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It's not really contentious or over the top at all. I think it's a position in line with most histories of the time and with the Bloody Sunday report.
The IRA was ineffective and understaffed the day before Bloody Sunday. The day after it was doing just fine.
That was a disaster for the civil rights movement and for the whole of Northern Ireland. If I wanted to get contentious I'd say rendering a political struggle a military one was a dream come true for a certain part of the British establishment. -
The IRA, the official wing, was known as the rusty guns. They had given up or got too old for the armed struggle .
Bloody Sunday and the UK government's handling of Ulster in the 70s, eg Internment, created the provisional IRA etc ...
Fintan
Peter_Carter
@Chalfie
Wellllll. That's a little over the top. But yes, it wasn't leftist sympathisers.