Okay /k/ red pill me on the IRA. what types of weapons did/do

They mostly used car bombs, letter bombs, and anthrax.

The Irish should join the commonwealth.

>>34732977
google op

>>34732977
Learn to google dipshit.

>>34732977
> be Ireland
> mostly vote for independence, except a small bit of the north who want to stay for reasons beyond the scope of my phoneposting at work
> Ireland partitioned
Ffwd
> be Catholic
> be Northern Irish
> start shitstirring with protestants
> shit gets real bad because sectarianism
> northern Irish ask for mainland bongs help
> bongs oblige, send in some troops for riot control
> happy time for a bit, but both sides start to resent the lines of English soldiers standing between the crowds
> since this is the fall of the bongpire period, many of the riot control shields have Arabic or Chinese writing and overall the Irish feel treated like scum colonists instead of honorary bongs
> doubly so for Catholics who wanted independence and hold resentments over history from a time before the 13 colonies existed (seriously, if Yorktown and 1812 can be water under the bridge what's one little famine between friends? Damn ingrates)
> Soviets catch on, start arming and shit stirring rebels
> violence escalates, honeymoon over
> ((CIA)) starts shitstirring and arming the Irish to further (((US))) hegemony
Suddenly Ireland becomes the proxy through which everyone can fuck with the bongs, but unlike the colonies the mainland bongs viewed and still like to view the Irish as kin, not subjects, and the majority of the population is not pro-secession so bongs won't let go
>IRA used mixture of cheap weapons, mostly AKs, but they were mostly into bombs, anthrax, sniping
> when the bongs started wearing body armour, CIA supplied a few .50 bmg rifles to the IRA
The whole affair drags out for ~40 years and in the end MI5/6 is so far up the IRAs ass they cannot get anything done. The IRAs leadership and some unpopular/immoral attacks led to schisms within the IRA and lots of "real IRA/[adjective] IRA" fractured groups and undermined the political momentum.
This is glossing over a lot of events, like the bham pub bombings and false imprisonments, bloody Sunday etc.

>>34732977
Potato guns.

Do people in Ireland still care about this conflict? I almost never hear anything in the news about it anymore.

>>34732977
they are white supremacist terrorists who want to kill innocent people and if you like them you should die to

>>34735070
>I almost never hear anything in the news about it anymore.
Probably since its been over for decades and everyone involved either became politicians or remained drug dealers, but dropped the freedom fighter pretensions.

They are Maoist cunts

>>34732977
They mostly used ARs shipped from America, and AKs and RPGs shipped from Libya, along with purchases they made from Eastern Europe.

Early on they used a lot of older weapons like Thompsons and 303s. Later they switched to assault rifles.

They also made extensive use of car bombs, plastic explosive, home made mortars, and anti aircraft missiles.

Towards the end of the Troubles they were using barretts that they got from America.

>>34733041
>>34733056
that isn't fun

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>>34732977
Ah the irish.
> Regularly raid settlements in the irish sea
> Regime change in england
> New king does not like the irish raiding his settlements
> Invade ireland
> Fast forward hundreds of years
> Religion change across europe
> Protestantism is now the state religion
> Government has incentives for converts
> Tiggidy tee these reformations are t' heresy
> Start rebellion
> Scot covenanters decide a regime change may be in order
> Kings army is in ireland
> He recalls parliament to raise a second army to deal with covenanters
> Disbands parliament when they sympathise with them because protestant bros
> Wars of the three kingdoms start
> Royalists vs Parliamentarians
> Tyranny vs democracy
> Who do they fucking side with? The royalists.
> Cromwell heads to ireland and crushes them
> Comes back under british control
> War with france, france funds irish rebels to fight the british
> Get crushed again
> Famine across europe not just Ireland
> Overpopulated ireland falls head over heels
> th-they forces us to grow potatoes and only potatoes, Subsistence farming it the future!
> Another 2 rebellions gets crushed
> WW1 No conscription in ireland, but still millions of patriotic volunteers still join
> the lack of pro british voices is filled by separatists funded by germany
> Uprising during the middle of a fucking war
> Gets crushed
> 1919 Finally wages a war of separation
> All the irish troops are still deployed or dead
> Britain in deep debt so can't be arsed to fight a war
> Ok we'll give you home rule, but only if you vote on it and you'll have to join the commonwealth

wun outta too

>>34735351
too outta too
> All t' northern counties vote Stay
> Overnight Hundreds of thousands of loyalist catholics and Protestants cross the new borders
> many settle in londons east end
> The free state O' Ireland in created
> It immediatly fall into civil war
> pro treaty nationals under Collins hero of the revolution, He wishes to stay close with britain, and respect the treaty
> Anti treaty IRA and Irreglars under Éamon "the devil" de Valera, a political snake who want all of ireland and total seperation
> At this point the IRA ceases to be about my liberte
> Michael collins is killed in an assassination by the IRA
> War is won with british support for the nationals
> Ireland is welcomed as a dominion into the commonwealth
> WW2 starts Éamon "the devil" de Valera as Taoiseach (prime minister)
> All the other dominions show solidarity with britain and declare war on germany
> Ireland stays neutral
> Hundreds of thousands head to britain to do their duty
> IRA launches two campaigns with support from Nazi germany
> Both crushed
> Hitler kills himself
> Eamon heads over to the Germany embassy to sign a book of condolences for adolf hitler
> War ends
> Irish soldiers demobbed
> Eamon makes sure any irishman who serves in any other countries army is illegible for pensions
> rewrites constitution to make ireland a republic
> 20 years later, ireland discriminates against protestants and Ulster discriminates against catholics
> Catholics rile up protestants by attempting to stopthe centuries old apprentice march
> Protestants attempt to remove Guinness
> Army sent in to seperate Catholic and protestant Neighbourhoods
> Everything goes well, both liked by both sides
> underground IRA splits into provisional and real
> bernadette develin is arrested and the IRA atarts gunfights with the troops
> conflict officially starts in 1971

Gtfo with your redpill /pol/ shit

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I love the fact that the continued IRA posting has degraded its standing over previous months, and peple have started to see the troubles for what they were.

