Plus the British. But if you remember, the British army came in to assist the RC community, they were greeter with tea & cakes, until the provisionals saw the English were doing their job and turned the nationalist community against the army. I know, I was there. The conflict needs to be seen in its entirety, not piecemeal to suit adgenda.
No, that is not exactly true, Jeffrey.
The English did that job all on their lonesome.
The breakdown and turning point came in the spring of 1970 when a Tory government replaced Harold Wilson and a new, typically Tory policy of playing the Orange card was adopted at the behest of the struggling Unionist government and the Falls Road Curfew that July was the British Army effectively declaring war on the Belfast Catholics on their behalf, mudering five innocent civilians in the process.
For the record.....the IRA killed their first cops in the August of that year and their first soldier in the February of 1971.
Try and avoid half truths and manipulation of the facts on this thread, Jeff.
There are too many buggers know what they are talking about and will gobble you up whole
