Provos: ep 2 part 1 of 5

A detailed study of the changes in the strategy and focus of the IRA and Sinn Fein from the 1970s to the peace process. Peter Taylor, who served as a journalist in Northern Ireland for many years, He interviewed many of the IRA members who were actually involved in the events described and has used their accounts to bring the history to life.

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[lonewolf2379]

look.....theres 2 sides to every coin

what about dublin/monaghan bombs..no warning ..scores of people dead

[DoubleBubble1984]

What's the difference between the PIRA & the RIRA? are they not fighting for the same cause? You're talking about civilian casualties in iraq etc, fair enough accident's happen but planting a bomb isn't a accident it's deliberate. As for eing oppressed? Enlighten a little more, last i heard the British Army came over to protect the Catholic's and you turned on them, i'm not doubting you're right on some level.

[vividexstance]

@DoubleBubble1984 It wasn't so long ago that hanging up the tricolour in Northern Ireland was ILLEGAL! How is that not oppressive?

[bcfisle39]

meehan...you enjoying life...no, you are dead....ha ha cunt ardoyne cunt, how is clarkes type 1 >>>>>>>> ha ha ha ha ha ha

[bcfisle39]

mckee , a dick and fanny licker. old man with veins in his IRA face....die you cunt in hell...

[TheGhillieMan95]

DoubleBubble, the irish were occupied for over 800 years by the english, the brunt of british casualties in the trenches of ww1 were irish, and there so some rediculous laws for policing the irish population, such as banning public meetings, possesion of arms not to mention beatings, rape and torture.

[matheuslrr]

@DoubleBubble1984 The difference is that the RIRA is still using arm struggle

[rossm21uk]

@tomd2103 fully agree

[tomd2103]

Taylor's tone is a lot more accusory in the "Loyalists" series. In that series he accuses Loyalists of murdering people. No such accusations made in this one.

[migdel1983]

@Tokai951 That's a moronic, stereotype-laced comment. You're clearly not capable of comprehending the complexity of the situation.

[soneil70]

@wanchope6700 i agree, but you have to admit the british created the unionists

[Tokai951]

You have a good share of decent humans in NI - and you have a share of undesirables (to say the least). The undesirables prolonged the conflict for want of a better thing to do. They were easy to recruit by their stupidity into a war of wanton carnage. Ask a drunken Catholic in NI with seven children (that nowhere on this earth is he ever going to provide for) and he will say to you that the British are to blame for all his ails.