The saying the IRA had no support during the troubles is a joke

Gytftfx

The saying that the IRA had no support during the troubles is an absolute joke

As a unionist nothing makes me more sick than the IRA/SF/Republicans.

The IRA had high support during the troubles especially in the Republic of Ireland polls show in the late 70s early 80s 20 percent of people in the Republic of Ireland support the Provisional IRA, polls in the same time also show 80-90 percent of people wanting complete immediate unequivocal British withdrawal from Northern Ireland which is basically the same as support for the IRA.

Sinn Fein (the political wing of the IRA) was also taking roughly half the catholic vote in the 80s in Northern Ireland even though this was ten years later to the peak of IRA support in the early 70s.

The Republic of Ireland also had a territorial claim to my country throughout the whole of the troubles which further went to justify IRA violence.

This seems to be less prevalent but some people in the Republic of Ireland seem to believe that the PIRA was a Northern Irish organization which is not true at all the south of Ireland is just as sectarian as the Catholics in the north, the people who founded the PIRA were actually mostly from the republic and the British army believed that on the border areas (it’s most dangerous units) most of the IRA members were actually from and living on the other side of the border.

The IRA as a whole was mostly from the Republic the IRA had two sections North command and South command, South command consisted of about 2,000 members which were responsible for maintaining the IRA as a viable force responsible for things like funding, bomb making, bringing in weapons and transporting bombs to the roughly 500 members in the Northern command who are mainly from the north with a small amount from the border areas, the northern command is the part of the IRA that actually will carry out bombings and shootings and are known as the hardcore members.

People don’t realize what Northern Ireland was like in the early 70s, in 1972 Belfast was one of the most dangerous places on earth that year alone the IRA exploded 1300 bombs on commercial targets justifying it by calling in warnings but if you explode 1300 bombs on buildings in that amount of time how can you expect to not have casualties.

Mad_maxx

first post eh

alchemist33

Somebody seems to know faaar too much about the IRA here

MaccaTacca

Gytftfx wrote: »

The saying that the IRA had no support during the troubles is an absolute joke

As a unionist nothing makes me more sick than the IRA/SF/Republicans.

The IRA had high support during the troubles especially in the Republic of Ireland polls show in the late 70s early 80s 20 percent of people in the Republic of Ireland support the Provisional IRA, polls in the same time also show 80-90 percent of people wanting complete immediate unequivocal British withdrawal from Northern Ireland which is basically the same as support for the IRA.

Sinn Fein (the political wing of the IRA) was also taking roughly half the catholic vote in the 80s in Northern Ireland even though this was ten years later to the peak of IRA support in the early 70s.

The Republic of Ireland also had a territorial claim to my country throughout the whole of the troubles which further went to justify IRA violence.

This seems to be less prevalent but some people in the Republic of Ireland seem to believe that the PIRA was a Northern Irish organization which is not true at all the south of Ireland is just as sectarian as the Catholics in the north, the people who founded the PIRA were actually mostly from the republic and the British army believed that on the border areas (it’s most dangerous units) most of the IRA members were actually from and living on the other side of the border.

The IRA as a whole was mostly from the Republic the IRA had two sections North command and South command, South command consisted of about 2,000 members which were responsible for maintaining the IRA as a viable force responsible for things like funding, bomb making, bringing in weapons and transporting bombs to the roughly 500 members in the Northern command who are mainly from the north with a small amount from the border areas, the northern command is the part of the IRA that actually will carry out bombings and shootings and are known as the hardcore members.

People don’t realize what Northern Ireland was like in the early 70s, in 1972 Belfast was one of the most dangerous places on earth that year alone the IRA exploded 1300 bombs on commercial targets justifying it by calling in warnings but if you explode 1300 bombs on buildings in that amount of time how can you expect to not have casualties.

You lost me at 'my country'.

Curse These Metal Hands

I predict that you will have a long and fruitful Boards posting career.

enricoh

Good to see yer moving on with things anyway!

Gytftfx

enricoh wrote: »

Good to see yer moving on with things anyway!

I think part of moving on with things is the republic acknowledging the role it played in the conflict.

Mad_maxx

Gytftfx wrote: »

I think part of moving on with things is the republic acknowledging the role it played in the conflict.

how about ( for a change ) unionists show even a tiny sliver of acknowledgement that unionism had a significant role in the situation and what brought about the " troubles " ?

nothing is ever expected of unionism , that includes from the southern irish media

landofthetree

Bobby Sands and the diet club won a lot of votes in 81.

From then on it started to fall and then picked up after the ceasefire.

So they did have some support but the SDLP got the vast majority of the nationalist vote.

Down the south the diet club got 2 seats in 81 and then nothing till 97.

Overall they didnt have much support on the island.

sheesh

Maybe none of it would have happened if there wasn't active discrimination against catholics in the years before the troubles.

No civil rights marches, no bloody Sunday. No huge swell of support for the IRA

If send your soldiers out on the streets to shoot your own citizens while they protesting for their civil rights expect some blow back

Samsonsmasher

landofthetree wrote: »

Bobby Sands and the diet club won a lot of votes in 81.

From then on it started to fall and then picked up after the ceasefire.

So they did have some support but the SDLP got the vast majority of the nationalist vote.

Down the south the diet club got 2 seats in 81 and then nothing till 97.

Overall they didnt have much support on the island.

Bobby "Slim Fast" Sands and the Dieticians should have gone on tour! LOL

Cerveza

MaccaTacca wrote: »

You lost me at 'my country'.

Thanks for quoting the long op

Necro

Mod:

Yeah this is going nowhere fast. Closed.

OP don't start this type of soapboxing nonsense thread again please.