading architect of a massive idealogical shift in Republican thinking, that would see SF TDs take their seats in Dáil Éireann at a time when SF were polling less than 2% of the vote and had zero TDs anyway. With SF now most likely Government in waiting in the 26… love him or hate him, Adams’s foresight as a political strategist is truly remarkable. I don’t know how the Brits viewed this new Adams & Co endeavor back in the 80s, but I doubt they envisaged it leading to a SF government in Dublin one day and were happy to manipulate the so called doves and the hawks as best they could to their own end. That is a very different thing from Adams ‘in all likelihood’ being a British agent. I respect Ruairi and am actually named after the guy, but by your argument, shouldn’t the Brits have stiffed him too? IN MY VIEW, and I’m not saying it’s the right view… time has proven Adams right and surely if he was indeed a British agent, with SF in the position they are in, and so called dissident Republicans completely compromised, why wouldn’t the Brits trade Adams in and expose him now and do as much damage as possible to the SF project in the 26 counties, who if/when they take power, are only going to cause maximum difficulties for the UK at all levels. Britain has never been pressed by a Sovereign Irish government over their border in our country… the most hostile party in government in Dublin within the EU and effecting UK-US relations etc etc, is the last thing the Brits need? Makes no sense. To be honest, 10 years after decommissioning, I was hostile to Adams and completely disillusioned with where things were… others kept the faith. Respect to all Republicans and unity come a border poll is what is needed. Demographics will settle this all very soon… Our friend Nigel Dodds in North Belfast is a sign of where this is all heading. TAL 🇮🇪
I alway had liked Ruairi O Bradaigh's he was a purist, but ultimately it was not a winning strategy. The IRA either Official or Provisional, did not have enough to defeat the British militarily and visa versa. Without the capacity to beat them militarily, a political settlement is the only answer. It is as simple as that. By 1986 the PIRA and Provo Sinn Fein was infiltrated and were having secret talks with Britain. The Brits at this time made it clear that they do not wish to hold onto the north at any cost, but could not leave based on a military defeat. Gerry Adams never hid the fact that he believed in a political settlement. He wrote about it in several books. Sinn Fein as a whole made the choice to give up the armalite for the ballot box. Talking was the only way to go and spreading republicanism or constitutional nationalism from the inside. The sad thing is radicalism is lost in the mix. I always respected Ruairi O . The Officials went away for lack of support and became the small Worker's Party. On the other hand Provisional Sinn Fein has put itself in a position to lead both in the north and the Republic.Unfortunately that means giving up on being a radical party and becoming more mainstream to win votes. Ireland is now a modern European country and there is no going back to 1969.
A wish the republicans could have stayed together as we would have a better chance of getting to our ultimate goal a united ireland though Rory’s troops did try keep t going when Adams was making peace Rory’s group the real ira were just as powerful as the provos were though that sad day n omagh when the peelers n brits put the people n harms way moving them towards the carbomb uv got to ask urself why no peelers or brits died that day in omagh there was more peelers n brits than there was civilians they wanted people to die in omagh that day they had prior knowledge of the kind of car t was etc the brits were tracking the bombers movements that day phone calls etc t was allowed to go ahead to turn people away from the real ira knowing civilians were going to die before omagh people had supported the real ira they were the hardliners across the border and n the six counties the brits feared them more than pira before them🇮🇪32
Hen Smithers The fundamental SOVEREIGN Republic , Adams and MC Guinness are members of PROVISIONAL Sinn Fein one now sits in he British Parliament in the north of the country and one sits in the British Parliament in the south of the country and both are puppets of the crown
Ruairi o Braidigh was elected to the Dàil ( irish parliament) in the longford westmeath constituency. He was actually elected a member of parliament while he was imprisoned, before then escaping.
couldnt beat the ira? well we are still part of the uk. better than that the pira leadership actually works for the uk goverment lol if we are defeated i would be curious to see what victory would be like lol no surrender.
Keep licking that floor. Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg-Gotha wants it clean enough to eat her dinner off. You might technically be in the UK, for now, but go over to the UK proper and tell anyone you're British and they'll laugh their heads off at you. Don't forget that piece of sponge in your lapel now!
everything was not as it seemed at this time comrades remember what ye were taught as children everything is not as it seems this was a different mans speech and should have heralded a united Ireland had they accepted the motion they would have been strong enough to force the brits out then the rest is a version of history ✊🍀
Ruairi was a great friend of my family. He was a very straight and to the point person too. I'm friends with his nephews to this day. Very nice people too, but take their kindness for weakness at your peril.
