if jack lynch had invaded? (1 Viewer)

[ann post]

i didnt see the tv show but am wondering about the whole backdrop to this.

history heads here; jack lynch used the arms crisis to mute charley haughey for a few years, so i think to polarise himself from haugheys plan (which is way more practiacal) of running guns to the provo's he had to have a contingency plan to pull out of the bag to prove he was just as republican as the next man. so i think this os more a political amunition then a real plan. was there anything like this alluded to in the documentary??

 

[theoootini]

the arms crisis occurred a couple of years after this. not sure there was any foresight on lynch's part in the way you're suggesting...and he didn't actually invade .

 

[ann post]

its just such a retarded plan i find it hard to believe its real on any level.

 

[nooleen]

or...so retarded it just might work?

retards of the republic, to arms!

 

[ann post]

was there any provision made for playing invaders by iron maiden??

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I haven't seen the documentary yet but at the time it seemed to many that the Troubles would turn into a civil war, wherein nationalists by and large would have been slaughtered.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

I haven't seen the documentary yet but at the time it seemed to many that the Troubles would turn into a civil war, wherein nationalists by and large would have been slaughtered.

Not to be a spa, but Catholics would be right term in this case. Don't think the lads invading from the Shankill were too concerned with the politics of the people they were burning out.

 

[ratmonkey]

Not to be a spa, but Catholics would be right term in this case. Don't think the lads invading from the Shankill were too concerned with the politics of the people they were burning out.

I doubt those same lads were too concerned about the differences between consubstantiation and transubstantiation either.

 

[classic seanc]

Not to be a spa, but Catholics would be right term in this case. Don't think the lads invading from the Shankill were too concerned with the politics of the people they were burning out.

It irked me the way they kept saying Nationalists, when they meant Catholics. I don't know why really, but they're not interchangeable terms.
Also, while we saw plenty of fine young FCA boys getting hypotethically shot, we didn't see one single British soldier or B Special take an imaginary bullet.
And all the shakey cameras, jesus.


Still though, there's great potential for documentaries like this. Clearly loads of the experts and politicians of the day are eager to talk about all that stuff.
They just completely misfired with this one. Obviously he never would have invaded, it's a silly premise.

 

[ann post]

they might was well have done 'who would win in a fight between rocky and neo'.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Not to be a spa, but Catholics would be right term in this case. Don't think the lads invading from the Shankill were too concerned with the politics of the people they were burning out.

Protestant Nationalists and Catholic Unionists are not unheard of but the terms are actually pretty much interchangeable when talking about the north.
But if it please the court I'll refer to the Taig Fenian bastards as Catholics from now on.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Did they refer to the plan for the British and Irish Armies to protect and escort the Catholics/Nationalists out of the North?

 

[Unicron]

they might was well have done 'who would win in a fight between rocky and neo'.

Or the IRA and the Tailban

http://thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=74249&highlight=ira+taliban