With the unrest in N. Ireland, and the controversy over borders after brexit, what are Holla Forumss opinions on Irish Republicanism? Do you believe in a United Ireland? Do you support the IRA? Terrorists or freedom fighters?
With the unrest in N. Ireland, and the controversy over borders after brexit...
Elijah Taylor
Kevin Fisher
bonus points if your irish or from an irish family/background
Oliver Ramirez
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Connor Barnes
fucks sake, shouldve inb4'd emerald empire
Tyler James
before any of these conversations can happen we need to destroy London entirely
Hunter Richardson
Apparently now the two main factions are Old IRA and Marxist IRA, but it was some Irish lad that knew the ins and outs of it. This is just one of the pics of his I saved.
Nolan Stewart
You say that like the Irish aren't top scorers for havoc on mainland GB.
They once attacked GCHQ with speedboats and rocket launchers. Speedboats and rocket launchers!
Samuel Kelly
lol all of it? can we keep some of it?
Julian Miller
I'm Irish. Current dissident groups like the Continuity IRA are stupid memes.
Provisional IRA were based and an effective fighting force and although their fight didn't result in a United Ireland it vastly improved the material conditions of Catholics in N.I and laid the diplomatic groudwork for a United Ireland. I believe Brexit has accelerated the inevitability of a United Ireland by a few decades.
The provos did amazing shit like firing mortars at Downing Street, blowing up Canary Wharf and trying to assassinate Margaret Thatcher. That stuff kinda makes me proud when I look at how boring and centrist most of Ireland is politically these days.
The PIRA were left wing but not as radically leftist as other republican groups like INLA, which they crushed (along with other smaller republican groups). This is regrettable and I wish they were more radically left wing, but at the same time groups like the IRA (say LTTE or PKK) always go through a phase of crushing splinter groups and consolidating themselves as the main representative of 'the cause'.
People in the republic have been alienated from our brothers up north and often engage in West Brit apologism ("both sides were as bad, violence is always bad!") but that is an ignorant view of the conflict. Tom from Dublin was never a second class citizen and and was never viciously oppressed. Who is he to lecture Catholics from Northern Ireland how to process their oppression? Fucking bourgeois morals, man.
Anyway I don't have anything against British or Protestant comrades but people with settler colonialist mindsets from Belfast to Jerusalem can fuck off.
Brayden Flores
Reunification is the obvious long-term solution.
They had a just cause and their violence got results, but I think some of it was wrong. I am aware that they typically gave warning ahead of setting off bombs that endangered civilians, but it was inevitable that innocents would end up getting hurt.
As a Brit I feel that nobody here really gives a shit about or feels any loyalty to NI any more. It's just a pain in the arse and Britain will not have much trouble accepting reunification in the end, if it means NI is off our hands.