40 years on..

[Del-Toro]

Are we talking about the anti-British thing or fighting between Catholics and Protestants?

 

[Wadders]

I wouldn't exactly say that, there've been troubles in Ireland for longer than I could possibly remember.

[small]Not that I'm an immortal demigod with amnesia or anything, oh no.[/small]

Yep. Us Brits have been fucking Ireland in the ass since the Protestant plantations in the Tudor times, like 600 years ago. Maybe even since before then, my history is a little rusty

 

[Ironic]

Yet another win for the reasons for Atheism is what I say....Or at least agnosticism.

Silly little religious peoples, stop bombing each other and hug

or build an arena to settle it in the ring of honour....THE THUNDERDOME.

 

[Lord George]

My grandfather worked as a policemen in Ireland during the troubles, apparently it was a lot like the americans "war on terror" panic with the fear there could be a bomb everywhere, except these terrorists were real, and occasionally did blow things up.

 

[rs2000]

Hi,

Well its the 40th anniversary of the start of the Troubles in Ireland and well im wondering if anyone from around the world remebers this turbulent period in Irish history or in deed has ever heard of it.

I still get asked/called IRA by people, usually in england but some ask in America.

I am from England & most of what i learned of the troubles came from UK tv & news, i have family in the south so never got to see it first hand, closest i got to Belfast was Dublin, from what i picked up from themit mostly centered around the issue or Religion & if you were Roman Catholic or Protestant!

 

[jonny bhoy]

I don't remember it, but I know about the IRA, the Real IRA, the Surreal IRA, the Diet IRA, Low-fat IRA, Can't-believe-it's-not-the-IRA, and I have no hard feelings. It's better than what's happening now. I can remember when the IRA used to call us up, have a chat, tell us where the bomb was, when it was going off, have a load of fun.


Badly told jokes Copyright Patrick Kielty...or however you spell it

ye i was reading this and thought i heard it from somwhere...

anyway on topic, The IRA were fighting for their cause against King Billy, who wanted to turn ireland into protestants(essentially home rule) but Ireland spilt over the decision(Republic and Northern Ireland) and the IRA are were effectively trying to reclaim Northern Ireland who had given their allegiance to King Billy. THe IRA of recent years had been fighting a lost war and eventually gave up the majority of their arms, but there are still a few who still believe in/and fight for the cause. It as an anniversary to remember as many people died including many innocent irishmen and women and of course the people who died from the bombings in England.

 

[Cody211282]

If it contributed to the lack of hot redheads we curently have i think this might be the worst thing ever

 

[ElephantGuts]

Ah, the Troubles! Those crazy Irish bastards. I like Irish people. I'm surprised any of them were sober enough to make bombs though. You'd think they would have blown themselves up more than anyone else. Well, good for them.

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

i remember hearing about it as a kid, horrific tragedies.

 

[twistedshadows]

I've heard of it and know the basics of what happened, but I'm no expert.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Ah, the Troubles! Those crazy Irish bastards. I like Irish people. I'm surprised any of them were sober enough to make bombs though. You'd think they would have blown themselves up more than anyone else. Well, good for them.

Good for them?Fuck them those Murderous bastards(excuse the french).
I actually joined The UDA(one of MANY protestant IRA so to speak)to fight them after a bomb attack Witch killed my mother(rest her soul).

I'm sorry to hear that. For the record when I said that I meant more along the lines of "good for them that they were sober enough to not blow themselves up" more than "good for them that they were able to kill a bunch of innocent people through terrorist attacks".

 

[Vimbert]

I'm American, and I know the general outline of events.

 

[ReZerO]

I live in Canada and went to a catholic highschool, i had a friend who i had to lie to about the fact that my background was actually English (my grandfathers family was english, my grandmother was a french/irish catholic, in case you were wondering why i am english and went to a catholic highschool). his family had immigrated from Ireland (had cousins in the IRA) and his family would have hated me if they had known i was an english (insert mylast name here) not an irish (insert my last name here), his mom actually grilled me on it once... that's my only encounter with the issues that were going on.

 

[Agent Larkin]

Irish so yeah I know about those stupid pointless bombings in that useless god-forsaken shit-hole of the world.

Oh thanks,my country is a God-forsaken shit hole,yours is a wonderful land of green fields and...guinness.
i know my country not a great place to live,its a Racist(sectarian actually)place,its a violent place and its a hard place.
And I'm happy with it.

Now you can fuck off to your Shitty gaelic football,guinness the national sport of excessive binge drinking.

Oh yes my part of this pointless little island. Gaelic Football? Stupidest thing in the whole fucking world (Don't get me started on stick wars) Guiness is the single most disgusting thing on the planet and the only reason I call the North God-forsaken is that Im a pacifist and because of all that trouble I get the shit beaten out of me by PIRA wanna-bes because I say their and your murdering of innocent civilians was wrong. Hell the last time I had my noise broken was because I refused to say the "Provo's were hereos" instead of them being murderous bastards.