It can also be summarized that the Irish government is merely trying to protect the rights (and lives) of the general public considering the turbulent past of the Irish Republic.
What turbulent past would you be referring to? The Irish Republic was born in revolution, to be sure, but it has this in common with most nations which emerged from the nineteenth-century European empires. Since gaining independence in the 1920s, the country of Ireland has been less turbulent than most; I would go so far as to say that it's been almost boringly non-turbulent.
Don't confuse (the Republic of) Ireland with Northern Ireland, which could very definitely be said to have had its share of problems.
What a long way Tux has traveled in the 12 years since Linus Torvald, a University of Finland graduate student, began fiddling with a Unixlike operating system
Torvald. Graduate Student. University of Finland. 12 years.
My word. I'd not seen the second and subsequent verses before - they're even worse than the first one. How do you get by with such a godawful national hymn?
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What turbulent past would you be referring to? The Irish Republic was born in revolution, to be sure, but it has this in common with most nations which emerged from the nineteenth-century European empires. Since gaining independence in the 1920s, the country of Ireland has been less turbulent than most; I would go so far as to say that it's been almost boringly non-turbulent.
Don't confuse (the Republic of) Ireland with Northern Ireland, which could very definitely be said to have had its share of problems.
Torvald.
Graduate Student.
University of Finland.
12 years.
Bah.
My word. I'd not seen the second and subsequent verses before - they're even worse than the first one. How do you get by with such a godawful national hymn?