L Kiwi,
If you had been following these discussions in recent weeks, you would know that we have been plagued by Guests who turn out not to be who they claim to be.
There is no reason why you should not make your first ever post at 4 o'clock on a winter's morning, but it made me wonder.
Beachcomber, my reply to you was too brief. I know that the Tans were at least as bad as Loach portrays them.
Revulsion at their behaviour should have driven people to support the IRA.
But the IRA committed apalling atrocities too that also revolted decent people. I have read that the film glosses over this and therein lies its imbalance.
When support for IRA was put to the test in 1939, the people turned their backs on them.

Nationalists will soon be the majority vote in NI.
Unity will follow.
Good.
Previously IRA were a minority of a minority.
Unity was not brought a day nearer by any of the bombs they planted or people they shot. It is literally true that they would have achieved it sooner by making love instead of war.