The IRA

What gets me about the north is how small a place it is. A place you can drive fully around in a car in one shift. The density of trauma is astonishing, there's barely a townland name, a wood or a crossroads that doesn't trigger a dim or sharp memory of atrocity.

It's also an astonishingly beautiful piece of country. Fucking humans man.

maybe along the coast

You take everything so littoraly

i sea what you did there

I'm not shore I understood.

I landed it right in front of you

darragh otm but then also giant lol on the ensuing exchange

Gerry Adams announces intention to step down next year.

Now there is a complex legacy

Just take a look at who his enemies were and achieving complexity looks more like grace.

His enemies number more than just oppressor brits and obstinate unionists, not to understate what Catholics faced.

will be weird to have a post-conflict sinn fein leadership. though i feel like adams sticking around as president so long was a bit of a triumph of ego over political nous from him.

Maybe so

That said I dunno is what SF are for now. Lairy Moo ain't the calibre.

aye i suppose that is true.

there's a new bio of gerry

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n22/owen-bennett-jones/i-only-want-to-keep-my-hand-in

Eamonn Mallie is the Irish times northern correspondent and always worth catching his articles on the personalities. Be surprising if he didn't have a few collections or biographies worth checking out

He has memoirs due, just checked his site.

His biography on said site is a little smalltime and luvvie, I wouldn't let it out me off

Oglaigh na hEireann announces ceasefire

Presumably all ten of them will be concentrating full time on the drug trade now so.

so is that the lot then?

Oh god no there's another two or three yet

yes based on wikipedia real and continuity are still holding out

is that the "real" IRA or is that the "continuity" IRA? or are they the same thing?

which that? oglaigh na hEireann, continuity IRA and real IRA are difft orgs w/difft histories/politics etc -- over time there has been personnel overlap and a sense that, if a place in the ideological array is vacated by one of them (or by someone else) another will move to occupy that place

but they remain distinct

if you are a nerd with a magnifying glass

Yeah it's an overlapping kaleidoscope

as i seem to recall this is the Real IRA splinter group Oglaigh na hEireann, there was/is also a Continuity IRA splinter group that uses the same name. And yes, there have been collaborations and sharing of members for sure.

also iirc the Continuity IRA also styles itself Oglaigh na hEireann

As does get this the Irish army

Kind of like Amon Duul and Amon Duul II.

... but with less members.

If I were starting one I'd go with na Fianna I think

XP lol but fair

i would call my dissident group IRA Classic

Mega-IRA

i can't believe it's not ourselves alone

can't believe there was an actual real ulster ~freedom fighters~

seriously LADS

Ach those lads don't mind those biys

Hey, freedom to annoy the living hell out of everyone, don't knock it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvamU4v1rjk

Never heard of this crew before

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailtir%C3%AD_na_hAis%C3%A9irghe

The party wished to create a fascist one-party state ruled by a leader known as a 'Ceannaire'. Aiséirghe promised full employment, an end to emigration (by making it a criminal offence to leave the country), discrimination against Jews and freemasons and the reconquest of Northern Ireland by the massive conscript army. They also promised to make the use of the English language in public illegal after five years in power[8]

The party intended for the state to stay out of World War II until the participants were worn out and then emerge as a world leader.[9]

The party intended for the state to stay out of World War II until the participants were worn out and then emerge as a world leader.

This is funny though.

can’t fault their ambition i guess

rope-a-doping geopolitics

Wait till they're all asleep then we take over.

if Hitler had got these lads involved in Barbarossa, there would have been some lightening victories alright!

mainly for the Red Army tbf!

"Adolf Hitler said that he aimed to arrange the history of Europe for 1,000 years. But we Irish, it is fated for us to co-operate with arranging the affairs of the world for all eternity!"

Nothing wrong with a bit of patriotism, lads.

Anyone Oliver j was down with could safely be doused lit and left

Often a vibe offve Irish language fanatics that stinks of these lads and their ilk imo