Well Raggy think what you like, but as far as debate goes, on any thread where you have attempted to challenge what I have stated this "uneducated" man has run circles round you time and time again.

Raggytash - 12 Aug 16 - 04:56 PM - example of your deliberate tactic of wilfully misunderstanding what has been said or meant. By Irish Republicans Keith A was obviously referring to the militant IRA membership. Now Raggy as you appear to put your opinions forward and present yourself as a keen "expert" who is knowledgeable on all matters related to Irish History, perhaps you can tell us all when it was that being a member of the IRA was illegal in Ireland and then tell us when it became an offence in the United Kingdom (The date for the latter will astonish you). Eamon de Valera was one of the prime movers when it came to "creating" the IRA yet in the 1930s he executed them, interned them without trial, and on the occasions were IRA members were tried they were tried before non-Jury courts. Militant Irish Republicans had very little influence in Ireland in the run up to, and during, the Second World War because the Irish Government of the time deliberately and rigourously suppressed them as their activities if left unchecked could have compromised Irish neutrality and dragged Ireland into the war and any prospect of that absolutely terrified de Valera.