"CAIN is a web resource and if you want more thoroughly researched background "
Can you indicate exactly where anything I have said is contradicted by CAIN - no ?
Thought not
Unless you can show where what I have put up is incorrect - you have no case
A forced treaty under threat of war
A gerrymandered border giving the Loyalists a majority
A Protestant State discriminating against Catholics of land ownership, voting, employment, housing.....
Regular anti-Catholic rioting and persecution
Civil Rights marches met by stone-throwing Loyalists assisted by the RUC
The first murders carried out by the U.V.F.
I have provided evidence for all of this, you have provided nothing that contradicts it.
It is this that finally erupted into violence - not an increase in paramilitary activity, as your belligerent mate claimed.
Now it's your turn - show where none of this happened,
And please don't come up with your usual half truths and deliberately misinterpreted statements from historians you haven't read.
Part of this is my family history - now - let's see what you come up with.
Jim Casrroll