On Saturday night, the 7th of March. An event took place that I thought I would not have to see in my lifetime. Peoples action that would have taken minutes has written another page in my home country of Irelands bloody history. Two British soldiers were gunned down by a group known as "The real IRA", In county Antrim in the north of Ireland. They were shot dead by gunmen who also injured two pizza delivery men ,who they claimed were collborating with the British by bringing them pizza. The very next night on March the 8th a police officer was shot dead by a group called "The continuity IRA".
These groups aims are to remove British rule from the north of Ireland. The good Friday agreement has left this country in peace for more than a decade. Now these murders are the start of something this island has feared. They claim to continue the same fight our heroes of the 1916 rising in Dublin fought nearlly 100 years ago. Except it's not the same. The British army took down the watchtowers at the borders. Removed operational troops from Ireland. Pretty much everything the IRA could have asked for, apart from the unrealistic turning over of the six British counties in the north. If their old leaders like Michael Collins, James Connoly, Patrick pierce, Thomas James Clarke, Seán MacDiarmada, Thomas MacDonagh could see them now they would be spinning in their graves.
We are a peacefull nation who have lived happily without war for over a decade now. I believe it's peoples selfish arrogance that is trying to drag out little country back into conflict. They say they fight for Ireland, once again. A war I have no reason to support is being fought in my name. (I.E "The war on terrorism") We know the British were horrible to us. Gunning down innocent people at a football match in croke park on november 21st 1920 as retaliation for the murder of British soldiers. Or when the Black and Tans unit of the British army drove through the streets of Dublin strafing the buildings with machine gun fire. But this is a time we both Irish and British would like to leave behind. And because of peoples arrogance more people will die. Our country does not want to pine for peace again. We are sick of war.
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