cancel2 2022
Canceled
And yet when an alien sect controlled/controls the Irish state, that seems to not concern you, even though it amounts to imperialistic tyranny. The lack of self-awareness you limeys have borders on mental disorder. Do you ever think about what you're saying?
You're saying that people in a democratic republic opting to practice the religion of over 90% of the population is more tyrannical than a foreign nation invading that country, establishing a foreign state religion, and tithing the local population to support it.
My point about NYC during that era was that it was a common refuge for radical republicans to get smuggled into and lay low. In the right circles one often came into contact with them, Joe Doherty being the most well known from the era. So you "hung around with them".... big deal, who didn't?
And the people here who supported Noraid did so with their own dollars of their own minds. Unlike the British, who paid their taxes to pay for bullets being fired indiscriminately into crowds of demonstrators. Or drive-by shootings. Or to equip loyalist terrorist organizations.
No, we knew what we were funding. Unlike you limeys, who cling to the old imperialist notion that some of those foreign little people around the empire need a a good massacre now and then to keep them in line.
It's funny how iolo, who is an unrepentant Marxist, and I both agree on this issue. If you want to get into a pissing contest I am far more Irish than you will ever be, which entitles me to see the world as it really is. Not from a NY bar where the ex-Pats there will believe any old blarney that the boyos from the Old Sod tell them. The IRA killed many more people than other group in Northern Ireland and you lot over there provided the money for the guns, Semtex and ammo. I would like to think that if de Valera hadn't got Michael Collins killed then the history would have been very different. It is testament to the respect that he was held in that whilst lying in state in Dublin for three days, many British soldiers, who fought against him, paid their last respects before returning to the mainland.