Comments by "" (@johnnotrealname8168) on "How The Irish Got So Good At Smoking British Soldiers" video.

@lordadorable1140 Some of what you write is disingenuous. For example the British landowners initially tended to subsidise emigration, some through the Coffin ships to Canada, however later they did evictions. A few were decent people. The evictions had the effect of starving the people.
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@lordadorable1140 This is where you make another mistake. The Liberal government did the opposite for Ireland and made it an Irish problem whereupon the landlords instituted the Gregory Clause to increase evictions. The only party that cared was the Conservative Party who indeed did desire the maintenance of the Union. Although Dónall Ó Conaill himself was a decent human being his son sided with the landlords. Ó Conaill's fault was relying so much on the liberals because of the potential for repealing the Act of Union (1801).
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@BawdyBadger It was not the regular Royal Irish Constabulary but the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary.
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@Irishman0855 So more bloodshed for no reason? I am not defending the Unionist community by the way, they were being very injurious to the peace-process and I criticise the British state for relying on unionists so much and for stupid murders like that of Patrick Finucane who defended loyalists and nationalists alike.
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Why? It is mostly peaceful now.
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@average_peanut_fan3059 The Tories were on the Irish side during An Drochshaol (1845-1852).
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This is actually facetious. The British negotiated in...1973. Look up the Sunningdale Agreement which included a Council of Ireland and more. The British believe it or not were not that bothered by an United Ireland but they wished for the consent of the North and indeed propped up the North often. It was actually the Irish state that torpedoed a proposal to give Northern-Ireland independence!
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@VictoryLlama You think the British Army in 1969 wanted to invade Ireland?
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@geoffrayylmao Why is East-Timor not in control of all of Timor? Government of Ireland Act (1920).
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@VictoryLlama I think you mean the Easter Rising (1916) and the British Army was already there.
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It was not. Stop making things up. Actually read history!
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@sbreheny Yeah but much of England has lost manufacturing too.
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@DiegoLinares-m1r You do realise even the provisional Irish Republican Army rejects this line of thinking right?
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So we are congratulating them for not killing more people?
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It was not a genocide. It was idiotic policy and a grievance alright but bear in mind that whilst the Liberal Party were tossers the Tories were sympathetic to the Irish.
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Just a reminder that the provisional Irish Republican Army did not win anything the British were unwilling to give already.
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@patkearney9320 I do not know what this guy told you but British intelligence is what won the War.
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@patkearney9320 It has been established that there was a gunman in the crowd on that day.
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@XxLeCaptainxX So did the Vietnamese.
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@patkearney9320 The British were willing to settle in 1973. They were always willing to make a deal.
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@patkearney9320 I think we have records for it.
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@darnellbiggumsthe9th658 The British were already negotiating before 1996.
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@jimbo5973 This is not true.
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@tastybeetz1511 Is this meant to be irony or was murdering 2,000,000 in Cambodia or 1,250,000 in Afghanistan what you mean by Civil Rights?
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@VictoryLlama Oh fair enough. My bad.
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@johndalton6236 He is mostly correct actually. The Irish state hated the provisional Irish Republican Army.
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@EpicAelflaed They still do.
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@jackgrant9301 Most of them did indeed not join but the Irish Army was 55,000 strong in 1923. In the '30s the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army folk were finally allowed into high society and the vast majority of them joined either An Garda Síochána or a reserve army unit. The rest are what the provisional Irish Republican Army claim allegiance to. They did not recognise the Irish state until 1982 I think, even then there was another split who still do not I think recognise the Irish state.
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@johndalton6236 I recommend you look up the Heavy Gang. The government of Ireland wanted to introduce Internment without trials as well in the '70s.
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They were a murder gang and they could get it wrong.
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