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Old IRA compared to PIRA

  • 27-08-2013 09:55PM
    #1
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭


    Just watching who do you think you are on rte 1 with your one off ballykissangell, goes to pains to differentiate the old IRA with the more modern ira.
    But is there any difference between them?


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  • #2
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    The IRA have been around since the turn of the 19th century, which IRA are you on about?


  • #3
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Did you know that old Mr Brennan's first name is actually, Ira?


  • #4
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    It's simple: There was the "good IRA" and the "bad IRA".


  • #5
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Call him...drunken ira hayes he wont answer anymore,
    not the whiskey drinking indian or the marine that went to war.


  • #6
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    ri-ra


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  • #7
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    The Old IRA are still at war with Canada?


  • #8
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Time is the difference between the officials and the provos.


  • #9
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Time is the difference between the officials and the provos.

    What about the I cant beleive its not butter ira?


  • #10
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    MadsL wrote: »
    The Old IRA are still at war with Canada?

    They dont lile the queen being on the front of the 20 note.


  • #11
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    IRA,
    Its quite a common name for Jewish people so I'd imagine it runs into the hundreds of thousands.


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  • #12
    dinorebel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    What about the I cant beleive its not butter ira?
    Spread themselves to thinly.


  • #13
    Jimminy Mc Fukhead
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 305 ✭✭Jimminy Mc Fukhead


    'The Invincibles' were the real thing. The rest were unconvincing rip offs.



    Twasn't very sensible
    To tell on the Invincibles
    They stood up for their principles


  • #14
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,322 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Funnily enough shes going after a jewish connection now!

    At the same time shes after being very moralistic and pious about how shes 'always chasing peace' when discussing the activity of the old IRA. How ****ing well a free country was provided for her in decades past so she could revel in her pacifism


  • #15
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Big difference...

    One was setting bombs of and fighting for towards a United Ireland and the other was fighting towards a United Ireland and setting of bombs..


  • #16
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Is it something to do with the business model?


  • #17
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    RayM wrote: »
    It's simple: There was the "good IRA" and the "bad IRA".
    Never been a good IRA.

    A lot of the murderous deeds were as evil and sectarian as old or new IRA.


  • #18
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    wendell borton wrote: »
    Just watching who do you think you are on rte 1 with your one off ballykissangell, goes to pains to differentiate the old IRA with the more modern ira.
    But is there any difference between them?

    No.

    They're all tossers.


  • #19
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    IRA v the Taliban.




  • #20
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,834 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Anyone even asking the question is either clueless about history or trolling.

    comparing the old IRA to today's crowd is the same as comparing the original Sinn Fein with today's crowd

    FF, FG, Workers Party, Labour etc. can all trace their roots to when Sein Fein irreconcilably split in the past

    In the case of the IRA in addition to the political splits above there were all the other ones leading to the OIRA , PIRA , INLA (and IPLO ) CIRA, and RIRA. An each group claiming that it alone carried the original message.

    Not only was there infighting between the various republican groups there was the wholesale move to criminality with bank robberies, smuggling and protection rackets. It got to the stage where you couldn't tell if it wasn't just criminals joining the biggest gang and paying lip service to "the cause".



    As for Óglaigh na hÉireann this is their story.
    http://www.military.ie/info-centre/defence-forces-history/


  • #21
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Lapin wrote: »
    No.

    They're all tossers.


    ...I'm sure they appreciate your sentiment.


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  • #22
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Old IRA were gob****es
    PIRA were c*nts


  • #23
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Old IRA were gob****es
    PIRA were c*nts


    Do please explain your well phrased musing there.....


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In a hundred years time they will be talking about Gerry Adams like the way Michael Collins is talked about today, time and a revisionist view of history will sort ever thing out.


  • #25
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    mariaalice wrote: »
    In a hundred years time they will be talking about Gerry Adams like the way Michael Collins is talked about today, time and a revisionist view of history will sort ever thing out.

    No "they" wont.


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Senna wrote: »
    No "they" wont.

    Sorry for my incorrect grammar as it seem to offend you, but I am certain distance for the event will elevate Gerry Adams ( I'm not a fan btw ) it how history works. I am not comparing him to Micheal Collins, just to the fact that how distance from the event changed the context of the event.


  • #27
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    realies wrote: »
    Big difference...

    One was setting bombs of and fighting for towards a United Ireland and the other was fighting towards a United Ireland and setting of bombs..

    No the big difference is the Old IRA has been sanitised and its atrocities whitewashed, wheres with the Provos this has yet to happen.


  • #28
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    getzls wrote: »
    Never been a good IRA.

    A lot of the murderous deeds were as evil and sectarian as old or new IRA.

    One man's Bad IRA is another man's Good IRA.


  • #29
    DwightSchrute1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭DwightSchrute1


    mariaalice wrote: »
    In a hundred years time they will be talking about Gerry Adams like the way Michael Collins is talked about today, time and a revisionist view of history will sort ever thing out.

    I thought Gerry Adams was never part of the IRA. Silly me :rolleyes:


  • #30
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,486 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Are you talking about the post 1916 IRA or the Late 1960s IRA, such as the Provisional IRA OP?


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  • #31
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,834 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Are you talking about the post 1916 IRA or the Late 1960s IRA, such as the Provisional IRA OP?
    or whatever name the "I can't believe it's not the IRA" go under ?


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