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To: wtc911
I have zero recollection of anyone ever saying one positive word about the IRA.

Many Irish songs praise the "bold IRA", but I suspect that they were written before the Marxists co-opted the organization. A lot of "BICs" (Bronx Irish Catholics) used to visit our part of the Jersey Shore in the 60's and 70's, and Irish rebel songs were very popular.

From "The Patriot's Game":

'Tis nearly two years since
I wandered away,
with a local battalion
of the bold IRA;
I'd heard of our heroes
and wanted the same,
to play my own part in
the Patriot's Game.

This Ireland of ours has
for long been half free;
six counties are under
John Bull's tyranny;
so I gave up my boyhood
to drill and to train
and now I'm a part of
the Patriot's Game.

47 posted on 03/14/2005 5:52:46 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")
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To: JimRed

My first post stated that the Bronx was different, didn't it?


52 posted on 03/14/2005 5:59:06 AM PST by wtc911 ("I would like at least to know his name.")
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