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No country is immune from those who crave power above all else. However understandable, the violence of the Irish response was inexcusable. The attempt to control thinking in pursuit of power never turns out well.

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I think the UK started it..under Cromwell so it was a long struggle.

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Pre-Cromwell the Irish sent men to Scotland to kill the English. Before that, I'm sure the English did something bad to somebody. I do not know who did what to whom to start it all. It's supposed to be fixed now, peace breaking out in 1998,

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I think the DORA act of 1914 and the breaking up of printing presses is like tech shutdowns today.

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Surely there's a difference between freeing your own country and attacking another? This tit-for-tat condemnation only applies to the latter.

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