Quote from: Angelo on May 10, 2021, 07:44:38 PMQuote from: seafoid on May 10, 2021, 05:25:04 PMQuote from: tiempo on May 10, 2021, 03:29:02 PMBut the IRA killed an awful.lot of civilians and that usually has a bad look..
The founding fathers of the Free State carried out atrocities far in excess of what the Provisionals would do decades later.
So did the Old IRA.
What is it about you free staters that doesn't allow ye to see the brazen hypocrisy.
The difference is the old IRA were led and manned by people from the South who drove the British out of the 26 counties,which led to the Republic and the modern European state it is today
They were winners
The provos were a collection of beardie Nordie rabble with guff about a socialist state,who were running to the British authorities at every opportunity to inform on each other.They also didn't achieve their aims of
Brits out of the North
NI is still in existence after all their attempts to overthrow it
They lost
There's the difference