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I was listening to some propaganda songs of IRA (Kinky boots, Come on out ye black and tans, Go on home British soldiers).
The songs are in English (not Irish) and as British in spirit as it gets: they are not military marches, they are not glorifying violence, they are just calm and sarcastic.
Seen from outside, the Irish and the British are almost the same nation (they even drink the same beer) and North Ireland was a democratic nation. For a foreigner there was very little to fight about.
Was it all "generated" quietly by the Soviets? (Good Friday agreement was a few years after the end of the Soviet Union).
Is there something I am missing here?