>>34735623
>The scope on that FAL
>that M1 carbine tho

>>34735768
>hey Nigel, did you see th-
>YEAH

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>>34735768
They're regularly black out for patrols, meaning Troopers could catch IRA checkpoints with their pants down.

As was the occasion of that photo, jumped them and they legged it leaving a nice cache for them.

That'd be an SLR, not parts compatible with FAL

>inb4 200+ """irish american""" posters pretending IRA dindu nuffin

I'll try and TL;DR it enough so that it's one post

>Ireland gets independence
>England decides that Irish Protestants need a majority Protestant state so that the Catholics don't screw with them
>create a 60% Protestant state with extra Catholic areas added to make it actually viable
>districts are gerrymandered so that Catholics have zero political power instead of just 40%, and the police pretty much fuck up anyone who they see as trouble
>in the 60s, seeing what MLK and Gandhi and shit have done, Northern Irish Catholics decide to WE SHALL OVERCOME that shit instead of bombing like the rest of Ireland did
>get attacked by UVF, which is essentially the limey version of the klan, and the RUC, which is the limey equivalent of those corrupt southern cops with the fire hoses and shit
>all of this culminates in the Battle of the Bogside in Derry, where a bunch of homes get burnt and the IRA is caught flat footed and unarmed because they were trying to be pacifist and shit
>British Army called in
>both sides hope that the Army can restore the peace, until it starts trying to forcibly disarm and intern the republicans (and none of the Klan type people)
>Catholics give up on peace and start an all-out war
>British government tries to broker a peace where Catholics will be treated like people and everyone will stop shooting (Sunningdale)
>Sunningdale fails due to massive Protestant labor strikes and violence
>killing continues until the 90s, when the IRA gets really good at blowing up entire city blocks with car bombs, and using redundant warnings and code words to keep anyone from getting killed while they're going it
>this costs so much money that insurance companies and other Brit business eventually force a peace, which is exactly the same as the one the IRA agreed to twenty years earlier

>>34735947
you forgot the part where they orchestrated a hunger to kill the unruly catholics

>>34736015
It's really more like the British took laissez faire and Malthusian economics. to an extreme.

>the Catholics can't feed themselves?
>well then clearly they're incapable of surviving in the real world, and the compassionate thing is to let them starve
>no, we don't close the ports
>no, we won't send in food aid
>no, we won't allow in foreign food aid
>no, we won't stop sending in troops to protect the food exports

Basically the Soviet Ukraine but with mercantilism instead of communism.

>>34735947
>>create a 60% Protestant state with extra Catholic areas added to make it actually viable
At the time of its creation Ulster was 92% protestant. Its not like the exact same thing was happening across the border...
>>this costs so much money that insurance companies and other Brit business eventually force a peace, which is exactly the same as the one the IRA agreed to twenty years earlier
IRA never came to the table until '85

>>34736015
>orchestrated a hunger
Hmmm, yeah orchestrated a Europe wide famine from crop failure in the 1800s, that shit would be impressive today, back then it was hand of god.
> Muh subistence farming is the way future.
its like they forgot there was an industrial revolution

>>34736095
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunningdale_Agreement

The agreement that ended the war is the same as the one that the IRA accepted, and the loyalists rejected, twenty years earlier.

>Hmmm, yeah orchestrated a Europe wide famine from crop failure in the 1800s

You ever wonder why Ireland lost half of its population and the rest of Europe didn't?

It's because self governing countries can close their ports during famines to prevent food from being exported away from hungry people.

The British went so far as to turn away food shipments from Turkey and deploy troops to protect food supplies from being attacked by the hordes of starving people.

It wasn't intentional, but it did account to roughly two million counts of negligent homicide.

>>34736159
> two million counts of illegal immigration
FTFY

The IRA is a fucking joke. They are all "muh counties" while Ireland sucks the EU cock and so many shitskins pour into Ireland that it's now a majority black country. They don't say shit about that. So much for Irish identity. What a joke. No credibility.

>>34736037
Actually, some food aid was sent, as well as government funded construction projects to employ the poor, but politics got in the way of things, and then a change in government, and switch to what was effectively a progressive cabinet to a conservative one really derailed things.

I also think a big error people make these days is looking at the events, which were in a pre-Keynesian era, through the perspective of Keynesian economics.

>>34732977
>Unironically using the term 'red pill'

Kill yourself

>>34735919
British scum. They were good boys.

>>34740139
Apart from being filthy leftist scum, of course.

>>34740139
Have ye ever read t' starry plough?

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>>34732977
ITT orange bootlickers and anglo scum

>>34732977
IRA are crypto communist faggots run by Gerry Adams who is most like apedophile like his father and brother. As for weapons, ARs are a classic, but there's rumor that one of the explicitly communist factions have an old unopened Cold War era weapons bunker filled with AKs and explosives from the soviets

>>34737171
>>34735646
LMAO reddit cucks. :DDDD

>>34736037
Really activates my noggins.

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mostly fals and other nato rifles