[Reverend Wright]

It’s a joke to promote these scumbags on a “conservative website”.

“Though Stalin expressed reservations about the IRA’s determination and competence, soon afterwards both parties made a secret agreement: the IRA would spy for the Soviets in Britain and America, as well as support their strategic goals, ...”
http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/the-secret-ira-soviet-agreement-1925/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kgb-approved-1m-pounds-aid-request-by-party-with-ira-link-peter-pringle-in-moscow-finds-evidence-in-1559647.html

The 38-year connection between Irish republicans and Gaddafi
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-12539372

http://www.dw.com/en/us-report-links-ira-to-colombia-terrorists/a-506131

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/IRA-PLO-cooperation-A-long-cozy-relationship

https://pjmedia.com/blog/still-killing-ira-linked-to-farc-al-qaeda-hezbollah-and-taliban/

[Ray76]

Very good. Go to the head of the class. It needs to be said.

[iowamark]

I think that the song refers to the original 19th Century IRA, not the later 20th century splinter groups.

[Ray76]

Take this story and go back 150 years or so from it’s time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GonUTdh7VBI

and transplant the setting to the English colonies in North America.

[Mr Radical]

I agree with you. And the killing goes on:
BBC News 15th March 2016 - Prison officer Adrian Ismay injured in Belfast bomb attack dies

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Thank you. Its disgusting how some Americans STILL romanticize the IRA and Irish Republicans and excuse their murderous terrorism.