I would wager that most folk on the neighbouring island think they have a handle on what they call the “Northern Ireland troubles”.
Breaking news: they don’t!
The officially approved narrative is that the UK security forces found themselves keeping two sides apart in a messy civil war thingy that Britain had no hand, act or part in creating.
They certainly weren’t combatants using asymmetrical tactics like car bombs.
For example, if I asked an ordinary decent Brit about the biggest death toll from bombs aimed at civilians, they would conjure up an image of IRA action in the Six Co statelet.
They certainly wouldn’t be thinking of the streets in Dublin where three devices, almost certainly constructed and supplied with the assistance of British intelligence, exploded fifty years ago today.
You can read about it here.
The government in London is still stalling on releasing files on this atrocity.
A report issued by the joint Oireachtas committee on justice in 1984, highlighted instances of Downing Street obstruction in investigating the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 1974.
The British government ignored three all-party resolutions passed unanimously by Dáil Éireann in 2008, 2011, and 2016, urging the British authorities to make relevant undisclosed documents available to an independent inquiry.
It’s almost as if they have something to hide.
I put this act of war by the Brits into the back story of one of the characters in my debut novel, The Squad.
Tom O’Shea had been a member of An Garda Síochána investigating the atrocity when someone in the Dublin government had feared he was getting too near to the actual perpetrators, the Brits.
His failure to investigate this crime haunted him, and in retirement, the widower from Kerry was given the opportunity for redemption.
This was the era of Section 31 when this state saw crushing the Republican Movement as their raison d’être.
Anyone who alleged that this massacre had a British author was labelled as a fantasist.
My comrade and neighbour Paul Larkin have been across this for years.
The narrative of British collusion is now widely established here.
Yet another defeat for the Section 31 generation.
Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D Higgins was, as he usually is, pitch-perfect at the commemoration today.
“We share, on this island and beyond, a collective responsibility to find a way to deal ethically with the legacy of the Troubles.
“A strategy of feigned amnesia, or hoping time will deliver one is simply not an option, nor is any strategy of continuing the protection of previous evasions or failures to act”.
It is an honour to be able to vote for this man as my head of state in this Republic.
More breaking news:
Until ordinary British people become educated on Albion’s perfidiousness, they won’t know of the evil who acts in their name.
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They have also taught Israel everything they know in being a rogue State. When will it ever end?
The establishment/D4 “journalists” were complicit in hiding what happened in Tuam,The Stardust,Dublin/Monaghan/Cavan bombings/the Taoiseach without a bank account,/hep C blood scandal…the list goes on.
It’s hard for folks outside the country to understand what happened in Ireland whilst getting fed “news” from the FFG media wing.
The stranglehold of British/English terrorism in Ireland has only changed over the ceturies because the world has shrunk and forced open genocidal acts to be hidden behind puppets on their carefully selected strings, showing only lies.
Hi I suppose it’s not a surprise living in UK and our media but no didn’t know about these events, thanks for sharing
The term British is on it’s last legs Phil, the London Westminster,establishment is panicking, that is why they are ORCHESTRATING THIS COURT ‘CHARADE’ nonsense just at the most convenient time of the G.E VOTE.
Sadly, across the world, atrocities committed (though, not all) in the name of delivering “peace” you will find the dark hand of Brits. Is it any wonder that this State is despised.
Some of us do in other parts of mainland but most in the south are blind to it through ignorance or they part of the establishment