Is it true that America backed up IRA,so it maintained so long?

Question

Secondly,is IRA a nationalist or a Marxist movement and thirdly,do Irish people speak English.
Sorry,these questions may sound silly,but most people know very little about these subjects in my country.

Answer 1

Yes, - this is one of the great resentments the British people have against the americans.
For three decades the americans supported the IRA with money and arms at a time when the IRA was bombing and shooting British and Irish civilians, police and soldiers.
You could go into any catholic church in Boston and see collecting boxes for the IRA and notices urging people to support them.
The St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York was a major fund raising event for them.
The weapon of choice for the IRA was the american Armalite rifle.
Any IRA terrorist on the run from the British police knew that if they could get to the USA they would be safe because extradition was virtually impossible.
All of these facts were an open secret yet the american government, the FBI and the CIA turned a blind eye because they didn't want to upset the Irish/American voter.
The death toll from this terrorism ran into thousands and only ended on 9/11 when two planes flew into the World Trade Centre.
At last we thought the americans have got a taste of their own medicine and the strange thing is that the IRA suddenly wanted to stop their terrorism.
Since then there has been peace from that direction.
The IRA were originally a nationalist movement left over from the Irish Civil War in the 1920s but in the 1960s there was a breakaway faction called the Provisional IRA who added a Marxist agenda, so we had the strange situation of americans supporting Marxists.
Irish people speak English , as under English rule the Irish language was not allowed to be taught in schools.
But the Irish language has made a comeback in recent years and is being promoted by the Irish government

Answer 2

Some Irish-Americans supported the IRA.The Government never did and deported IRA members.Irish people do speak English,their native language was Gaelic.They are a Celtic people.The IRA is a Nationalist group.

Answer 3

Not true, so untrue, that during the Second World War the IRA was neutral and did not participate against the Nazis.
They called the war "The Emergency"

British are the natural allies of America. America is interested in a strong united Britain not divided.

If they favored a division of their ally, they would be weakening their ally, and that would be going against their own interests.

Yes Irish speak English and some also Celtic.

Answer 4

American Citizens have backed the IRA in secret for a long time. I am not certain if the American Goverment has ever openly supported them.
The IRA is a Nationalist Repuclican movement.
Yes, they speak English, and some speak Gaelic and other native tongues.

Answer 5

nicely the draft ended contained in the seventy one, did not it? so that you're in a extra effective position to inform us because you've been contained in the protection stress both when we had a draft and when we moved over to an all volunteer military. Now i imagine there are reward to both device, inspite of the indisputable fact that the benefits of a draft are frequently political. frequently they help unite the country and delivers the yankee electorate a extra vested pastime in our overseas coverage. the actual incontrovertible truth that there are a good number of politicians who do not desire the voting public to be thinking our overseas coverage is in all likelihood why there'll in no way be a draft in a destiny. as long as we've a volunteer military, something of the accepted public can shrug off casualties with the excuse that they signed up for it. Then there is an challenge that the volunteer military has a tendency to have extra effective morale and be extra effective brought on and extra professional. With the present workers needs of the protection stress there merely isn't any desire for a draft. So accepted, I say no, there must be no draft. yet I do merely like the route that Obama is going in in encouraging human beings to volunteer of their communities in replace for reward alongside with more most cost effective college education. i imagine this is going to serve a similar objective of bringing human beings mutually which we'd want to consistently be engaged on even if there's a draft or not.

Answer 6

americans of irish american heritage financially supported the political wing of the ira.
the ira is a nationalist (republican) movement.
irish people speak english, gaelic (irish) is a second official language thought not widely spoken.

Answer 7

There was an organisation called Noraid that was based in the USA that did raise money for the IRA.

Answer 8

The IRA have not finished what they set out to do, they are not disbanded and If the peace process breaks down and our Irish economy turns bad you could easily see a resurgence in Activity, the reason the Ira needs to exist is to fight the English....the IRA are a Nationalist movement that seeks a United Ireland...

The English are thieves and you can see evidence of this in places such as:

Anguilla (UK overseas territory)
Ascension Island
Bermuda (UK overseas territory)
Cayman Islands (UK overseas territory)
Falkland Islands (UK overseas territory)
Gibraltar (UK overseas territory)
Jersey – Bailiwick of Jersey (British Crown dependency)
Montserrat (UK overseas territory)
Northern Ireland ((UK overseas territory)
Saint Helena (UK overseas territory)
Tristan da Cunha (Dependency of the UK overseas territory of Saint Helena)
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK overseas territory)
Virgin Islands, British – British Virgin Islands (UK overseas territory)

oops, I nearly Forgot Iraq, silly me!!!

The English should hand our territory over to the Irish Government and head back for dear old blighty wearing there butchers aprons.

Until this happens, Ireland will never be United and Free!!

All of Southern Ireland and half of Northern Ireland wish for a United Ireland.....

Answer 9

Here's one of many sites to help you:

http://irelandsown.net/IRAhistory.htm

and yes, Irish people speak English

Answer 10

Your country is pay rollling the Irish Repubican Army.
Very bad country.U.S.A