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Thread #128265   Message #2872230
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
26-Mar-10 - 04:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: 1970s Ireland
Subject: RE: BS: 1970s Ireland
I agree about the injured Allan.
Often left with mutilations that condemn them to a life of pain and dependency, they may well envy the dead.
When looking at the casualty figures, remember too that the population was only about 1.5 million.
For the same impact on mainland Britain you should multiply by 35 or more times!
The whole community was also condemned to decades of economic stagnation. Just look at the transformation since the bombs stopped.
The tourist boom of the eighties and nineties passed them by completely.
Of course, the PIRA leadership have done very well for themselves.