Irish civil war - The Shameful Facts

What caused it ? and why ? . A summary of the Irish civil war which pitted Irishman against Irishman in a battle bloodier than the war of independance before it .

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[SRFCfan94]

I love of your forgot to mention that the majority of the Irish public wanted the treaty to be passed and Collins had the democratic right to enforce it as he was voted for. The rebels, didn't listen to the people and had no right to fight!

[1798Greenflag1916]

@SRFCfan94 I love the fact that you forget that the entire population of Ireland were against the Easter Rising, but then a year or so later jumped on the Republican band wagon with the release of the Easter Rising prisoners. The Public mind is fickle and constantly changing, if the Republicans had of won they would be heroes now.

[mst3k4evur]

Some shameful facts you forgot:

Michael Collins was assassinated after having been lured to Cork by the IRA under guise of peace talks.

The anti-treaty IRA, after Collins death, began a policy of killing unarmed, non-combatant relatives of Free State politicians.

[1798Greenflag1916]

@mst3k4evur Yawn pathetic drivel. Michael Collins was in Cork on an inspection tour he was not lead there at all stop getting your facts from Neil Jordan movies, he got killed because he got lost and his driver stopped and asked a man for directions, the man just happened to be an IRA volunteer and directed the convoy towards Beal Na mBlath. And point B, in retaliation to the Free State massacre of Anti Treaty prisoners, more infact than the British could ever have dreamed of.

[phoenix9973]

This video is a biased piece of crap. Collins had two choices....to sign the Treaty or face immeidate war with Britain. De valera knew he could not have achieved more. And it was the anti-treaty idiots who blew up the Public records of the country and burned down the Customs House taking most of our historical records with them. No occupying army ever achieved such an act of cultural vandalism. Not to mention the death and destruction of the ensuing civil. Great men indeed!

[1798Greenflag1916]

@phoenix9973 I was going to argue with you but then I realized your feebel grasp on history, the Anti Treaty IRA did not blow up the public records. A shell from the Free Staters hit a large deposit of ammunition and land mines within the Four Courts causing a massive explosion and ensuing fire which did the damage, try reading sometime and broaden your intelligence, I recomend you start with The Singing Flame.

[1798Greenflag1916]

@ceinod123 No he could not have, what kind of moron are you ?. Do you have any grasp on Irish history. The promise of uniting Ireland was a only a formality spoken over a table with no steps taken to actually contact Ulster Unionists. We were promised Home Rule for participation in WW1 ......... Did we get it ?

[kathrynsmith724]

Why do the Irish think this is unusual? Every sovreign nation first gets its independence (which Collins did) and then settles what kind of society it will be. From this chickenshit fight to the U.S. civil war (which killed a bit less than the population of Ulster) to the Chinese civil war which killed about the population of France, it always happens. Ireland got off easy.

[CrazyIrishDrunk1]

@bsapsb *yawn*

[Larry2me]

@bsapsb You clearly have no grasp of Irish republicanism and it's history! What a pile of tripe! Why bother?!

[sgtgewart1]

@MrZimazimzim . thus spoken by a brave man who ,i assume by his comment, that he has been in the bloody guts and welter of a war. if not , apologies if you have, shut your great gormless gob

[TomBarry192I]

@capetown99 Maybe in 20 years after 1921? If you read your own history you would know the Irish Republic was already established in 1919.