#iraposting

[werewolfetone]

The classic game beating each other as hard as possible with sticks REAL

[cruvlaaphtian-crocus]

hi....... 😳

[sherbovania]

the smallest of men has arrived

[yaniasogames]

OKAY ONE MORE IRAPOSTING

[werewolfetone]

Bandit country is about 60% stuff about the ira and 40% wacky buildings built across the border slapstick hijinks involving the entire sas standing on one side of a room and some guy called seán "kill em all world is a fuck 20298393828 dead brits" o'hanlon standing on the other one meter away doing the fortnite loser dance at them because if they walk across his kitchen he's going to call the gardai and they WILL arrest every single person there for an illegal military incursion into another country

[werewolfetone]

Listening to some mildly bad podcast about the IRA rn where this british dude just spent like ten minutes explaining out loud with his mouth that the british army kept dying badly in south armagh because they didn't realise that irish farmers were capable of conscious thought like it was some huge military insight not even the army could figure out... my writing research has taken me places I wouldn't go with a gun

[werewolfetone]

I need to stop frequently alternating between reading bandit country and this book about the peninsular war man I don't know how much more hearing the word mortar in wildly different circumstances I can take

[werewolfetone]

What does it say about me that an interviewee started vagueing "a spokesperson for the IRA" in the chosen fews and I not only knew exactly who he was talking about but also which book the controversial statement in question can be found in

[werewolfetone]

Bonkers phrasing to describe an ira attack as using 'homemade explosives' and then only reveal a whole paragraph later that you didn't mean semtex or gelignite or whatever but black powder. everyone was temporarily possessed by the ghost of redmond o'hanlon in 1985 I see

[werewolfetone]

Going through some digital archives and becoming really very curious as to who did the illustrations for an phoblacht. who were they letting just go absolutely bonkers crazy with the charcoals whenever they needed an image like this

[werewolfetone]

At a certain point the book the chosen fews has become less a piece of journalism about the effect of the troubles on civilians in south armagh and more a book about the author trying to come up with all the puns it's possible to make on the word cross. which. like. okay. what am I reading

[werewolfetone]

I like how killing rage by eamon collins is basically just leftist infighting simulator 2000

[werewolfetone]

"Exploding" of course has the correct if somewhat antiquated meaning of 'show (a belief or theory) to be false or unfounded' but it's still the wildest word you could possibly use to mean 'rehabilitating the image of' in this context. oh I'm sure

[werewolfetone]

Yes yes that's a very funny tiktok about how the ira canonically exists in the cars universe but unfortunately your gag about how did they do car bombs reveals your lack of knowledge of the organisation, namely in your obvious assumption that they only used car bombs when in fact many of their bombings were conducted in such a way completely unrelated to the automobile, and therefore I will not be reblogging but instead posting about how you're wrong on my blog on a dying microblogging website

[werewolfetone]

Wow I wonder why the people in this area could possibly have disliked the institution to which the dude who talked about them like this belonged

[werewolfetone]

Browsing wikipedia pages for books about the troubles and unable to stop thinking about this show where the evil catholic ira gunman is called billy