Ooh ah! Up Dev leading an insurrection that killed 429 people with no mandate. Up Fianna Fáil and their part in the Arms Trial. Up Cathal Brutha leading the good ol nice IRA. Up Edward Carson forming the UVF. Up the Dublin/Monaghan bombs and the failure to hold the British Government to account. Up the Miami Showband and the last cries of Fran O’Toole before he was shot in the face by the British Army.
Up Michael Collins and his merry band of nice assassins. Up Bloody Sunday Croke Park and the understandable anger of the British Army. Up Bloody Sunday Derry and the promotion of the murderers. Up M15 and their collusion. Up Gusty Spence for abject and true remorse. Up Internment without trial. Up the murders at Sean Graham’s. Up the Shankill Butchery. Up the Quinn brothers burned alive.
Up the UDR as they kept the peace. Up Greysteel and trick or treat. Up Shoot to Kill. Up West Cork Protestant massacres in 1920. Up The FRU. Up The UDA or is it the UVF? Up Lee Clegg, it was only a joyrider. Up Drumcree and the right to cause carnage on any Queen’s Highway. Up Aiden Mcanespie dying on the side of the road. Up Peter Robinson invading Clontibret.
Up Ian Paisley and his Christianity. Up the Glennane gang and their kind support from the British Government. Up the 78 informers killed in Cork in 1921 by the good IRA- the nicer ones in Dublin only killed 13. Up the pogroms in Belfast in … well pick a decade yourself.
Up revisionism- it’s so convenient for award-winning journalists.
Oh and up the ra. It was all their fault.
Excellent article.
The revisionist columnists in the Irish Times and other southern media , along with FFG and Labour Party are only interested in what happens in British Occupied Ireland if it can be used to criticize and demonize SF.
Phoenix Magazine is the only or at least one of the very few publications that gives accurate and continuous coverage of what is really happening on a regular basis.
FFG and Labour all claim to want a United ‘agreed’ Ireland- want it but just not yet…..