Ireland's Greatest Person...

[trackside528]

Based on the RTE series starting tommorrow. The runners (as voted for by the public apparently):

Michael Collins
Bono
Mary Robinson
John Hume
James Connolly

Thoughts? The most noticeable omission (and my idea of the winner) is surely De Valera.

Anybody care to price it up? This should be a thoroughly enjoyable thread.

 

[harry]

Jedward

 

[walsworth]

Eamon Andrews

 

[Colin Phillips]

Colin Murray

 

[Songsheet]

Dave Allan (sp?)

 

[Sheikh]

Based on the RTE series starting tommorrow. The runners (as voted for by the public apparently):

Michael Collins
Bono
Mary Robinson
John Hume
James Connolly

Thoughts? The most noticeable omission (and my idea of the winner) is surely De Valera.

Anybody care to price it up? This should be a thoroughly enjoyable thread.

Really no logic to these things and impossible to price up if the public are deciding. Most people these days wouldn't know who James Connolly was.

 

[redhead]

Wot ... no Wogan?

 

[walsworth]

Is Spike Milligan eligible? I think he was born in India but had Irish parents.

 

[granger]

Bono makes the shortlist hence the program does not deserve mention

 

[clivex]

De Valera would be a lovely choice during a week when we are celebrating the sacrifice made to defend these isles from Hitler. The same Hitler Valera so admired....

Colin... Colin Murray would be my vote if the winner was to be thrown into a vat of boiling oil


Dave Allen for me

 

[Bar the Bull]

This programme is an embarassment. Robert Boyle, WB Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Noël Browne (in spite of the sour grapes over Robinson) would be my four against the field.

Only Collins should be in the list (but I wouldn't vote for him).

 

[Bar the Bull]

I forgot Joyce.

 

[clivex]

William Trevor, Colm Toibin too BTB

No Bernard Shaw?

 

[Bar the Bull]

Don't know much of Trevor's works.

Good shout on Shaw, obviously. Toibin is a possible.

We are fuck all good at much things, but we have great writers, poets, etc.

To have Bono as the only "artist" is unbelievable.

 

[Sheikh]

Can't believe Robinson the man hater is on the list, she hardly even lived here.

 

[Bar the Bull]

Parnell. Christ the top 5 is a fucking discrace.

 

[Sheikh]

Arthur Wellesley

 

[Melendez]

The 5 proposers should all be on the real list, 5 living legends. Miriam and her magnificent cleavage, Joeeeeee Duffyyyy.

 

[Guest_]

For a list drawn up by the public I think it is not a bad effort.

 

[Bar the Bull]

Really? I think the list is an absolute joke and I am amazed at how angry it makes me.

 

[Bar the Bull]

By the way, I would agree with Clive on De Valera. I am surprised that he is not amongst the nominees.

 

[Guest_]

Really? I think the list is an absolute joke and I am amazed at how angry it makes me.

I say it is not a bad effort relative to what a public vote usually throws up. Bono aside I would not argue too much over it.

As for the omission of De Valira - I suppose with the presence of Collins and Connolly represent the foundation of the state?

Bertie is the obvious omission...

 

[Sheikh]

Can someone tell me why Robinson is on it ?

 

[chroniclandlord]

Can someone tell me why Robinson is on it ?

No idea, she was a woman that I could never warm to. As for Bono words fail me.

 

[Bar the Bull]

I remember the British list a while back. Even though there were people like Lady Diana and John Lennon, the top 10 was still crammed with decent shouts like Brunel, Newton and Shakespeare.

We seem to have foregone any sensible candidates.

Ernest Shackleton is another shout.