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Why can't they just like forgive the English? /sarcastic

the Guardian

Ireland grapples with singing of pro-IRA chant

Country debates whether chant is legitimate expression of national pride or an affront to victims of the Troubles

The footage went viral and triggered a row about glorifying the IRA’s campaign during the Troubles that has left Ireland grappling with fraught questions about national identity, pride and history.

The controversy swelled when Celtic Symphony topped Ireland’s iTunes charts and people were filmed chanting the chorus at a Dublin airport pub.

Northern Ireland’s unionist leaders asked the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, to use his influence to curb the practice, calling it an affront to those injured and bereaved by the IRA. John Baron, a Conservative MP, told the House of Commons it marked a “low point” [sic] in relations between the UK and Ireland.[...]

The phenomenon coincides with the ascendance of Sinn Féin. Once an IRA mouthpiece with fringe support, it is now Ireland’s most popular party and appears poised to lead the next government.

A recent poll put combined support for Sinn Féin and smaller leftwing parties among people aged 18-34 at 73%. The party’s promise to fix a housing crisis and redistribute wealth has driven the surge, but many supporters also adopt the party’s defence of the IRA campaign. “As Sinn Féin grows, past violence is retrospectively endorsed,” one commentator, Newton Emerson, wrote in the Irish Times.

Opinion in Northern Ireland, where Sinn Féin has become the largest party, has shifted: in a recent poll, 69% of nationalist voters agreed with the party that there was “no alternative” to violent resistance during the Troubles – a reversal from 1998 when 70% of Catholics rejected republican justifications for violence.

21 Oct 22

hey (with the intention of smiling in between kisses with you)

The fact that tumblr is my primary social media is proof that I’m far gone

i do consider all of my mutuals to be experts in whatever it is they’re talking about in the moment btw. like you’re absolutely one hundred percent right. i’ve managed to find the only correct people on the internet.

Not to sound alarmingly but I would die for them I pinky-promise you guys

Working on some bartylily yet again. Might even make it jily/bartyxjames as well, we will see

Excuse me, professor, i have to leave i feel an unrgent need to watch a good man goes to war one more time and cry af

who up delaying the inevitable

I love the aesthetic of Wednesday (2022) so much that I don't want to watch this series so as not to spoil my experience with reality