I want to make it clear that I consider the Catholics to have been in the right all along in this struggle. What I object to on this thread is those who seem to think that no progress could have been made without taking up arms and murdering civilians. What bullshit! Gandhi got the British out of an entire subcontinent by using non-violent direct action in, what, about 40 years. The Irish haven't got the British out of one little soggy country in 700 or more using violence. Now the Protestant morons are the ones using violence, surprise surprise, they are the ones dephicted negatively in the world media, not the IRA who are shown as former bad boys who have finally seen the light.