Is Tintown still pretending to be from Stewartstown?
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Show posts MenuQuote from: farset on October 25, 2018, 02:30:32 PM
That's the bit that maybe our southern Irishmen mightn't be able to grasp. The tension and the wait for what was the inevitable and hoping that it wasn't someone from your family or from the club - not that you didn't feel anguish for the those people and their families.
I always found, coming from a republican family, that someone form my family would be taken out. My uncle was shot dead in 84 and a cousin was killed in 98. We always felt uneasy doing normal things like driving to the city hospital or walking anywhere really at night time because you always felt that Loyalist killed anyone from our community and that it mattered not to them whether you were involved or not. This below was the mentality of the UVF and UDA in my head and obviously in their own too:
But you are right, death was so common that it was often brushed off as daily news. House searches were common for me. It made me angry that at 4am as a late teenager that a British soldier was pushing me about my own house and breaking up floorboards and walls while I was in my own country. That was my mentality and the mentality that wanted them gone from my country forever. This was a British state for British people well into the 90s and there are so many examples past and even present of discrimination against Irish people in our own country.
Of course we can look back now and see that it was futile and that so many people died needlessly, so many people spent years away from their families and for what? Nothing was really achieved by it but that doesn't make me subscribe to the idea that the IRA were terrorists or worse still that they were the cause of this.
In my eyes, partition/British occupation coupled unionist discrimination and supremacy were the cause. The IRA and people rising to resist this were merely the symptoms. This isn't just an Irish thing. This happens all over the world.
Quote from: deadman on October 11, 2018, 02:38:37 PM
Whose everyone's top five 18/19-year-olds on the club scene at the moment?
Quote from: Fuzzman on July 18, 2018, 11:15:15 AM
Tickets back on Sale and I'm trying to get Tyrone fans to buy them NOT DUBS
http://www.gaa.ie/tickets/
Buy as many as ye can and resell them back to your club as they only have a limited number.