IRA

Are they heroes in Ireland?

I always considered them based but I got no idea how reality was. Any Irish can help out and tell me if their memory is still alive?

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come out ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man

they're terrorists

Only like 5-6 people still care about them and they're what's left of IRA in the North

So no need for them? They don't exist anymore?

Are they?

>They don't exist
There's 5-6 of them in Northern Ireland and they're unarmed. As for "needing them", Ireland is bound to reunite once globalism seeps in everybody's brain. The Catholics in the North are also breeding like rats. At the moment most sensible Irish people don't want unification because Ireland is one of the fastest developing country's in Europe with the highest GDP in Europe and the North is Poland tier.

IRA are based
Sup Forums stands in solidarity with the Irish people

Most people here don't sympathise with them because of incidents like the Omagh and Enniskillen bombings. Other than a few people on the fringes of society, everyone is just happy there is peace now and are glad the IRA have passed

>Are they heroes in Ireland?
For some people yes, for others no.
>Irish can help out and tell me if their memory is still alive?
Definitely, they still exist, they're just inactive. Most Irish people remember the troubles.

>they're terrorists
Terrorism is an anglo-saxon meme meant to delegitimise resistance. I'm not even pro-IRA but this is just obvious. The term is only ever used when real arguments have been exhausted.

you still have LARPers like the RIRA but yes it's dead
they committed some horrible atrocities so i can't see them as heroes, but it's difficult to say whether they could've achieved what they did through any other means. for most sane people, they're just glad the violence is over and we live in a time of relative peace.
however you do get tribal retards who worship the IRA or the UDF or whatever fucking group they see through a rose tinted lens.

as for whether their memory is still alive, yes, it is. most people know somebody who was in some way affected by the troubles, and the effects of it are still very obvious around belfast. stay in belfast long enough and you'll see murals, the peace walls, stories about people who are still looking for justice for their loved ones who died in the conflict, political accusations thrown around about the group, and a lot more that i'm probably just desensitised to at this point.

The 1916 IRA were heroes although over time the name was increasingly sullied by those attempting to justify terrorism.
I grew up being taught they were an evil group of murderers that should be feared in a similar way that children today are told of ISIS but the distinction was always made for old IRA pre-independence as freedom fighters.

They're thankfully not relevant any more. There are probably some old men somewhere believing they carry on their legacy but the good friday agreement achieved through peaceful means what they failed through violence for the best part of a century so it was always going to be difficult for them to continue after that.

killing over 2,000 people in the 70s and 80s, and causing the majority of deaths, is not "resistance"

>killing over 2,000 people in the 70s and 80s, and causing the majority of deaths, is not "resistance"
It unironically is, not saying it's a good or bad thing, or even that it was proportional. Terrorism is still a meme.

Heroes. Fought for the freedom of our kinfolk. :^)

no they're violent terrorists

t. Gerry Adams, local ice cream licker

>GFA happening without the IRA
lmao

>1916 IRA
>implying
It's not like the good friday agreement dropped out of a peaceful vacuum, it was meant to resolve the underlying issues that led to decades of violence. The provos also had a bigger mandate than the 1916 rebels.

tell yer wife how u won medals down in flaaaanders

Why was UVF more successful? Are Irish people even worse at sectarian terrorism?

>the good friday agreement achieved through peaceful means what they failed through violence
The agreement that was a result of the violent struggle which involved, on one side, the IRA, you mean?

theyre still around. north and south.

The UVF were more gung ho about targeting civilians. Politically they put their position in a state of compromise as the whole thing resulted in nationalists gaining more power.

very sensible

only really hardline republicans would see them as heroes.
then you have others who call them terrorists. These people are mainly old boomers, yuppies and "centrist" people that forget they live in a country that felt the same oppression that our northern brethren felt.
I would say most seen them as a necessary evil or a group that may have been once needed but over time became worse and worse

> if their memory is still alive?
very much so. the majority of people involved in the troubles are still alive and the biggest party in Ireland is Sinn Fein which was literally the political wing of the IRA. Although now Sinn fein is your typical socialist cuck party

most young people don't really have a clue about history like everywhere and the extent of their knowledge on the topic is memes they see on facebook

the UVF were terribly unsuccessful lol. ex members have literally admitted their strategy for "war" was to drive into Irish communities, and drive by random civilians
they also got extensive help from the british army and MI5 but could never do much with it other than low brow thuggery and civilian murder