G’wan the Brits!

G’wan the Brits! from ireland

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  1. Not even Irish but from Australia and I still haven’t found a legitimate reason for us to have a monarch.

  2. Ah yes, the ‘play the victim’ play invented by the brits and taken up by the Americans. “Invade a load of countries and then getting upset when those people follow you home”

  3. Best line about the IRA I’ve ever heard is Stewart Lee.

    “Who are they, these inhuman bombers that strike at the very heart of our society with no respect for human life, without even the courtesy of a perfunctory warning? It makes you nostalgic, doesn’t it, for the good old days of the IRA. ’Cause they gave warnings, didn’t they? They were gentleman bombers, the finest terrorists this country’s ever had. We’ll not see their like again. Let’s have a little clap for the IRA . . . ’Cause the IRA, they were decent British terrorists. They didn’t want to be British. But they were. And, as such, they couldn’t help but embody some fundamentally decent British values”.

  4. ‘Terrorists’. In this context, a name made up for those who fight back against empires who rape and pillage their land and people. Clever girl.

  5. The daily mail tomorrow:

    LOONEY LEFTIST university student says the IRA were “understandable” and that Britain OPPRESSED Irish people!

  6. I hope one day our unionist cousins realize we care more about them than the English.

    A peaceful unification is a dream I hope comes true.

  7. I think you will find that this is the majority of Brits. As long as the IRA were calling in their attacks I have no problem against fighting oppression.

  8. I live in England now, and every single Brit I speak to supports Ireland. The british government and the british people are entirely seperate entities for the most part. The people want Ireland to be united as well. The british government is the organisation that deserves our disdain.

  9. Anyone from the UK who travelled…well especially in Ireland, we get this.

    It is a problem in our country that we do not teach any history that is negative.
    I lived in Ireland, Hong Kong, Australia, India, Egypt, no matter where I go, we caused pain.

    My country was/is terrible.

  10. After watching **The Wind That Shakes The Barley**, I was like “oh, that explains a bit.”

  11. You can argue the justifications and causes for what they did but the IRA were terrorists by any reasonable definition.

    Their tactics, indiscriminate targeting of civilians, targeting of journalists, refusal to return the dead, murder, torture, brutal retaliation against any who worked to undermine them and on and on and on were all terror tactics. Every single one of those is considered a war crime.

    They weren’t a legitimate army maligned by British propaganda no matter how much they tried to pretend otherwise.

    You can argue they were in the right, you can argue there was no possible way they could have fought a regular military campaign given the vast disparity in resources between them and the British, but there is no reasonable definition of the word by which they were not terrorists.

  12. This is a common acknowledgment in Britain. It’s easier to be mad at all Brits instead of the corrupt, inhumane minority in power throughout the centuries though, right?

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