A point I’d make is that your loyalist guide didn’t seem to know why The Troubles happened.
After WW1 and partition, Northern Ireland experienced 50 years apartheid enforced by a fascist government which legalised discrimination against catholics and genuinely treated them as second class citizens both in legislation and practice.
The inevitable civil rights movement in the 60s produced no significant results as peaceful protesters were regularly attacked and even murdered by both state and paramilitary forces.
That history is the progenitor of the troubles and is testament to what happens when peaceful protest against oppression is suppressed.
Loyalist paramilitaries weren’t simply fighting to retain their place in the uk; that was never really in doubt. They were fighting to maintain their position of supremacy.
It’s very interesting to see your perspective.
A point I’d make is that your loyalist guide didn’t seem to know why The Troubles happened.
After WW1 and partition, Northern Ireland experienced 50 years apartheid enforced by a fascist government which legalised discrimination against catholics and genuinely treated them as second class citizens both in legislation and practice.
The inevitable civil rights movement in the 60s produced no significant results as peaceful protesters were regularly attacked and even murdered by both state and paramilitary forces.
That history is the progenitor of the troubles and is testament to what happens when peaceful protest against oppression is suppressed.
Loyalist paramilitaries weren’t simply fighting to retain their place in the uk; that was never really in doubt. They were fighting to maintain their position of supremacy.