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0 pointspjc502y ago0 comments

50 years after the civil war, Ireland would not particularly keen to start up the random violence again.

I suspect everyone assumed normality would resume "tomorrow", for a lot of tomorrows. Which is the other reason you can't just start up the lynchings, this isn't America and you'll have to live with these people and their families on a comparatively small island.

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TMWNN2y ago

>Which is the other reason you can't just start up the lynchings, this isn't America and you'll have to live with these people and their families on a comparatively small island.

By this logic neither the Troubles nor the Irish Civil War would never have occurred in the first place. Yet they did.

(And the latter was more fierce than the war that forced London to acknowledge the Republic's independence.)

corethree2y ago

50 years is a looong time. I don't think that was it.

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