Same with Spanish Civ War, how the Republicans were fucking demons and Catalonia desrves to be a smouldering crater, more today than before

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Revolution-Story-Official-Workers/dp/0141028459

Thank fuck for Franco tbh

How active are paramilitaries in Ireland

Mainly occurred with the help of mi5 in pushing the divide between Provisionals and officials, there was a point where the provos banned even Connollys writings for being too red

I know it always heats up in NI a couple murders a year

Ah like how British intelligence bribed Franco officials to tell him to not support the Axis

@Metaphysical Monarchist with SF leadership firmly compromised by Mi5 it's devolved mainly into smaller gangs, Saoradh are making a stab at it atm but they're not going to get much farther than any other group that's tried since good friday

I know there still significant Unionist Militias

You hear about them every few months

It's an open secret in Irish politics that they blackmailed Gerry over his pedophile brother, and it's been revealed by British state papers that Adams basically gave a list of names and addresses of his rivals in the IRA to the British

Which is why Adams and McGiniss got immunity right

The Unionists are in the same position as us, just many small splinter groups waging low scale gang wars in certain neighbourhoods

Yup @Metaphysical Monarchist

There was a News night segment recently

So who even were the good Republicans cause the lines are so blurred

Sean sabhat and MacDairmada

to name a few>

?

Both sides are like we can’t expand whilstvthe others around , which is perfectly reasonable imo

Disband

There are no good republicans, only good Irish nationalists, what the Reds have done is appropriate a pantheon of Irish nationalists into their left wing cult

Give us some good nats then

So you like the idea of an Irish monarchy?

Pearse and Collins were pretty clear that they wanted a monarchy and only supported a republic to oppose the British more effectively

Cos im a Celtic FC fan and as you could guess a large portion of fans call themselves 'fenians' and 'Catholics' whilst never attending Mass and openly support fags, abortions etc.

Are there any old Irish families who are ideal candidate

P much anyone before the late 70s @Airdrieonian

You know like how here most Nobles could easily be paved in the throne of the windsors go

N the clubs obsession wi Palestine

Dont like Israel but fuck both

@Metaphysical Monarchist there's a direct descendant of the O'Neills among the Spanish nobility, there's technically the Plantagenets in Oz if you're a Jacobite but the plan was before WW1 to invite a German prince to become king because 1: he wouldn't speak English, 2: it would ally us to a major power opposed to Britain, and 3: it would help prevent us from being culturally colonised by America or further by Britain

I'm personally for any of the three, but if I were to propose a monarch who would have actual power I'd nearly invite one of the Trump's or a figure from among our own elites, like Belgium did

I like the Spanish guy even if he does look like an Arab

The Pope still has the right to confer the crown of Ireland since he gave and stripped the British monarch of it

Personally I’d like too see one of the dukes on the British throne-I know it’s slightly different

All related to Stuart’s through Charles the second

Who really were the last true royal house imo

I'm not so much of a legitimist as many Irish rightist nationalists are, most support a sort of Roman republic just because they don't believe we have a royal family in exile like the French do, tbh if I were a yank and a monarchist I'd support one of the Trump's unironically becoming emperor

We saw in Spain what the fruits of legitimism really are, Franco hands over all the power and the king hands it all back

Still legitimacy by birthright is obviously powerful, but I'd prefer the first of a line to be supremely competent than just bear a name