I have no doubt about your words , Ruari was a man of top integrity and respect. The last true republican, the last day he stood on the stage with British agent s
RIP Ruairi O Bradaigh..A true Republican all his life. He was'nt wrong and went on to form the true Republican Party. Rest well brave soldier of Eire, Agus Tiocfaidh Ar La..!! Saoirse..!! RSF. Continuity Not Comprimise..!! #EireNua #CIRA #26+6=1 #IRPWA #NaFiannaEirin
Ruairi . . . you were a gentleman and a scholar, you instilled in me a love of learning. When you came into that class room in the Tech in Lanesboro St, in 1963/4 you instilled trust in me which I fulfilled, you were a brilliant teacher which I have carried with me all through my life. Pamela Casey (BSc OU) I will always remember you as being my best and favourite teacher. R.I.P Ruairi.
@Big Valerie was a statement made by a British army veteran who served 7 tours here speaks about how it was a drunken conversation in the mess Hall were another soldier claimed Adams was working for them they would love nothing more than the Irish people to believe gerry Adams set up the Loughgall ambush this was a coincide with Freddie scapatticci being sent down to Tyrone to hunt the informer which we would later learn was him?
He knew the traitors he had sitting behind him
He surely did
This is a true Irish Patriot! He knew the traitors behind him! ❤️🇮🇪
Your full of shit mate,I bet your based in main land England
Ever word this true republican said came true , sinn fein mi5 are Ireland s one enemy
Ruiri said there was loads of people came down that day from Belfast to vote him out. He never seen them before and never seen them again. A true patriot stabbed in the back by Adams and McGuinness.
If only i could like this a million times
Ruairi O Bradaigh was my teacher in the Technical School in Roscommon. I would like to get in touch with his sister n law Mauraid O Connor ,as she was known then, when she was a teacher in the Tech in Roscommon. I would like to say that Ruairi was one of my favourite teachers.
Here was a man that had " Principles " you always spoke from the heart Ruairi O Bradaigh.R I P and may God be with you ☘️🇮🇪☘️
James J. McMenamin 🍀🍀🍀🍀
Rip he spoke the truth never feared never faltered kept his beliefs till the end
That is very true.
You can see the hurt in him because he knew what was happening in back ground.
A true son of ireland, he stood his ground not only to Britain but the freestate,. He gave way to no man or no agenda. A true republican till the end. RIP
Well enmeshed into the system now . FF and FG banded together alright . Not many people spoke truer words , it is hard to believe that Ruari , seen this all coming . What a genuine visionary .
I feel for all the dead men , ex prisoners whose lives have been changed forever after languishing in torture camps , men who have lost their family , wives and children . Men who gave everything and took nothing.
The poor hunger strikers who died painful deaths for their genuine beliefs , the list is endless . The amount of suffering is immeasurable . Look at Adams now , he took from the people and is living as a lord with his properties all over the place . He is worse than the british colonialists and has become part of the brit system. For what died the sons of Roisin ?
We are well enmeshed now , North and South . Bought by the Englishmans' purse . Sad in the extreme , so sad . We should have listened to this great republican . RIP Ruari .
2023 ,100% right ✅️ 👌 ! A man ahead of his time ⏲️ ! To look at what SF has become is a sickness that's be on belief ! Africa , China, Pakistan, India , the whole of the Middle East, south America is welcomed into Ireland with open arms as illgel immigrats to drive down wage growth and living standards for the Irish people ! Unfortunately it's looking like the guns will be turned on them !
Regardless if you agree with him. He was true to his principles and beliefs.
Time has only proven him right.
Adams slapping him on the back. You can detest Provos but you couldn't say Rory was a snake like Gerry, the man is on a different level.
One year later the Loughgall men were set up by you know who
@@ringsidejudge4302yeah that cnt steak knife
He warned everyone, everyone clapped... And then Gerry pounced... If only someone with balls had've listened
He was described by the FBI as a “dedicated revolutionary undeterred by threat or personal risk".
The world would be a beautiful place if we were ALL like that.
Dia is muire duit cara
As it should be. The last two yrs has drawn a line under how useless and brainwashed by Brit state propaganda the majority truly are.
God bless u Rauiri O. a true Republican
proud to have been in attendance at his funeral, RIP a true hero!
What a speech R. I. P.
