Google| Subject | Re: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother (of england) has died) |
| From | Fergus O'Rourke |
| Date | 2002-04-06 11:10 (2002-04-06 10:10) |
| Message-ID | <WWyr8.5521$e5.33014@news.indigo.ie> |
| Client | |
| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien,alt.uk.law,uk.current-events.general,uk.legal,uk.politics.constitution,ie.general |
| Follows | David Flood |
| Followups | David Flood (11h & 43m) |
"David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote in message news:a8kqh9$t9ul8$1@ID-121201.news.dfncis.de...
David Floodquite a
"Fergus O'Rourke" <callasberrGANSPAM@tinet.ie>wrote in message news:AsWq8.5010$e5.30716@news.indigo.ie...Fergus O'RourkeDavid Flood
"F?achad?ir" <F?ach@d.?ir>wrote in message news:g5vmau096lbqn4s7uub725qboce7fi9kja@4ax.com...Scr?obh David Flood :
<snip>I doubt the charges against Parnell were that serious. There's
it".bit of ground between treason or sedition and "something like
read theDavid FloodFWIW, the last person executed for treason by the British was an Irishman, William Joyce, aka Lord Haw Haw.Fergus O'Rourke
You are both missing (evading ?) the point.
David Flood suggested that insulting the British monarch was a dangerous thing in 19th century Ireland.
But *was* it ?
I think I should point out at this stage - for anyone who didn't
URL's I posted - that the punishment for the 'treason' of writingnasssty
things about the English monarch was exile, not death (and it wascarried
out on at least one unfortunate Irish newspaper editor).Who ? When ?
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