Talk:Maiden City Festival

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This article needs seriously looking at. A lot of the text was taken from the official site, and included a lot of words like "we", "us", etc. I took a lot of information away for now... maybe a little too much, but it looks like it might need a bit of a re-write from someone familiar with the festival. Pauric 18:10, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I've tagged it, cant believe the BS on the page

I also read the article. It's complete BS. The apprentice boys day has a long history of protestant violence and intolerance, not tolerance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.228.146.186 (talk) 10:38, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, on the one hand the Apprentice Boys are Protestants, therefore those who don't like Protestants much won't like them much either. On the other hand, in recent years the Apprentice boys have dealt with disputes over how their right to cultural expression as a religious and ethnic minority in their own city can be squared with the rights of the Catholic majority. The festival is part of that attempt at reconciliation, a fact recognised by the decision of the (southern) Irish Government to fund the festival in 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.242.173.193 (talk) 22:06, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, my mistake. My reading suggested that the apprentice boys celebrations were a divisive incitement of Protestant on Catholic violence. I don't give a shit if you're protestant or catholic, but the way apprentice boys day was described in Trinity was, although spectacular and magnificent, very frightening, and not in any way tolerant. I'm glad that modern day apprentice boys can be peaceful toward their catholic neighbors.