Why do people romanticize the Troubles?

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It isn't really romanticized in the south. Most people don't engage with it at all beyond a vague "Irish good, Brits bad." If they do have any feelings towards the PIRA at at all it is akin to cheering on a sports team. They know the lyrics to the songs, but the meaning is irrelevant beyond base posturing. It would shock you how ignorant the majority of Irish youth are about their own history, and it would also shock you how apathetic a lot of people from the south who were alive during the Troubles are about "Up North", either then or now.
 
I would also add that you are looking at this from a modern perspective in which there are broader concerns, while most people who glorify The Troubles are looking back with the mindset of the times. At the time, the Irish viewed themselves as opposing a foreign invader, sometimes tinged with revolutionary socialism and sometimes not. The Ulster Unionists viewed themselves as ethnically and culturally distinct (which they are) and naturally superior to the Irish (debatable considering the thick heads on the cunts.), and that the land that their ancestors had been planted in by the Crown belonged to them by this natural right. The problem being that was is taken through strength must be held with strength, and so conflict between Irish Republicans/Nationalists and Unionists is inevitable. The British were stuck in a headache where they could neither give in an lose face or go all out and face the international blowback (similar to the Falklands). That was the length and breadth of the issue. Nation, and outside Nation in opposition. The idea that Britain would be so thoroughly ravaged by multiculturalism, and that Ireland would willingly follow suit would have been laughable to most Irish and Unionists back then.
 
1. Right-wing Americans like them because of their gun fetish and the fact they were enacting their second amendment fantasy of an armed insurrection. The IRA is particularly appealing over other examples (the Taliban, the Vietcong, etc.) because they were never anti-American, so no cognitive dissonance is necessary.

2. Socialists and communists like them because of the "anti-imperialist"/"anti-colonialist" angle.

3. Most people around the world like them because Britain spent the past five hundred years giving pretty much every other nation on Earth at least one reason to hate them.

Really, the only reason to not like them is if you're either some kind of British nationalist, or you live in a country that has a similar separatist/minority nationalist movement (Spain with the ETA, Turkey with the PKK) who is concerned about them being emboldened, but even then it's a balancing between that and "yeah, but they're fucking with the British".
 
From experience it's almost 100% homeless people or champagne socialists who idolize the troubles. I know a lot of people who lived through the troubles, none of them look back on it fondly.
Idolizing the trouble has been co-opted by Irish leftists as they get to pretend that the Irish are an "oppressed peoples" and get to act all big and tough because they "beat the brits".

People who are still invested in the troubles and the north are genuinely retarded, both of our governments are flooding our countries with violent brown retards which is a far greater problem.
 
I have a hard time finding this article, but there was a very interesting piece, on Guardian or one of the Irish news site, about a referendum on the continuation of the complete removal of the Peace Lines in NI, complying with programs such as Department of Justice Interface Programme - a public referendum was held, to see the populace attitude towards such ideas (i distincly remember a western liberal-progressive undertone of the article, how removing the walls would help spread progressive ideas etc.) and 60%, both catholic and protestant, wanted the walls to stay and to keep the status-quo. This Guardian article from 2023 shows that many people are still apprehensive towards the idea of removing the walls and allowing for direct interactions between the two sides and many fear the conflict would restart, even from a small thing.

It really reminds of the Balkan's situation, how, even after Tito united the Balkans under his Yugoslavian banner, no effort was made to resolve the conflicts between the different nation/ethnic groups and to make peace between them - hatred was allowed to fester and seep into new generations unabated and no one really wanted to make peace in the first place.

I always think back to this scene from Garth Ennis and John McCrea Hitman comic, and it saddens me that no one really is interested in resolving their differences and keep the old ways going even after 25 years, content with the walls preventing them to jump at each other throats again and for the same reasons:
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