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re: Line up of Amazon movies shows something I found interesting: IRA movies in the 90's
Posted on 3/12/21 at 12:46 pm to Pettifogger
Posted on 3/12/21 at 12:46 pm to Pettifogger
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Posted on 3/12/21 at 12:50 pm to GetCocky11
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Recently read this book. If you're interested in The Troubles, I highly highly recommend it.
Patriot Games and The Devil's Own are good movies. I thought Blown Away stunk. Michael Collins also came out in the 90s, if you like historical movies.
Check out Bandit Country by Toby Harnden if you can find a copy. What the British military was going through in Armagh in the 1980's is strikingly similar to what the American military was experiencing the Triangle of Death or the Arghandab Valley in the 2000's.
Posted on 3/12/21 at 1:00 pm to magildachunks
Frick the IRA. Killing a bunch of old men and women in Enniskillen whose only crime was going to a Remembrance Day parade. I've never understood the American sympathy for them. If the UK had the same anti-terror laws in the 1980's that we do now, they could've dropped a bomb in most neighborhoods in Boston and NYC and killed a few terrorists.
Posted on 3/12/21 at 1:42 pm to SCLibertarian
Why didnt Wales and scotland declare independence? And come uk can conquer countries across the globe but not next door neighbor?
Posted on 3/12/21 at 1:55 pm to soccerfüt
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Coulda been you.
Kinda makes a bloke think, eh?
If you want a could've been me story, my dad alleges we flew Pan Am Flt 103 on our return to the US a few months before it was bombed.
Posted on 3/12/21 at 1:56 pm to magildachunks
The Troubles were still a topic
Posted on 3/12/21 at 1:57 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
Let's not forget they also killed 11 Royal Marines and wounded 20 or so more in the Deal, Kent bombing.
FWIW in the late 70s / early 80s it got to the point people got tired of evacuating buildings in London every time there was a bomb threat. It was more of an attitude of not letting the IRA hold you hostage to fear all the time.
FWIW in the late 70s / early 80s it got to the point people got tired of evacuating buildings in London every time there was a bomb threat. It was more of an attitude of not letting the IRA hold you hostage to fear all the time.
Posted on 3/12/21 at 2:07 pm to magildachunks
The IRA was wrong for killing innocent people but I get where the anger was coming from. England treated them like shite for centuries. I could see the Irish desire for a united Ireland but there were too many Protestants in Ulster. I think the current arrangement works.
Posted on 3/12/21 at 2:18 pm to magildachunks
Another movie about the IRA is The Crying Game.
Not surprisingly, people tend to remember the ending and not the IRA opening!
Not surprisingly, people tend to remember the ending and not the IRA opening!
Posted on 3/12/21 at 2:26 pm to OceanMan
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I’m ok with bringing awareness to it but not sure I would watch a movie about them.
Posted on 3/12/21 at 2:40 pm to Boo Krewe
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Why didnt Wales and scotland declare independence? And come uk can conquer countries across the globe but not next door neighbor?
There is a Scottish independence movement, and to a lesser extent, a Welsh one. But Scotland and Wales have been fully integrated into the UK for far longer. The Irish were brutally dealt with from the beginning, and were second class citizens in their own country up through the 20th century.
Posted on 3/12/21 at 2:42 pm to Jim Rockford
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