There are probably all sorts of sentiments within the English population just as there are probably different sentiments within the Irish population. The only difficulty I see there is when people try to do a lump all because of one view.

The biggest problem of all comes in (assuming one finds the killing of another person nice anyway - some of us don't even like war) in when you have the random attacks where nobody knows what anybody who gets killed or maimed stands for but are just defined as enemies for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even a kid who has not yet learned to form thier own opions of life could get get killed by actions that Tir Eighoin will defend with lines like

Your Governments could not protect your citizens, however; hardly the fault of the IRA."

Hardly the fault of those who carried out 9/11 that the US government could not protect its citizens either, is it? And let's face facts, some of those killed could have been against US government activities - the very ones they got blown up for..

Damage limitation, because you know the injustices served upon us, and that if the same thing was to have happened the English, your people would have reacted just the same.... like, for instance if DeValera hadn't had locked up all those Germans during WWII, and Germany did manage to invade, your 'Resistance Army' would have been an honourable concept, would it not?

But that's not the parallel. While I don't doubt there would be English element who would do this, the question to me would be more one of whether or not I would sanction a random pub bombing of civilian people in Germany - I mean they are all Germans aren't they - must have done something wrong...

The justifications people like Tir E... base on only work if you live your life by his standards. Those standards do not allow for the simple honest belief "huh - this is plain wrong whoever does it".