A scathing indictment.
“Those lads don’t object to British Rule, so much as they object to Rule, full stop”.
The passage of time has made the intellectual contradictions in Irish Republicanism much harder to sustain.
Something else
There’s respectable Brit-Bashing, and then there’s “up the ra”.
IRA leadership displayed “managerial incompetence on an Olympian scale.” Former United States Marine John Crawley joined the IRA hoping to use his high level of military training. His book, The Yank, examines the military and political reasons why the IRA campaign failed.
For some reason, Sinn Féin supporters get very upset when it is suggested to them that their party is not a normal one.
The fact of the matter is this: “Far Right” is just the bucket, increasingly, into which the state and its allies toss every issue and group that they do not wish to deal with.
There is an interesting snippet of Irish republican history available on You Tube. It is part of Belfast IRA volunteer Jimmy Drumm’s oration in 1969 at the reinternment of Peter Barnes and James McCormack who had been executed in England in February 1940. The speech was a significant gambit in the simmering split within the […]
Concerns.
Whether a horrific crime is relevant today, or just a form of outrage archaeology is, in Sinn Fein’s telling, a simple matter of first asking which side carried it out.
No more prosecutions for murders during the Troubles?