I'm loathe to even converse with your inverse logic on all things like this but, yes, in the instance of the song about Billy Fullarton's fascist murder gangs that your old football team had as a club song - yes, the term fenians referred to catholics. They were not killing members of a fenian brotherhood - they killed catholic immigrants. Lithuanian, Irish and Italian catholics. You know that. You're a deliberately disingenuous bigoted arsehole. Die as soon as possible please
The wolfe tones play my local pub once a year so that's the evening I stay at home and have my annual bath. I still take qgreat delight in telling all the mutants that come back to buy the tickets year after year that the abnd are named after a protestant and they never believe me
At least they had a political belief, eh Venom. Of course I know the term is not refering to the IRB. The song was adopted by Rangers fans, everyone knows that. Now do you honestly believe that when people sing the Billy boys they are rejoicing at Billy Fullerton and his gang kicking the ****e out of catholics in the 1920s?
Why did they start? Why did they start singing a song explicitly about some blackshirts without believing it was about blackshirts???!!!??? The above statments/questions are rhetorical. I'll refrain from conversing directly with you in future you brain-sappingly stupid embryo.
Nobody can prove or disprove anything but I think it's safe to say most Rangers fans mean Catholics when they sing it and not the literal meaning of the word, judging by the ones I know.
Medro - do you not find it disturbing in any way shape or form that you are trying to defend / justify the singing of that song? Everyone knows fine well what it means no matter how you dress it up.
That's the thing, I'm not trying to justify it but it is certainly not worse than IRA chants as Venom made out.
The "ignorance" defence is proper mental. The first person sang it at a Rangers game cos he heard it down the pub, doncha know? Singing the name of the most infamous gang in the whole city at the time clearly meant that they were all too monumentaly stupid to realise what they were singing. The rest of you can attempt to reason with him all you want - you might as well try to convert Thefanwithnoname to Judaism for all the progress you'll make.
Where do you live Dan? I suspect it's down south... I'd never have thought there would be that big a clamour for Wolfe Tones tickets in your neck of the woods
You've already been caught out on here with your bigotry, remember, talking about a "Hun free league" I'm not talking about the 1st time it was sung and you know it. I'm talking about modern times. When people sang it before did they do so in honour of Billy Fullerton? No. To sing the billy boys at a match today is pale in comparison to singing about the IRA.
I am a bigot. I hate all religions, especially protestantism. At least other religions enjoy themselves. All yous ****s have is marching round the streets in bowler hats and building bonfires, like it's a high point on the cultural calendar.
