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[finea]

Does anyone have any information on the "Old IRA"? I'm not looking for information on Sinn Fein. It's the old IRA I'm talking about. I would like to know if there are records available (for public viewing) that would have the names of persons who belonged to the old IRA. The information/events I am looking for would have taken place 75-80 years ago.

[Gonz!]

Why would you need such information?

[finea]

You ask why I would need such information......I am proud of my Irish heritage and want to know more about it. I had a family member who (in their youth) was a member of the old IRA. If you are knowledgeable, you know the old IRA was far different than the present day Sinn Fein.

[Fuzz]

A very naive point of view to say that the old IRA is different from the present day.

[austinrock]

Naive? Is a student of history to be denied access to this data because of some present day generations historical ignorance and jaundiced immature political opinion?
It must be a almighty leap of intelligence to retort in the simplistic way you did.
Are our grand-fathers any different from the current knee-cappers? Probably not, who knows [or cares], they are still fondly remembered and cherished. They contributed far more to this state's creation than that idiot Redmond and his silly associates and killed far far less with their idealogy or their immorality like the British of the day.
So, they killed people, long ago as all soldiers do, as all soldiers did and will continue to do and you call him naive? What you really mean are they not terrorists in the mould of PIRA/Real/Imaginary etc et all. Well no they were not the same it was a different time, a different situation, even a different place. They simply used terror on their enemies, in response to it, a subtle but important difference.

And to the guys original question, yes there is a museum to the Old IRA in Dungarvan

[RegularAverageSean]

I can't see why you want to glorify these people.
They killed children, dealt drugs and fought the British in the most underhand ways.
I would prefer to be ruled by the English than see a boy get blown to pieces for opening a rubbish can lid...

[erin]

Why should a person be denied information about their heritage only because the subject matter may be of a controversial nature?

[biggles007]

Finea is correct.The old IRA was far different than the present day Sinn Fein.

[Shrek]

Heres lotsa info on the Old IRA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_IRA

[Christopher]

Finea's correct. However there's another large group of Irishmen who also deserve to be remembered ... it's a pity it took so long to remember the men of the 16th Irish Division. There's a website which honours these brave men of the who took part in the Great War of 1914-1918. These brave and dutiful soldiers are little remembered because the Ireland from which they enlisted to fight for the freedom of small nations had, by 1918, undergone a sea-change in national aspirations. This Irish Division vanished into limbo, without honour, lying in an unquiet grave.