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We recently finished the series #DerryGirls, and my hubby found a podcast from Telegraph which tells the awful truth of why #IrishCatholics were so pissed off at #Protestants in #NorthernIreland. Housing and employment #discrimination, harrassment, lack of #VotingRights, etc. Did you know that only if you owned property you could vote, and business owners could vote twice! And guess who owned most of the property and businesses! No wonder there was rebellion!

A new series of Bed of Lies: Spies, murder and terrorists in Northern Ireland’s Troubles

by Cara McGoogan

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/bed-of-lies/
#IrishHistory #BritishHistory #AbolishTheMonarchy #TheTroubles #Oppression
#northernireland #discrimination #irishhistory #abolishthemonarchy #BritishHistory #VotingRights #oppression #thetroubles #derrygirls #irishcatholics #protestants
LukefromDC
One IRA organizer who visited the US during the Vietnam war era remarked that he had to carefully conceal from conservative Irish Americans that the US organization most similar to the IRA was the Black Panthers.

The author of a book on the IRA said you could not distinguish Catholics from Protestants by what they believed their religion asked them to do, but could tell their neighborhoods apart from the air.
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