{"id":1007656,"date":"2021-04-11T05:47:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T09:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/frank-mcnally-on-a-history-of-northern-ireland-in-100-euphemisms-the-irish-times\/"},"modified":"2021-04-11T05:47:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T09:47:41","slug":"frank-mcnally-on-a-history-of-northern-ireland-in-100-euphemisms-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/atheist\/frank-mcnally-on-a-history-of-northern-ireland-in-100-euphemisms-the-irish-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank McNally on A History of Northern Ireland in 100 Euphemisms &#8211; The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>1.The Irish Problem<\/p>\n<p>2. The North<\/p>\n<p>3. The South<\/p>\n<p>4. The Troubles<\/p>\n<p>5. The Crossness<\/p>\n<p>6. The Clones Affray<\/p>\n<p>7. B Specials<\/p>\n<p>8. Unapproved Road<\/p>\n<p>9. Concession Road<\/p>\n<p>10. The Monaghan Salient<\/p>\n<p>11. Drummully Polyp<\/p>\n<p>12. ire<\/p>\n<p>13. The Six Counties<\/p>\n<p>14. The Wee North<\/p>\n<p>15. The Black North<\/p>\n<p>16. The Occupied Territories<\/p>\n<p>17. Our Wee Country<\/p>\n<p>18. Ulster<\/p>\n<p>19. The Province<\/p>\n<p>20. The Mainland<\/p>\n<p>21. Fenian<\/p>\n<p>22. Taig<\/p>\n<p>23: Themmuns<\/p>\n<p>24. Black Orangemen<\/p>\n<p>25. Big House Unionist<\/p>\n<p>26. Lundy<\/p>\n<p>27. A cold house for Catholics<\/p>\n<p>28. The Northern Disease [] at the present [] safely confined in its Ulster quarantine. (George OBrien, 1936)<\/p>\n<p>29. Norn Iron<\/p>\n<p>30. The dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone<\/p>\n<p>31. Puckoon<\/p>\n<p>32. The Patriot Game<\/p>\n<p>33. Border Campaign<\/p>\n<p>34. Only our rivers run free<\/p>\n<p>35. Nordies<\/p>\n<p>36. Mexicans<\/p>\n<p>37. El Paso<\/p>\n<p>38. P ONeill<\/p>\n<p>39. glaigh na hireann<\/p>\n<p>40. Officials & Provisionals<\/p>\n<p>41. We will not stand by<\/p>\n<p>42. Vanguard<\/p>\n<p>43. Free Derry<\/p>\n<p>44. Free Stater<\/p>\n<p>45. Free Presbyterian<\/p>\n<p>46. The Men Behind the Wire<\/p>\n<p>47. Romper rooms<\/p>\n<p>48. The disappeared<\/p>\n<p>49. Bandit Country<\/p>\n<p>50. Soldiers briefly entered the Republic due to a <\/p>\n<p>map-reading error.<\/p>\n<p>51. Stroke City<\/p>\n<p>52. Foyleside<\/p>\n<p>53. Tiocfaidh r l<\/p>\n<p>54. Stoops<\/p>\n<p>55. The Condom Train<\/p>\n<p>56. The Peace Train<\/p>\n<p>57. A suspect device on the line near Newry<\/p>\n<p>58. Q. Are you Catholic or Protestant? A. Im an atheist, thank God.<\/p>\n<p>59. Q. A Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?<\/p>\n<p>60. On the blanket<\/p>\n<p>61. Haitch Blocks<\/p>\n<p>62. Aitch Blocks<\/p>\n<p>63. Its gonna happen, happen, happens all the time\/Its gonna happen, happen, till you change your mind.<\/p>\n<p>64. As British as Finchley<\/p>\n<p>65. A failed political entity<\/p>\n<p>66. Third Force<\/p>\n<p>67. Legitimate target<\/p>\n<p>68. Loyal<\/p>\n<p>69. Peter the Punt<\/p>\n<p>70. Slab.<\/p>\n<p>71. I pondered on the churches of England and Rome\/Hadnt paid the rent for my spiritual home.<\/p>\n<p>72. Walk the Queens Highway<\/p>\n<p>73. Traditional route to church<\/p>\n<p>74. Peace wall<\/p>\n<p>75. Garda X<\/p>\n<p>76. Stakeknife<\/p>\n<p>77. Humespeak<\/p>\n<p>78. Creative ambiguity<\/p>\n<p>79. Confidence Building<\/p>\n<p>80. Sunningdale for Slow Learners<\/p>\n<p>81. I feel the hand of history on my shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>82. I hate to leave (George Mitchell)<\/p>\n<p>83. Never! Never! Never! Never! (Oh, all right)<\/p>\n<p>84. The Chuckle Brothers<\/p>\n<p>85. They havent gone away, you know<\/p>\n<p>86. I have not been and am not a member of the IRA<\/p>\n<p>87. Put beyond use in the presence of two <\/p>\n<p>clergymen.<\/p>\n<p>88. Whataboutery.<\/p>\n<p>89. Curry My Yoghurt<\/p>\n<p>90. The Derry Girls blackboard<\/p>\n<p>91. Our Precious Union<\/p>\n<p>92. Backstop<\/p>\n<p>93. Seamless technological solutions<\/p>\n<p>94. Get Brexit Done<\/p>\n<p>95. Oven-Ready Deal<\/p>\n<p>96. The Northern Ireland Protocol<\/p>\n<p>97. Boris Johnson has assured unionists<\/p>\n<p>98. Feasibility studies for a proposed bridge across the Irish Sea<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/frank-mcnally-on-a-history-of-northern-ireland-in-100-euphemisms-1.4533319\" title=\"Frank McNally on A History of Northern Ireland in 100 Euphemisms - The Irish Times\">Frank McNally on A History of Northern Ireland in 100 Euphemisms - The Irish Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1.The Irish Problem 2. The North 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/atheist\/frank-mcnally-on-a-history-of-northern-ireland-in-100-euphemisms-the-irish-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487843],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}