It would be difficult to write authoritatively about the IRA and the blanket protest without good links.

I am not a historian and can add nothing more to this discussion.
We have seen that the dominant view among the real historians is that there is no blame and no cause for hatred.
Just sorrow.

You need excuses and justification for your prejudice, and if eighty years of consensus is not enough for you, you are destined to die still loathing us.
Good luck with it Jim.