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Skyler the Weird's avatar

And now the Irish are allowing themselves to be colonized and enslaved again.

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Kevin's avatar

Collins is a personal hero of mine. Taken from us too soon, like so many in the war for independence and civil wars, we were left with the scrap metal of the time in terms of leaders.

I know this is heresy but if I may cut some slack for the Brits during this time, a lot of these guys in the Black and Tans, British Regulars and RIC were returning from the horrors of the Western Front and with what some would consider some of the worst cases of PTSD we can imagine. Not to excuse lack of discipline and extreme brutality, but worth mentioning.

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