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Ireland's department of Foreign Affairs recently released some documents (that I'd like to find. If anyone can, please post the link) about what could have happened and what could be done had an all out civil war erupted in Northern Ireland.Northern Ireland Catholics faced ?Doomsday? scenario: official documents?Doomsday? fears for Northern Ireland CatholicsIn a related article, I found this interesting:
There were also fears that if the British army withdrew Dublin might be forced to deploy the Irish army, to prevent the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from taking up the role of "protectors" of the minority community.
That would have been a bloodbath if the Irish army was unable to control the IRA.LINK
What would happen today if Britain were to decide to unilaterally grant Northern ireland it's independence? I would guess it would be fairly bloody. The troubles are not gone, just temporarily under the surface.
I forgot the term, but the British government recently granted equal authority to both the loyalists and unionists. If done correctly (by vote), I don't think it would be as bloody as the Troubles were in the 70's.There's still assasinations and bombings occuring, small scale and not as much, not enough to make international headlines. They've been having a lot of trials and hearings lately about some of the incidents from the 70's. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not as they seem to be cause tensions to rise or resurface.
I thought that Northern Island had been granted partial autonomy after their peace deal of a few years ago?
The Northern Ireland Assembly was supposed to be that way, but it was suspended and power went to the Northern Ireland Office which is part of British Parliament. The recent St. Andrews Agreement gave autonomy back to the NIA and also granted Sinn Fein more authority. (that's what I was trying to refer to in my earlier post)
So that is how things stand. I thought they had went further along the road to autonomy than that.I dont really follow Irish developments that much. Given that I am half-English I only pay attention when the bloddy Irish start acting up ;D 😀
Well start paying attention again.This is not good.RIRA double murder at Massereene