He has been proven to be so right. He is an inspiration to all who aspire to the revolutionary principle, even if their political programme is different to his.
The man was 100 percent right but unfortunately he couldn't bring the people with him, Adams won because the vast majority in PSF weren't committed republicans anyway, true republicans were always a minority in Ireland be it 1916 1922 or 1998, Ireland is too aligned to Britain in its people and its capitalism to ever build a true socialist Republic, revolutionary movements are worthless unless you can get the vast portion of a nations population to back you, we see that today with dissident groups, without public support unfortunately they're efforts are in vain
A true Republican that is hopefully standing shoulder to shoulder with the leaders of 16 and the hunger strikers in heaven.
How right was Ruairi if only people listened to him instead on adams and co.
Most of what he predicted, happened
He was right tho. He said if you go into parliament then you are bowing to their rules, they will gang up on you and keep you on the streets. Exactly what the other parties are doing to sinn fein to this day
Ruairi O'Bradaigh's words have proved prophetic in the intervening years since that historic Ard Fheis. It is just a pity that so few were prepared to heed him and keep on the path of principle.
Ruairi was the epitome of Irish Republicanism it’s very doubtful we’ll see his like again , shaking hands with traitors like Adams must have turned his stomach 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Irish legend r.I.p.
The handshake was venomous
The Judas kiss right
Watching Alex maskey live on TV just now welcome the new King of England at Hillsborough Castle and wondering how it came to this.
RIP Ruairi Ó'Bradaigh.
What an orator, what a patriot
Proper Republican with real principles, and what an opetator!!!!!!
Truth.
RIP , YOU WERE RIGHT ✅, SLEEP WELL.
A great Republican
yep they were all HAD,,,
J118 lied from his first word to his last. Ruairí told the truth throughout. PSF in 2020 has become the new Fianna Fail (with a Fianna Failer as leader!!!) and Ruairí predicted it all.
Ruairi O Bradaigh was 100 % right,now we have Sinn Fein sitting as ministers in Stormont while their old comrades in arms are being interned and charged with "crimes" that happened 40 years ago.Sinn Fein politicians are still treated as pariahs,insulted regularly both in the Dail and Stormont while things on the ground in Nationalist areas of Derry and West Belfast deteriorate to conditions far worse than when the troubles began.
If i could like this 1 million times i would what a guy rebel to the core tiocfaidh ar la
Ruairi O Bradaigh...A true Irish Republican who never wavered from from his beliefs, Unlike the Quisling leadership in the 6 Counties, everything he spoke of in this speech has come to be. Recognition of the the Dail , Administering British rule in the North , The men of 81 did not die for what SF had so far not delivered.Our patriot dead deserve so much more.Dia Duit
A great man!so right he was,may he rest in peace a true republican!
And how true he was
ruairi was a true Republican rite up until the bitter end as republicans today we see mc Guinness and adams sitting in storment and leinster house today and as ruairi predicted have been duped into the normalisation of occupation just because we dont see british troops on our streets doesn't mean their not here
Exactly, both Adams and McGuinness had been working alongside the establishment at this stage to bring the armed struggle to an end, as none of what the London government and it's occupational forces (RUC, British Army, MI5, etc) wanted would have been possible without the co-operation of Adams and McGuinness. They have even said so publicly. Neither men were actually republicans and sought to infiltrate a movement to become careerist politicians and ditch those same volunteers they used as cannon fodder when the opportunity finally came (aka the Belfast Agreement).
P Sl I'm against any deal made with the British intensely.... but on the other hand I think about how many more innocent people would be dead had this not come about... it sends the hair on me neck standing up when I think about it.... men.... women.... children... mothers... father's.... sisters.... brothers....
It should send the hair on the neck stand up when you think about the men, women, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, etc who were misled to their death by a leadership into fighting British occupation when that same leadership was secretly negotiating a ceasefire behind their backs. How many less graves would be filled with volunteers had the leadership been honest with them rather than use human tragedy to advance their political objectives?
1916 Fenian 1916 Fenian Learn how to spell,them come back with an opinion.Gobshite.
@@midnightmover2329 his opinion, in the original comment, was just a statement of fact.
Rest n peace Rory a true son of Erin remembered n honoured with love n pride always may he sleep with the sleep of peace erin go bragh tal32
What a well deserved ovation this man got...👍👍
A great orator GB you ruairi
They don’t make them like ROB anymore
Saw it all coming ..
everything was not as it seemed at this time comrades remember what ye were taught as children everything is not as it seems this was a different mans speech and should have heralded a united Ireland had they accepted the motion they would have been strong enough to force the brits out then the rest is a version of history ✊🍀
100% right, sold out by mcguiness and adams.
