Talk:Battle of Dublin

message: My sincerest congradulations to the creators of this page. Its outstanding. Pages like this are incredibly illumanating for anyone with any interest in our history. Is mise, le meas mor, Fergananim 00:28, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Congrats

message: I finally found the date and ref for the Four Courts occupation; 14 April.Red Hurley (talk) 13:22, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice one, Red.  Weren't there other buildings occupied as well, before the June stand-off?  Maybe I'll manage to look that one up myself.  Scolaire (talk) 14:59, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Occupation of the Four courts

message: I'm intrigued at the An Phoblacht source given that says:
"The first shots fired did not hit their target but, ironically, landed in the headquarters of the British under Gerald Macready from where the guns had been borrowed."
How could you aim north of the river and have shells land on Kilmainham, several miles to the west? It sounds like wishful thinking.86.42.199.49 (talk) 12:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Inaccurate shelling

message: Nearly a century later, we can see that the true tragedy of the Four Courts battle was that it completed the destruction of much of the records of the Irish people and their history. Apart from destroying the Public Records Office, the occupiers used the records in the Probate Office and other offices as part of their defences, destroying or damaging many of them as well. 
With the appalling bombing of the Custom House in 1921, a huge proportion of official records of the Irish people were destroyed. They did not destroy "British" records but a large chunk of the Irish nation's history. Ironically, some people still think the Custom House bombing was a victory over the British government. It was a crippling defeat for Ireland, but none are so blind as those who refuse to see.
I have added only a short section to record this. It could be much longer, but it would not have Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View if it expressed the nauseous disgust that Irish historians feel at the idiots who shredded their own history in 1921 and 1922. - Michael of Lucan (talk) 16:51, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with its removal.  What is currently there is sufficient for this article.  Scolaire (talk) 13:41, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

text: PS Please remember to sign your posts.  Just type ~~~~ after them.  Scolaire (talk) 13:43, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

text: But you still didn't :-)  The "random line" was somebody's attempt to condense the previous long quote.  I'm tidying it and putting it in the previous paragraph, where it belongs - if it belongs at all; I still think it could be left out altogether.  Scolaire (talk) 16:07, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Healy got his info from Free State officers and so he was reflecting their POV. His opponents had to give their POV. Either could be right, or wrong, so both must be mentioned. It seems that neither side was interested in the ancient records, just in winning. Surely the Free Staters could have starved O'Connor into surrender?86.46.212.194 (talk) 06:37, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Politically impossible though. It was a case for Collins of acting now or watching the British take the Four Courts - an act that would probably have meant the end of the Free State. Jdorney (talk) 09:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

text: It could be that the building was entitled to protection by the Hague Conventions. Wait a minute, someone used the building as a hide-out. So if no Hague convention exists....--82.134.28.194 (talk) 10:22, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Destruction of historical records 

message: I want to add my congratulations to all who've worked on this page.  It's really quite well done.  I've been adding some points of clarification, re-arranging a couple paragraphs in the "Background" section.  While reading back & correcting my typos, I'm getting a "editing conflict" alert. 
Would whoever's working on it at the same moment care to engage? Thanks Puma prowler (talk) 17:30, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The edit history shows that you were the only one editing. I don't know why you got that message. Did you perhaps edit in two different windows or something, so that you were conflicting with yourself?  Scolaire (talk) 22:15, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I get that sometimes, I reckon it's my mouse key sticking and clicking twice. The edit should be saved if that's what's happening to you. Gob Lofa (talk) 22:28, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Background section: Editing conflict

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