If you can tolerate the poor typing here's a decent snippet on some of the intricacies, contemporary report by v browne in the 80s
http://politico.ie/archive/inside-inla
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 June 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
The INLA issued a statement regarding the killing in the August 1979 edition of The Starry Plough:[27]
In March, retired terrorist and supporter of capital punishment, Airey Neave, got a taste of his own medicine when an INLA unit pulled off the operation of the decade and blew him to bits inside the 'impregnable' Palace of Westminster. The nauseous Margaret Thatcher snivelled on television that he was an 'incalculable loss'—and so he was—to the British ruling class.
Jesus lads
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 3 July 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.scribd.com/document/356942234/Young-2015
article about the workers' party's relationship with north korea
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
Our friends indeed
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link
a highlight:
After returning from North Korea, Garland told Paddy Woodworth, who was a freelance journalist and a WPI member from 1974-1984, that he admired the health care and education system in the DPRK but that the personality cult was too excessive and wasteful. Woodworth was going to write an article for theWorkers’ Life on the odd personality cult surrounding Kim Il Sung’s regime but Garland reprimanded him. Garland said to him, “Ah come on now Paddy, I’m looking for support from these people.” Garland told Brian Hamley and Scott Millar in an interview that they “weren’t under illusions” about the reality of life in the DPRK. However, they sympathized with the situation of a small, isolated country that was also divided and “were trying to do what they could themselves.” However, Garland grew frustrated with the North Korean government’s costly campaign to popularize Kim Il Sung abroad as a great communist theorist. For example, he told the North Koreans “that putting full-page ads into the Irish Times of Kim Il Sung’s thoughts was a waste of money because nobody f------n’ read them.”
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
I gave up on that book about the Official IRA when Official Sinn Fein turned into the Workers Party, by then it was just tedious 70s left wing factional politics ... in Ireland, which made it even more boring tbh.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/families-demand-prosecutions-as-film-names-suspects-in-loughinisland-massacre-1.3280468
New Gibney
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Saturday, 4 November 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
what a nightmare
The film suggests that:RUC Special Branch were aware of UVF plans to kill before the massacre happened;police destroyed evidence, including the getaway car;suspects were warned they were about to be interviewed in advance of their arrest;there were informers in the gang responsible for the deaths
we drove all the way through the north for the first time ever last time through. I grew up in an IRA-friendly American house - an official stayed with us when I was a kid - to see the north at last was heavy.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 4 November 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Saturday, 4 November 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
maybe along the coast
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
You take everything so littoraly
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
i sea what you did there
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
I'm not shore I understood.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
I landed it right in front of you
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
darragh otm but then also giant lol on the ensuing exchange
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 4 November 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
Gerry Adams announces intention to step down next year.
Now there is a complex legacy
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
Just take a look at who his enemies were and achieving complexity looks more like grace.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
His enemies number more than just oppressor brits and obstinate unionists, not to understate what Catholics faced.
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
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.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
Maybe so
That said I dunno is what SF are for now. Lairy Moo ain't the calibre.
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
aye i suppose that is true.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
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
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
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
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
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
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
Oglaigh na hEireann announces ceasefire
Presumably all ten of them will be concentrating full time on the drug trade now so.
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
so is that the lot then?
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
Oh god no there's another two or three yet
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
yes based on wikipedia real and continuity are still holding out
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link
is that the "real" IRA or is that the "continuity" IRA? or are they the same thing?
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
but they remain distinct
if you are a nerd with a magnifying glass
Yeah it's an overlapping kaleidoscope
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
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.
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
also iirc the Continuity IRA also styles itself Oglaigh na hEireann
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
As does get this the Irish army
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
Kind of like Amon Duul and Amon Duul II.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
... but with less members.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
If I were starting one I'd go with na Fianna I think
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
XP lol but fair
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
i would call my dissident group IRA Classic
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
Mega-IRA
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
i can't believe it's not ourselves alone
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
can't believe there was an actual real ulster ~freedom fighters~
seriously LADS
― infinity (∞), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
Ach those lads don't mind those biys
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
Hey, freedom to annoy the living hell out of everyone, don't knock it.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvamU4v1rjk
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
Never heard of this crew before
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailtir%C3%AD_na_hAis%C3%A9irghe
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
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]
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
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.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link