RIP legend
Met the man outside Quinn's in drumcondra at the anti god save the Queen demo in 2007. 😉
Ruairi got it right ! So sad !
RIP
Rip hero, you knew the truth, spoke it too
Support the dissidents from Fermanagh
Read Ruairi's writings like Dilseacht and learn about true Irish Republicanism. Mcguinness and Adams ended up running around after British Royals. Ruairi was right.
Words from the last TRUE republican against British agent's people saw as republican s
Man stayed true, I can never work out how the North can be recognised but then refuse to take Westminster seat. And forget all that allegiance flannel, crazy moment.
The Republican movement still and rightly abstains Westminster. O Bradaigh wanted the IRA at the forefront of change but Adams and Martin knew it was Sinn Fein and politics on the island of Ireland that would move unity forward.
It hasn't.
His views and theory was correct at the time of his speech,but he himself was sitting in the comfort of the south of Ireland,the movement he was trying to rouse was fighting the war on the streets of the north,if he was based in Belfast getting his door kicked in every other week,he may not have been so rebellious,and may have been forced like his then Northern counterparts,to find a way out of the violence.
The violence has not ended. The British own Ireland, and now the US and EU own slices of her. What did sacrificing the revolutionary movement bring? Ireland still does not belong to the Irish.
Don't kid yourself. What is worth more than freedom?
Shinnfein sold out to Tony Blair
Scary people, scary times
This is fascism just like 1930s Germany. Politics and a paramilitary wing. And this evil man wanted the killing of Irish people to keep going on and on
Vast majority of Irish people wanted and want peace now.No sence in people dying for a military stalemate. Adams andi mcguiness were right and saw no point in furthering the armed struggle as if they did it would only inflict years of more misery on the Catholic community in northern Ireland. Easy for people in the Irish republic to sabre rattle when they can sleep easy without the fear of getting a knock on the door in the middle of the night from a loyalist death squad. Demographics will take care of a United Ireland,it's only a matter of time before a sectarian head count will get republicans what they want.In the meantime reconciliation is necessary,unless when the time comes for a United Ireland that people want another civil war.
Can anyone translate what Ruairí says in Irish at the beginning?
+thefringthing He says that he is against the motion that has been proposed and wants to move a different motion to oppose it. He basically then says the same thing in English.
I think when he was negotiating peace talks with the british goverment officials if adams and McGuinness hadnt stepped in he would have possibly changed the course of the conflict
Fergal O, Mahoney
Bitter and horrible.
It takes a special sort of stupid to believe you can unite anything by force
I can understand his points. However I believe sf was correct to embrace politics and move away from armed struggle. I believe that a United Ireland will be won via the ballot box within my lifetime.. sooner than most think, without a shot being fired. However I can understand his perspective, especially given the history of Ireland.
because the IRA was militarily spent, they were never going to win a military victory. adams seen that and set up plan B which avoided a full on defeat and saved the republican movement from irrelevence.
time has proven....
To be fair to him. He stuck to traditional republicanism until the end.
Time has only proven him correct
I'm not a believer in socialism or Communism but absolutely respect this man. He had values, morals & integrity. He's was right about abstentionism. They ended up in leister house & stormont and are totally enmeshed in the system. They still spout the same lies that Rouiri called them out on. RIP from a firm believer in NS
i met ruairi, i liked him but political purity is a sure sign of political failure. Its easy to have your principles, its the first step of politics, not the last
Surely son aiaiai ai. Thing way. A himmah sweet heart of devil well he. Accept it now
Sinn Fein now the largest party in Ireland in both jurisdictions. Government in waiting in the 26 state. What Adams has achieved is nothing short of remarkable. Respect for Ruairi but the war had to end or Republicans would continue to be contained. Victory is almost ours… the dream of a 32 county Republic is within reach in our time. Keep the faith. TAL 🇮🇪
When though? It’s basically 2022 and all I hear is talk. Ruairí had a solution and vision for a new federal Ireland Eire Nua. Please read IRA secret history, it sheds light on Adams and how he steered the movement in Britain’s favour. Ruairí is right, he was right then and is still right now.
