It's trendy these days to be anti colonialism, but as soon as you mention ireland all the support fizzles out. Fucks up with that? Most young people hate tories, hate british empire, etc etc, but then you say IRA and everyone gets scared. It's not even like my generation has an emotional attachment to it either - it's before our time
I'm a zoomer and I like the IRA because they helped the ANC and the general anti apartheid resistance movement with tactics (the idea to do public bombings didn't come out of nowhere) and other material assistance.
Oh that's a good point yeah - link it to african colonialism.