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category international | miscellaneous | press release author Thursday April 09, 2009 14:17author by Richard Walsh - Republican Sinn Féinauthor email tiocfaidh at btinternet dot comauthor address c/- Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223, Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Irelandauthor phone +44-7835 620 592 / +353-87 261 8603 Report this post to the editors

The announcement by the Dublin Administration that a false name for Derry can be listed as the county of birth on a Free State passport amounts to an assault on Irish national identity, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said.

The announcement by the Dublin Administration that a false name for Derry can be listed as the county of birth on a Free State passport amounts to an assault on Irish national identity, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said.

“Are they now to allow the use of King's County and Queen's County to please their British masters, or are the people of County Derry to be singled out for this reprehensible treatment?” he asked.

“This decision makes about as much sense as allowing the former name for County Derry, i.e. County Coleraine, to be recorded on the passport,” he added.

ENDS

author by Ionatan MacReamoinnpublication date Thu Apr 09, 2009 17:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This is another attempt by both the Free State and the British government to erode our liberties. And it is another step backwards in the struggle towards Irish independence. Well done in issuing this press statement. Dublin and London, take note!

We'll wait and see if there is enough public outrage to force a re-think of this policy.

Keep up the good work.

author by Hubrispublication date Thu Apr 09, 2009 18:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The fact that it may encourage northerners to obtain an Irish passport and possibly begin to see themselves as Irish rather than British, is to be welcomed I would have thought.

author by ogipublication date Thu Apr 09, 2009 19:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

right, bar or no bar... thats not the craic..
the people of derry have already made an effort to change the official name of the city through the british system. they dont want it , dont use it, but of course the queen does want it and therefore decided to keep it.
this idea of persuading 'northeners' is the most short sighted ridiculous idea any so called irish unionists. do u really think that they would want to unite with the republic if it meant not being part in some way or another, of britain.. give it up.. wont work becuase fundamentally they are british... and whys that? because they recognise that although born on this island theyre origins are obviously on the other one ... planters, settlers, colonisers.. whateveru wanna call them.. it is their origins afterall..
unity is ephemeral ... having alot of wanes who speak own language is the only way unity will be achieved... only another 50 or so years to go.. then the tables'll be turned, demographically!

author by Spinning Quicklypublication date Thu Apr 09, 2009 19:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Curious that RSF refers to a "Free State Passport" - none of those have been issued in decades!

Related Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State
author by Hubrispublication date Thu Apr 09, 2009 20:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I never said that unionists would want to 'unite with the republic'

I said that the may begin to feel more 'Irish' than 'British' - which is all we can probably hope for, for the moment

author by ogipublication date Thu Apr 09, 2009 21:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

excuse me for the assumption..
but anyway.. i dont hope for that..... and i dont believe that they will ever feel irish unless we continue along the path of fogetting who we are... leaving our language languishing on a thread, depreciating our own cultural heritage. i.e. maintaining the idea of cultural inferiority.. and eventually sucumbing to the idea that we are only west-brits . my irish identity is not one i share with alot of people , unfortunately, maybe one day the rest of ireland will realize that its time we looked further afield for better examples of better cultures and took a page from other national books. what i mean is that the revolution is not completely political, not even mainly, it is cultural revindication.

author by Mike - Judean Popular Peoples Frontpublication date Thu Apr 09, 2009 21:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

For some reason UK driving licences list the holders "Town of birth"

But those born in Londonderry are now afforded the luxury of a choice whether to use the long or short form of that particular citys name on their driving licence.

Yet someone born in Diyarbakır has "Diyarbakır, Turkey" given as their town of birth on their driving licence even though Diyarbakır is actually in Kurdistan

Go figure !

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