@@nervesinapattern7261 it will happen when the people decide it’s what they want… SF is the most popular party in Ireland north & south and are obviously winning the argument… there is no credible alternative strategy?? A SF government in Dublin is the last thing the Brits need… you give them way too much credit
@@ruairijoseph Isn’t it weird how most civil rights movements /armed struggles have a high rate of attrition when it comes to leaders? But Adams avoids these issues for decades. And those who opposed Adams like Ruairí Ó Brádaigh are cast out. Máire Drumm who was a thorn in adams side is executed while in hospital, yet only a handful of SF leadership where aware of her location? You don’t find it any of this odd? I come from a Republican family, Falls road in Belfast. The rats in the street know about Adams, if he was such a threat to British occupation he’d have been murdered and that’s just plain fact, state collusion in murder of politicians and even lawyers was rampant. The Republican movement isn’t about one man, I’m sick to death of Adams getting credit when In all likelihood he was a British agent. Even Brendan Hughes said he felt deeply betrayed by adams. Sinn Fein is a lot more than adams, leave him in the past.
@@nervesinapattern7261 I didn’t say the Republican movement was about one man? My point is, Ruairi was against ending abstentionism in the 26 counties, while Adams was obviously a leading architect of a massive idealogical shift in Republican thinking, that would see SF TDs take their seats in Dáil Éireann at a time when SF were polling less than 2% of the vote and had zero TDs anyway.
With SF now most likely Government in waiting in the 26… love him or hate him, Adams’s foresight as a political strategist is truly remarkable. I don’t know how the Brits viewed this new Adams & Co endeavor back in the 80s, but I doubt they envisaged it leading to a SF government in Dublin one day and were happy to manipulate the so called doves and the hawks as best they could to their own end. That is a very different thing from Adams ‘in all likelihood’ being a British agent.
I respect Ruairi and am actually named after the guy, but by your argument, shouldn’t the Brits have stiffed him too? IN MY VIEW, and I’m not saying it’s the right view… time has proven Adams right and surely if he was indeed a British agent, with SF in the position they are in, and so called dissident Republicans completely compromised, why wouldn’t the Brits trade Adams in and expose him now and do as much damage as possible to the SF project in the 26 counties, who if/when they take power, are only going to cause maximum difficulties for the UK at all levels. Britain has never been pressed by a Sovereign Irish government over their border in our country… the most hostile party in government in Dublin within the EU and effecting UK-US relations etc etc, is the last thing the Brits need? Makes no sense. To be honest, 10 years after decommissioning, I was hostile to Adams and completely disillusioned with where things were… others kept the faith. Respect to all Republicans and unity come a border poll is what is needed. Demographics will settle this all very soon… Our friend Nigel Dodds in North Belfast is a sign of where this is all heading. TAL 🇮🇪
Amazing how there is not a single loyest trolll on this site.
Shinn Fine the enemy with in fection
I alway had liked Ruairi O Bradaigh's he was a purist, but ultimately it was not a winning strategy. The IRA either Official or Provisional, did not have enough to defeat the British militarily and visa versa. Without the capacity to beat them militarily, a political settlement is the only answer. It is as simple as that. By 1986 the PIRA and Provo Sinn Fein was infiltrated and were having secret talks with Britain. The Brits at this time made it clear that they do not wish to hold onto the north at any cost, but could not leave based on a military defeat. Gerry Adams never hid the fact that he believed in a political settlement. He wrote about it in several books. Sinn Fein as a whole made the choice to give up the armalite for the ballot box. Talking was the only way to go and spreading republicanism or constitutional nationalism from the inside. The sad thing is radicalism is lost in the mix. I always respected Ruairi O . The Officials went away for lack of support and became the small Worker's Party. On the other hand Provisional Sinn Fein has put itself in a position to lead both in the north and the Republic.Unfortunately that means giving up on being a radical party and becoming more mainstream to win votes. Ireland is now a modern European country and there is no going back to 1969.
A wish the republicans could have stayed together as we would have a better chance of getting to our ultimate goal a united ireland though Rory’s troops did try keep t going when Adams was making peace Rory’s group the real ira were just as powerful as the provos were though that sad day n omagh when the peelers n brits put the people n harms way moving them towards the carbomb uv got to ask urself why no peelers or brits died that day in omagh there was more peelers n brits than there was civilians they wanted people to die in omagh that day they had prior knowledge of the kind of car t was etc the brits were tracking the bombers movements that day phone calls etc t was allowed to go ahead to turn people away from the real ira knowing civilians were going to die before omagh people had supported the real ira they were the hardliners across the border and n the six counties the brits feared them more than pira before them🇮🇪32
Rauri O'Bloodbath. Full of sound and fury and never tired of the bloodletting. The people tired of it before he did. The graveyards ran out of space.
