Young voters' view of the Troubles on the island of Ireland.

Why wouldn't you direct that at those who violently beat civil rights marchers off the streets or who burned people out of their homes because they were a religion they didn't like?

Violence begets violence, no amount of pious onesided claotrap is going to change that.

There is always blame during a war/conflict, but the primary blame here lies with a government(the British) that took a side and failed the people.

What are discord channels?

THAT was different!

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We know Francie, you want to bring back Brian Boru and summary beheading and sh!tting in the streets. Times haven't changed in your mind.

your problem is your trying to ague with preprogramed shinner bots who are following party line to re write history so that the ira look like heroic freedom fighters instead of a a blight on their own people in an effort to gain power for themselves ,

some of us actually remember the troubles as they happened not how the shinnerbots like to tell the tale

its been said here before the nationalist community in the north were a lot more afraid of the ira than the army or police.

not to mention all those post ceasefire and current criminal activities and links

sounds like real hero's.

trying to whitewash history so they can snatch power in the south is just a change of tactic

Sunny made the claim that it was only with the signing of the GFA that support came for SF. That has been shown to be a white wash, support for SF was growing throughout the eighties and into the nineties against a concerted effort to suppress them.

He/she also whitewashes events by claiming the IRA were hated by most Catholics/Nationalists, but cannot explain credibly how almost as many Nationalists voted for SF as the SDLP at the time of the GFA and shortly after totally destroyed the SDLP, who have never recovered.

Remembering that the IRA didn't decomission until late 2001 - the theory that people who 'hated' them suddenly trusted them is completely without credibility. If you actually lived through it you would know how fragile the process was and it takes some amount of withewash to come up with Sunny's views tbh.

only one group here trying to rewrite history francie ,

why are and were the nationalist community in the north more afraid of the ira than the brits ?

The only permanent obstacle I can see is unionist obtuseness. They have been at it for well over 100 years now, and if it wasn't clear before this it should be now: demographics is driving change.

Unionists are old and shuffling off towards the grave in ever-greater num ers, and not being replaced at anything like the same rate. Younger people from a unionist background have three options other than becoming nationalists.

1. The can remain Unionists; some take this option.
2. They can (and do) emigrate to Blighty or elsewhere and stay there.
3. They can vote for intermediate, non-sectarian choices such as Alliance and the Greens.

Emerson is a unionist with a good press in the south, but as can be seen from the quote above, at heart he remains an unrepentant unionist, who probably feels the nationalists should be kept outside in the kennel. At least that is what I take from this and other comments of his.

Oh, to end: I love his choice of words. There was a time when he would have used the word "re-unification". The choice of "reconciliation" might mean that he sees the writing on the wall, but doesn't like the message.

I am certainly not promoting violence nor never did. I understand why it happened and where it 'all' came from and it wasn't just one community.

Maybe yoing people see it as being more complex. Maybe they see how Dublin ignoring what was happening facilitated violence against their fellow countrymen and women? That seems to be what is happening.

Seems to me it is the partitionist mentality that is dying on it's feet. Even FG have cast it off in public. And the viewpoint has never found a political voice here.