Anyone heard about "I.R.A."?

[filmguy123]

It's about the Irish Republican Army and is coming out April 28th. I'm part Irish and am interested in how this is handled. It seems very relevant right now considering what is going on in the world. I think it's a limited release so hopefully it will play near me

[jayce78]

No , . .

Hadn't heard bout it , thanks brother.

[Olay.M]

What does it talk about?

[Daltons Chin Dimple]

It'll be a typical US / Hollywood clusterfuck regarding the IRA depicting them as happy go lucky, chirpy "O'irish" freedom fighters rather than the murdering terrorist bastards they were. No doubt it will portray the English as bad guys and gloss over the fact the IRA were putting bombs in wastebins and shopping centres and stations etc. Funny how the IRA funding from the US went down a bit after 9/11.

[Deacon]

What does it talk about?
Hmmm. A thread made by a newcomer about a near-unknown film with another newcomer encouraging the thread-starter to post more info.

I wonder if there'll be a link anywhere in our future? Hmmm.

[jayce78]

Makes ya wonder!

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[syphon2006]

"It'll be a typical US / Hollywood clusterfuck regarding the IRA depicting them as happy go lucky, chirpy "O'irish" freedom fighters rather than the murdering terrorist bastards they were. No doubt it will portray the English as bad guys and gloss over the fact the IRA were putting bombs in wastebins and shopping centres and stations etc. Funny how the IRA funding from the US went down a bit after 9/11."--- Daltons Chin Dimple

I can guess you are from English decent, with that attitude I feel for you, having been lied to. For one thing the bombs were usually british stations in Northern Ireland, where they would call in there bomb threats and the british would just sit back and wait to blame it on them. Until the IRA got smart and started calling the newspapers too telling them they had just warned the cops to get everyone out of the building. Then people started realizing hey maybe the Irish aren't the bad guys. There is well documented history of the evil british.

During the revolutionary war with America and the british we fought and killed for our freedom because they were on our land. The Irish did the same exact thing, and Ireland is still recooperating, from the damage inflicted by them. I've visited Ireland and you can just tell something truely horrible happend there. So get off your f-ing high horse and face the facts.

On the movie I do hope they will depict the true story, and not the friendly version. If it is in my area I will attend it.

[Deacon]

I can guess you are from English decent, with that attitude I feel for you, having been lied to. The fact that Dalton's location is listed as 'London' might be a bit of a giveaway as to his descent. Maybe he's not English, but it's likely. And - hey! - look at my location. London, too! So maybe - just maybe - we have some experience of the IRA campaign in this city.

Two things: one, the situation wasn't anywhere near as black or white as you just described.

And two, we have a rule in this forum - attack the post, not the poster. Try to bear that in mind from now on.

[Daltons Chin Dimple]

Yes that's right, they were mainly British stations in Northern Ireland..... so how do you explain the Bishopsgate bomb (right next to my office in the City of London) and the Canary Wharf bombs, plus the waste basket bombs at mainline stations, the Mall nail-bomb, the mortar attack on Downing street.

Oh yeah and the shopping centre in Manchester, and the Omagh attack, then there was the attack on the BBC and waiting anxiously next to the phone with my mother to hear whether my father who worked there was OK. Not being able to go visit my father at work in the 70's and 80's, or go Christmas shopping in London because of the threat.

Added to experiences of friends the same age as me in the armed forces going off on a tour of Northern Ireland and not coming back, plus others coming back mentally scarred.

And you are from Texas, so what experience, pray, do you have of the IRA campaign in mainland Britain ? 3rd generation Irish American or whatever ? It's all a consipracy is it ? To portray the Irish badly ? Christ, I'll get my tin foil hat.

But of course, looking at the IRA funding situation from the United states pre-9/11 we of course can conclude that terrorism was OK in the eyes of certain Amercians, until it happenned to them.

[Metuzalem]

That was something that disgusted me last time I was in Florida. We were in a bar and there was a big fat guy wearing a pro IRA T-shirt, all his friends were mightily impressed that he should wear something just so freaking cool.

"Oh brother that shirt is killer!"

I wonder what the reaction would have been if I'd walked in the bar with a T-shirt that said "Bin Laden 2008"? :smirk:

Obviously the situation in Northern Ireland is a mess and it's NOT black and white as some poeple may suggest. But the thing I find weird is that we have more troops in NI than we do in Iraq even though we have a peace accord and speak the same language.

[Space Tycoon]

I checked IMDB for "IRA." Found nothing to speak of.

Doesn't mean there's nothing out there... just means I haven't found it.

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[fastcar]

Wait! This isn't a movie about getting Retirement money? Screw it, I'm not going.