It was always easy for Ruairi to spew shit - nobody ever voted for him , Adams and mcguinness had the harder job.
Hen Smithers
The fundamental SOVEREIGN Republic , Adams and MC Guinness are members of PROVISIONAL Sinn Fein one now sits in he British Parliament in the north of the country and one sits in the British Parliament in the south of the country and both are puppets of the crown
Yes they most certainly are puppets....
He was once elected as a TD in the 1950s. So he got a vote or two in his day 👌🏻
Ruairi o Braidigh was elected to the Dàil ( irish parliament) in the longford westmeath constituency. He was actually elected a member of parliament while he was imprisoned, before then escaping.
couldnt beat the ira? well we are still part of the uk. better than that the pira leadership actually works for the uk goverment lol if we are defeated i would be curious to see what victory would be like lol no surrender.
Keep licking that floor. Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg-Gotha wants it clean enough to eat her dinner off. You might technically be in the UK, for now, but go over to the UK proper and tell anyone you're British and they'll laugh their heads off at you.
Don't forget that piece of sponge in your lapel now!
@@BerghemDeSura Well said Ruairí boy, well said
By fk was he right
Rest in peace Rauiri a true Irish soilder 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
A true descendant of 1916.
everything was not as it seemed at this time comrades remember what ye were taught as children everything is not as it seems this was a different mans speech and should have heralded a united Ireland had they accepted the motion they would have been strong enough to force the brits out then the rest is a version of history ✊🍀
Ruairi was a great friend of my family. He was a very straight and to the point person too. I'm friends with his nephews to this day. Very nice people too, but take their kindness for weakness at your peril.
Are they Nationalists ?
I have no doubt about your words , Ruari was a man of top integrity and respect. The last true republican, the last day he stood on the stage with British agent s
Aww bore off... I'm friends with his neohews.... who gives a fck 😂😂
RIP Ruairi O Bradaigh..A true Republican all his life. He was'nt wrong and went on to form the true Republican Party. Rest well brave soldier of Eire, Agus Tiocfaidh Ar La..!! Saoirse..!! RSF. Continuity Not Comprimise..!! #EireNua #CIRA #26+6=1 #IRPWA #NaFiannaEirin
What a principled man he was unbowed and unbroken til his Death. RIP Ruairi Ó'Bradaigh
Ruairi . . . you were a gentleman and a scholar, you instilled in me a love of learning. When you came into that class room in the Tech in Lanesboro St, in 1963/4 you instilled trust in me which I fulfilled, you were a brilliant teacher which I have carried with me all through my life. Pamela Casey (BSc OU) I will always remember you as being my best and favourite teacher. R.I.P Ruairi.
Ruairi was a legend and it hurts why no one listened to him in 1986
Look whats wrong now hes right
Eire Abu Tá
love it when he saysi will shake hands with everyone not just when the cameras are there LOVE IT
he was 100 per cent right how could they sell out a good man like him RIP comrade u have my respect
This was a time when Adams also MCGuiness were recruited to work for the enemy
Do you believe this. I've a feeling you may be right
@Big Valerie was a statement made by a British army veteran who served 7 tours here speaks about how it was a drunken conversation in the mess Hall were another soldier claimed Adams was working for them they would love nothing more than the Irish people to believe gerry Adams set up the Loughgall ambush this was a coincide with Freddie scapatticci being sent down to Tyrone to hunt the informer which we would later learn was him?
@nomufftotuff5823 more than likely they were all informers...look at Scappaticci himself
Rurairi O. a true Republican. TAL32
This man was spot on.
Absolutely spot on...
Ruairi O. was a true Republican. TAL32
RIP Ruairi. a true Republican. to the last. never gave up his beliefs. TAL32
through the actions of our patriot dead n the last phase of struggle I believe we are closer to a untied Ireland
he was 100 per cent right RIP comrade
ar dheis de go raibh a anam
He'd still be fighting if he had the support
how so?
O_O....are you gonna even try to persuade me of the "truth" .....go on dont be lazy
How right was he! A heroic republican till the very end! RIP Ruari O Bradaigh. Beir bua!
*sigh*...i guess you know nothing..oh well
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How right he was