>> I find Ireland politics very confusing (much more than GB politics). I read on internet
>> about Troubles but still not clear.
I have a modicum of sympathy with that view. Being born in 1959 The Troubles were all over the news in my formative years and well into my working life. It was only in my thirties, having had a particular book with eponymous title pique my interest while lunchtime browsing in WH Smiths, that I began to grasp the full story.
Still like the Flanders and Swann line about the Irish They blow up Policemen or so I have heard and blame it on Cromwell and William the Third
Pretty sure a lot of English people still think it's all about Catholics v Protestants without understanding that religion is actually just a marker for nationality/ethnicity.
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