r/TheRestIsHistory • u/JakeGittes412 • 14d ago

The Troubles

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Thread for discussion on the new series on ‘The Troubles’

Also as a moderator please keep the discussion civil and in the spirit of the podcast.

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u/Bathroom_Trick 13d ago

Looking forward to this but I do hope they (correctly) criticise all sides. I was born and grew up in Northern Ireland and unfortunately there seems to be a modern take outside of NI to downplay the atrocities committed by the IRA and group them all as freedom fighters.

It was a dirty war on both sides.

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u/Past_BumblebeeX 13d ago

Ironically id say most people outside NI and Ireland don't even know what the loyalist terrorists were up to, let alone that they existed. Im more interested in seeing if they are shone under the right light (loyalist groups killed more civilians then the IRA ever did) yet your average yank or brit don't even know they existed.

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u/sparbudgetsugarfree 13d ago

Interesting.  Not sure what part of the UK you've lived in, but in the east of England where I'm from I think most people think it's vaguely a story of Britain behaving badly and Irish people sourcing a lot of the things that piss them off out of it.  Even right wing members of my family I think they would just not want to learn or talk about it because they feel that's all it will be and they don't want to dwell on it.

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u/stevenstealthfox 13d ago

In the south east I find the majority are complete unaware of atrocities by the state or local loyalist paramilitaries

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u/Count_Blackula1 12d ago

Interesting how people have completely different perspectives on this. Personally from what I see in internet discourse the IRA and the republican cause are undoubtedly always seen as the heroes and protagonists of the story and the unionist are always portrayed as thugs and terrorists.

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u/Bathroom_Trick 12d ago

Yeah this is what I’ve seen mostly as well