Were you affected by IRA bombings?

[oscar]

Were you or anyone you knew involved in any of the bombing by the IRA on British mainland?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/2531583.stm

[buttercup]

Yes i have been 'directly' affected by the bombings and not some cousin twice removed or friend of my sisters aunt.
I'd prefer not to talk about it but have absolutely no objection to your thread

[Clodhopper]

Friend of friend lost a foot in Hyde Park, moved on from a pub after a warning that came to nothing, gran asked for "contributions" by masked gunmen. No-one killed, thank heavens.

[dubs]

I was in Brum in 74, when the pubs were bombed. Luckily nowhere near, but I heard them. And two soldiers were shot by an IRA gunman at a railway station a couple of miles from me.

[mikeinie]

Or how about those killed by the UDF, or unarmed civilians shot dead by British Soldiers?

There are two sides to every war, let’s just thank God that it is all in the past.

[gmc]

Originally Posted by mikeinie

Or how about those killed by the UDF, or unarmed civilians shot dead by British Soldiers?

There are two sides to every war, let’s just thank God that it is all in the past.

Not to mention all the kneecapping and beatings that went on as well. There are thugs on both sides of the sectarian divide that would start it up again. Best thing to do with sectarianism is laugh at it.

YouTube - Billy Connolly - Football Violence


Is all that religious conflict so much in the past? remember the reaction to Tony Blair converting to Catholicism and if he'd done it while prime minister what then?

[mikeinie]

Originally Posted by gmc

Not to mention all the kneecapping and beatings that went on as well. There are thugs on both sides of the sectarian divide that would start it up again. Best thing to do with sectarianism is laugh at it.

YouTube - Billy Connolly - Football Violence


Is all that religious conflict so much in the past? remember the reaction to Tony Blair converting to Catholicism and if he'd done it while prime minister what then?

The tree may be cut, but the roots are deep…

let's hope it never grows back

[gmc]

Originally Posted by mikeinie

The tree may be cut, but the roots are deep…

let's hope it never grows back

Good analogy. I have a fairly hostile attitude to religion, leaving aside the belief or non belief in god it's due to the sheer mind numbing shock when you hear someone you know is intelligent coming out with what is nowadays no more than mindless hatred. Intellectually I can understand the origins of it and looking back when you ask yourself which side would you have stood on at the time is not always as easy to answer as you might think from a 21st century perspective. Yet to many religion is important enough they would suck us all in to conflict over and over again.

[mikeinie]

Originally Posted by gmc

Good analogy. I have a fairly hostile attitude to religion, leaving aside the belief or non belief in god it's due to the sheer mind numbing shock when you hear someone you know is intelligent coming out with what is nowadays no more than mindless hatred. Intellectually I can understand the origins of it and looking back when you ask yourself which side would you have stood on at the time is not always as easy to answer as you might think from a 21st century perspective. Yet to many religion is important enough they would suck us all in to conflict over and over again.

In this case however, it is (or was) not so much about differences in religion as it was about the struggle for home rule.

[abbey]

Originally Posted by oscar

Were you or anyone you knew involved in any of the bombing by the IRA on British mainland?

BBC ON THIS DAY | 12 | 1984: Tory Cabinet in Brighton bomb blast

My friend lost her business when Manchester was bombed by the IRA, she fought so long for compensation she had to file for bankruptcy.
Thankfully She escaped injury,
On the upside an architect friend designed the Urbis exhibition centre when the area was re-designed,
it was like the phoenix rising from the ashes.