tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7727561618191456901.post6036924056904687672..comments2024-03-28T05:29:25.961+00:00Comments on SINN FÉIN - KEEP LEFT: Radical irish Lives - Peadar O'Donnellmellowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12844166986997608405noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7727561618191456901.post-36167062017244935472010-05-28T17:51:14.833+01:002010-05-28T17:51:14.833+01:00We could create two unfairnesses here. If the IRA ...We could create two unfairnesses here. If the IRA had been less divided between its nationalist and its socialist tendencies, and had supported the Congress, the congress would not have failed - or at least not so quickly. O'Drisceoil is much more balanced on this than, perhaps, I have credited him. Blame my review rather than the book.William Wallhttp://www.williamwall.eunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7727561618191456901.post-85275418129772709022010-05-01T13:14:20.418+01:002010-05-01T13:14:20.418+01:00while the IRA may have decided that Republican Con...while the IRA may have decided that Republican Congress were anti its aims it is unfair to just say the IRA made determined efforts to scrap the Republican congress and not mention that it was ultimately the Republican Congress which scrapped itself a mere 5 months after its inception over a debate on strategy - political agitation or communal agitation.<br /><br />The RC may have seemed like a new dawn for class politics but it fell at the first hurdle by falling out not over what it should do but how it should do it and ultimately didnt do much either way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com